An outspoken animal rights activist and a training vegan since age three, Joaquin Phoenix has devoted a portion of his profession and fame to elevating consciousness for the trigger. Along with headlining quite a few animal rights campaigns, Phoenix has helped platform and tackle these points on the large display screen by way of a number of animal rights documentaries. In 2005, he narrated “Earthlings,” a documentary exposing animal exploitation by the hands of people, and was awarded the Humanitarian Award on the San Diego Movie Competition for his contribution. A decade later, he narrated the movie’s sequel, “Unity,” together with 100 different celebrities. Collectively, they emphasised themes of compassion, the human expertise, and the significance of unity amongst all dwelling beings.
In 2020, Phoenix served as an govt producer for “Gunda,” a documentary that intimately captures the day by day lives of a pig, two cows, and a one-legged rooster. He adopted this with one other govt producing credit score, this time alongside his spouse, Rooney Mara, for the 2022 documentary “The Finish of Drugs,” shedding mild on the interconnectedness between our therapy of animals and urgent international well being considerations.