24 Aug 09
This feature documentary film has been made and released to raise awareness of the atrocious and unnecessary slaughter of Dolphins.
Local Dunedin surfer Tony Denley has been campaigning hard to
raise awareness of the atrocious and unnecessary slaughter of
Dolphins in Japan as exposed in the movie "The Cove".
"The Cove" opens at the Rialto in Dunedin on Thursday the 27th
of August. Watch out for a release in other centres around New
Zealand.
The Cove, an unconventional true-life environmental feature
documentary film uncovers the mass killing of dolphins,
specifically in the Japanese port village of Taiji, south of
Osaka.
In the 1960s Richard O'Barry captured and trained the 5 dolphins
who played the title character in the international television
sensation Flipper. However, one fateful day, a heartbroken Barry
came to realize that these deeply sensitive, highly intelligent and
self-aware creatures, so beautifully adapted to life in the open
ocean, must never be subjected to human captivity again.
O'Barry has now dedicated his life to set things right, and his
mission brings him to Taiji, Japan. It is here, in a remote,
glistening cove, that lies a dark reality. O'Barry joins forces
with filmmaker Louis Psihoyos and the Oceanic Preservation Society
to get to the truth of what's really going on in the cove and why
it matters to everyone in the world.
They recruit an 'Ocean's Eleven' style team to carry out the
operation, and the result is a provocative mix of investigative
journalism, eco-adventure and arresting imagery that adds up to an
urgent plea for hope.
Theses acts are a sad indictment indeed on the human species -
so many of us consider dolphins to be some of our closest friends
on this earth.