Award-winning “Catnip Nation,” a 75-minute documentary about Good Samaritans who will do just about anything – including fight in court and overthrow political rivals – to care for feral cats, will screen at the New Hope Film Festival at 6 p.m. July 26.
Tickets at Newhopefilmfestival.com.
The film weaves together three main stories, about people who live miles apart and come from different walks of life, and invites viewers into a world of advocacy, political wrangling, and legal intrigue.
• Sue and Ray Jones are a 75-year-old couple in Augusta, Kansas, facing $5,000 in fines and 14 days jail time for putting a bowl of water out for a handful of feral cats living in an alley behind their store.
• Stanley Lombardo of Oceanside, N.Y., has been barred from his 30-year post as a volunteer at the local landfill where he cared for a colony of 40 abandoned cats, and was forced to watch helplessly as the town supervisor denied these cats any access to food and water, while threatening to arrest anyone for trespassing who attempted to save the cats’ lives.
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