FreeingFlipper

Feature documentary chronicling dolphin activist @RichardOBarry Produced by @dogwoof @BayRockMedia @_CopperIsland & Appian Way. 🎥 Premieres Sept 2026

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Ric O’Barry, who founded Dolphin Project after quitting dolphin training, is the subject of the new documentary “Freeing Flipper”
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Ric O’Barry, who founded Dolphin Project after quitting dolphin training, is the subject of the new documentary “Freeing Flipper”
https://t.co/Fxm1lepFEy

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“An extraordinary collection of renowned activists, award-winning filmmakers, and technical artists united behind this ambitious feature documentary.” -Netflix Junkie

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Taiji: On the first day of the drive hunt season, a large pod of bottlenose dolphins was driven into the Cove. Due to their popularity at marine parks and the global demand for captive dolphins, these dolphins are extremely valuable. 11 dolphins had their freedom stolen while the remaining pod members were held overnight. A huge thank you to all the Japanese activists on the ground in Taiji documenting and spreading awareness. End the demand, end the supply. Don’t buy a ticket to any facility with captive dolphins.
Sep2 2026 #TheCove

[Dolphin Project @Dolphin_Project]

TAIJI September 1, 2026: Today marks the beginning of another dolphin drive hunt season in Taiji, Japan.  Japanese activists from all over Japan arrived to protest these hunts. Nine species of dolphins are on this season’s quota list.

Up to 1,814 dolphins can be taken—for slaughter or captivity. But these are not just numbers. They are mothers, Babies, Families. They belong together in the ocean—not separated, confined, or killed.

Please don’t look away. Raise your voice for the dolphins today—and every day. Speak out. Share.
Take action. The world is watching. Learn more and find ways to help: https://t.co/uyshorIVN6

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BTS Freeing Flipper 🐬🎸 #documentary #RicOBarry #Slash

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EXCLUSIVE: Appian Way, the production company founded by Leonardo DiCaprio, is signing on to executive produce Freeing Flipper, a documentary about Ric O’Barry, who went from dolphin trainer to becoming a fierce advocate for freeing all captive dolphins. 🐬

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We’re thrilled to announce that Appian Way, the production company founded by Academy Award winner @LeoDiCaprio, has joined FREEING FLIPPER as Executive Producer.

Directed by Barney Douglas (McEnroe, Warriors), the film tells the remarkable true story of Ric O'Barry - once the world’s highest-paid dolphin trainer and the man behind the dolphins of Flipper, whose extraordinary change of course would ultimately make him the central figure in Academy Award-winning documentary The Cove.

Now 86, Ric looks back on more than five decades of an extraordinary life shaped by dolphins, the triumphs, sacrifices, relationships and personal cost of a mission he could never walk away from.

Featuring Fisher Stevens, Maisie Williams, Stephen Stills and Lincoln O'Barry, alongside one of Dr. Jane Goodall’s final on-screen appearances, #FreeingFlipper combines never-before-seen family archive with immersive dolphin-POV cinematography to tell a story of freedom, legacy, family and redemption.

Dogwoof launches international sales at TIFF: The Market this September.

Read the exclusive in @DEADLINE.
https://t.co/JzFfBGAwZf

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Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way Boards ‘Freeing Flipper’ Ahead Of TIFF Market, Story Of Dolphin Trainer Turned Activist Ric O’Barry https://t.co/x7S34CJXCo