In a surprising turn in the global fight over the killing of whales, THE WHALE, a new Ryan Reynolds-narrated documentary about the friendship between humans and a wild orca, had its world premiere in one of the oldest active whaling communities on the planet, the Faroe Islands, on August 20th in the Islands capital city of Trshavn.

Film producer and co-director Suzanne Chisholm who were in attendance at the premiere on behalf of the film said they could have had either a red-carpet premiere with celebrities at a theatre in LA, or do something specific to help whales so when people in the Faroes invited them because they love what this story means, she simply jumped at the chance.

The spectacular and remote Faroe Islands archipelago is a self-governing territory of Denmark, located between Scotland and Iceland. The Islands traditional pilot whale hunts have recently become the focus of international opposition to whaling. This opposition has dramatically increased this summer with the arrival of an activist ship and television crews. The film, which rolls out in US theatres starting September 9, tells the astonishing story of what happened in a remote fjord in British Columbia when a young killer whale, nicknamed Luna, lost his family and tried to make social contact with people.

The film is narrated by actor Ryan Reynolds and is executive produced by Ryan Reynolds, Scarlett Johansson, and Eric Desatnik. Suzanne Chisholm and her husband, Michael Parfit, author of many Smithsonian and National Geographic magazine articles, co-directed the movie.