Dominion
About Dominion
Chris Delforce's documentary uses drones, hidden cameras, and handheld cameras inside Australian slaughterhouses and large farms. It shows pigs gassed with carbon dioxide, chicks put through macerators, and foxes skinned alive, along with other livestock industries. Joaquin Phoenix, Rooney Mara, Sadie Sink, Sia, and Kat Von D narrate. The film argues against human dominion over the animals on screen.
Cast & crew
More about Dominion
Chris Delforce wrote, directed, and produced it, with Shaun Monson also credited as a producer. Farm Transparency Project, earlier called Aussie Farms, managed the production. Money came from crowdfunding and from the Australian group Voiceless. It premiered in Melbourne on 29 March 2018.
Themes
Background
An Australian animal-rights documentary premiered in Melbourne in March 2018, aimed at livestock farming and slaughter.
Making
Delforce shot inside facilities with drones and concealed cameras, then cut the material as a two-hour narration-led documentary.
Reviews
Farm leaders answered the film in public. Patrick Hutchinson of the Australian Meat Industry Council said the footage was not representative of the wider industry.
Audiences
Vegan protest groups used the film as a film to send people to. The National Farmers' Federation treated it as an attack on Australian farming, while its president said welfare practices could be improved.
Look
Delforce and his crew used drones, hidden cameras, and handheld cameras inside slaughterhouses and farms.
Preservation
A full copy is on Wikimedia Commons.
Notes
- Narrators are Joaquin Phoenix, Rooney Mara, Sadie Sink, Sia, and Kat Von D.
- Delforce, an animal-rights activist, said the film was meant to expose what he called an opaque system inside Australian animal industries.
- It won Best Documentary Feature at the 2018 Hollywood International Moving Pictures Film Festival, and Delforce won Best Director at the Festigious International Film Festival.
- Patrick Hutchinson, chief executive of the Australian Meat Industry Council, said what the film shows is not representative of the wider industry.
- Fiona Simson, then president of the National Farmers' Federation, said the industry had room to improve on animal welfare.
Awards
- Best Documentary Feature, Hollywood International Moving Pictures Film Festival (2018)
- Best Director (Chris Delforce), Festigious International Film Festival
Scenes
- Hidden cameras show pigs being gassed with carbon dioxide.
- The film shows chicks going into a macerator and foxes being skinned alive.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons