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What You Won’t Do For Love
A Film by Why Not Theatre
Co-Presented by TO Live and Soulpepper
Produced with support from TO Live and Soulpepper
“Our love radiates out from the physical to metaphysical, we share in our ideas and our greatest love is our children who are the product of our love and that means we love the planet that sustains us.”

David Suzuki, Performer, Co-Writer
When artist Miriam Fernandes approaches David Suzuki to create a theatre piece about climate change, she expects to write about David’s perspective as a scientist. Instead, she discovers  the boundless vision and efforts of Tara Cullis, a literature scholar, climate organizer, and David’s life partner. Miriam realizes that David and Tara’s decades-long love for each other, and for family and friends, has only clarified and strengthened their resolve to fight for the planet. 

Adapted for screen from a theatre production, What You Won’t Do For Love transforms real-life conversations between David, Tara, Miriam, and her husband Sturla, into a charmingly novel and poetic film in which the performers read off paper scripts. Over an idyllic day in British Columbia, Miriam and Sturla take in a lifetime of David and Tara’s adventures, inspiration, and love, and in turn reflect on their own relationship to each other and the planet. Revealing David Suzuki and Tara Cullis in an affable, conversational, and often comedic light, What You Won’t Do For Love asks “Can we learn to love the planet as much as these two people love one another?”
FILM pRODUCTION SERVICES BY "THE POOL SERVICE"

Director of pHOTOGRAPHY
Julian Geraets
CAMERA OPERATORS
PHIL COLLINS, DALLAS SAUER
Sound
PETER ROBINSON
Gaffer
Joshua Carballo
PRODUCTION ASSISTANT
Maria Zarrillo
EDITORS
PHIL COLLINS, DALLAS SAUER

Musical Arrangements
Alessandro Juliani 
A Walk In The Spring, Voice Over
Felix MacDuff 
Storyboard Artist
Dylan Humphreys

Blind and Low-Vision Access Consultant
Alex Bulmer
Blind and Low-Vision Access Podcast Editor
Derek Kwan

Legal Counsel
C. Derrick Chua, Barrister & Solicitor 
Research Services provided by
The Research House Clearance Services Inc.

Why Not Theatre Introduction Videographer
Devin McNulty
BTS PhotographER
MATT REZNEK

Wordmark Designer
Abigail Fleur Aries
Website DesignER
james ramlal


Josephine Ridge
Weyni Mengesha
Emma Stenning
Franco Boni
Joyce RosarioDe
anna Bayne
Andre Seow
Severn Cullis-Suzuki
Sarika Cullis-Suzuki
Maiko Yamamoto 
Jivesh Parasram
Tom Powers
Nico Schuermans 
Tia Kambas
Selina Suleman
Ariel Martz-Oberlander
Ryan G. Hinds
Ronnie Chickite
Laurie Brydon and Kevin Elke
Danny Miller, Robyn Plumsteel,
Tavin Miller, Greyson Miller,
Bode Miller and Hudson Miller 
Darwin Lyons
Camellia Koo
André Du Toit
Conor Moore
Jamie Nesbitt 
Duston Baranow-Watts
Zach Levis
Brendan Glauser
Siobhan Aspinall
Elizabeth Wong
Michael Than
Richard Lee
Byron Abalos
Maude Barlow
Stephen Lewis
Naomi Klein
Avi Lewis
Alanna Mitchell
Miles Richardson

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