‘The Disconnection’: Short film nominee at International Vegan Film Festival (2023)
The award-winning short film 'The Disconnect' highlights the disconnect between our fellow earthlings and the shocking reality of our choices today. The film calls into awareness the way we view and treat animals as a defining characteristic of our own species.
FRANK METIVIER: The award-winning short film ‘The Disconnect’ highlights the disconnect between our fellow earthlings, the animal and the shocking reality of our choices today. Directed by Frank Metivier, the film calls into awareness the way we view and treat animals as a defining characteristic of our own species. The Disconnection will take you on an extraordinary journey of discovery, combining earth’s beauty and one of our greatest needs as human beings.
Amongst the beauty and the pain, the film inspires hope, a way to come into reconnection with the earth and its inhabitants, which is accessible to all of us. All that is needed is what we already have within, compassion…
Having been a world traveller for most of his life, Francis “Frank” Metivier, known as “The Vigorous Vegan Vagabond,” is now on a mission to promote a compassionate vegan lifestyle while still travelling the globe.
He stopped eating meat about 12 years ago, going from pescetarian, to vegetarian, to finally adopting a vegan lifestyle in the Spring of 2018. After looking more seriously into what happens to animals used for food and also other purposes, going vegan seemed to be the obvious thing to do, but even then it wasn’t enough for Frank. He felt he had to do something proactive for the animals after what he’d learned.
He realized that in a way he always was vegan at heart, meaning he had always felt it was wrong to exploit animals only for human pleasure or convenience, but he believes the conditioning and disconnection we’re all subjected to makes us blind to the reality of animal exploitation. Francis has been living in his van, a minimalist lifestyle, for over 5 years now and aim to raise awareness wherever he goes. SOURCE…
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