Saving Luna
Saving Luna is a gorgeous and tenderly poetic documentary five years in the making about an affectionate semi-famous orca orphaned in Nootka Sound earlier this decade. Husband and wife journalists Michael Parfit and Suzanne Chisholm ended up devoting three years documenting the amazing story of Orca L 69 nick named Luna. He was abandoned by his pod in his infancy and his instinctive craving for companionship lead to a phenomenal interaction with humans in the waters off Gold River on Vancouver Island. Over time Luna became a political football among the Department of Fisheries, sports fishermen, First Nations People and a handful of loving locals. Another lesser anomaly is how the documentarians abandoned objectivity to become part of the story. The stunning backdrop looks like a travelogue for Tourism BC to illustrate to other humans how this is the best place on earth to be but leaves us wondering if it’s the best place for a lonely killer whale to be.