VIDEO EXCLUSIVE: Tony Jones Explores Whether Animals Are 'Sentient' In New Documentary At Sundance

Sundance Film Festival Review: 'Sentient' Looks at the Ethical Debate on Animal Testing

I’m an animal lover, so there are parts of Sentient that are very hard to watch. I struggle with harm being done to animals in any regard, let alone on screen. For example, I’ve long said that a film loses a half star for killing a dog unnecessarily. This documentary, while hardly gratuitous, is very intentional in what its showing us. The movie seeks to shake us and reignite the debate on animal testing. Playing at the Sundance Film Festival, i…

VIDEO EXCLUSIVE: Tony Jones Explores Whether Animals Are 'Sentient' In New Documentary At Sundance

Director Tony Jones explores the thorny subject of animal testing in his new documentary Sentient, which premiered this week at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. “I used to work as a television presenter, and I had a discussion program on national television in Australia called Q&A,” Jones told uInterview founder Erik Meers. “One day, I found myself sitting next to Peter Singer, a Yale professor of philosophy and ethics, one of the …