We, The Hated

A screening of the documentary 'We, The Hated', followed by a question-and-answer session with its director Rich Felgate, moderated by Mary Mitchell, a PhD in Media Arts who leads the Green Party Councillors in Brent and represents Willesden Green as a ward councillor. The film follows a filmmaker whose girlfriend helps start Just Stop Oil, one of the most polarising protest movements in recent memory, and four activists—Indigo, Mark, Phoebe, and Jane—as they weigh the personal cost of action against the stakes of inaction while facing mounting repression. It asks how far ordinary people will go to stop oil drilling and how far the authorities will go to stop them. Felgate is a documentary filmmaker whose debut feature, 'Finite', won awards including the FIPADOC Impact Grand Prix; 'We, The Hated' premiered as the opening night film of Sheffield Doc Fest.