Environmental activist Philippe Cousteau lent his famous last name to promote a film Friday night that is sure to make his grandfather proud.
The grandson of the late Jacques Cousteau held a screening and Q & A discussion Friday night for the documentary “The Cove” — a sad, and at times disturbing, film that follows a high-tech dive team on a mission to discover the truth about the dolphin capture trade practiced in Taiji, Japan.
But it wasn’t just only Cousteau’s name that led to the sold-out crowd at Landmark’s E Street Theater. “The Cove” has won dozens of film festival awards, is said to be a front-runner for being nominated in next year’s best documentary feature Oscar race and is being promoted by social action media group Participant Media, which has previously backed “An Inconvenient Truth,” “Syriana,” “Good Night and Good Luck.”
