HOW TO CHANGE THE WORLD, a documentary about Greenpeace is shared by director Jerry Rothwell. We talk about accessing the Greenpeace archives and video footage to tell the story of Greenpeace and how it changed from its inception up to today. We take a look at clips of the film from its premiere at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival, in this special BYOD interview hosted by Ondi Timoner. FILM INFO & GUEST BIO: Before it was the world’s largest activist organization, Greenpeace was the love child of an eclectic group of Vancouver neighbors (journalists, scientists, and hippies). United in their opposition to a U.S. atomic test on an Alaskan island, they sailed an aging fishing boat straight for the test site. Armed only with cameras and faith in the power of images, the rainbow warriors were born. The byproduct of their media savvy is an archival treasure trove from which Jerry Rothwell has constructed a gripping chronicle of Greenpeace’s early history. Remarkable footage, audio recordings, and photographs capture its most dramatic, iconic, and poignant moments, from the remnants of mass slaughter at an abandoned whaling station to the maneuvering of Zodiacs between the whales and Russian harpoons. HOW TO CHANGE THE WORLD unfolds as a hippie heist movie-turned-high sea adventure but remains an intimate portrait of the group’s original members and of activism itself—idealism vs. pragmatism, principle vs. compromise. They agreed that a handful of people could change the world; they just couldn’t agree how to do it. — J.N. Jerry Rothwell is a documentary filmmaker whose work includes the award-winning feature docs, DONOR UNKNOWN, about a sperm donor and his many offspring, HEAVY LOAD, about a group of people with learning disabilities who form a punk band, and DEEP WATER (co-directed with Louise Osmond), about Donald Crowhurst's ill-fated voyage in the 1968 round the world yacht race. His latest film is TOWN OF RUNNERS, released theatrically in the UK from April 2012, premiered at Tribeca Film Festival. At Met Film Production, he has exec produced and worked as an editor on numerous feature docs including Dylan Williams' MEN WHO SWIM and Sarah Gavron's THE VILLAGE AT THE END OF THE WORLD. Past credits include The Late George Shaw, for Channel 4's Art Show series, the Modern Painters series of short films for Channel 4 and TV and radio programmes for BBC, Carlton, Channel 4, Teachers TV and the Arts Council. Another strand of Jerry's work has been participatory production, working with people to tell their own stories on film. He played in lead role in developing Hi8us Projects improvised dramas with young people for Channel 4, in establishing First Light, the UK Film Council's scheme for young filmmakers, and in setting up digital storytelling exchanges between marginalised communities across Europe. ADD’L LINKS: https://twitter.com/HowToChangeFilm http://www.howtochangetheworldmovie.com/ https://www.facebook.com/howtochangetheworldfilm http://www.jerryrothwell.com/about/biography#sthash.bO6UVRfi.dpuf http://thelip.tv/show/byod-bring-your-own-doc/ http://thelip.tv/ BYOD Full Episodes Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVjVEkK43x8&index;=1&list;=PLjk3H0GXhhGdZbrANmO6kYPy8IQC0GiN_ BYOD Short Clips Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhjswcSNjRA&list;=PLjk3H0GXhhGeu2DCf6Ouo7hTsA5QB2MAL&index;=1 http://www.youtube.com/theliptv https://www.facebook.com/BYODOC?directed_target_id=0 https://www.facebook.com/thelip.tv?ref=hl EPISODE BREAKDOWN: 00:01 Welcoming HOW TO CHANGE THE WORLD director Jerry Rothwell. 00:30 Telling the story of Greenpeace. 02:30 HOW TO CHANGE THE WORLD, Clip. 04:30 Accessing the Greenpeace archives and video footage. 11:00 HOW TO CHANGE THE WORLD, Clip. 13:00 How the film relates to environmental issues today. 16:15 HOW TO CHANGE THE WORLD, Clip. 18:10 Greenpeace today. 22:40 Thanks and goodbye.

• published: 13 Feb 2015
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