Unchained
Synopsis
Buckley's is a phased, pragmatic approach to change attitudes; encouraging co-operation, not a confrontation between Nepalese elephant handlers (mahouts) and their ‘essential’ elephant assets, upon which the mahouts rely to sustain themselves in an environment bereft of other options. Buckley promotes co-operation between man and elephant by positive reinforcement, not dominance and cruelty – indeed a better way.
The film posits, that as we should all know, working in co-operation will always yield a better longer-term result for all parties concerned, engendering mutual respect and loyalty. And yet, dominance, intimidation, threats and violence yields results of a different kind - breeding contempt, duress, leading ultimately to the mental and physical destruction of the abused party. The human abuser can also become conflicted with shame and a need for atonement, but with some are sadly lacking any such compassion of course.
Details
- Year
- 2016
- Type of project
- Features
- Running time
- 78 mins
- Format
- Digital
- Director
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Alex C. Rivera 1st Feature
- Producer
- Leticia Ruiz
- Co-Producer
- Alex C. Rivera
- Executive Producer
- Antonio Arjona
- Editor
- Alex C. Rivera
- Screenwriter
- Alex C. Rivera
- Director of Photography
- Leticia Ruiz
- Composer
- Sascha Blank, Javier Rodriguez
Categories
Production Status
Production Company
Wake Up Films Production Ltd.
Alex C Rivera1 Park Road
Hampton Wick
Kingston Upon Thames
KT1 4AS
Sales Company
Principal Media
9378 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 320Beverly Hills
CA 90212
USA
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