"The Cove"
Saturday, August 29, 5pm, 7:30 showings, Plaza de Oro Theater, 371 South Hitchcock Way
Jean Michel Cousteau and members of film crew in attendance, tell your friends

Playing this weekend at the Plaza de Oro theater in Santa Barbara, this eco-thriller is some of the most extraordinary filmmaking you will ever see. (Winner of Sundance Audience Award) Ric O'Barry was a trainer for the hugely popular1960's television show "Flipper", now he believes dolphins don't belong in captivity, where they experience high mortality rate.

A little town with a big secret, Taiji, Japan, where migrating dolphins are herded into nets for buyers around the world to select for captivity for aquarium shows, then into a hidden cove, where the largest dolphin slaughter in the world takes place, the meat being sold in Japanese supermarkets, and for children school lunch programs, usually mislabeled as whale meat, and laden with toxic levels of mercury. The Cove is the first product of the non-profit company, Oceanic Preservation Society, OPS.

This movie is about the health of our planet and the oceans, told around a story about dolphins...