Interview: Star David Balding (One Lucky Elephant)
Joseph Airdo, Phoenix Movie Examiner
from: examiner.com
November 29, 2011 -
Uploaded by OneLuckyElephant on May 4, 2010
“One Lucky Elephant” tells the story of how circus producer David Balding realizes his mistake in keeping an elephant alone for 17 years and tries to find her a permanent home with other pachyderms before his health fades. Balding acknowledges the search was more challenging than he had expected, as demonstrated in the documentary.
“There are no easy answers to all of the questions,” says Balding, who co-founded Circus Flora – named after his elephant – in 1985 and has been its artistic director since its inception. “They are not black and white. If you were to listen to circus owners or animal rights people, you would think that it was all so clear when it is not. The film carefully shows that so I am proud of it.”
Balding notes the the bottom line, so to speak, of “One Lucky Elephant” is that he loved Flora the elephant and Flora the elephant loved him. Having never had any children of his own, Balding has no doubt that Flora became his surrogate daughter to some degree – a belief that he shares in the movie.
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Joseph Airdo, Phoenix Movie Examiner
from: examiner.com
November 29, 2011 -
Uploaded by OneLuckyElephant on May 4, 2010
“One Lucky Elephant” tells the story of how circus producer David Balding realizes his mistake in keeping an elephant alone for 17 years and tries to find her a permanent home with other pachyderms before his health fades. Balding acknowledges the search was more challenging than he had expected, as demonstrated in the documentary.
“There are no easy answers to all of the questions,” says Balding, who co-founded Circus Flora – named after his elephant – in 1985 and has been its artistic director since its inception. “They are not black and white. If you were to listen to circus owners or animal rights people, you would think that it was all so clear when it is not. The film carefully shows that so I am proud of it.”
Balding notes the the bottom line, so to speak, of “One Lucky Elephant” is that he loved Flora the elephant and Flora the elephant loved him. Having never had any children of his own, Balding has no doubt that Flora became his surrogate daughter to some degree – a belief that he shares in the movie.
Continue reading on Examiner.com Interview: Star David Balding (One Lucky Elephant) - Phoenix Movie Examiner.com http://www.examiner.com/movie-in-phoenix/interview-star-david-balding-one-lucky-elephant#ixzz1fBjt0bwo
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