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'Racing Extinction' to premiere on Discovery Channel in December
The environmental documentary 'Racing Extinction' by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Louis Psihoyos will premiere globally on Dec
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The environmental documentary 'Racing Extinction' by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Louis Psihoyos will premiere globally on Dec. 8 on Discovery Channel. (Photo courtesy of Discovery Channel) (Photo courtesy of Discovery Channel)
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span class="inline inline-center">The environmental documentary 'Racing Extinction' by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Louis Psihoyos will premiere globally on Dec. 8 on Discovery Channel. (Photo courtesy of Discovery Channel)
Discovery Channel will premiere an environmental documentary by Oscar winner Louis Psihoyos next month that unveils the extinction of animals to raise public awareness.
The documentary, Racing Extinction, will be aired for the first time on Dec. at 8 p.m. Jakarta time on Discovery Channel and launch in 220 countries around the world within 24 hours.
Psihoyos is most known for his Academy Award-winning documentary The Cove.
In Racing Extinction, Psihoyos puts climate change center stage as he explores the underground trade in endangered species and the race to prevent mass extinction.
Employing high-tech methods of documentary filmmaking, the movie pictures the relationship between carbon emissions and animal extinction.
Psihoyos said the movie aimed to bring more awareness to people in a bid to start real action to tackle the growing problems caused by global climate change.
'There is no time that is more important than the time we are living today. The decisions we make in the next few years will have an impact on the earth and the animal species over a million years from now,' he said in a press statement on Wednesday.
Madeleine Ng from Discovery Channel said in on Wednesday that Discovery shared the same vision to improve people's knowledge through a series of educative, informative and entertaining documentary programs.
'When I met with Louis and understood the story behind the Racing Extinction film, we immediately found that we shared the same passion, and we want to be the ones who initiate change,' she said at a press conference in Jakarta.
Indonesia features prominently in the film, as the small village of Lamakera in East Nusa Tenggara is in the spotlight because of its Manta Ray hunting ritual and methods.
The film shows how Lamakera fishermen make efforts to alter their hunting habits in order to preserve the species as well as to sustain their own livelihood.
'I hope that after watching the film, each of us will be motivated to make at least one positive change for a better world. The film's campaign, #startwith1thing, encourages us to do at least one thing that will have a major impact to save our planet,' Madeline said. (rin)
