. “I never found a war I liked,” says Shipton, remarkably cheerfully, via video from Sheffield, where the film is premiering at the documentary festival.
Some of the most remarkable scenes in the film centre on CCTV footage from inside the Ecuadorian embassy of Assange and Moris. They did not know, at the time, that they were being filmed. We see Assange skateboarding round his tiny room and having a low-key Christmas meal with his father and Moris. “It’s the embassy’s footage from the security company,” says Lawrence.
] it really gave a boost to the movement. It really forms a background to the film, in that it is someone stepping in from the outside. I think he offers a new entry point, as does John himself. It feels like one of a whole number of doorways that you can enter the story.” Shipton is equally effusive about Melzer, who is from Switzerland, calling him “an angel”.
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