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SEARCHDOG & Ruby: The Ultimate Second Chance Story
SEARCHDOG features K9 Search and Rescue Specialist and “dog whisperer” Matthew Zarrella as he rehabilitates “unadoptable” shelter dogs and turns them into Search and Rescue/Recovery Dogs.
“I have always felt that dogs had a higher purpose on this earth, and it was up to the humans to make that happen,” says Matthew Zarrella, an internationally renowned K9 Search and Rescue Specialist, Rhode Island State police sergeant and unofficial “dog whisperer.”
SEARCHDOG had its World Festival Premiere at Palm Springs International Film Festival earlier this year where it sold out all screenings and garnered Best of the Fest by audience vote at Palm Springs and won Best Documentary at the Ellensburg Film Festival in Washington. The Hollywood Reporter calls SEARCHDOG “Inspiring” and “A clear-eyed and exceptionally effecting documentary”.
About SEARCHDOG:
SEARCHDOG is the story of Matthew Zarrella, a Rhode Island State Police Sergeant who rehabilitates “unadoptable” shelter dogs and transforms them into Search & Rescue/Recovery Dogs. We come to know Matthew and his dogs and witness extraordinary moments over four and a half years of real-time searches as he trains troopers and their new canine partners to find missing persons.
As a child, Matt Zarrella found solace and confidence in his relationships with dogs. As a teenager, he cared for shelter dogs knowing they were going to be put down. As an adult, he used that confidence and a sense of duty to help those in need, to succeed as a police officer and ultimately as an internationally-renowned K-9 Search and Rescue/Recovery specialist. We come to understand Matthew’s motivation to help others and his empathic, methods of searching for missing persons with his dogs.
Ultimately, SEARCHDOG chronicles transformative connections between humans and dogs where the consequences of “trusting a dog” can mean life or death for a missing victim, others where the goal is to provide answers and closure for decades-old tragedies. With passion and surprising humor – SEARCHDOG reveals rich, productive relationships in which both species learn to trust each other, and rely on each other, in performing their crucial tasks.
This movie has a special place in our hearts! My hubby and I did search and resuce with 2 yellow labs. It was an experience I will never forget!
For more information, visit Searchdogmovie.com
For my local readers:
Lucy Bean Films, LLC is proud to announce that SEARCHDOG, an 88-minute feature documentary by Mary Healey Jamiel and Executive Producer Elaine Rogers, is an official selection and the closing night film for the Boston Film Festival. SEARCHDOG will have its New England Festival premiere on Sunday September 25th at 7pm at Patriot Cinemas in Hingham, MA.
The Boston Film Festival (BFF) is rolling out the Red Carpet for SEARCHDOG, and New Englanders attending this event will have the unique opportunity to see working Search & Rescue K9 Teams get the Hollywood treatment as they walk the red carpet.
Where: 25 Shipyard Dr, Hingham, MA When: 7 p.m., with Red Carpet Event to precede screening at 6:45 p.m.
Tickets are available at Boston Film Festival online https://bostonfilmfestival.ticketleap.com/search-dog/t/1247af381a37ce05a1e1d91f1f8007728/
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Go HERE to watch the Trailer!
Have you ever trained dogs or owned a Search and Rescue Dog? Let us know in the comments below.