‘Seantience’: Award-winning documentary about the sentience of aquatic animals
‘Seantience’: Award-winning documentary about the sentience of aquatic animals
‘Seantience’ is an award-winning short documentary that delves into the sentience of aquatic animals. It features interviews with prominent scientists and philosophers, who present the most recent scientific evidence about the sentience of aquatic animals, including invertebrates. ANIMAL SENTIENCE: ‘Seantience’ is an award-wiining documentary that explores the capacity to feel of aquatic animals. Produced by Animal Ethics and directed by Xiana Castro, which delves into the sentience of aquatic animals, this brilliant documentary highlights the issues within aquatic invertebrates in our society, what discoveries are being made, and what we should be doing better. This powerful documentary dives deep into the […]
‘Jailbird’: Experience the world through the eyes of a chicken being sent to a human prison
‘Jailbird’: Experience the world through the eyes of a chicken being sent to a human prison
The 2025 AI Film Festival Gold Award winner film ‘Jailbird,’ directed by Andrew Salter, is a documentary-style film about a prison program that employs chickens as companion animals for inmates. ANDREW SALTER: Jailbird is a short film invites the viewer to experience the world through the eyes of a chicken as it goes through a transformative experience – being sent to a human prison. The film highlights how projects like this can benefit not only animals, but the lives of those who care for them. The film began life as a series of illustrated storyboards which were described to Artificial Intelligence […]
‘Stop, and Smell the Roses’: What birds teach us about stress and resilience
‘Stop, and Smell the Roses’: What birds teach us about stress and resilience
Next time you hear birds at dawn, remember that most of them have just burned through 10 percent of their body weight staying alive in the dark, and now they’re doing the obvious thing. Celebrating that they’re awake and refueling. Ask yourself: Where in your life are you waking up like a hummingbird and still expecting yourself to fly across an ocean? And then, instead of pushing harder, see if you can build one small, unglamorous stopover site this week. Enforce a boundary. Take a nap. Take a walk in nature. Have a conversation that doesn’t revolve around productivity. These are […]
