All posts tagged “Unlocking The Cage

Steven M. Wise, founder and president of the Nonhuman Rights Project

By | January 12, 2022 | Advocates, Authors, Educators, Elephants, General, Health & Behavior, Primates, Sanctuaries | No comments

Steven M. Wise—founder and president of the Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP); an attorney, author, and legal scholar, Wise is leading NhRP’s pioneering effort to free an elephant named Happy from the Bronx Zoo through a writ of habeas corpus, aiming to change her status from “thing” to “legal person”—reviews NhRP’s legal gambit when we previously spoke in 2013, when the organization was focusing its efforts on chimpanzees. Read more…

Chris Hegedus, Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker

By | August 3, 2016 | Actors & Filmmakers, Advocates, Captive, General, Primates | No comments

Chris Hegedus—co-director of the new documentary, “Unlocking The Cage”—explains the criteria she and her partner of 40 years, D.A. Pennebaker, use when deciding on the films to make, an eclectic body of work that includes the Oscar-nominated “The War Room,” which examined Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential campaign, and 2009’s “Kings of Pastry,” providing a front-row seat as 16 pastry chefs create sweet concoctions in competition for a prize in Les Meilleurs Ouvriers de France. Read more…