Director's Statement - Soldiers of Peace

Our intention with this film is to put peace back on the agenda in the 21st Century. What Al Gore and "An Inconvenient Truth" achieved in highlighting the issues of global warming, "Soldiers of Peace" wants to achieve for global peace. I strongly believe that if we have more peace in the world then we will have the time and most importantly the resources to tackle the real threat facing humanity: global warming and climate change. Not the war on terror.

In a way, this film is a call to action to peace and to start focusing on peace. Peace must come from within, and we cannot rely on our Governments to act for us. We must act in every way possible. If, after watching this film, people feel moved and motivated to act in any way possible, whether they start talking to a neighbour after years of disagreement or begin addressing areas of conflict in their home, street, town or country - then we have achieved the aims of this film. People will be inspired to act after seeing this film.

Through the course of this film, we meet some amazing people and see what they are accomplishing around the world in the way of peace and reconciliation, sometimes in dangerous situations. We see that peace is in fact breaking out, regardless of the images of war we are bombarded with every day in the news. We look at how peace activists use the internet to reach millions of people, which was unheard of even 10 years ago.

We tell stories of peace through grass roots activists around the world: unsung heroes who are working towards peace and have amazing stories that we could capture on camera. These people are rarely heard of in the news and its these characters that the audience will identify with. Their stories are entwined with our "peace experts" and notable individuals, who explain the key messages of the film and the challenges facing humanity in the 21st century.

The problems facing humanity are global in their nature and cannot be solved by individual countries. We must come together to tackle these issues. Wars are proving un-winnable and cannot solve these issues, and cost nations dearly.