Brian and Co. Parliament Square SW1
Director Yumiko Hayakawa
Countries
Duration 97 min
Synopsis
Brian & Co. Parliament Square SW1 is a new documentary film by Japanese film-maker Yumiko Hayakawa. The film is about the British peace campaigner, Brian Haw, and his supporters. Brian Haw began a peace campaign in Parliament Square, London in June 2001 and has remained there 24 hours a day ever since. Filmed over the course of one and a half years, Brian & Co. captures this unique peace campaign through interviews with Brian and his supporters. The film also sheds light on how freedom of speech is threatened in the UK and people’s imaginative and unrelenting ways of defending their rights.