The Cove
By Dinah Cardin
It’s fitting that on the same day the Salem Film Festival is screening two films on aggressive fishing practices, The Boston Globe has run two op-ed pieces on the subject.
The articles To stop overfishing of tuna, ban foreign sales of bluefins and Sustainability: Top chefs take note both ran today and have elicited feisty comments from online readers.
Tonight, at 5 p.m, END OF THE LINE looks at the inconvenient truth of the devastating effect of over fishing on the world’s ecosystems and challenges us to imagine a world without fish…
At 7 p.m. the 2010 Academy Award nominated film THE COVE features Ric O’Barry who trained dolphins for the television series “Flipper.” We follow O’Barry and his team to Japan. (Now a changed man, he no longer believes dolphins should be held in captivity.) There, he finds fishermen driven by a multi-billion dollar dolphin entertainment industry and a market for dolphin meat, engage in an unseen hunt.
This provocative mix of investigative journalism, eco-adventure and arresting imagery adds up to an urgent plea for hope.
This Festival has changed me for the better. This particular film is a powerful and inconvenient reminder of what we (The US and Japanese consumers) don’t want to think too much about. It a much bigger issues than mere bodily aches and pains.I started the Salem Film Fest this weekend walking with a cane. I had been having back pains and sciatica for days. I can testify to the curative power of hope- based and engrossing stories of extraordinary people. After just two days of these films I came to the screening of The Cove on my own power. With no cane! This stuff works!