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Related: About this forumBlackfish, 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 creatures 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: CNNs Brooke Baldwin interviews Death at SeaWorld author David Kirby and Greg Bossart of the Georgia Aquarium
Thur 10/24/2013 2:45pm ET: CNNs Brooke Baldwin interviews the Orca Networks Howard Garrett
Thur 10/24/2013 6:30pm ET: CNNs Crossfire with The Killer in the Pool author Tim Zimmermann & Dr. Paul Boyle of the AZA
Thur 10/24/2013 8:00pm ET: CNNs AC360 with Anderson Cooper
Thur 10/24/2013 9:00pm ET: CNNs premiere of Blackfish
Thur 10/24/2013 11:00pm ET: CNNs 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
CNNs Martin Savidge: Can Killer Whales be in captivity safely?
http://theorcaproject.wordpress.com/2013/10/24/blackfish-cnn/
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Blackfish, movie on killer whale that killed a trainer, on CNN tonight at 9 pm est (Original Post)
Beringia
Oct 2013
OP
get the red out
(13,466 posts)1. Thanks for the heads up
I put that on my phone calendar to watch or at least record tonight. I have been wanting to see this.
OnlinePoker
(5,722 posts)2. Why Black"fish" as we all should know whales are mammals? n/t
Beringia
(4,316 posts)3. Blackfish is what the native Americans from the Pacific Northwest called them
Killer whales are native to the waters around Washington and British Columbia, (along with Iceland and Russia)
OnlinePoker
(5,722 posts)4. Born and raised in BC and have never heard that term. n/t
Beringia
(4,316 posts)5. Name of one of their crests
The Tsimshian have four major crests - Blackfish (Killerwhale, Orca), Raven, Eagle, and wolf
page 2
Tsimshian Culture: A Light Through the Ages By Jay Miller
http://books.google.com/books?id=WhzaS7xang4C&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
Playing in ONE HOUR, I'm staying up late for it