Operation Piggy Rescue, Inc. (movie trilogy)

Operation Piggy Rescue, Inc. (movie trilogy)
Fabulous fable about a factory farm rescue

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Dear Friends,

First let me say I think you’re all doing a superb job. I have visited most of your sites and read bits and pieces about your care, concern, compassion, feelings of joy and anger -conveyed in profound passages, photographic journals, brilliant art, or what I like to call, sheer grace of the heart

My name is Byron L Rourkacha, I reside in the San Francisco Bay Area. For the past few months I’ve been busy researching, writing, and producing an animation script called “Operation Piggy Rescue, Inc.” The story is based on and around a friendship between a Holstein calf named “Cj” and Hampshire piglet named “Pj”, similar to this Kune Kune piglet. Cj and Pj encounter/befriend many creatures along their journey, and constantly getting their tiny hooves, snout, and muzzle caught in trouble. One harrowing adventure after another.

Pj starts out as one of the luckiest piglets in the world, albeit this is short-lived. She is the center of attention, spoiled by her mother, neglected by older siblings, loved by the other animals, on a friendly farm owned by a man named “Mr. Maple”, who sports classic farmer overalls and saunters around his soybean fields with a laborer’s gait.

Cj’s beginnings aren’t quite as pleasant. His first day of life on the dairy farm is a shocking one. If not for his father “Bravebull Wally” - hailing from the Lock Shin Highlands - coming to the rescue; Cj would be destined to become “just another number”…sent away to the veal factory. Or in cattlemen’s terms, Cj was DONE FOR.

Pj’s life doesn’t remain cozy and snug for long. Like a flash storm and monsoon ripping through the Serengeti, circumstances change, and for the first time in her young life she is forced to learn how to use her surprisingly swift and nimble hooves. I don’t want to give away too much, but the Hog Dog Rodeo and Great Alaskan Pig Race will be a blast to watch, though certainly not places for a tiny piglet to be. Rest assured though, Pj is highly resourceful, and paired with Cj’s consummate vigilance, and help from friends, she manages to circumvent each harm that comes her way

Keeping true to the cheerless plight of pigs, things get even worse for Pj. Despite befriending Cj, her courageous and enduring counterpart (for the course of the trilogy, hint.. hint), and surviving the pig race and rodeo, Pj is pigletnapped and taken to the worst place on earth for a piglet to bet…you guessed it, THE factory farm……….

A wicked and wretched place of imminent doom…

But wait!
What’s that?
Look there à
It’s a bird, no, it’s a plane, it’s…Super Cj! And…?
he’s mooooing

When the going gets tough, Cj gets going, and apparently he does so with panache and a flair unheard of and unseen in the world of bovine beings. Bravely through the forests he marches, over the mountains, across the plains, beyond the tundra and vast world asunder, inside zoos, and marching through the city to amass a team of fearless, ferocious; and cuddly, rescuers.

If I had to compare OPR, Inc., it would be with PIXAR’s endearing fish film, Finding Nemo, or Disney’s charming classic, Lady and the Tramp. PIXAR is my animation studio of choice for submission once the project is done, in about three weeks from now

In conclusion, I was hoping some of you might have a moment to spare and share with me stories about piglets, calves, or anything you feel might be relevant to the farm. I’m not necessarily looking for sweet and charming, though wish this is how it was in our world. I’m also probing for the sad and melancholy stories to better paint a picture of the farm world on screen.

If any of you have an idea you believe worth incorporating in the script, please let me know about this too! Thank you all so much, and forgive me if I’ve intruded on your time…


Your friend,

Byron L Roukacha
Sf Bay
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