I AM AN ANIMAL offers a fascinating look at the
woman behind PETA, the radical organization that
has become the world's largest, most respected and
most influential animal rights group. For the past
27 years, Ingrid Newkirk and People for the
Ethical Treatment of Animals have tirelessly
attacked one of the pillars of civilization: mankind's
dominance over and exploitation of animals.
Taking full advantage of the unprecedented
access he gained to Newkirk and the
inner-workings of her organization, director
Matthew Galkin thoroughly explores PETA's
ideology and often militant tactics, which he deftly
counterbalances with the voices of some of PETA's
most vociferous critics. But Galkin also gets at the
psychological underpinnings of its co-founder's personality
and motivations, making I AM AN ANIMAL an intimate,
provocative profile of one woman's very public war against man's inhumanity to animal.