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"Out of the Pit: Dog Fighting in Chicago" was selected
to win the Nineteenth Genesis Award for Outstanding PBS Local
Documentary.
The Genesis Awards are presented by The Humane Society of the United
States Hollywood Office. The Genesis Awards were held on March 19,
2005 at The Beverly Hilton Hotel, Beverly Hills, CA. The show was
taped for a two-hour Television Special, airing primetime on Animal
Planet on Saturday, May 14, 2005 at 8:00 p.m. eastern.
http://www.hsus.org/about_us/hsus_hollywood_office/the_genesis_awards/19th_a
nnual_genesis_awards
Accepting honors for the documentary "Out of
The Pit: Dog Fighting in
Chicago," producer and writer Sierra Cleveland acknowledged
"the people who
do the work," in this case the small number of anticruelty
agents and police officers who contend with the Windy City's
current animal fighting pandemic.
Cleveland described the strong motivation behind her film, which
was about " trying to get it off the streets."
Courtesy of the HSUS
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