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How to Change the World documentary

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Original title: How to Change the World
Year: 2015
Running time: 110 min.
Country: United Kingdom
Director: Jerry Rothwell
Screenwriter: Jerry Rothwell
Cast: Documentary
Music: Lesley Barber
Cinematography: Ben Lichty
Producer: Co-production United Kingdom-Canada;
Met Film Production, Insight Production Company, BFI
Genre: Documentary
Synopsis: How To Change The World is about a group of friends who, in their fight to save the planet, find that they must also fight each other. This film tells the story of the pioneers who established Greenpeace, using intimate footage from their personal archives.

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Awards: 2015: Sundance Film Festival: World Cinema Documentary Competition

2015: British Independent Film Awards (BIFA): Nominated for Best Documentary

2015: International Documentary Association (IDA Documentary Awards): Pare Lorentz Award.

2015: Canadian Screen Awards: Best Editing in a Documentary. 2 nominations

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Critics' reviews

"A sleekly packaged documentary with a tendency to simplify history to heighten the drama"

Boyd van Hoeij: The Hollywood Reporter
"Jerry Rothwell's documentary focuses on human dynamics among Greenpeace's founding activists"

Dennis Harvey: Variety
"This absorbing account is hardly definitive, but it teaches movement building without denying the high costs paid by true believers."

Daniel M. Gold: The New York Times
"A fascinating, skillfully assembled chronicle of the rise and inevitable fallout surrounding the granddaddy of the environmental activism movement."

Michael Rechtshaffen: Los Angeles Times
"This spends more time on the tensions between the dominant trio than their landmark campaigning."

David Parkinson: Empire
"Even hardened whale-eating oil oligarchs are likely to be charmed by the idealism and smarts of these audacious activists. (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"

Leslie Felperin: The Guardian
"A compelling story of one environmentalist’s remarkable combination of prescience, grit and timing"

Kate Taylor: The Globe and Mail
"This is a film about human flaws. It should not be missed – whatever your views on Greenpeace."

Rupert Hawksley: Telegraph

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