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An American Opera
"The Greatest Pet Rescue Ever!"
This is an award-winning emotionally moving film about the official and
unofficial efforts to save the pets of New Orleans after Katrina.

Tuesday, June 23 at 7pm
Free Press Tuesday film night. This special showing is not free. The
filmmaker we be present.

Director McPhee was watching the drama unfold on the news at home in
Michigan. This was a story of a lifetime. He knew that he had to
immediately go down to New Orleans with his cameras to document what
was happening. He didn't have any particular expectations or agenda.
Once there McPhee discovered that it was mandated that people be
evacuated out of New Orleans without their beloved animals. But what
would happen to the animals? Documenting the rescue became, he said,
his destiny. The resulting film is at times both painful and
heartening. We see New Orleans desperate to reunite with their pets,
sometimes successfully, other times not. We witness volunteers bravely
organize rescue efforts. The film isn't so much about facts and
figures. McPhee wanted to create an emotional impression and for us to
connect to the experience. At this he succeeds.
http://www.anamericanopera.com/

Also, on the same night before "An American Opera," the Drexel Theater
is screening a documentary about NPR's Garrison Keiller:
GARRISON KEILLER: THE MAN ON THE RADIO in the RED SHOES
Tuesday, June 23 at 5:15 p.m. (regular price)

Drexel East Theater, 2254 E. Main St., Bexley
Sponsored by The Free Press and Central Ohio Green Education Fund.
truth@freepress.org