{"id":38115,"date":"2017-02-20T14:00:24","date_gmt":"2017-02-20T22:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=38115"},"modified":"2017-02-20T15:23:46","modified_gmt":"2017-02-20T23:23:46","slug":"bluefin-john-hopkins-2016-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=38115","title":{"rendered":"Bluefin (John Hopkins, 2016) Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reviewed by C. Zangi Angeli at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival 2017<\/p>\n

John Hopkins is an acclaimed cinematographer who has written and directed the documentary Bluefin that has already won the Social Justice Award in the Social Justice category.\u00a0 The Santa Barbara International Film Festival has debut Bluefin\u00a0 and marks its U.S. premiere though the film did appear at the Atlantic Film Festival and Hopkins won Best Atlantic filmmaker at the Lunenberg Doc fest.\u00a0 Hopkins hopes the bigger stage will help bring attention to the giant bluefin and what an incredible creature they are.\u00a0 Bluefin are warm-blooded fish while almost\u00a0 all fish are cold-blooded.<\/b>\u00a0 The Bluefin can regulate their body temperature. Warm-blooded fish possess organs near their muscles called retia mirabilia that consist of a series of\u00a0 parallel veins and arteries that supply and drain the muscles.\u00a0 (Now you know)<\/span><\/p>\n

The tale begins in North Lake, Prince Edward Island, Canada.\u00a0 Hopkins tells two sides to this mindful<\/em> story and the controversy over the giant Bluefin.\u00a0 There is a baffling mystery as off the shores of North Lake is an abundance of Bluefin actually coming to the boats to eat out of the fisherman’s hands acting like pets. The Bluefin tuna has lost their fear of human beings at North Lake.\u00a0 Fisherman of North Lake feel they are so starved that they come to them versus the fisherman having to scour the oceans for them.\u00a0 What’s going on?\u00a0 Scientists assessments feel the bluefin is endangered and that stocks in the seas are down by 90%.\u00a0 But in North Lake the fisherman are seeing something incredible.\u00a0 John Hopkins, the filmmaker documents both sides to this mystery and gets to the heart of what lies a passionate concern by all about the fate of the giant Bluefin.\u00a0 With stunning cinematography you get to discover how monumental these creatures are.\u00a0 They are the deepest diving and fastest fish in the ocean.\u00a0 As the human race discovers and many rare few feel that eating one of these is like cooking an eagle or eating a panda.\u00a0 If you are concerned or even confused by this exclamation and have an interest then you will find this documentary enlightening.\u00a0 Many experts believe we need to see these creatures in a new light.\u00a0 Just as we have looked at the dolphins in a different way, we may at some point come to the conclusion Bluefin are more than what we see and may have a uniqueness beyond what we know.\u00a0 They are NOT an ordinary fish.<\/p>\n

One of the problems addressed in the documentary is that Japan is hording tons<\/em> of Bluefin in freezers.\u00a0 What’s at stake is the fight for the conservation and sustainable management of these commercially and ecologically important fish, the Bluefin.\u00a0 This documentary will open your eyes in so many ways and give you food for thought or should I say fish for thought.<\/p>\n

I enjoyed the thoughtful\u00a0 and unbiased way John Hopkins told his story and it is no fish tale.\u00a0 Ha! Ha!\u00a0 Seriously, it is an important and stunning documentary.\u00a0 I met John Hopkins at a Q& A after the showing and at one of the seminars.\u00a0 He is dedicated to getting this information out there and\u00a0 a peaceful warrior for the giant Bluefin.<\/p>\n

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Reviewed by C. Zangi Angeli at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival 2017 John Hopkins is an acclaimed cinematographer who has written and directed the documentary Bluefin that has already won the Social Justice Award in the Social Justice category.\u00a0 The Santa Barbara International Film Festival has debut Bluefin\u00a0 and marks its U.S. premiere though […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135193,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,3,290],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-documentary","category-films","category-santa-barbara-film-festival-2017"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/135193"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}