FRIDAY, MAY 7, 7P.M. - THE COVE First-Friday Film Series at the Peace Center of Delaware County (Springfield Friends Meetinghouse) 1001 Old Sproul Rd., Springfield, PA (just off the corner of Old Marple and S. Sproul Roads,behind the Mr. Car Wash) 7 p.m. Free Large-Screen Parking available. Directions to Peace Center, www.delcopeacecenter.org Doors open at 6:30 p.m. for light refreshments. Co-sponsored by Brandywine Peace Community, 610-544-1818 Shallow Water - Deep Secret Friday, May 7, 7 p.m. - The Cove Rated PG-13 for disturbing content, 92 minutes In a sleepy lagoon off the coast of Japan lies a shocking secret kept hidden from the world. THE COVE, the 2010 "Best Documentary" Oscar winner, brings the secret to the surface in a gripping adventure, a document of personal redemption, and a testament to the love of earth and its creatures. In the 1960s, former dolphin trainer Ric O'Barry captured and trained the five wild dolphins who would play the role of "Flipper" in the hit television series of the same name. This pop-culture phenomenon fueled widespread public adoration of dolphins. It was when one of the dolphins committed a form of suicide in his arms, closing her blowhole voluntarily in order to suffocate, that a heartbroken O'Barry came to realize that these deeply sensitive, highly intelligent and self-aware creatures so beautifully adapted to life in the open ocean must never be subjected to human captivity. Days later, he was off the island of Bimini, arrested for attempting to cut a hole in the sea pen in order to set free a captured dolphin. Since then O'Barry has worked tirelessly as an advocate on behalf of dolphins around the world. THE COVE follows Ric O'Barry's quest to document the dolphin hunting operations in Taiji, Wakayama, Japan. The town appears to be devoted to the wonders and mysteries of the sleek, playful dolphins and whales that swim off their coast, but in a remote, glistening cove, surrounded by barbed wire and Keep Out signs, lies a dark reality. O'Barry, filmmaker Louis Psihoyos and the Ocean Preservation Society, are joined by a team of underwater sound and camera experts, special effects artists, marine explorers, and world-class free divers, to document the dolphin hunting operations in Taiji, where, under cover of night, the fishermen of Taiji, driven by a multi-billion dollar dolphin entertainment industry and an underhanded market for mercury-tainted dolphin meat, engage in an unseen hunt. The nature of what they do is so chilling -- and the consequences are so dangerous to the environment and human health --they will go to great lengths to halt anyone from seeing it. THE COVE is a provocative mix of investigative journalism, eco-adventure, and staggering imagery that adds up to a heart-pounding call for help from the world's oceans.