Sunday NYTimes Mag Blockbuster Cover Story on Animal Rights Has Kickstarter for Pennebaker Doc
The Sunday New York Times Magazine cover story this weekend is tied to a Kickstarter campaign for a documentary by Chris Hegedus and DA Pennebaker. Animal rights activist Steven Wise is featured by writer Charles Siebert in his piece “Should A Chimp Be Able to Sue its Owner?” For the last 18 months, the award winning Pennebaker Hegedus Films has been working on a film about Wise and his chimps. They’ve even paid a visit to Bubbles, Michael Jackson’s famous former pet. They’re trying to raise $75,000 over the weekend to help complete their work on “Unlocking the Cage.” I’ve seen some of their footage, and it will blow your mind. Anyone involved in animal rights will want to get in on this ASAP.
Here’s their clip:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/929991495/unlocking-the-cage-a-new-documentary?ref=live
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/27/magazine/the-rights-of-man-and-beast.html?ref=magazine&_r=0
[…] philosophers like Kant (and Descartes, Malebranche. Aquinas) rejected the idea of animal rights. They regarded animals as the organic equivalents of machines, driven by coarse instincts, unable […]