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Chris Hegedus
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'Unlocking the Cage' In the last couple of years, a head-scratching headline has popped up from time to time: Can an animal be a person? That question is the subject of a new documentary by Oscar-nominated filmmakers Chris Hegedus and D.A. Pennebaker. “Unlocking the Cage” follows attorney Steven Wise as he tries to get the courts to acknowledge that an ape is a person - not in the biological sense, but in the legal sense - giving them certain rights, the way corporations have rights.
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