G.T. Humanists Film Screening: All Too Clear

On November 2, 2026 at 6 PM at the Traverse Area District Library, the Grand Traverse Humanists will present a free screening of the new documentary “All Too Clear.” This film uses cutting-edge underwater drones to explore how quadrillions of tiny invasive mussels, known as quaggas, are re-engineering the ecosystem of the Great Lakes at a scale not seen since the glaciers. To capture this epic change, the husband-and-wife filmmaking team of Zach Melnick and Yvonne Drebert spent more than 150 days filming underwater, making it the most ambitious underwater film ever made about the Great Lakes.
After the film, Lia Cook and Lauren Sheffer from the Inland Seas Education Association will be present to answer questions.
Filmmakers and freshwater explorers Yvonne Drebert and Zach Melnick are the founders of Inspired Planet Productions and Fellows of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society. For more than two decades, the team has been shining the spotlight on Canadian nature, history and science stories, creating more than 40 hours of broadcast documentary, earning them three Canadian Screen Award nominations.
Lately they have shifted their lens underwater, partnering with Boxfish Robotics to bring their LUNA class ROV to Canada, allowing them to create cinematic imagery down to 1,600 feet deep. They have learned to “swim with the fishes,” using advanced underwater robotics and a custom-designed Henley landing craft to uncover never-before-seen freshwater worlds and wildlife behaviors for storytelling and science. They filmed the first known scientific documentation of Lake Whitefish spawning, and discovered the Africa, a 19th-century Lake Huron shipwreck.