Reel North Film Festival, in partnership with the Thompson Public Library Basement Bijou, will be showing Saving Luna, a feature-length documentary about Luna, a baby killer whale who gets separated from his family in a remote Vancouver Island fjord and tries to befriend people, as its last film of the season April 27.
Doors open at 6:30 p.m. with the screening at 7 p.m. Cost is $5 with snacks included.
Reel North kicked off its first season of monthly Tuesday night documentaries last Nov. 24 with Food, Inc., followed by a short discussion.
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, according to the documentary
Orcas normally spend their entire lives together, but Luna was lost.
Michael Parfit and Suzanne Chisholm, a husband and wife team, went to the village of Gold River in 2004 to begin work on the film. Saving Luna was made with the support of Telefilm Canada's Theatrical Documentary Program and produced by Mountainside Films in association with CBC Newsworld.
It has won 24 international awards, Reel North says.
You can see a YouTube theatrical trailer for it at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ik-UDAjBCaw
