HBO, Cox Communications & Mediacom Join The Francis M. Weston Audubon Society to Host Florida Premiere of "Saving Pelican 895, "Monday, April 11 at Pensacola's Historic Saenger Theatre, Marking First Anniversary of the BP Oil Spill

HBO, Cox Communications & Mediacom Join The Francis M. Weston Audubon Society to Host Florida Premiere of "Saving Pelican 895, "Monday, April 11 at Pensacola's Historic Saenger Theatre, Marking First Anniversary of the BP Oil Spill

Documentary Follows the Efforts to Rescue One Endangered Oiled Pelican, Debuts April 20, Exclusively on HBO

Directed by Oscar® Nominee Irene Taylor Brodsky, Scheduled to Attend

HBO, Cox Communications and Mediacom have partnered with
the Francis M. Weston Audubon Society to host the
invitation-only Florida premiere of the HBO
Documentary Films Presentation SAVING PELICAN 895. More
than 7,000 birds were killed as a result of the April
2010 BP oil spill that spread throughout the Gulf of
Mexico. But after three months, cleanup workers at the
Fort Jackson Oiled Wildlife Rehabilitation Center of
Louisiana had rescued 894 surviving oiled pelicans.
SAVING PELICAN 895 presents the story of the effort to
save the 895th surviving oiled pelican in Louisiana,
showing how conservationists, government agencies and
wildlife activists joined forces to preserve this one
life. The film follows LA 895 from his rescue and
recovery as an incapacitated juvenile bird with oil-
slicked feathers through his ultimate maturation and
What: release back into the wild.
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Producer, director, writer and cinematographer Irene
Taylor Brodsky, an Emmy(R) and Peabody Award winner and
an Oscar(R) nominee, is scheduled to attend and is
Who: available for interview.
Dorothy Kaufmann, director of the Wildlife Sanctuary of
NW Florida, will engage in an on-stage conversation
with Irene Taylor Brodsky immediately after the
screening.

When: Monday, April 11, 2011:
7:00 p.m. Screening

Where: Saenger Theatre
118 South Palafox Place
Downtown Pensacola

Media requests should be directed to: Carmen Argamasilla, HBO, 305-446-6695 or 305-491-3051 (cell) or Carmen@redfoxpr.com.

*Clip reels are available for broadcast media.

/PRNewswire -- March 30, 2011/

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