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Τhe true story about the orca who tried to make friends with people,
has traveled the world's film festivals, winning 25 awards along the
way.
What happens when a wild orca tries to
make friends with people - not for food, but for companionship? Should humans welcome him or turn away?
In 2001, when Luna was just a baby, he found himself alone in Nootka
Sound, on the West Coast of Vancouver Island, more than 200 miles away
from his family. Orcas normally spend their entire lives together, but
Luna was lost.
Without other whales, Luna tried to make contact with humans. But law
and science told people to stay away. Yet the same social instincts
that drove Luna to seek companionship also brought people to him, in
spite of the law.
As Luna got close to people, he became both treasured and feared. To
natives he was the spirit of a chief. To boaters he was a goofy friend.
To conservationists he was a cause. To scientists he was trouble. To
officials he was a danger. As conflict and tragedy stained the waters,
Luna became a symbol of the world's wildest beauty: easy to love, hard
to save.
This film explores both the nature of friendship and the friendships of nature, and has moved and charmed all ages.
With 17 international awards and numerous nominations, Saving Luna is a film the whole family will enjoy.
Saving Luna began with an assignment from Smithsonian
magazine to write a story about a curious conflict that was developing
in Nootka Sound on the West Coast of Vancouver Island. A whale was
trying to make friends with people, and the government was trying to
prevent him from doing so.
Husband and wife team Michael Parfit and Suzanne Chisholm went to the village of
Gold
River in the spring of 2004 for three weeks. The short version of what
happened there is this: like the thief who came to steal the money, they
both fell in love with the subject of this story, and didn't leave.
They stayed for three years.
The long version is more complicated than that. It involved a
government effort to move Luna, a First Nations effort to prevent the
move, and the long consequences for the whale after the initial conflict
on the water ended with an uncertain outcome.
Saving Luna is a film by Suzanne Chisholm and Michael Parfit
with the support of Telefilm Canada's Theatrical Documentary Program.
Produced by
Mountainside Films in association with CBC Newsworld.
