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Trailer excerpt: \"The Cove\"AP TelevisionLos Angeles, 12 February 20102. SOUNDBITE (English) Louie Psihoyos/Director, on whether awards season attention will help the cause of his film ''The Cove'': \"We''ve won a...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eRoadside Attractions\u003cbr/\u003e1. Trailer excerpt: \"The Cove\"\u003cbr/\u003eAP Television\u003cbr/\u003eLos Angeles, 12 February 2010\u003cbr/\u003e2. SOUNDBITE (English) Louie Psihoyos/Director, on whether awards season attention will help the cause of his film ''The Cove'': \"We''ve won a lot of awards. I had no idea there was all these awards. Seriously, the day before the Sundance Awards, I was leaving town. Somebody said, ''Aren''t you sticking around for the awards?'' I thought that was an award, getting into the festival. Then we won the audience awards. And we''ve won like 50 or something since then.\"\u003cbr/\u003eAP Television\u003cbr/\u003eBeverly Hills, Calif, 15 February 2010\u003cbr/\u003e3. Wide Louie Psihoyos arriving at Oscar nominees luncheon with ''The Cove'' producers 4. Medium Louie Psihoyos arriving at Oscar nominees luncheon with ''The Cove'' producers\u003cbr/\u003eAP Television\u003cbr/\u003eLos Angeles, 12 February 2010\u003cbr/\u003e5. SOUNDBITE (English) Louie Psihoyos/Director, on whether the Oscars will help achieve his goal of ending dolphin slaughter in Taiji, Japan: \"The Oscars is the biggest platform you can get for a movie. It''s the most -- somebody said like an audience of a billion. I don''t believe that. But I''m told it''s the most-watched program on Japanese television. That alone is a reason that you want to have a chance to get in that spotlight for a few minutes.\"\u003cbr/\u003eAMPAS Pool\u003cbr/\u003eBeverly Hills, Calif, 15 February 2010\u003cbr/\u003e6. Wide Oscar nominees gathered for ''class photo''\u003cbr/\u003e7. Medium pan right Oscar nominees including Louie Psihoyos gathered for class photo\u003cbr/\u003eAP Television\u003cbr/\u003eLos Angeles, 12 February 2010\u003cbr/\u003e8. SOUNDBITE (English) Louie Psihoyos/Director, on his relationship to fellow documentary nominees: \"My competitors, the media likes to portray this as this is like this horse race and we''re competing with each other. We''re really collaborators here. We''re like the mice under the feet of the dinosaurs in the feature world. Everybody wants to -- the Oscars are about the stars and the clothes. Thank God you''re paying attention to us. To a lot of people that''s what it''s about. To me -- I liken what all the documentary filmmakers are trying to do, we''re trying to all push this big log up the hill. I say, this is humanity, whatever it is, we''re trying to advance humanity a little bit. And we''re all pushing on different parts of the log, but we''re still trying to push on this log collectively. It''s like we''re collaborators, rather than competitors.\"\u003cbr/\u003eRoadside Attractions\u003cbr/\u003e9. DVD special feature excerpt: \"The Cove\"\u003cbr/\u003eAP Television\u003cbr/\u003eLos Angeles, 12 February 2010\u003cbr/\u003e10. SOUNDBITE (English) Louie Psihoyos/Director, on choosing not to show his own reaction to the dolphin slaughter in the film: \"When we first saw the footage in the cove, we didn''t show that to the audience for a very strategic reason. We wanted them to have their own feelings, not to feel like ''OK, the crew felt this way, and I don''t feel that way. I feel awkward.'' We wanted them to have their own experience. But we did have that on camera. We had no idea what was back there. And we were shocked -- I mean, we were holding our hands to our faces. We were like ''Oh my God.'' Really, the terror came right at that instant, like ''Oh my God, we have enough footage right now to stop this, if we can just get it out there.''\"\u003cbr/\u003eRoadside Attractions\u003cbr/\u003e11. Trailer excerpt: \"The Cove\"\u003cbr/\u003eAP Television\u003cbr/\u003eLos Angeles, 12 February 2010\u003cbr/\u003e12. SOUNDBITE (English) Louie Psihoyos/Director, on screening ''The Cove'' in Japan at the Tokyo Film Festival: \"The trip to the Japanese, Tokyo Film Festival was amazing. I mean, there was arrest warrants out for me: Conspiracy to disrupt commerce, trespassing and photographing police without their permission. And all the bad guys were in the audience. There was Morinuki, the guy who was let go from the fisheries, there was Private Space, the mayor of Taiji, the fishermen. They were all there with their attorneys. And they responded with wild applause. And the Japanese people loved this film. We had night vision in the screening. There was people crying, a lot of people crying. And they were horrified, but they had this sort of added level of shame that comes along with it. Like ''Oh my God, this is going on in our own country and we didn''t know it.''\"\u003cbr/\u003eRoadside Attractions\u003cbr/\u003e13. Trailer excerpt: \"The Cove\"\u003cbr/\u003eCan the Oscars spotlight help documentary director Louie Psyihoyos achieve his goal?\u003cbr/\u003ePsyihoyos sets out a very specific hope at the beginning of his Oscar-nominated film \"The Cove.\" He wants the movie -- now out on DVD -- to end the annual killing of thousands of dolphins in Taiji, Japan. \u003cbr/\u003ePsyihoyos says there had been a media blackout in Japan on coverage of the dolphin killing, which his film documents, so any exposure his film can get would help his effort to educate the public there about what''s going on in their own country. \u003cbr/\u003e\"The Oscars is the biggest platform you can get for a movie,\" he said. \"I''m told it''s the most-watched program on Japanese television. That alone is a reason that you want to have a chance to get in that spotlight for a few minutes.\"\u003cbr/\u003eThough the film has won dozens of awards, so far, there''s been \"radio silence\" from the Japanese government and fishing agencies when it comes to requests to end the slaughter, Psihoyos said. That''s despite a screening at the Tokyo Film Festival and the opening of the film inside the country months after it first hit US theatres. \u003cbr/\u003ePsihoyos said he attended the festival despite arrest warrants being issued for him in Japan for \"conspiracy to disrupt commerce, trespassing and photographing police without their permission. And all the bad guys were in the audience. ... And the Japanese people loved this film. We had night vision in the screening. There was people crying, a lot of people crying. And they were horrified, but they had this sort of added level of shame that comes along with it. Like ''Oh my God, this is going on in our own country and we didn''t know it.''\"\u003cbr/\u003eAt the Oscars on March 7, Psihoyos will be competing against other activist filmmakers like \"Food Inc\" director Robert Kenner. The other nominated docs are: \"Burma VJ,\" \"The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers,\" and \"Which Way Home.\"\u003cbr/\u003eBut he says he views them more as partners to expose real-world issues to the world through a medium more often linked with Hollywood stars.\u003cbr/\u003e\"We''re like the mice under the feet of the dinosaurs in the feature world,\" he said. \"The Oscars are about the stars and the clothes. ... To me -- I liken what all the documentary filmmakers are trying to do, we''re trying to all push this big log up the hill. I say, this is humanity, whatever it is, we''re trying to advance humanity a little bit. 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