August 2007

Animal rights lawyer turned filmmaker Shannon Keith has done nothing to lower her profile with the documentary Behind the Mask.
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Animal rights lawyer turned filmmaker Shannon Keith enjoys a level of celebrity that is entirely different from the kind obsessed over by the likes of TMZ.com, US Weekly and Perez Hilton. As shown in her documentary Behind the Mask, she has been under surveillance by the FBI for a number of years now. The agency has a thick file on her, has gone through her trash, raided her San Fernando Valley house, put pen registers on her phones and even harangued her mother. All because of the company she keeps. Keith defends animal rights activists and is now also spreading her message via the controversial documentary Behind the Mask, a profile of Animal Liberation Front (ALF) members that took three years to make. ...

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