Kelly Guerin: Love Begets Love
Species Unite
elizabeth novogratz
5.0 • 911 Ratings
🗓️ 26 November 2020
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
"… we are trying to make something watchable that is just unwatchable. I don't want to be here and I don't want to see this. And every part of me wants to turn away, but you have to engage with it, and you have to come out the other end with something that hopefully can encourage other people to stick with long enough to have it land." - Kelly Guerin
How we treat animals is how we treat humans.
Kelly Guerin is a documentary filmmaker who has been making that connection for as long as she's been making films. She is a part of the extraordinary We Animals Media Team and has worked independently as well as alongside NGO's to direct, film, and edit dozens of short films spanning topics of animal protection, environmental justice, and human rights throughout the world.
Her debut feature length documentary, Nations of Their Own is set to be released in 2021. The film takes place in occupied Palestine and follows an unexpected group of activists who are on a mission to rescue their country from the effects of decades of military occupation, starting with its animals.
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| 0:00.0 | It's just the first glimpse of we are trying to make something watchable that is just |
| 0:04.8 | unwatchable. I don't want to be here and I don't want to see this and every part of me wants to turn away. |
| 0:10.0 | But you have to engage with it and you have to come out the other end with something that hopefully you can |
| 0:16.6 | encourage other people to stick with long enough to have it land. Hi, I'm Elizabeth Novigrats. This is Species Unite. We have a favor to ask if you like today's episode and you have a spare minute, could you |
| 0:37.8 | please rate and review species unite on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to podcasts. It really helps people to find the show. |
| 0:47.0 | This conversation is with Kelly Garin. |
| 0:53.0 | Kelly is a documentary filmmaker and a part of Joe Ann MacArthur's extraordinary |
| 0:58.0 | We Animals Media team. |
| 1:00.0 | Kelly has documented the fate of farmed animals after Hurricane Florence, wet markets in China |
| 1:06.5 | years before they were making the headlines, and cockfighting in Puerto Rico. She's also a part of the Unbound Project, |
| 1:14.1 | a multimedia documentary project |
| 1:16.7 | that celebrates women at the forefront of animal advocacy. |
| 1:20.7 | Kelly's debut full-length documentary, Nations of Their Own, is about Animal Activist in Palestine. |
| 1:28.0 | It's set to debut next year. Kelly, it is so wonderful to have you here. Thank you so much. |
| 1:47.0 | Thank you so much for having me. |
| 1:49.0 | How did you grow up around animals? Or did you grow up around animals? I always had an affinity for animals. I just I can't |
| 1:56.6 | remember a time when I wasn't. I mean all of my childhood photos are of me |
| 2:00.4 | clutching ratty stuffed animals and friends and relatives would buy me barbies and |
| 2:05.6 | but they would choose the ones that had pets and I would always like open the box and throw |
| 2:09.5 | away the barbie and keep the little dog that came with it. |
| 2:11.6 | And did you have pets? I did I was I was always begging my family for you know a dog a cat a rabbit and it's funny looking back in my whole family is vegan now my whole family is super into animals and animal rescue, |
| 2:26.0 | but we were not the best pet owners growing up. |
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