The Lonely Battle of Thomas Reid

As the recent release of the Panama and Paradise papers attest, the world’s elites and their corporations have established a privileged set of rules when it comes to paying tax and protecting their interests. To this backdrop director Feargal Ward presents a unique viewpoint into one of the most defining global issues of our time. In The Lonely Battle Of Thomas Reid we find Thomas, the eponymous Irish farmer living a solitary life on the fringes of mainstream society, farming the lands passed down to him by his father and his grandfather before. But beyond the walls of his 17th century farm looms a vast American factory - vital to the national economy but long an unsettling presence in Thomas' life. Suspicious of intrusion, Thomas does not welcome the State agents who come to forcibly purchase his house and lands. He vows to resist. The Loney Battle Of Thomas Reid is both a modern retelling of an ancient parable and a prescient insight into a society overwhelmingly influenced by corporate interest and ideology. Utilising the immersive visual and aural power of cinema, the film creates a multilayered psychological portrait of this fascinating individual and his experience; of the country that houses him, and the State that seeks to evict him.… >>>