In just under three weeks we'll be rolling out the red carpets and challenging film makers to turn the cameras on Volkswagen. If you're in London, why not join us at the Curzon Soho at 10am, Saturday 17 September for the launch?
Thomas Edison – who invented one of the early film projectors – once said that genius is 1 per cent inspiration and 99 per cent perspiration, and today's film shows that direct action is no different. It's not a campaign film per se, but an amazing piece of cinema that went behind the scenes on one of our most inspiring actions to tell the story of the Kingsnorth Six.
A Time Comes was created by Nick Broomfield, a documentary film-maker who’s made several of my favourite films, including the truly amazing The Leader, the Driver and the Driver’s Wife. Edited together from police footage and that captured by our own videographer, A Time Comes follows the story of six of our activists who in 2007 climbed inside one of the cooling towers of the Kingsnorth coal-fired power station.
It's an epic story and the footage speaks for itself, so watch it now!
Don't forget to tell all your film-maker friends about our VW film competition which launches on the 17th September.
