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Joe Jenkins, Tutor of Theology, at the Milan Film Festival
Tutor's Film Receives World Premiere at Milan Film Festival
22nd September 2008
Joe Jenkins, who teaches Theology at the College, was recently at the Milan Film Festival where his film Contempt of Conscience was selected to receive its world premiere.
In the film, Joe, who directed the 50 minute documentary, argues that military conscription is no longer physical but financial, with each of us conscripted through our taxes. Filmed over five years, Contempt of Conscience follows the UK campaign group The Peace Tax Seven as they fight to redirect the proportion of their taxes destined for military spend to peaceful means.
Placing conscientious objection in its historical and social context, the documentary combines striking visual archive with the engaging struggle of the Peace Tax Seven, taking us on a journey from the invasion of Iraq in 2003 through the courts in Hereford, to the arrival of the bailiffs, and to the inception of the group, through to the British High Court and beyond...
The film also recently received its South Asian premiere at the Open Frame film festival in New Delhi.
The full film can now be viewed online for £1 at
More information about the Peace Tax Seven can be found at