by Duncan | Jul 8, 2020 | Actors & Filmmakers, Authors, Cetaceans, General
William Neal —writer-director of “Long Gone Wild,” a documentary that focuses on captive orcas, arriving as a cinematic successor to “Blackfish”—provides an overview of his pre-doc career, a mix of all sort of television work, writing books, and, early on, coaching...
by Duncan | Jul 24, 2013 | Actors & Filmmakers, Cetaceans
Gabriela Cowperthwaite—the director of “Blackfish,” the documentary examining the perils of keeping killer whales in captivity, with a focus on SeaWorld & Tilikum, who’s killed three people and emerges as an unfortunate poster boy for captive orcas going...
by Duncan | Jul 25, 2012 | Authors
David Kirby–investigative journalist and author, most recently of “Death At SeaWorld: Shamu and the Dark Side of Killer Whales in Captivity”–discusses the relatively short period he spend reporting, researching and writing the new, nearly...