Film Is a Weapon of Mass Construction
February, 17, 2010 2:26 pm | Comments On #George Clooney, Louie Psihoyos, Movies, The CoveA little over a year ago we were struggling to get our film, “The Cove,” into Sundance. We finished the film at 4 a.m., two hours before I was to board a plane and hand deliver it to the festival organizers. They were understandably getting nervous back in Park City where a snowstorm was threatening air travel.
This was my first film, and I remember asking the weary, seasoned post-production crew, "What do you think, do we have a good film?"
"Prepare yourself for a disaster," came the reply from someone who had worked with Academy Award-winning directors.
I had been privately doing that for three years. I'm the executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society (OPS), and we had started out trying to make the most beautiful underwater documentary we could. Then the OPS team visited the cove in Japan with...
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Louie Psihoyos has been widely regarded as one of the top photographers in the world. He was hired directly out of college to shoot for National Geographic; he has since been on contract for Fortune Magazine and shot hundreds of covers for other magazines including Smithsonian, Discover, GEO, Time, Newsweek, the New York Times Magazine, New York Magazine and Sports Illustrated. He created the Oceanic Preservation Society in 2005 with Jim Clark; the non-profit organization provides an exclusive lens for the public and media to observe the beauty as well as the destruction of the oceans, while motivating change.
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