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Playing with Sharks: The Valerie Taylor Story
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[Played Nov. 17 as part of AARP's Movies for Grownups and available on various VOD platforms.] Awesome cinematography dominates Sally Aitken's fascinating, educational, eye-opening, inspiring, disturbing, 95-minute documentary in which pink-loving photographer Valerie May Taylor, who had polio at age 12 and recovered, and her husband Ron teach about and are advocates for the misunderstood and endangered sharks and consists of archival film footage and photographs, excerpts from films such as Blue Water, White Death and Jaws that they helped create, and insightful commentary by spear fishing champion and filmmaker Ron Taylor, diver Jean Michel-Cousteau, marine biologist Jeremiah Sullivan, spear fishing champion Rodney Fox, Dive magazine editor Douglas Seifert, marine scientist Dr. Sylvia Earle, underwater filmmakers Stan Waterman Howard Hall, professional photographer and friend Jayne Jenkins, and Save the Shark Savers-WildAid president Wendy Benchley, director Steven Spielberg, dive tour pioneer Carl Roessler, Jaws author Peter Benchley, and diving film producer Michele Hall.

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2021
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