Centennial College will host the North American launch of The Global Poverty Project in partnership with Chris Adams, executive producer of Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth, on Friday, Sept. 11 at 11 am at The Danforth Music Hall with the premiere of 1.4 Billion Reasons, a presentation similar to An Inconvenient Truth, presented by Hugh Evans, Australian author and humanitarian.
Adams is the co-founder of Participant Productions with well-known Canadian philanthropist and eBay’s first CEO, Jeff Skoll, whose credits include Syriana, with Matt Damon, North Country, with Charlize Theron, and Good Night and Good Luck with George Clooney.
With the support of actor Hugh Jackman, the initiative advocates the United Nations’ eight Millennium Development Goals, developed in 2000 with the objective of improving the lives of the world’s poorest by 2015.
Centennial’s event partners include The Canadian Film Centre, Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, Interactive Ontario, Outward Bound Canada and WNED/PBS.
http://www.centennialcollege.ca/thecentre/globalpovertyproject
