Blackfish
“Storytellers broaden our minds: engage, provoke, inspire,
and ultimately, connect us.”
Robert
Redford, President and Founder
Institute History
2013 Sundance Film Festival
2013 Sundance London Film and
Music Festival
Description
Many of us have experienced the
excitement and awe of watching 8,000-pound orcas, or “killer whales,” soar out
of the water and fly through the air at sea parks, as if in perfect harmony
with their trainers. Yet, in our contemporary lore this mighty black-and-white
mammal is like a two-faced Janus—beloved as a majestic, friendly giant yet
infamous for its capacity to kill viciously. Blackfish unravels the
complexities of this dichotomy, employing the story of notorious performing
whale Tilikum, who—unlike any orca in the wild—has taken the lives of several
people while in captivity. So what exactly went wrong?
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.
SeaWorld
The Anheuser-Busch Company made an offer to purchase the SeaWorld
parks. However, HBJ also owned and operated two other parks, Cypress Gardens
and Boardwalk and Baseball, and out of fear of not being able to find a buyer
for the two other parks, HBJ refused to sell the parks individually. Despite a
long negotiation, Anheuser-Busch bought all six parks in 1989: SeaWorld in San Diego, Aurora, Orlando and San Antonio as
well as Cypress Gardens
in Winter Haven and Boardwalk and Baseball in Haines City.
Soon after the sale was final, Busch sold Cypress Gardens
to the park's management and closed Boardwalk and Baseball.[7] Anheuser-Busch
put millions of dollars back into the parks to revive and to prolong their
longevity.
Sundance Film Festival
Blackfish (film)
Blackfish is a 2013 documentary
directed by Gabriela Cowperthwaite. 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.
Note: Sundance
Institute is the sponsor for the Sundance
Film Festival.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Sundance Institute, the Natural
Resources Defense Council, the Human
Rights Watch, the Aspen Institute
(think tank), the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think
tank), and the Brookings Institution
(think tank).
George
Soros was the chairman for the Foundation
to Promote Open Society.
Robert
Redford is the founder & president for the Sundance Institute, a trustee at the Natural Resources Defense Council, and a member of Kappa Sigma.
Patricia E.
Mitchell is the vice chair for the Sundance
Institute, was a director at the Human
Rights Watch, the president of CNN
Productions, and the executive in charge of original productions for the Turner Broadcasting System Inc.
CNN Worldwide is
a division of the Turner Broadcasting
System Inc.
Ted
Turner is the founder of the Turner
Broadcasting System Inc., a member of Kappa
Sigma, the founder of CNN, and a
co-chairman for the Nuclear Threat
Initiative (think tank).
Walter
Isaacson was the chairman & CEO for CNN, and is the president & CEO for the Aspen Institute (think tank).
James S.
Crown is a trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank), and a member
of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
Lester Crown
was a lifetime trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank), and is a
member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
Mellody L. Hobson
is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, and a trustee at the Sundance Institute.
Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think
tank) was a funder for the Nuclear
Threat Initiative (think tank).
Jessica Tuchman Mathews is a director
at the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think
tank), the president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
(think tank), a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg
(think tank), was an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think
tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).
Ed Griffin’s interview with
Norman Dodd in 1982
(The investigation into the
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace uncovered the plans for population
control by involving the United
States in war)
Warren E. Buffett
is an adviser at the Nuclear Threat
Initiative (think tank), Susan A.
Buffett’s father, and a member of the Augusta
National Golf Club.
Susan A. Buffett
is Warren E. Buffett’s daughter, and
a director at the ONE Campaign.
Michelle
Obama is an advocate for the ONE
Campaign, and was a lawyer at Sidley
Austin LLP.
Cindy Hensley
McCain is an advocate for the ONE
Campaign, the chair for Hensley
& Co., and was a stockholder in the Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc.
Hensley
& Co. was a wholesaler for the Anheuser-Busch
Companies, Inc.
William Porter
Payne was a director at the Anheuser-Busch
Companies, Inc., and is the chairman for the Augusta National Golf Club.
Douglas A.
Warner III was a director at the Anheuser-Busch
Companies, Inc., and is a member of the Augusta National Golf Club.
18 Holes of Corruptions (Past Research on the Augusta
National Golf Club)
Friday, February 21, 2014
Marvin Nicholson
was a caddy at the Augusta National Golf
Club, is the White House trip director for the Barack Obama administration, and Barack Obama’s golf partner.
Barack
Obama’s golf partner is Marvin
Nicholson, the president for the Barack
Obama administration, and an intern at Sidley
Austin LLP.
R.
Eden Martin is counsel at Sidley
Austin LLP, and the president of the Commercial
Club of Chicago.
Michelle
Obama was a lawyer at Sidley Austin
LLP, and is an advocate for the ONE
Campaign.
Barack
Obama was an intern at Sidley Austin
LLP.
Newton
N. Minow is a senior counsel at Sidley
Austin LLP, and a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago.
Valerie B. Jarrett
is a member of the Commercial Club of
Chicago, the senior adviser for the Barack
Obama administration, and her great uncle is Vernon E. Jordan Jr.
Cyrus F.
Freidheim Jr. is a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, and an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank).
Vernon E. Jordan Jr. is Valerie B. Jarrett’s great uncle, an
honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), a director
at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank), an Oak Bluffs (MA) homeowner, a senior
director at the NAACP Legal Defense
& Educational Fund, a senior counsel for Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP, and a 2008 Bilderberg
conference participant (think tank).
Henry Louis
Gates Jr. was an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think
tank), is an Oak Bluffs (MA)
homeowner, and a director at the NAACP
Legal Defense & Educational Fund.
Richard
C. Blum is an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank),
married to Senator Dianne
Feinstein, and a regent at the University
of California.
Vilma S. Martinez
was a board of regent’s chair for the University of California, and a director at the Anheuser-Busch
Companies, Inc.
Louis W. Sullivan
is an Oak Bluffs (MA) homeowner, and
a national executive board member for the Boy
Scouts of America.
Edward E.
Whitacre Jr. is a national executive board member for the Boy Scouts of America, and was a director
at the Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc.
Wayman F. Smith
III is a director at the NAACP Legal
Defense & Educational Fund, and was a VP for the Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc.
Akin,
Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP is the lobby firm for the Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc.
Daniel R.
Glickman was a senior adviser for Akin,
Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP, and is director, Congressional
Program for the Aspen Institute (think
tank).
Walter
Isaacson is the president & CEO for the Aspen Institute (think tank), and was the chairman & CEO for CNN.
Ted
Turner is the founder of CNN, and
a member of Kappa Sigma.
Robert
Redford is a member of Kappa Sigma,
and the founder & president for the Sundance
Institute.
Sundance
Institute is the sponsor for the Sundance
Film Festival.
Blackfish (film)
Blackfish is a 2013 documentary
directed by Gabriela Cowperthwaite. 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.
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