Keiko Yagi’s Behind the Cove and its New York festival screening
Keiko Yagi’s documentary Behind the Cove is the subject of New York festival coverage around IFFNY. The film examines the debate over Japanese whaling and dolphin hunting, approaching a subject that had already reached international audiences through The Cove.
Yagi directed, filmed and edited the documentary. Its official account describes a project that began with her investigation of the debate and took her to Taiji, with interviews involving people holding different positions on hunting and conservation.
Behind the Cove screened at the Montreal World Film Festival in 2015. The New York presentation brings Yagi’s response to the controversy into a festival setting; the film’s interpretation remains the filmmaker’s argument on a disputed subject.