Awards for "The Cove" documentary

The film, a shocking piece of advocacy filmmaking about dolphin slaughter in Japan, follows a group of determined environmental commandos as it attempts to document the clandestine killing of the mammals in a small fishing village of Taiji. The team includes Ric O'Barry, who became famous decades ago as the man who both captured and trained the five dolphins who collectively became TV's Flipper. After one of the trained dolphins died in his arms, O'Barry had a major change of heart and became an uncompromising free-the-dolphins zealot.

The Directors Guild of America on Saturday night named Louie Psihoyos(*) the best documentary director of 2009 for "The Cove.", also the nominees for the 82nd Academy Awards, also known as the Oscars, have just been announced and "The Cove" has been nominated in the Best Documentary Feature category.

The inroductive text at www.takepart.com/thecove says:

The Secret is Out. Spread the Word.
The Cove exposes the slaughter of more than 20,000 dolphins and porpoises in Taiji, Japan every year, and how their meat, containing toxic levels of mercury, is being sold as food in Japan and other parts of Asia, often labeled as whale meat. The majority of the world is not aware this is happening as the Taiji cove is blocked off from the public. The focus of the Social Action Campaign for The Cove is to create worldwide awareness of this annual practice as well as the dangers of eating seafood contaminated with mercury and to pressure those in power to put an end to the slaughter.

The official website of the movie is at http://thecovemovie.com

(*) As it's name witness, Louie Psihoyos is son of a Greek emigrant from Sparta city.