FILM SCREENING:

Cages of Shame

(Martin Guinness, 2012, 47 min, Australia, English, color, DVD)

-- Discussion to follow with Ray Zhu (Animals Asia) and Karen Price (Center for Documentary Studies)

This award-winning documentary exposes the dire cruelty to over 10,000 bears happening in China. Bears are kept in tiny cages for up to 30 years with a tube permanently rammed into their gallbladders to drain their bile for sale in the traditional Chinese medicine market. The film features the dramatic rescue of 10 bears and the closing down of a bear farm. Narrated by Peter Coyote.

Cost: Free and Open to the Public

Sponsors: Canine Cogntion Center at Duke University, Duke PAWS, Kenan Institute for Ethics, Center for Documentary Studies (CDS), Animals Asia, and the Program in the Arts of the Moving Image (AMI)