An award-winning Canadian filmmaker is expected to address the Los Angeles City Council on Friday on the cruelty of elephant captivity at the invitation of Councilman Bob Blumenfield.

Fern Levitt is expected to discuss her new documentary “Lucy: The Stolen Lives of Elephants,” which she bills as the first documentary to reveal the cruelty elephants experience in zoos and the misinformation zoos tell the public in order to justify their captivity.

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The documentary examines the transfer of Asian elephants Billy and Tina from the Los Angeles Zoo, despite calls from some residents, celebrities and animal advocates to send them to a sanctuary. Blumenfield also backed such a request.

“This film is more than exposé -- it's

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