Zoo, a film by The Stranger columnist Charles Mudede and director Robinson Devor, and executive producers Garr Godfrey and Ben Exworthy, is a documentary on the life and death of Kenneth Pinyan, a Seattle area man who died unusually after engaging in sex with a horse. The film's public debut was at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2007, where it was one of 16 winners out of 856 candidates, and played at numerous regional festivals in the USA thereafter. Following Sundance, it was also selected as one of the top five American films to be presented at the "prestigious" Directors Fortnight sidebar at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival.

The director and festival shortlist producers describe the film as: The film was made with co-operation of the two men who took Pinyan to the hospital, as well as other friends of his, in the attempt to explore the life and death of the man, as well as those who came to the farm near Enumclaw for similar reasons, beyond the public understanding of the media. It does contain explicit material of sexual activities, but only in the view of video footage shown on a small television screen.

The Sundance judges called it a 'humanizing look at the life and bizarre death of a seemingly normal Seattle family man who met his untimely end after an unusual encounter with a horse'.

"They called us and were excited about the imagery, the poetry, the experimentation with the documentary form," says Charles Mudede, the film's writer and an editor at the alternative weekly The Stranger. [...] "It's unmentionable... And then strangely, suddenly, in 2005, it becomes the talk of society. How exactly does that happen? How do we go from something being utterly hidden from view, and then suddenly we're consumed with it and so upset by it we need to pass a law?"

A zoological garden, zoological park, menagerie, or zoo is a facility in which animals are confined within enclosures, displayed to the public and in which they may also be bred. The term zoological garden refers to the biological discipline zoology, which derives from Greek zωο (Zōo - "animal"), and λóγος (lógos - "study"). The term "zoo" was used as an abbreviation for the London Zoological Gardens which opened in 1828 for scientific study (and opened to the public in 1847) .

A dark comedy set in the fictitious tiny hamlet of Spraine. A big city private detective is hired to track down an animal serial killer gone awry. The town wanted to bury the story, keep the outsiders out. The police had to pin the crimes on somebody: three notorious bad boys are being falsely accused of brutally slaying the local farm animals. The detective gets drawn into the intricacies of this seemingly upstanding community, only to find out the true meaning of animal lovers... a bit more than he bargained for. Written by Anonymous

Who is watching who in the zoo? Is it the visitors watching the animals, or do the animals consider the visitors to be a nice view. Dutch director Bert Haanstra placed hidden cameras in the Artis Zoo in Amsterdam, filming both the reactions of animal and man on eachother. Giving a decisive answer on the who is watching who question is not going to be easy. Written by Arnoud Tiele (zelva@tiele.nl)

Martina (Asia Argento), twelve years old, lives in the Rome's zoo, because her father is the guardian. She spends all the days in the garden living strictly in contact with the zoo's animals. Anyway she feels alone. One day she meets and becomes friend with a young Slavic escaped from a gypsy camp. He is in request by the police. When the police arrive searching for the kid, they both run away riding an elephant! Written by 1felco

The horse performer in this movie was a Thoroughbred mare named 'Somebodys Baby', and is a former successful racehorse. The horse in the incident portrayed was in reality an Arabian stallion.

Animals...Adventure...Action!!! One-man documentary team Hayden Campbell shows the daily scramble of life in the town of Qalqiliya (Kalkilya) through the eyes of the West Bank and Gaza's one and only zookeeper, Dr. Sami Khader. Just 15 kilometres from Tel Aviv, Qalqiliya is completely fenced off from the rest of the world by Israel's security wall. Like the town itself, the Zoo has been hit hard by the conflict. Images of the devastated zoo made international television news and Dr Sami's determination to keep the park open gave him the fleeting attention of the world media. To get behind the headlines Campbell accompanies the voluble and entertaining Dr Sami on a mission to rescue two baboons from a run-down facility in Nablus. The degree of bureaucracy and checkpoint subterfuge entailed turns an already bizarrely symbolic task into a flabbergasting exercise in absurdity. Written by SGarrick / HCampbell