Roadside and Lionsgate Corner Sundance Doc ‘The Cove’

When my friends skip down south I plead with them not top do any of those dumb swimming with the dolphins day trips, I think that a dent might be made in an industry practice that is largely unknown and ignored. Not one, but two players in the indie film distribution industry will magnify Louie Psihoyos‘ message docu film The Cove. Variety reports that Roadside Attractions and Lionsgate Films will co-distribute the doc this Summer.

Ric O’Barry is a man with a burden, not the inventor of the atomic bomb type, but not that different. Today the military use them to find mines, tourism depends on them to provide a show, and unfortunate school children in Japan have them for lunch. Dolphins like all animals on this planet, have received the short end of the stick thanks to us. Despite including a “Mission Impossible” type of formula that I didn’t care for, (the Skywalker Ranch people get in within the act), this is the only film to have me balling my eyes out so far this year, this talking heads/pro-active docu film includes a team of people, including Flipper’s former trainer.

Day in and day out, O’Barry kept the dolphins working and television audiences smiling. But one day, that all came to a tragic end. THE COVE, directed by Louie Psihoyos, tells the amazing true story of how Psihoyos, O’Barry and an elite team of activists, filmmakers and freedivers embarked on a covert mission to penetrate a hidden cove in Japan, shining light on a dark and deadly secret. The mysteries they uncovered were only the tip of the iceberg.