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2019 film by Lesley Chilcott

Watson
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Lesley Chilcott
Produced by	Lesley Chilcott Louise Runge Wolfgang Knöpfler
Starring	Paul Watson
Cinematography	Logan Schneider
Edited by	Greg Finton
Music by	Christophe Beck
Production companies	Participant Terra mater Factual Studios Real by Fake
Distributed by	Participant Media
Release date	April 28, 2019 (2019-04-28)
Running time	99 minutes
Countries	United States Australia
Language	English

Watson is a 2019 documentary film about the life of Paul Watson, the founder of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. It was directed by Lesley Chilcott and produced by Louise Runge.

The film premiered at Tribeca Film Festival in 2019.

Synopsis

Filmed over two years in Costa Rica, Tonga, and the US, Watson is a feature documentary about the life of eco-warrior Captain Paul Watson, the founder of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society.

Reception

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 100% of 10 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 7/10.

Awards and nominations

Year	Category	Association	Result
2020	Cinema for Peace Awards	Cinema for Peace Award International Green Film Award	Nominated
2020	International Wildlife Film Festival	Best Feature Film	Won
2019	Camden International Film Festival	Harrell Award Best Documentary Feature	Nominated
2019	Hamptons International Film Festival	Zelda Penzel Giving Voice to the Voiceless Award	Won
2019	Tribeca Film Festival	Best Documentary Feature	Nominated
2019	Tribeca Film Festival	Audience Award Documentary	Nominated

References

Kenigsberg, Ben (7 November 2019). "'Watson' Review: Environmentalism on the High Seas". The New York Times.
"'Watson': Film Review". The Hollywood Reporter. 20 May 2019.
"Documentaries Are King as New Films on Linda Ronstadt and Captain Paul Watson Get Ready to Shine at Tribeca Film Festival". 25 April 2019.
"Review: 'Watson' delivers fierce message from eco-warrior and Sea Shepherd captain". Los Angeles Times. 24 October 2019.
"Tribeca Film Festival 2019: WATSON: The Embodiment of Change, Resilience & Strength". 26 April 2019.
"Watson". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 25 May 2024.
https://www.cinemaforpeace-foundation.org/honorees
"Watson • International Wildlife Film Festival".
"The XV Camden International Film Festival: A Special Report".
"INTERVIEW: Director Lesley Chilcott on Documenting the Life of Captain Paul Watson for New Documentary, "Watson"". 18 October 2019.
"Watson | 2019 Tribeca Festival".
"Tribeca Film Festival 2019: WATSON: The Embodiment of Change, Resilience & Strength". 26 April 2019.

External links

Sea Shepherd Conservation Society

Operations

Neptune's Navy

Current vessels	MV Emanuel Bronner MY Farley Mowat MY Jairo Mora Sandoval MY John Paul DeJoria RV Martin Sheen MY Ocean Warrior MY Age of Union MV Sharpie
Former vessels	MY Ady Gil MY Alchemy MY Bob Barker MV Brigitte Bardot RV Farley Mowat Sea Shepherd I Sea Shepherd II MY Steve Irwin MV White Holly

People

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v t e Greenpeace
People	Phil Radford Michael Bailey Kumi Naidoo Irving Stowe Ben Metcalfe Paul Watson Rex Weyler Jim Bohlen Will E. Jackson David McTaggart Robert Hunter Patrick Moore Oscar Soria John Sauven Andy Stirling Stephen Tindale Jean McSorley Dorothy Stowe Peter Willcox Fernando Pereira Daniel Beltrá Dennis Delaney Von Hernandez
Ships	Phyllis Cormack Rainbow Warrior (I) Rainbow Warrior (II) Rainbow Warrior (III) Esperanza Arctic Sunrise Sirius Solo Greenpeace Gondwana Yellow Thing Fri (yacht)
Regional offices	Greenpeace Aotearoa New Zealand Greenpeace Australia Pacific Greenpeace East Asia Greenpeace Nordic Greenpeace Southeast Asia Greenpeace USA
Related organisations	Sea Shepherd Conservation Society Greenpeace Foundation London Greenpeace Don't Make a Wave Committee Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (NZ)
Publications	Unearthed
Other related topics	Golden Rule (ketch) Greenpeace – The Album Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior Rainbow Warrior Case How to Change the World (film) The Rainbow Warrior Conspiracy (miniseries) The Rainbow Warrior (film) Mister Splashy Pants Public Eye Award World Park Base

