Get her out of there before she dies. Real simple.

People that care for her. How? By saying oh she's cute and educational.
That kind of care is selfish, be it 2 miles or 2,000 miles away.
Maggie could be relocated to a facilty/ Zoo, that was more enviromentally friendly,and not be alone. If necessary she could be with other elephants but seperated. Not enclosed on a concrete floor.
Keeping something captive in that enviroment is inhuman. Say what you will but it doesn't change the fact.
The next time you want a vacation just tell your family your desire is to spend 30 days in an unfinished basement and please don't talk with you. Your true feelings of comfort and compassion require no contact with one of your kind.
Ask them to please see to it that anyone that wants to throw food down please do so without disturbing or comforting you. Oh and please don't bother to ask you what you want, as it doesn't matter. You know you will be very happy under said conditions.

Hey, this review isn't anonymous: check out my review of Mr. Smith at www.imagem.typepad.com follow the links.
My daughter did shoot better video of Maggie. BTW, Jack Hannah and the children of Alaska love Maggie and the educational rewards for keeping her until she dies is greater than wearing your conservationism on your sleeve lower 48 armchair saviours can muster.
My only vendetta is against losers without a clue trying to pass themselves as "filmmakers" and then not being able to take criticism of their lacksadaisical production. I actually make tv and film content for a living. Besides, before I ever wrote a blip, Mr. Smith was slandering my name across the state and the blog and review are just follow up to his threats to me.
So there, babies.

I'd like to respond to this lovely film with a review of the reviewers. It appears that the emotions around the elephant issue in Alaska go deeper than the vendetta-against-filmmaker we read in "gem's" remarks. Through the reviewers' words, we understand what Maggie is up against, if "gem" represents the thinking that would imprison her within walls of stone for the rest of her life. We also gain a sense of the devotion some Alaskans feel toward her, and the urgency of their desire to do what is right before her health is compromised.

Yet the song of Maggie the Elephant is about issues even larger than she is, including respect for all life and careful management of the earth's resources; indeed, as a keystone species (like the wolf in Alaska), she sings to the very survival of the planet! Unfortunately, too few can hear her message. Please listen to "Maggie's Song" and draw your own conclusions.

I have viewed the mini-film with Maggie's Song and think that it is beautifully done. The song is moving and haunting and I think that the visuals very much add to that concept. If you watch the timing of the film transitions, they fit perfectly with the song.

Friends of Maggie are striving to get the Alaska Zoo to send Maggie to a warmer place where she has other elephants to relate to. In the wild, female elephants never live alone. Here in Alaska, albeit beautiful, the winters are cold, dark and long. Keeping Maggie here is simply cruel. Current technology allows utilization of live cams to allow anyone anywhere to view animals in their natural habitat.

What is imagemstone's problem? I don't understand why someone would anonymously attack another's work. It is very easy to criticize wrongly and imagemstone should be ashamed. He should go out and make his own films and not criticize another's work. Thank you to the Internet Archive site for hosting this beautiful mini-film and attempting to help Maggie go to a warmer and larger home.

This creative synergy of film and song is worth thousands of words ÃÂÃÂÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂàabout MaggieÃÂÃÂÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂs lonely existence within gray stone walls on a cold concrete floor, the despair of confinement without companionship for decades past and future, the contrast of living life behind bars with the possibility of roaming green hills and wallowing in warm ponds. Artist Leola Adams shares the song Maggie inspired with filmmaker Brian George Smith to produce a powerful message: send Maggie to a warm climate where she may be an elephant among other elephants! We Alaskans who love Maggie share her dream! Through her song, Maggie has, at last, a voice to implore the world for help.

Well, controversy never forgets. The video is laughable to a haunting song. Two or three tourist shots badly cut with real elephant footage is a pathetic attempt to take credit for someone else's music. Nor does it make one a filmmaker
BTW: Maggie would be subjected to crueler conditions to forced to move. She grew up in the Alaska Zoo and is antisocial to other elephants. The plane ride would kill her, a truck transport would frighten and stress her, she would be drugged up and most likely die or suffer irreversible brain damage. Jack Hanna even spoke here after visiting her. She is getting first class care and is greatly adored. No cruelty other than that which exists in all zoos and "habitats" Saved from certain poaching, yes. Educational for schoolchildren yes. Raised in Alaska for over 15 years. Why do you people hate Alaska so much? Do you even know how she got here? I dare any of you blathering saps including B. Bardot or P. Feral to come up here and live for one year. We need good civic minded people to implement their ideas locally instead as cowards two thousand miles away.
Go save elephants in Africa, this one at least is surrounded by people who care for her and children come from all over the state to see her.

Maggie's song is so haunting and sad. Leola Adams is superbly connected to Maggie's beautiful soul. Maggie deserves, as any being does, to live her life with her own kind. If not in freedom, then in a sanctuary where her life is respected and can be lived out in peace.

Thank you to everyone is has contributed to this project. Thank you for loving Maggie.