Rebellion
Feature length film Completed 2021
Better Futures
Producer
Kat Mansoor
Director
Maia Kenworthy
Director
Elena Sanchez
Doc Society helped with
Development
Production
Impact
Runtime: 82 minutes
A group of ordinary people stop playing by the rules, embracing civil disobedience and sounding the alarm for climate breakdown. They are rebellious and they are flawed revealing the human drama at the heart of social change.Through a journey that starts with Extinction Rebellion (XR) in 2018, we meet environmental lawyer Farhana Yamin. Disillusioned after 25 years of UN negotiations, Farhana has decided it’s time to break the law.
Crew
Kat Mansoor
Producer
Animal Monday was set up by Kat Mansoor, Will Hood and Adam Lavis.
Kat's role includes the direction and production of documentaries, development of business ideas, fundraising for new projects and production of new media. Kat loves to travel with her work and has made films in Pakistan, Switzerland, India, Israel and Brazil.
Will has been making music for as long as he can remember, he has been involved in everything from BBC 1 soundtracks to Stilt walking Jazz bands. A composer and producer of many different styles, Will handles everything 'audio' for Animal Monday.
Adam Lavis is mainly an editor and has a hand in all things 'visual' for Animal Monday. This means spending many hours in a darkened room, splicing together pieces of digital film into something wonderful.
Previous films: Retrograde, Timepiece, The Eunuchs of Lahore
Rebellion is a thoughtful, emotionally engaging feature doc not to be missed.
TheIndependentCritic.com
June 8, 2023
It is hard to think of a social movement that has caused such a generational stir as XR has. This is a worthy document about how that fuse was lit.
Sunday Independent (Ireland)
April 2, 2022
Rewarding... as a collection of human stories.
Sunday Times (UK)
March 20, 2022
Too kind to XR’s bourgeois impulses, it neglects key characters and weaves an all-too-convenient narrative.
Little White Lies
March 16, 2022
[A] thoughtful, spirited documentary...
Guardian
March 20, 2022
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