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SAVING LUNA is the true story of Luna, a young orca who was separated from his family and tried to make friends with people in Nootka Sound, on Vancouver Island’s West Coast. As most of you know, Luna became famous as the subject of a battle between the Mowachaht/Muchalaht people of Nootka Sound and the Department of Fisheries and Oceans when DFO tried to capture and move him to the waters near Victoria. SAVING LUNA goes behind the headlines to tell the story of the many extraordinary things that happened when an eager young orca broke the wall that normally stands between humans and wild beings.
 
Here's what the Victoria Film Festival has to say about SAVING LUNA: “The relentlessly engaging story, a true story wrought with drama that Hollywood couldn’t produce on its best days, along with the magnificent quality of the footage, makes this film one of the most moving, interesting, happy and sad films to grace the screen here at the VFF in several years.”

SAVING LUNA has been selected to screen at several festivals throughout North America, including Vancouver, Santa Barbara, San Francisco, and Washington, DC, and the world, including China, Australia and Greece. It recently won Best People and Animals at the Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival, and has just been nominated for a 2008 Indie Award for Best Documentary by the Canadian Film and Television Production Association.

Santa Barbara International Film Festival, Santa Barbara, CA
Saturday, January 26, 2008, 7:00 PM, Center Stage, 751 Paseo Nuevo, Santa Barbara
Tuesday, January 29, 2008, 12:30 PM, Victoria Hall, 33 W. Victoria St, Santa Barbara
www.sbfilmfestival.org
 
San Francisco Ocean Film Festival, San Francisco, CA
Saturday, February 2, 2008, 1:00 PM, Cowell Theater, Fort Mason Center, San Francisco
www.oceanfilmfest.org
 
Victoria Film Festival, Victoria, BC
Sunday, February 3, 2008, 7:15 PM, Empire Theatres Capitol 6, 805 Yates, Victoria
Tuesday, February 5, 2008, 7:15 PM Caprice Theatre, 777 Goldstream, Langford
www.victoriafilmfestival.com
 
Powell River Film Festival, Powell River, BC
Friday, February 8, 2008, 12:30 PM, Evergreen Theatre, Powell River
www.prfilmfestival.ca
 
Byron Bay Film Festival, Byron Bay, Australia
February 29- March 8, 2008
 
Our Island, Our World Film Festival, Saltspring Island, BC
March 7, 2008
 
Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, Thessaloniki, Greece
March 7-16, 2008
 
DC Environmental Film Festival, Washington, DC
Sunday, March 16, 2008, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC