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Blackfish is a 2013 American documentary film directed by Gabriela Cowperthwaite. It concerns Tilikum , an orca held by SeaWorld and the controversy over captive orcas . The film premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival on January 19, 2013, and was picked up by Magnolia Pictures and CNN Films for wider release.
She interviewed Marino who told her about how dolphins have more complex brains than humans. [ 2 ] She has also been interviewed in the documentary Blackfish and the 2021 Netflix Documentary 'Seaspiracy'.
Experts interviewed for Blackfish stated that it was unclear what drove Tilikum and the other whales to attack Byrne, but suggested that years of abuse and cruelty towards Tilikum, including allowing the other whales to rake Tilikum's skin with their teeth until he bled, had made him an aggressive whale. [citation needed]
SeaWorld still has many allies, including former trainer Mark Simmons, who participated in Blackfish and was unhappy with how the documentary turned out, as the statement above mentions. Simmons ...
Blackfish was a groundbreaking 2013 documentary that, on the surface, was about the orca Tilikum who killed three people throughout his life. But beneath that, the documentary revealed much more ...
On July 30, 2010 he was interviewed by CNN HLN concerning the fatal grizzly bear attacks in Montana. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] In 2013, he was selected along with his colleague William Hurley IV to serve as a guest panelist for a critique of the controversial docudrama Blackfish (film) for CNN.
John Hargrove is a former senior killer whale trainer for SeaWorld and supervisor of killer whale training at Marineland of Antibes in France. Hargrove appeared in the 2013 documentary Blackfish, wrote a book about his experiences in Beneath The Surface, and has campaigned in support of legislation in California and New York to end the practice of keeping killer whales in captivity.
Blackfish is a controversial documentary, as it tells the story of Tilikum, an orca at the SeaWorld theme park in Orlando, Florida who killed its trainer, Dawn Brancheau. The film investigates the treatment of orcas in captivity through news and archival footage, interviews of former trainers and marine mammal experts, and questioning the ...