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“I feel somewhat responsible. It was the Flipper TV series that created this multi-billion dollar industry.” — One man’s life threatening journey to save dolphins from the industry he helped to create.
May 5, 2010
Pre-Screening Reception with Richard O’Barry
hermanHOME store at BayWalk
6:00-7:30PM
Screening
Muvico BayWalk
7:30-9PM
Followed by a post-screening Q & A
Buy Tickets (click here: http://ilovetheburg.com/articles.php?category=216)
VERY LIMITED SEATING
$20 (online) $25 (at the door) includes access to pre-screening reception (tapas, desserts and wine) and film screening
(Tickets will be available for pick up at the door on night of event.)
100% of profits from ticket sales will be donated to the Oceanic Preservation Society (OPS).
The non-profit organization provides an exclusive lens for the public and media to observe the beauty as well as the destruction of the oceans, while motivating change. This fundraising event will allow Richard O’Barry to return to Japan and continue his work to save the dolphins.
Tapas will be served and desserts by Lisa’s Sweet Somethings!
About The Cove
The Cove is an astounding piece of investigative journalism with the heart of an action thriller. Led by Louie Psihoyos, leader of the Ocean Preservation Society, and Richard O’Barry, an internationally recognized authority on dolphin training who is best known for his work on the 1960’s TV show Flipper, the film follows a high-tech dive team on a mission to discover the truth about the international dolphin capture trade as practiced in Taji, Japan. Utilizing state-of-the-art techniques, including hidden microphones and cameras, the team uncovers how this small seaside village serves as a horrifying microcosm of massive ecological crimes happening worldwide.
The Cove won an Academy Award for Best Feature Documentary in 2010.
About Richard O’Barry
Marine Mammal Specialist, Earth Island Institute
Richard O’Barry has worked both sides of the dolphin street, the first 10 years with the dolphin captivity industry, the past 38 against it.
Working back in the 1960s for Miami Seaquarium, O’Barry captured and trained dolphins, including the five dolphins who played the role of Flipper in the popular American TV-series of the same name. When Kathy, the dolphin who played Flipper most of the time, died in his arms, O’Barry realized that capturing dolphins and training them to perform silly tricks is simply wrong.
O’Barry has rescued and released more than 25 captive dolphins in Haiti, Colombia, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Brazil, the Bahamas Islands and the United States.
To recognize his contribution, in 1991 O’Barry received the ‘Environmental Achievement Award’ presented by the United States Committee for the United Nations Environmental Program (US/UNEP).
This event is made possible by the following:
iLovetheBurg.com
Elizabeth Dougherty of Eat St. Pete!
Muvico BayWalk
hermanHOME Store
Creative Loafing
Sunscreen Film Festival
Lisa’s Sweet Somethings
Kahwa Coffee
The Don Cesar Hotel
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