A filmmaker gets more than he bargained for when his girlfriend is part of starting one of the most polarising protest movements in recent memory: Just Stop Oil. ‘We, The Hated’ tells the inside story of how a group of every-day concerned citizens hatch a contentious plan of civil disobedience to wake the country up to the climate emergency. And what the government does to shut them down.

As irreversible climate tipping points loom and their controversial protests face mounting repression, four activists—Indigo, Mark, Phoebe, and Jane—grapple with the personal cost of action against the existential stakes of inaction. How far will ordinary people go to stop oil drilling and how far will the authorities go to stop them?

Rich Felgate – Director/Producer

Rich Felgate is a documentary filmmaker who first picked up a camera to document his insider’s view of environmental activism. For his debut feature doc, ‘Finite’, Rich spent a year and half living in protest camps in the UK and Germany with communities opposing opencast coal extraction. ‘Finite’ screened at festivals around the world (DocEdge, DokuFest, Leeds), won multiple awards, including the FIPADOC Impact Grand Prix and went on to be released theatrically in the UK and broadcast by public service broadcasters around the world including NHK.
His latest film, ‘We, The Hated’, had its world premiere as the opening night film of Sheffield Doc Fest.