Blackfish, movie on killer whale that killed a trainer, on CNN tonight at 9 pm est

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Blackfish on CNN [/font size] at 9 pm est and 12 am est, today, Thursday, October 24th.


After debuting at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, this critically acclaimed film has gone on to receive praise at numerous film festivals around the globe and has seen a successful run amid sold-out crowds in movie theaters worldwide.

Blackfish tells the story of Tilikum, a performing killer whale that killed several people while in captivity. Along the way, director-producer Gabriela Cowperthwaite compiles shocking footage and emotional interviews to explore the creature’s extraordinary nature, the species’ cruel treatment in captivity, the lives and losses of the trainers and the pressures brought to bear by the multi-billion dollar sea-park industry.

This emotionally wrenching, tautly structured story challenges us to consider our relationship to nature and reveals how little we humans have learned from these highly intelligent and enormously sentient fellow mammals.



In addition, the following will be on CNN today

Thur 10/24/2013 2:00pm ET: CNN’s Brooke Baldwin interviews “Death at SeaWorld” author David Kirby and Greg Bossart of the Georgia Aquarium
Thur 10/24/2013 2:45pm ET: CNN’s Brooke Baldwin interviews the Orca Network’s Howard Garrett
Thur 10/24/2013 6:30pm ET: CNN’s Crossfire with “The Killer in the Pool” author Tim Zimmermann & Dr. Paul Boyle of the AZA
Thur 10/24/2013 8:00pm ET: CNN’s AC360 with Anderson Cooper
Thur 10/24/2013 9:00pm ET: CNN’s premiere of “Blackfish”
Thur 10/24/2013 11:00pm ET: CNN’s Anderson Cooper Special Report with Humane Society Senior Scientist Dr. Naomi Rose, “Blackfish” director/producer Gabriela Cowperthwaite, Jack Hannah & Bill Hurley of the Georgia Aquarium

Recent interviews now online:

Director-Producer Gabriela Cowperthwaite tells CNN “why she made Blackfish“
CNN’s Martin Savidge: “Can Killer Whales be in captivity safely?”

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