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REMEMBERING
NEWTON WADE 
I interviewed
Newton in 2003. A true cocker, a true gentleman, and missed by all
who had the privilege of knowing him.
Joe
Z meets WBA Heavyweight Champ & Cockfighter
Roy
Jones Jr.
check
out Stephanie's
photos
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WATCH
IT!! THE SHORT FILM
COCKFIGHTERS: THE SHORT FILM was made after Stephanie spent
four months traveling to 12 different states to interview
American cockfighters and rooster breeders. She
visited two legal pits and more than a dozen farms.
This short overview is an overview of her 8-hour DVD
documentary which contains this short film and 26 of her
30-plus interviews gathered during her filmming trip.
(12 mins.) SEE
OTHER DOWNLOADS
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with QUICKTIME
KEN
TROIANO (for GAMECOCK Magazine - read
the full review) --
"Stephanie has done an extraordinary job of
capturing the truth about cockfighting. In this video you are
going to see many cocker’s and their farms, as well as hear a great
deal of advice, opinions and experiences from those in the game fowl
industry. This is a video that you can sit back, relax and view at
your leisure."
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NOW!
$99
DVD, now $85
$79
VHS, now $65
Who's
on the DVD/VHS, and what do they talk about!
Read
about Parts
1,2,3 & 4 (2 hours each)
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plus ~
COCKFIGHTERS,
a 12-min. short film
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Meet the
Filmmaker |
A
COCKER'S GRANDDAUGHTER & AN EMMY AWARD WINNER
(Stephanie
Castillo with famous cocker) Johnnie Jumper
"I
wanted to know what my grandfather did for 50 years,
day in and day out. That's why I made this film --
as a way to explore his life and my cultural
heritage."
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Meet the
Cockers |
READ
ABOUT EACH ONE
26 American cockers, game
fowl breeders from ten states
They
were willing to open their lives and talk candidly to the
filmmaker about
their love of the roosters & the sport.
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MEET
MY
GRANDFATHER
Juan Castillo, a cocker
for 50 years in Hawaii,
arrived as a Filipino
immigrant in the late 1890's. His pitter, now in
his 80's, recalls my granddad loved red roosters and enjoyed
conditioning them for the fights he attended during the week
and on weekends. He and his "hui" or fellow
cockers bought their roosters from a Chinese fellow on the
island of Kauai where they lived; the seller had the
roosters shipped over from the US mainland to sell.
The hui attended cockfights at pits on the island of Kauai
that were often raided. Cockfighting was made illegal
in the late 1800s. He is buried in a Catholic
graveyard among his cocking buddies, a graveyard where
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A
DOCUMENTARY
3-YEARS
IN
THE MAKING
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ABOUT
"The Making of . . ."
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MEDIA
ARTICLES & REVIEWS |
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HONOLULU
STAR-BULLETIN EDITORIAL SLAM 9/3/03:
"HAWAII's
Stephanie Castillo said three months ago
that she did not intend her documentary
film about the traditional aspect of
cockfighting to be used as ammunition by
the game fowl industry, but there she was
recently on the front lines of one of the
blood sport's last American bastions --
Oklahoma. The tradition of cockfighting is
a fascinating subject, but the brutality
of the sport requires that it be relegated
to history."
read more
HSUS
Wayne Pacelle's Commentary 9/4/03:
"Many
of the interviewees in the film are little
more than common criminals who practice
their hobby in the 48 states where
cockfighting is illegal. Their ramblings
are interspersed with brief glimpses of
actual fight footage in which birds engage
in bloodless skirmishes with much
wing-flapping but no gore. The video omits
the reality of knife fights between
roosters with blades strapped to their
heel spurs: blood-spattered spectacles
where throats are slashed, lungs punctured
and eyes gouged out until one or both
birds are dead or close to it. read
more
MY
REBUTTAL 9/14/03:
"...
your Sept.
3 editorial and guest columnist Wayne
Pacelle of the Humane Society of the
United States (Sept.
4) misstated many things. Possibly it
would have helped if the writers had seen
the film and understood what documentary
film- makers actually do." read
the rest
Also
from
the HONOLULU STAR-BULLETIN, 6/30/03
“I
went to the people who were willing to talk
with me, and I had two questions on my mind:
What really is cockfighting? And, what is it about it that engages you in
this sport?
I had no agenda except to ask those
questions, no point of view that I was
looking for to justify or prove. No
judgments, just questions,”
she said.
read
the rest . . .
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CUSTOMER
REVIEWS |
JASON
BARNETT:
After put the
kids to bed, I sat down at 9 last night and
watched the first two discs, then watched the
other two this morning, and I must say they
were even better than advertised. Ms.
Castillo has done something for Cockfighters
that no one ever has.
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