Explore the secretive world of the global orca trade in this award-winning documentary.
An new goldrush is driving orcas to the brink.
ORCA - BLACK & WHITE GOLD is a moving feature documentary exposing the mafia-style industry licensed by the Russian government to brutally capture, hold, and sell one of nature’s most incredible species.
Activists rally to free 100 orcas and belugas from the notorious Russian “whale jail” before they’re sold to Chinese marine parks. While the SeaWorld business model of exploiting “killer whales” for profit in captivity is fading in the West, it is on a meteoric rise across Asia. Tens of millions of dollars are on offer for captive cetaceans, and young orcas are the coveted crown jewel of several hundred marine parks already under construction across China.
In neighboring Russia, a battle is brewing between businessmen, mobsters, orca catchers, and bureaucrats as they face formidable resistance from journalists and activists taking great personal risk to fight for the freedom of an endangered species.
Orcas are making a splash at this year’s exclusive Cannes Festival.
As the future of two captive orcas in France is fiercely defended by animal rights groups, the world-renowned Cannes film festival brings ORCA - BLACK & WHITE GOLD to their line up of films.
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