The Cove is Coming
Volume LXI · No. 2 · Madeira, Portugal · Tuesday June 23, 2009
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The new award-winning documentary, “The Cove”, will be shown here at the IWC meeting in the hotel, Suite 403 at 8 PM on Tuesday evening, 10 PM on Wednesday evening (after the NGO reception), and all day Thursday. ECO will report further information on screenings of “The Cove” or ask you favorite NGO representative.
As ECO and others have documented time and time again, the Japan Fisheries Agency handles the truth very loosely.
Now, that reality is about to be presented to the world on the big screen.
“The Cove” is a new movie presenting an intense and inspiring experience. It received standing ovations in various film festival circuit theaters. It received the Audience Award at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival, and has so far garnered further Audience Awards at the Hot Docs Film Festival in Toronto, the Newport Film Festival, the Nantucket Film Festival, the Sydney International Film Festival, and the Seattle International Film Festival, plus Best of Festival at the Blue Ocean Film Festival.
Director Louie Psihoyos and the Oceanic Preservation Society made the film, which focuses on the work of Save Japan Dolphins Coalition and its Director, Richard O’Barry, to stop the annual slaughter of dolphins off the Japanese coast. This annual kill of 20-23,000 dolphins annually is conducted in the most horrific manner imaginable – the hunt is fully documented, along with the continued contempt the Japan Fisheries Agency has for the IWC and the truth.
“The Cove” will open in theaters in the US this summer; it will be shown worldwide this fall.
For further information, go to SaveJapanDolphins.org website, and “The Cove” movie action website TakePart.com/thecove.