Climate Criminals? is a short documentary that records front-line climate activists based in the UK reclaiming their actions in their own words.
I am an artist telling stories across theatre, film and audio. I am also a mother and a human being living in these frightening, turbulent times. I am someone who reads the news and gets affected by public opinion and it felt to me like I was being told to be scared of climate activists, that these are the dangerous criminals we need to be frightened of. Rather than simply accept this, I wanted to meet these people in person and hear, in their own words, why they do what they do. This is my film about that time we spent together.
Shot over three days during a storytelling residential held at pioneering organic farm Sheepdrove in the UK, we invited these activists to share stories and experiences from their perspective as they try to wake us all up to the dangers we are facing from the climate crisis.
This 15 minute film is a conversation starter, inviting you to consider why these ordinary people take these actions which can have dire consequences on their own lives.