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Animal agriculture	Animal product Battery cage Bile bear Chick culling Crocodile farm Concentrated animal feeding operation Fish farming Fur farming Fur trade Insect farming Intensive animal farming Intensive pig farming Livestock Poultry farming Slaughterhouse Wildlife farming Working animal Feedback (pork industry) Foam depopulation Ventilation shutdown
Animal testing	Alternatives to animal testing Animal testing on non-human primates Animal testing regulations Great ape research ban Green Scare Huntingdon Life Sciences Model organism Nafovanny Operation Backfire Vivisection
Animal welfare	Animal euthanasia Cruelty to animals Pain in animals Pain in amphibians Pain in cephalopods Pain in crustaceans Pain in fish Pain in invertebrates Pain and suffering in laboratory animals Welfare of farmed insects
Fishing	Commercial fishing Fishing bait Recreational fishing
Wild animals	Culling wildlife Hare coursing Hunting International primate trade Ivory trade Predation problem Seal hunting Wild animal suffering Wildlife management
Other	Abandoned pets Animal sacrifice Animal slaughter Animal trial Animals in sport Live food Live export

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Animal Justice Party (Australia)
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Animalist Movement (Italy)
Animalist Party with the Environment (Spain)
DierAnimal (Belgium)
Human Environment Animal Protection Party (Germany)
Italian Animalist Party (Italy)
Party for the Animals (Netherlands)
People Animals Nature (Portugal)
V-Partei³ (Germany)

Activism

Animal Rights National Conference

Media (books, films, periodicals, albums)

Books

On Abstinence from Eating Animals (3rd century)
An Essay on Humanity to Animals (1798)
Moral Inquiries on the Situation of Man and of Brutes (1824)
The Rights of Animals (1838)
The Ethics of Diet (1883)
Animals' Rights (1892)
Evolutional Ethics and Animal Psychology (1897)
Better-World Philosophy (1899)
The Universal Kinship (1906)
The New Ethics (1907)
Animals, Men and Morals (1971)
Animal Liberation (1975)
The Case for Animal Rights (1983)
Morals, Reason, and Animals (1987)
Zoos and Animal Rights (1993)
Animals, Property, and the Law (1995)
The Lives of Animals (1999)
Eternal Treblinka (2001)
Do Animals Have Rights? (2005)
Striking at the Roots (2008)
An American Trilogy (2009)
An Introduction to Animals and Political Theory (2010)
Animal Rights Without Liberation (2012)
Political Animals and Animal Politics (2014)
Animal (De)liberation (2016)
Sentientist Politics (2018)
Wild Animal Ethics (2020)
Animal Ethics in the Wild (2022)
Making a Stand for Animals (2022)
The Moral Circle (2025)

Films

The Animals Film (1981)
A Cow at My Table (1998)
Shores of Silence (2000)
The Witness (2000)
Meet Your Meat (2002)
Legally Blonde 2 (2003)
The Meatrix (2003)
Peaceable Kingdom (2004)
Earthlings (2005)
Behind the Mask (2006)
Your Mommy Kills Animals (2007)
The Cove (2009)
Peaceable Kingdom: The Journey Home (2009)
Forks Over Knives (2011)
Vegucated (2011)
An Apology to Elephants (2013)
Speciesism: The Movie (2013)
The Ghosts in Our Machine (2013)
Unlocking the Cage (2016)
Dominion (2018)
Seaspiracy (2021)

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Journals	Animal Sentience Between the Species Cahiers antispécistes Etica & Animali Journal of Animal Ethics Relations. Beyond Anthropocentrism The Animals' Defender
Magazines	Arkangel Bite Back Muutoksen kevät No Compromise Satya

Albums

Animal Liberation (1987)
Tame Yourself (1991)
Manifesto (2008)
Salvation of Innocents (2014)
Onward to Freedom (2014)

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Holocaust on your Plate (2003)

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