The Cove_Interviews-Director & Star-2010 Oscar Winning Documentary

To YouTube: This is a official press coverage from the Santa Barbara International Film Festival.

Interviews of the 2010 Academy-Award WINNING documentary-feature Director of "The Cove" , Greek-American Louie Psihoyos (considered one of the top 10 photographers in the world) and former dolphin trainer from the 1960's American television series "Flipper", now turned dolphin animal-rights activist, are co-mingled with the documentary's video trailer.

They explain that the annual capture in Taiji, Japan by a handful of clandestine fisherman who seek payments of upwards of $150,000 per live dolphin for supplying the world's marine dolphin shows are vehemently adept at protecting their lucrative trade. Twenty-three thousand (23,000) of those captured dolphins, officially whales, that don't qualify as show-quality are slaughtered and their toxic meat (mercury) is substituted as conterfeit whale meat in Japanese markets, all without the knowledge of the Japanese consumer.

In "The Cove", nominated for best documentary feature at the 2010 Oscars, a covert motion picture production (Jacques Cousteau meets James Bond) uncovers the grisly and lucrative dolphin trade going on right under the nose of the Japanese people and with a blind-eye from the International Whaling Commision (IWC).

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