A Man Called Brian

A Man Called Brian is a 2005 documentary film by Mahmoud Shoolizadeh about the English peace campaigner Brian Haw and his ten-year, 24 hours a day, anti-war protest in Parliament Square.
Synopsis
In June 2001, Brian Haw left his home, his wife and seven children in Redditch and went to London to stage a 24-hours-a-day sit-in opposite the Houses of Parliament in protest against the invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan by the US and British military forces. Haw collected and displayed numerous objects representative of his and others' opposition to the invasion. In April 2005 a new "Serious Organised Crime and Police Act" (SOCPA) was passed which had the effect of making unlawful any unauthorised protest with one kilometre of Parliament Square. In this film, he argues that because the war causes the deaths of many thousands of people, it should stop.
Afterwards
By May 2006, most of Haw's protest site had been dismantled. But the site itself had been carefully documented by artist Mark Wallinger, and reconstructed as a work of art titled "State Britain" and situated in Tate Britain partially within the 1-kilometre exclusion zone. As a artwork on exhibition from January to August 2007—and even though it was an exact duplicate of Haw's work and included Haw's original objects of protest— the site was not bothered by police authority.
*Fajr International Film Festival in Tehran,Iran 2005
*2nd Festival of TV production of IRIB, Foreign Bureaux, in Tehran,Iran Prize winner for the best director, 2005,
Technical specifications and film crew
The documentary was filmed on Betacam SP.

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