| Meet the playful heroine of the feature film Otter 501! She was rescued on the central coast of California after being separated from her mother, and with a little help from the Monterey Bay Aquarium she'll hopefully become a wild otter again. The feature-length film OTTER 501, a documentary of this otter's real life, is opening in theaters this spring! Visit the OTTER 501 facebook events page for locations: www.facebook.com and, for a limited time, you can watch the full version of OTTER 501 on Prescreen! prescreen.com You can help protect sea otters by donating to the Monterey Bay Aquarium Sea Otter Research and Conservation program: www.montereybayaquarium.org Also, check out our adorable videos of the baby otter who stars in OTTER 501!: www.youtube.com Film Description: storm grows, a sea otter pup is separated from her mother, and a young woman bound for adventure blows in to town. On a windswept beach these lives collide and an entire species' survival gets personal. Katie and our playful pup, otter number 501, learn to navigate the opportunities and risks of life without anchor while we see the incredible efforts people have undertaken to return sea otters from the brink of extinction. Framed against the strikingly beautiful Monterey Bay coastline we discover just how serious this threat remains. Their adventure, unexpected as it was, illustrates what we can do to protect the southern sea otter...and ourselves. |
