Screening + Q&A with Steve Pritchard, Lex Korta moderated by Jonathan Porritt

Wed, 23 Jul 2025 17:30 – 20:30

Warning: This film contains flickering or flashing lights that may affect those with photosensitive epilepsy.

About the film

For two years, the filmmaker documented the UK’s crackdown on the right to protest, through the lived experience of environmental defenders. She witnessed firsthand how they were silenced in court, criminalized, and subjected to disproportionate punishments for nonviolent protest.

This is a British story of dissent told from the frontline. As those in power continue to ignore the climate crisis, the activists are driven to civil disobedience in order to raise the alarm in a bid to prevent the world crossing the line into dangerous climate tipping points. As one judge hands out the longest ever sentences for nonviolent protest in the UK, he accuses them of crossing the line into fanaticism. The film challenges audiences to question what makes dissent effective and where to draw the line on acceptability.

Q&A

The film will be followed by a Q&A with Somerset locals, Steve Pritchard who has a featured role in the film and Lex Korte from Defend Our Juries. The Q&A will be moderated by Sustainability Campaigner & Author Jonathan Porritt.