An Interview With Ron Colby, Director of “Pirate For The Sea” - Part 4 of 4
Tuesday/11 August 2009
Ron
Colby is the director
of Pirate For The Sea,
an award-winning feature-length documentary about the life
of Paul Watson.
The interview took place on August 7, 2009. It is in four blog
posts: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4
In conversation with Ron Colby, continuing from part 3.
RC: We going to try to, you know, we have been holding off, we have been festivaling it. It's a very bad time for documentary films, and to a degree for films in general, to get them out there and to try to get them sold and what have you, but I think if people demand to see this film, then the word will continue to get out and Paul, through the film, will continue to inspire.
I don't want to just preach to the choir, I want to let other people see this and make their own judgement, because a lot of people say, "Oh well he's just a terrorist," or "He's a radical terrorist," or this or that, and of course to me the terrorists are the people who want to lay down these crude pipelines and ship it down the inland waterway, and Union Carbide and Monsanto and all of these incredible corporations that are basically poisoning and ruining it. So those are the real terrorists and we are just trying a rearguard action. But I would like it to become the action whereby the majority of people get behind it and say that this is what we want.
B: Hit the tipping point and landslide the other way.
RC: Exactly.
In conversation with Ron Colby, continuing from part 3.
RC: We going to try to, you know, we have been holding off, we have been festivaling it. It's a very bad time for documentary films, and to a degree for films in general, to get them out there and to try to get them sold and what have you, but I think if people demand to see this film, then the word will continue to get out and Paul, through the film, will continue to inspire.
I don't want to just preach to the choir, I want to let other people see this and make their own judgement, because a lot of people say, "Oh well he's just a terrorist," or "He's a radical terrorist," or this or that, and of course to me the terrorists are the people who want to lay down these crude pipelines and ship it down the inland waterway, and Union Carbide and Monsanto and all of these incredible corporations that are basically poisoning and ruining it. So those are the real terrorists and we are just trying a rearguard action. But I would like it to become the action whereby the majority of people get behind it and say that this is what we want.
B: Hit the tipping point and landslide the other way.
RC: Exactly.
