Over the next, almost, two decades, their continued presence, despite some fierce opposition from politicians, neighbours and certain sections of the British media, kept the issue in the spotlight.
Worried about the growing fears of a nuclear holocaust in the early 1980s, as Cold War tensions ramped up, they organised a 120-mile march from Cardiff to Berkshire to protest the impending arrival of American missiles at the RAF’s Greenham Common. Prolific New Zealand-born producer Matthew Metcalfe teams up with award-winning There Once Was An Island film-maker Briar March for this fascinating and engrossing look at a global movement that was started by four mothers sitting around a kitchen table in Wales. Mothers of the Revolution looks back at the women who organised the protests and peace camp at the RAF’s Greenham Common base. If the production was hampered by being denied access to UFC footage of Hunt in action, it actually benefits the overall story, forcing director Peter Brook Bell and company to focus more on Hunt’s various, sometimes highly emotional battles away from the spotlight. The former K-1 champion, who transformed his street fighting skills into a globally successful career inside rings and octagons, opens up about his troubled childhood, battles with various addictions, mistakes, losses and triumphs, as well as his continuing battle with the UFC over its soft stance against drug cheats (Hunt has been beaten more than once by a fighter who later tested positive for a banned substance.) The unlikely Kiwi-born kickboxing and mixed martial arts superstar has plenty to talk about from a much storied life and certainly doesn’t pull any punches in this enlightening, sometimes overwhelming warts- and-all documentary. Mark Hunt: The Fight of His Life not only focuses on his triumphs in the ring, but also his battles away from it. Ayukawa: The Weight of a Life is a surprising, empathetic film that challenged me. What surprised me was the extent to which whaling is something that the Western world has brought to and then imposed on the Japanese people – and of how thoughtful, considered, conciliatory and aware the people of Ayukawa are about the bloody business they are engaged in. The film takes us into the surprising origins of whaling in Japan and then traces the history – mainly through archive and personal testimony – of one town, its people, and how their fortunes have risen and fallen as the perception of the whaling industry has shifted over the decades. From the deft confidence of the opening montage of archival footage, it is clear that we are in good hands here.Īyukawa: The Weight of a Life, from directors Tu Rapana Neill and Jim Speers, is a gentle, observational, confronting and challenging film set in a community and a way of life that we may have entirely the wrong concept of.
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