Golden Alexander to Louie Psihoyos

Special Screening: The Cove

@Olympion

The Thessaloniki Documentary Festival awards the official guest of this year’s edition, with the Golden Alexander. Louis Psychoyos has selected ten influential ecological documentaries for a carte blanche program. In the context of the ceremony, there will be a screening of The Cove, the first feature documentary of Louie Psihoyos, which received the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 2009. The Greek-American filmmaker and photographer will attend the first screenings of the Carte Blanche program, to present the films and discuss with the audience of Thessaloniki in the respective Q&A sessions.

The Cove
Louie Psihoyos
USA 2009, Color 92΄

The 2010 Oscar-winning feature documentary by Greek-American photographer and filmmaker Louie Psihoyos has enjoyed worldwide success. The movie is a call to action to halt mass dolphin kills in Japan, specifically in the cove near Taiji. A desperate warning addressed to the human race as to realize that destroying the planet’s animal and plant life equals self-destruction.