Believer Emily James wants us to question whether it should be illegal for protesters to try to shut down power stations

Interview: Emily James, film director - Scotsman.com News

She filmed a direct action at Royal Bank of Scotland's headquarters and a failed attempt to shut down a power station, and reveals the chilling face of absolute police power at the UN climate change conference in Copenhagen in 2009.
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What emerges from the film is that, for some people, communal action is not only empowering but also therapeutic. One of its most colourful characters, Marina – a "domestic extremist" who often serves tea in china cups at protests – suffers from depression, James reveals, and activism "has given her a sense of meaning and purpose. I think she's very aware that if she weren't doing this, she would be very deeply depressed."

If their actions are sometimes considered illegal, James, in subtitling the documentary A Tale of Modern Day Outlaws, says she wants us to question whether the activists are really criminals. "Generally the laws that they're breaking, like aggravated trespass, which is what they normally get charged with, only exist in order to punish activists." Most of them aren't "enaging in antisocial behaviour", she says, but are "people who are trying to build the world into a better place, not rip it down.