Blackfish Documentary Directed By Gabriela Cowperthwaite

1. Blackfish Documentary Directed By Gabriela Cowperthwaite Taking its title from the name the first Nations people and thus the coastal communities gave orca whales – Blackfish, the 2013 film focuses on Tilikum. He was a male orca stolen from the wild as a young 2 year old calf. The most grueling sequence in Blackfish shows a 1970s orca hunt using multiple boats to capture wild orca calves.Once the babies were hauled aboard the boats, the rest of the pod were released from the nets that separated them from the tiny ones. Instead of swimming off, they formed a line with their heads above water and exchanged heartbreaking calls with the captive. Recalling that scene some four decades later, one of the orca hunters described it as “Just like kidnapping slightly kid away from their mother.” He also remembers how, when three members of the orca pod died within the nets, he and two other crew members were told to fill their eviscerated bodies with rocks and sink them within the ocean. He couldn’t stop the tears from springing to his eyes as he worked — and confesses that time hasn’t kept the memories of that day from haunting him: “I’ve been an area of a revolution and two change of presidents in Central and South America. And seen some things that’s hard to believe, but that is the worst thing that I’ve ever done.” Wild orcas sleep in inseparable family groups, each with its own culture and language. We now know, in spite of what marine parks tell their audiences, that the females live from 80 to 100 years; the males, from 60 to 70. Read Now: Blackfish Documentary