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CONFESSIONS OF AN
ECO-TERRORIST
The German Premiere
30
Years Of Never Before Seen Footage
Of
Sea Shepherd Conservation Society Campaigns
Featuring
Renegade Environmentalists and Their Guerilla Tactics
2011 Filmfest
Hamburg
Saturday, October 1, 2011
9:15pm Kino-Passage
Press Junket Sunday, October 2nd
Confessions
of an Eco-Terrorist should strike
just about everyone as a refreshing
contrast to the usual bleak tenor
of save-the-planet cinema.
Variety
Peter Jay
Brown unfolds one unusual story in a provocative, informative,
laugh out loud funny,
agitprop style.
RogerEbert.com
Brown’s film
is a peek behind the curtain: The activist often creates confrontation, but the
documentarian must show the less-than-flattering bits. This film is a
warts-and-all view of his involvement with the Sea Shepherd team since 1981,
and it also deconstructs the classic political-movement film.
Los Angeles Times
As the
longest serving crew member ever aboard the Sea Shepherd with a highly
impressive personal resume and film career in his own right, Brown takes
viewers into the lighter, more humorous aspects of the
"eco-terrorist" sub-culture in his feature documentary film.
Huffington Post
CONFESSIONS OF AN ECO-TERRORIST is the true, no
holds barred story of 30 years of Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (SSCS) campaigns leading up to the hit
show Whale Wars. It’s a feature documentary
that reveals the true odyssey of the most wanted environmentalist today,
Captain Paul Watson. The founder of Greenpeace, Watson eventually parted ways
with the organization due to his uncompromising passion to protect the planet
from environmental bad guys and his unconventional methodology. Free from
bureaucracy and politics, Watson forged his own personal Armada, The Sea
Shepherd Conservation Society, a vigilante
organization dedicated to protecting marine life across the planet at all
costs.
"There have been many films made about Sea
Shepherd but none as hilarious and revealing as CONFESSIONS OF AN ECO-TERRORIST, which was three decades in the
making." Watson said. "Peter Brown, a Sea Shepherd insider expertly
exercises aikido with his camera by turning a negative accusation into a
positive confession of influential activism.
Filmmaker and longest-serving SSCS crew member Peter Jay Brown documented the mythic deeds of
the organization while acting as the cinematographer, first mate, deckhand,
quartermaster, Zodiac driver and officer/captain in Watson’s absence starting
in 1980. He gives us an intimate and honest look at what really goes on behind
the scenes on some of the most infamous environmental campaigns ever. He has
recorded the breathtaking beauty of the life aquatic in all its glory, as well
as anguishing despair, bearing witness to the brutal slaughter of the helpless.
Risking their freedoms and their lives, the
renegade eco-warrior and his band of environmental pirates combat those who
seek to pillage and profit from the destruction of the ocean and its
inhabitants. Using guerilla tactics, they boldly, even jubilantly patrol the
world’s waters targeting kill-happy poachers and covert corporate cabals,
terrorizing and provoking confrontation while flying the Jolly Roger (skull and
crossbones) flag of their fleet. Watson’s use of manufactured awareness and
strategic media traps defies convention as he brilliantly navigates his fleet
by ramming vessels, inflicting damage to whalers, drift-netters, long-liners,
and seal hunters who operate illegally worldwide.
Watson and Brown’s journey over the years has
included thousands of individuals, crew and volunteers. Everyone from navy
seals and ex-military of all kinds to ship welders and engineers, college
students to hippies and the vegans who took over the galley have flocked to
SSCS campaigns. The efforts of each and every one of them made the story of CONFESSIONS
OF AN ECO-TERRORIST the unique and groundbreaking documentary that it
is.
“You negotiate,” says Brown. “I’ll ram ships.”
CONFESSIONS OF AN ECO-TERRORIST is a harrowing,
sometimes amusing, eye-opening adventure and an arresting tale of
cloak-and-dagger action. Delving into what manufactured awareness really is and
how radical measures are necessary to resolve an issue or institute change. The
film also revels in the humor of a situation and presents an uninhibited look
at the lives of the men and women looking to change the world. Its uniqueness
lies in how Brown has been able to demystify the work and ideas of
“eco-terrorists,” a term taken from a quote by Watson. “We’re often called
eco-terrorists by the environmental pillagers themselves. So the question is,
who are the real eco-terrorists? As long as we win, they can call us whatever
they want.”
Film credits include: Director and producer
Peter Jay Brown, writer Timothy Wade Huntley, producers Martin Kistler and Ron Moler, executive
producers Robert Holden and Lawrence Mortoff. Runtime 87 minutes.
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