From making my first film, The Cove, to winning the Academy Award for Best Documentary, the past year has been a dream. I often joke that film is a "weapon of mass construction," and in order to construct a film and have it seen, a filmmaker needs many allies. For The Cove, Sundance has been the best ally possible.
The film tells the story of secret dolphin killings conducted off a coast of Japan and the mercury dangers that residents face from eating the animals. At the beginning of our journey, our grandest ambition was that the film would inspire a small legion of activists. But everything changed the moment The Cove was accepted into the 2009 Sundance Film Festival: our story was a given a voice.
