Moral Rating: | not reviewed |
Moviemaking Quality: |
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Primary Audience: | Adults Teens |
Genre: | Documentary |
Length: | 1 hr. 32 min. |
Year of Release: | 2009 |
USA Release: |
July 31, 2009 DVD: December 8, 2009 |
Featuring | Joe Chisholm, Mandy-Rae Cruikshank, Charles Hambleton, Simon Hutchins, Kirk Krack, Isabel Lucas, Richard O'Barry, Hayden Panettiere, Roger Payne, John Potter, Louie Psihoyos, Dave Rastovich, Paul Watson |
Director |
Louie Psihoyos |
Producer | Diamond Docs, Fish Films, Oceanic Preservation Society, Quickfire Films, Olivia Ahnemann, Jim Clark, Paula DuPré Pesman, Charles Hambleton, Fisher Stevens |
Distributor |
Roadside Attractions, a division of Lionsgate Films |
“Shallow Water. Deep Secret.”
Here’s what the distributor says about their film: “In a sleepy lagoon off the coast of Japan, behind a wall of barbed wire and “Keep Out” signs, lies a shocking secret. It is here, under cover of night, that the fishermen of Taiji engage in an unseen hunt for thousands of dolphins. The nature of the work is so horrifying, a few desperate men will stop at nothing to keep it hidden from the world. But when an elite team of activists, filmmakers and free-divers embark on a covert mission to penetrate the cove, they discover that the shocking atrocities they find there are just the tip of the iceberg.
Using state-of-the-art equipment, a group of activists, led by renown dolphin trainer Ric O’Barry, infiltrate a cove near Taijii, Japan to expose both a shocking instance of animal abuse and a serious threat to human health.”
My Ratings: Moral rating: Better than Average / Moviemaking quality: 5