Q&A With PETA President Ingrid E. Newkirk to Follow Free Screening

For Immediate Release:
October 30,2009

Contact:
David Perle 757-633-7382

Washington -- Busboys & Poets, the popular D.C. restaurant/bookstore/fair-trade market, will present a free showing of the award-winning HBO documentary I Am an Animal, an inside look at the often controversial group PETA and its founder, Ingrid E. Newkirk, next Sunday, November 8. The woman HBO called "the most influential person most people have never heard of," Fortune named one of the "Most Fascinating Business People," and The New Yorker called "The Extremist" will take questions after the film screening. The special won "Best Documentary Film" at the Hamptons Film Festival.

When:   Sunday, November 8, 8 p.m.

Where:  Busboys & Poets (Langston Room), 2120 14th St. N.W., Washington, D.C. (at 14th and V streets)

Actor Alec Baldwin has called Newkirk "an inspirational leader. A heroine. A woman upon whom so many depend, around the world, for information and guidance. In a world where all animals, everywhere, are more threatened than ever, Ingrid Newkirk is their champion."

Newkirk, author of a dozen books--the most recent of which, The PETA Practical Guide to Animal Rights, is considered the new bible of the animal rights movement--will discuss the making of the movie and animal rights campaigns.

This event is free and open to the public.

For more information, please visit http://www.peta.org/feat/HBO_I_Am_an_Animal.