Completed - ENGLISH - Documentary - 110 minutes
Eco-Pirate: The Story of Paul Watson is a feature-length documentary about a man on a mission to save the planet and its oceans.
Year of production : 2010 Director(s) : Trish DOLMAN Cast : Paul WATSON, Rex WYLER, Paul SPONG, Patrick MOORE Producer(s) : Kevin EASTWOOD (Screen Siren Pictures)
Eco-Pirate: The Story of Paul Watson is a feature-length documentary about a man on a mission to save the planet and its oceans. Part Captain Nemo, part Grizzly Man, the film will follow Watson in the act as he repeatedly flouts the law himself, so that he may apprehend what he sees as the more serious law-breakers – the illegal poachers of the world. From the genesis of Greenpeace to the sinking of a pirate whaling ship off Portugal, from clashes with fisherman in the Galapagos to Watson’s recent headline-grabbing battles with the Japanese whaling fleet in Antarctica, this documentary chronicles the extraordinary life one of the most controversial figures in the environmental movement – the heroics, the ego, the urgency – of the world’s original eco pirate.
Country(ies) : CANADA Start of shooting : June 2008