Oscar Win For The Cove Mar 2010

Champagne Valentine worked alongside Nate Naylor to co-direct the opening titles for doc film ‘The Cove’, which picked up ‘Best Documentary’ at the Oscars this weekend!

The film follows an annual dolphin hunt in the Japanese town of Taiji.

A film critic writing for Trespass Magazine commented on the titles, “the opening of the film is more like a modern spy thriller than the animal planet type documentaries we are used to seeing. Filming with a heat-seeking, military-issued camera, the opening sequence establishes a sinister tone that permeates the whole documentary. This isn’t going to be a ‘look at the dolphins aren’t they pretty, aren’t they clever’ sort of film - be prepared for something completely different.”