I managed to catch Blackfish at Hot Docs this year and it was one of the better films of the festival. Now an official trailer has been released and I’m totally resold. This is a truly great trailer.
Shocking, never before seen footage and riveting interviews with trainers and experts manifest the orca’s extraordinary nature, the species’ cruel treatment in captivity over the last four decades, and the growing disillusionment of workers who were misled and endangered by the highly profitable 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.
Blackfish hits limited theatres July 19th via Magnolia Films. In the meantime, check out this great poster as well:
Holy moley, that looks awesome! I hope I get to see that sometime soon.
I am really excited to see this film. I’ve heard there is a lot of controversy surrounding it in the U.S. If the whole film is as interesting as the trailer makes it out to be I will have a new favorite documentary.
http://blackfishmovie.com/news/seaworld_publishes_new_blackfish_response/16096
Good trailer and well intentioned film but the statement in the trailer “There’s no record of any orca doing harm in the wild” is a little misleading. Maybe no recorded fatal attacks but they have attacked and sunk boats with people on board.
In my experience (of filming wildlife around the world) the dangers of getting close to large wild animals are frequently under-estimated.