Last week, we spoke with Louie Psihoyos, Executive Director of Oceanic Preservation Society (OPS) which uses film and imagery as a powerful weapon for social change. After nearly two decades as a National Geographic photographer, he is the Oscar-winning director of The Cove (2009), Racing Extinction (2015), and The Game Changers (2019).

Highlights:

5:25 - Founding story of his non-profit Oceanic Preservation Society

18:25 - How OPS projected 160 endangered species on the Empire State Building and the Vatican

28:18 - How OPS handles rights issues by people and businesses who don’t want to be exposed by his films

36:11 - Environmental impact of going vegan/vegetarian

38:27 - OPS future films include a conversation with Desmond Tutu and the Dali Lama around “what it means to be human,” profiling 4 big wave female surfers, and the heroes saving the Leuser ecosystem

48:47 - Louie articulates the values of the ACTAI community