Ithaca College

Bring your current student ID (college, graduate and high school), be one of the first 50 students to show up at Cinemapolis no later than 6:30 on Friday September 25,  and score a FREE ticket to the Ithaca premiere of THE COVE, the 2009 Sundance Audience Award winning film about dolphins, slaughter and suspense.  Screening starts at 7 p.m. at Cinemapolis downtown on Green Street.

Afterwards, be sure to join us for a special post-screening discussion with Todd Schack, assistant professor of journalism at Ithaca College and Christopher Clark, IP Johnson Director of Cornell University Bioacoustic Research Program.

This premiere screening of THE COVE is cosponsored by the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival, Cinemapolis, and the Finger Lakes Bioneers. 

The free ticket giveaway for students is cosponsored by the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival and the Division of Interdisciplinary and International Studies.

Offer expires after 6:30 p.m. on Friday, September 25. Get there early--and get in free!  Offer limited to the first 50 students in line. 

About The Cove 
http://www.thecovethemovie.com

’The Cove,’” wrote “Time” magazine’s Mary Pols, “puts Hollywood capers like ‘Mission Impossible’ to shame.” According to a reviewer at the Sundance Film Festival, “The Cove” is, “part environmental documentary, part horror film, part spy thriller . . .  as suspenseful as it is enlightening.”

What the film shows is more than the brutal slaughter of intelligent mammals.

“It’s really about over-fishing,” O’Barry said. “It’s a worldwide problem. Basically, they’re killing the competition, because each of those dolphins eats 25 to 30 pounds of fish. As for the dolphin meat, nobody really knows where it goes. You can’t really even buy it in Taiji. I’m thinking it might be exported to places that have a protein shortage. We had this meat tested, and the mercury levels on it is through the roof. It’s contaminated.”

Directed by Louie Psihoyos and produced by Paula DuPré Pesman and Fisher Stevens, “The Cove” has won more than a dozen awards, including the Audience Award at the 2009 Sundance, Hot Docs and Sydney Film Festivals as well as Best Feature Film at the 2009 Nantucket Film Festival.For more information, contact FLEFF co-director Patricia Zimmermann at (607) 274-3431 or patty@ithaca.edu.