{"id":12587,"date":"2011-02-15T15:21:54","date_gmt":"2011-02-15T23:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=12587"},"modified":"2011-02-15T19:10:20","modified_gmt":"2011-02-16T03:10:20","slug":"confessions-of-an-eco-terrorist-peter-jay-brown2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=12587","title":{"rendered":"Confessions of an Eco-Terrorist (Peter Jay Brown):2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reviewed by Linda Sweatt<\/a> at Metro 4 Theater, part of the Santa Barbara International film festival<\/p>\n

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Comedy, tradgegy and adventure.<\/p>\n

Brillantly combing the three, Peter Brown directs, produces and stars in his first film\u00a0Confessions of an Eco-Terrorist<\/a>.\u00a0 We all know by now our oceans are suffering, sea life is dying, but most of us don’t know the nitty gritty details let alone try to do something about it. This film is a call for action from\u00a0the activists who have seriously devoted their lives to making a change. Tackling a very depressing topic, Confessions of an Eco-Terrorist is comparable to Micheal Moores’ 911 because Brown brings his passion,\u00a0humor and\u00a0optimism\u00a0to\u00a0the entire film.<\/p>\n

Confessions of an Eco-Terrorist is exactly what it proclaims, delivering the title. This is the story of the original green peace activists who became frustrated with the passive tactics of\u00a0green peace and\u00a0go on to\u00a0become Eco-pirates of the sea . Together they created the Sea Shepherds Society who believe in more aggressive action, they say\u00a0aggressive nonviolence.\u00a0These activists\u00a0patrol the High seas of the world under\u00a0captain Paul Watson, better known as captain Paul and his band of pirates. They buy old ships and submarines and go after the bad guys, literally chasing sea poachers, ramming and banging into ships\u00a0to get them to stop and leave. After 30 years of experience, they are the masters. Loving cannons, Watson has one aboard the ship and fires warning shots at the poachers; if that doesn’t work he will literally ram his ship into the poachers ship often damaging the boats and forcing them to stop what they are doing and leave. Whether it is whale hunting boats in\u00a0Norway seal killers in the Arctic the Sea Shepherds Society chases them down.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, the marine sanctuaries that are protected around the world are the easiest targets for the poachers. Bountiful but without allot of enforcement the sea activist are often called upon to protect places like the Galapagos Island preserve. These encounters often happen in the middle of know where, far out to see, so another weapon they use is that of the media, often taking on board their ships many famous celebrities and the news media. Reporting and publicizing \u00a0the offenses are sometimes enough to get them to stop.<\/p>\n

By far the worst are\u00a0the Korean\u00a0and Japanese drift net boats. The nets are 40 to 175 miles in length literally cleansing the ocean of all living things, killing everything in it’s path, the nets catch everything from dolphins, sea turtles, seals, sharks and seabirds (not to mention whatever fish it was they were actually fishing for). Known as the curtains of death half of all the catch is discarded. So the greatest result has been the successfully stopping this practice. The Eco-terrorists will cut the nets and then ram the ships\u00a0 disabling them to continue net fishing. After many years of fighting them, people Finlay notice and the drift net boats have now been banned world wide.<\/p>\n

Many volunteers go along helping on these missions, Brown went out of his way to honor and acknowledge the incredible work of the women crew members. He also\u00a0commented on the fact\u00a0that their major financial contributors are women over the age of 65, proving that everyone can get involved.<\/p>\n

As much as it pains my heart to gain knowledge of more evil that is currently perpetuated by man over nature, there is a great amount of joy in this film. It boggles my mind how some people can withstand witnessing such severe monstrosities. I am convinced this strength is bestowed upon those who immerse themselves in the fight of change. When one contributes to\u00a0 finding a solution, one receives power and optimism because after all it only takes one person to change reality and\u00a0accomplish extraordinary things. Confessions of a Ec0-terrorist is truly a testament to this and\u00a0their accomplishments deserve to be celebrated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reviewed by Linda Sweatt at Metro 4 Theater, part of the Santa Barbara International film festival Comedy, tradgegy and adventure. Brillantly combing the three, Peter Brown directs, produces and stars in his first film\u00a0Confessions of an Eco-Terrorist.\u00a0 We all know by now our oceans are suffering, sea life is dying, but most of us don’t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1239,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,3,146],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-documentary","category-films","category-santa-barbara-film-festival-2011"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1239"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}