How to Change the World

In 1971, a group of friends sail into a nuclear test zone and their protest captures the world’s imagination, giving birth to Greenpeace and defining the modern green movement. Media savvy from the beginning, these pioneers captured their spontaneous activist adventures on 16mm film. When youthful energy comes up against the complexities of a growing organization, and idealism meets compromise, the group finds their battle to save the planet forces them also to fight each other.

Director Bio
Jerry Rothwell is a documentary filmmaker whose work includes the award-winning feature documentaries such as Donor Unknown, about a sperm donor and his many offspring which premiered at Tribeca FF and was nominated for a Grierson Award; Town of Runners, which was released theatrically in the UK by Dogwoof and also premiered at Tribeca Film Festival; Heavy Load, about a group of people with learning disabilities who form a punk band; and Deep Water, about Donald Crowhurst’s ill-fated voyage in the 1968 round the world yacht race, which won Best Cinema Documentary at The Rome Film Festival and a Grierson Award for best Cinema Documentary. In 2012, Rothwell won a prestigious Royal Television Award for his directing work on Donor Unknown and Town of Runners. His next films will be Sour Grapes, for Netflix, and Arte, co­directed with Reuben Atlas. At Met Film Production, he has worked as an executive producer and editor on numerous feature docs including Dylan Williams’ Men Who Swim and Sarah Gavron’s The Village at the End of the World.