Be the Change Film series wraps up with final feature on fashion

The latest film airs Nov. 16, and explores the fashion industry to answer: who pays the price for our clothing?

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Fashion is fabulous. It’s also the number two most polluting industry on earth, second only to the oil industry.

Fast fashion is a trend that’s motivated by the production of quantity over quality. It has doubled worldwide clothing production in about 10 years. The clothes we wear impact our air, our water, our planet and our people. How do you make conscious and ethical choices when it comes to clothing? The impact we have is enormous.

The True Cost airs at Collingwood’s Simcoe Street Theatre at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 16. This latest film in the Be The Change film series explores the fashion industry, from Bangladesh to Milan, and answers the question: who pays the price for our clothing?

We all know that exponential growth and use of finite resources is not sustainable. Yet consumer consumption trends support a fashion industry that engages in careless production practices involving toxic and non-biodegradable materials that are destroying our ecosystems. Unregulated manufacturing practices also have serious negative impacts on the health and safety of the workers, who are predominantly women.

Join Blue Mountain Watershed Trust members and friends for The True Cost, the latest Be The Change (BTC) film screening this Tuesday at 7 p.m. Tickets are $12 for adults and $7 for students and must be bought online at https://bethechangefilmseries.com/.

The Be the Change film series https://bethechangefilmseries.com presented by RE/MAX Four Seasons Realty, has really struck a chord with the Collingwood community. Running outdoors this past summer at The Collingwood Brewery, BTC is now back in its longstanding home at the Simcoe Street Theatre.

“It’s a great venue, very conveniently located at the corner of Simcoe and St. Marie streets, across from the library,” says Kathleen Knoll, a BTC organizer. “Come enjoy a great film and support the Blue Mountain Watershed Trust!

About Be the Change Film Series

The BTC Film Series was created in 2008 to educate and inspire the local Collingwood/Blue Mountains community into action. The Blue Mountain Watershed Trust, a Collingwood-based environment-focused charity, runs the film series as a friend- and fund-raising effort. Now in its 13th year, BTC shows socially- and environmentally-conscious films on the third Tuesday of each month, other than December. Proceeds from BTC benefit local environmental education programs organized by the Watershed Trust.