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The Cove
Prize-winning film has lofty goal of saving dolphins
Can a film save the world?
Perhaps not, but the makers of "The Cove," which won the Sundance Film Festival's Audience Award Saturday for the most popular U.S. Documentary, are using their film in an effort to save a single tiny body of water in the Japanese town of Taiji.
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Filmmakers, Activists Try to Save Dolphins from Slaughter in Oscar-Winning Doc The Cove
The Academy Award-winning film The Cove opened last month in Japan after months of protests by right-wing activists who had pressured some cinemas into canceling screenings. The film documents how a group of activists and filmmakers used hidden cameras to expose the annual slaughter of over 20,000 dolphins in the small Japanese fishing village of Taiji, 200 miles southeast of Tokyo. We speak with the film's director, Louie Psihoyos, and dolphin activist Ric O'Barry. Ref. Source 8