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Click on “Read More” to watch the behind the scenes interview with Director Steven Spielberg and Barbara Carr, American Humane Association Certified Animal Safety Representative™.

New York, NY – 12/12/2011 – Twentieth Century Fox presents the after party for the NY premiere of We Bought a Zoo. The film, starring Matt Damon and Scarlett Johansson, has earned American Humane Association’s coveted “No Animals Were Harmed”® end-credit certification and “Monitored: Outstanding” — the highest rating a film can earn. The productionContinue Reading

After making sure “No Animals Were Harmed”® in the new movie Mr. Popper’s Penguins (out June 17), we did some meeting and greeting at the Hollywood premiere of the film on June 12 at the world-famous Grauman’s Chinese Theatre.

Jon Turteltaub, director of such popular films as Cool Runnings, While You Were Sleeping, and National Treasure, was honored at an open house at our Film & TV Unit’s new offices for his commitment to increase compassion and humanity throughout the world.

American Humane Association partnered with GreenScreen Animals to offer an unusual photo op at press day for Disney’s Secretariat. Stars, members of the press and our staffers posed in front of a green screen to insert themselves into shots from the movie. The green screen was provided by GreenScreen Animals, a Los Angeles-based digital content company. GreenScreen can provide a production with footage of animals in cases where it would be too expensive or potentially unsafe to film the actual animal on set. GreenScreen’s HD stock footage animal content is now being monitored by American Humane Association.

We have been on the set of HBO’s True Blood series to monitor scenes involving animals, including the dogfighting scenes that appear in the current-season episode titled “Hitting the Ground.” No dogfighting actually occurred, and this episode has earned our “No Animals Were Harmed”® disclaimer.

Film & TV Unit Outreach at Celebrity Golf Tournament

Members of our Film & TV Unit were at AFTRA’s inaugural Frank Nelson Fund Celebrity Golf Classic in Los Angeles on July 19, 2010, to increase awareness about the importance of protecting animals in filmed entertainment — and our role of working with productions to do that.

Watch Dogs 101 to brush up on all of your favorite dog breeds! Learning about the world’s most popular pets has never been this entertaining. Watch Saturdays at 9 p.m. only on Animal Planet.