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Avram David " Avi " Lewis (born May 1967) [2] is a Canadian documentary filmmaker, former host of the Al Jazeera English show Fault Lines [3] and former host of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) current-affairs programs CounterSpin and On the Map .
Avi Lewis is a documentary filmmaker, journalist, educator, and activist living in British Columbia, Canada.
Avi Lewis is an Associate Professor in the Geography department at UBC, and a documentary filmmaker with 30 years of experience in social movements. He is a co-author of The Leap Manifesto and a proponent of the Green New Deal, and teaches courses on social and political change and communication.
I am a documentary filmmaker and educator, with more than 30 years of experience in journalism and storytelling from the front lines of social movements. With ever-greater clarity over the course of my career, the climate emergency has emerged as the defining crisis of our time.
May 23, 2021 · Avi Lewis was raised in the NDP. At 54, he’s finally ready to join the family business. The filmmaker and activist, whose father and grandfather both held leadership roles in the NDP, says...
Sep 19, 2021 · NDP candidate Avi Lewis's campaign is focused on addressing the climate emergency and has the endorsement of Jane Fonda and David Suzuki.
Directed by Avi Lewis, and inspired by Naomi Klein’s international non-fiction bestseller This Changes Everything, the film presents seven powerful portraits of communities on the front lines, from Montana’s Powder River Basin to the Alberta Tar Sands, from the coast of South India to Beijing and beyond.
