Dominion (2018 film) explained

Dominion
Director:	Chris Delforce
Producer:	Chris Delforce, Matthew Lynch, Farm Transparency Project
Narrator:	Joaquin Phoenix Rooney Mara Sadie Sink Sia Kat Von D
Music:	Asher Pope
Editing:	Chris Delforce
Runtime:	120 minutes
Country:	Australia
Language:	English

Dominion is a 2018 Australian documentary film filmed primarily with drones and hidden cameras inside Australian slaughterhouses and macro-farms with the aim to expose an opaque and inhumane system, according to the film's writer, director, and producer, Chris Delforce, an animal rights activist.^[1] The film documents multiple animal abuse industries in Australia, especially agricultural livestock, while focusing its message on animal rights.^{[2] [3]} Dominion portrays the killing of animals through methods such as using carbon dioxide to gas pigs, maceration of chicks, and skinning foxes alive.^{[4] [5] [6]}

Dominion was managed by the animal protection and animal rights organisation, Farm Transparency Project, previously known as Aussie Farms.^[5] The film was funded through crowdfunding campaigns and the Australian animal rights organisation Voiceless.^[5] It features narration by the famous actors Joaquin Phoenix, Rooney Mara and Sadie Sink, as well as the singer Sia.^[7] It premiered in Melbourne on 29 March 2018.^[8] It was filmed to be a feature-length documentary sequel to Lucent (2014), which mostly focused on the Australian pig farming industry.

Following its release, Dominion received the award for Best Documentary Feature at the 2018 Hollywood International Moving Pictures Film Festival, and Delforce won Best Director at the Festigious International Film Festival. Dominion has been used as a focal point for vegan protest groups, who encourage others to watch the documentary.

Australian farmers have been critical of the film, seeing it as an "attack on Australian farming". The Australian Meat Industry Council Chief Executive, Patrick Hutchinson, has said, "What the film shows is not representative of the practices of the wider industry",^[9] while Fiona Simson, president of the National Farmers' Federation, recognised that there was "room for improvement" by industry to improve animal welfare practices.

See also

• List of vegan media
• Earthlings – a 2005 documentary about humanity's use of animals

External links

• • Complete film on YouTube (official)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Albeck-Ripka . Livia . Protests in Australia Pit Vegans Against Farmers . The New York Times . 23 July 2023 . 10 April 2019.
2. Alonso-Recarte . Claudia . 20 January 2022 . Tiger King and the Exegesis of COVID-19 Media Coverage of Nonhuman Animals . Journalism and Media . 3 . 1 . 99–114 . 10.3390/journalmedia3010008 . There are also documentaries such as Earthlings (Monson 2005) and Dominion (Delforce 2018) that construct their shock tactics with the accumulation of footage of wanton cruelty and abuse in a number of industries (food, clothing, entertainment, tourism, the pharmaceutical and medical research industries, etc.). . free.
3. Book: von Mossner, Alexa Weik . Veg(etari)an Arguments in Culture, History, and Practice . Palgrave Macmillan . 2021 . 978-3-030-53282-6 . The Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series . 248 . Feeling Bad? Veganism, Climate Change, and the Rhetoric of Cowspiracy . 10.1007/978-3-030-53280-2_10 . https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-53280-2_10 . 236717428.
4. Web site: Cuthbertson . Debbie . 2019-04-12 . Vegan protests: Flash in the pan or seismic social shift? . 2023-08-04 . The Sydney Morning Herald . en.
5. Web site: 8 April 2019 . What is the 'Dominion' documentary vegan protesters are promoting? . 24 July 2023 . www.9news.com.au.
6. News: Pork industry hits back at slaughter process criticism after 'distressing' footage of gassing made public . 23 August 2023 . ABC News . 28 March 2023 . en-AU.
7. Web site: Pritchett, Liam . 30 August 2019 . The Scariest Movie Ever Made Is a Vegan Documentary . 7 August 2020 . LiveKindly.co.
8. Web site: Ettinger. Jill. Vegan Documentary 'Dominion' Starring Joaquin Phoenix Holds Sold-Out World Premiere This Week. 2018-03-26. 2020-02-12. https://web.archive.org/web/20190411235553/https://www.livekindly.co/vegan-documentary-dominion-joaquin-phoenix-premiere/. 2019-04-11. live.
9. Web site: Industry braces for documentary backlash. Joely. Mitchell. 2018-04-04. Queensland Country Life. 2020-03-15. https://web.archive.org/web/20190808130322/https://www.queenslandcountrylife.com.au/story/5320974/industry-braces-for-documentary-backlash/. 2019-08-08. live.