Brick By Brick: The Story of Evergreen Brick Works

Plot Summary

"This is the single most important (urban redevelopment) project in Toronto…" - Richard Florida, Director, Martin Prosperity Institute, University of Toronto. Brick by Brick captures environmentalist Geoff Cape's journey as he transforms a 125 year-old former industrial site - Toronto's Don Valley Brick Works into a $55 million cutting edge ecological centre - the first of its kind in the world. In the year that it takes to renovate the abandoned industrial site, we see Geoff as he champions his vision of a sustainable future before an international audience that includes talks with international power-brokers at Davos and visiting Royal Prince Charles. The documentary also beautifully unveils the rich history witnessed by the Brick Works - from German Prisoners of War forced to work there during their internment in Canada to immigrants whose back-breaking work produced the bricks that built our cities to the wild ravers and graffiti artists who used the site as their muse during it's 'abandoned' years. Through it all we'll watch Geoff get his message out - that global change happens at the individual level in cities when people come together around the power of nature and narrative. From the award winning documentary filmmaker of Just Watch Me: Trudeau and The 70's Generation comes an inspiring environment documentary Brick by Brick: The Story of Evergreen Brick Works about one man's passion to save the planet, one brick at a time.