Earthlings (film)
Earthlings ( Earthlings ) is a documentary, produced by Shaun Monson, who also wrote the screenplay and directed. Earthlings was co-produced by Persia White. The spokesperson of the film is Hollywood actor and animal rights advocate Joaquin Phoenix. A large part of the soundtrack comes from Moby.
Summary
Earthlings is a documentary about the consumption of meat and the Nutzhaltung of animals. The animals are used among other things as suppliers of raw materials for clothing, entertainment and as a test object in the context of animal experiments.
With a consideration for animal breeding and animal shelters, as well as factory farms, the leather and fur trade, the sports and entertainment industry as well as the medical and scientific use, Earthlings will show using hidden cameras and secretly made recording photo daily misery of the animals. In the documentation it is the greed of industries, the pet products market and are therefore economically dependent on the use of animals returned.
Production
The production of Earthlings took five years. What began as a series of public announcements regarding spaying and neutering pets, evolved into a film, which deals with many aspects related to animals. Writer and director Shaun Monson began to make recordings in animal shelters in South Central, Long Beach and North Hollywood. The relevant filming was completed quickly. Monson began to be interested in the problems of the food industry and in laboratory animal practice. During this time he got access to footage of various animal welfare organizations and began to cut the film together. Gradually recordings of speaker Joaquin Phoenix were made and created the soundtrack. In addition to the music provided by Moby available parts of the soundtrack were also partially composed especially for this movie.
The premiere of Earthlings in 2005 during the Artivist Film Festival, where the film was named best documentary, followed by a performance as part of the Boston International Film Festival, where it received the award for the best content. On the San Diego Film Festival Earthlings was also honored as Best Documentary. Joaquin Phoenix received the Humanitarian Award for his participation in this film.
On November 4, 2005 Earthlings appeared on DVD in NTSC format in English.
Phoenix has commented on this documentation as follows:
" Of all the films I have ever made, this is the one did gets people talking the most. For every one person who sees Earthlings, theywill tell three. "
"Of all the films in which I participated, is this the one being talked about the most. Every person who has seen Earthlings will tell of three other people. "
Continuation
Currently working on a sequel titled Unity. The film will be released in October 2014.