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The Cove took home an Oscar for Best Docmentary yesterday at the 82nd Annual Academy Awards.

Ecorazzi reports that director Louie Psihoyos had this to say in his acceptance speech:

“I just want to say it was an honor to work on this film and to try make an entertaining film that also tries to enlighten everybody. I have to thank Jim Clark who financed the film and who was also kind of the guiding wisdom behind the film, Paula DuPre Presman, my producing partner, and my hero, Rick O’Barry, who is not only a hero to this species but to all species.”

The film depicts the killings of dolphins in Japan that are later sold as meat.

Looks like animal activist Ric O’Barry tried to solicit a few last votes American Idol style!

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Hayden Panettiere Self Magazine Cover 2010

Hayden Panettiere is on the cover of the March 2010 issue of Self magazine.

Inside, the Heroes actress discusses her activist work with the Whaleman Foundation and helping with the Oscar nominated documentary on the dolphin slaughter in Japan, The Cove.

“When we did the protest in ‘The Cove,’ I thought I’d be scared, but when I saw what was going on, I had no fear at all. I was deeply angry,” Hayden said.

The video below shows Hayden swimming with dolphins.

“It’s a passion of mine. Animals have always been a passion of mine,” she says in the clip.

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Louie Pshihoyos, directed of the Oscar nominated documentary The Cove, sat down for an interview with Movie Web.

Pshihoyos himself experienced the affects of contaminated seafood after learning he shared a spot in the mercury poisoned pescatarian hall of fame with Jeremy Piven.

Healthier seafood is better, but complete vegetarian is best!

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The Oscar nominations are in, and two films on the green and animal friendly side have received the honor.

The Cove, directed by Louie Psihoyos, depicts the secret slaughter of dolphins in Japan. The meat is  later sold for  human consumption and contains high levels of mercury.

Food Inc. shoots down the practice of factory farming and examines the effects of the industrial production of food on the environment.

Food Inc. was promoted by Stonyfield Farms, a company that produces dairy products using sustainable methods, organic ingredients and small family farms.

“It’s not just that these filmmakers expose vicious, inhumane and ecologically dangerous practices, apparently sanctioned and covered up by the Japanese government and its media,” film critic Marshall Fine said. “But the filmmakers have done it while risking their freedom — even their lives — for the cause.”

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The Cove is set for screening in Japan, during the 22nd annual Tokyo International Film Festival from October 18-26.

The film, which portrays the annual dolphin hunt in Taiji, Japan and was originally not okayed for screening (wonder why…), but this year’s theme is Action For Earth 2009, so film officials reversed their decision with the caveat that they are not liable for any disputes arising from the screening.

The hunt for dolphins is not only cruel to animals, but to the market where dolphin meat is sold and consumed.

Dolphin meat contains some of the highest levels of mercury, 5000 more times, than allowed by Japanese law.

That’s more than enough to get you a stay home from work sick pass like Jeremy Piven did.

Since the film’s initial screening and the controversy it sparked, activity in the area where Taiji fisherman captured the dolphins has been relatively quiet.

Will the screening in Japan put even more pressure on the fisherman and buyers to stop this activity for good?

via treehugger.com

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If you’re in the New York or Los Angeles area, you have the opportunity to see the breathtaking documentary, The Cove this weekend.

The Cove covers the annual killing of over 2,500 dolphins in a cove at Japan’s Taiji, Wakayama.

Directed by former National Geographic photographer Louis Psihoyos, the documentary was filmed secretly in 2007 using underwater microphones and hidden cameras disguised as ocean rocks.

It all started when former dolphin trainer Ric O’Barry, who captured dolphins in the same cove during the 1960s for the movie Flipper, started to realize that dolphins were intelligent creatures that weren’t being served justly when held in captivity.

Eventually, O’Barry joined forces with Psihoyos and the Oceanic Preservation Society to travel to Japan and expose the bloody industry of dolphin meat.

Visit the official website of The Cove and learn more about what you can do to help dolphins, both in captivity and those being slaughtered for meat.

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