The film "A killer whale called Luna" will premiere in the UK on BBC’s Natural World on Wednesday 24 February at 8:00pm on BBC2.

The film made over three years by Michael Parfit & Suzanne Chisholm, has won 24 awards worldwide. It is about a young solitary killer whale called Luna. The story of how humans react to him will delight and baffle you.

A brief background .....

One summer in Nootka Sound, a fjord on the remote west coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia a young killer whale becomes separated from his pod. Luna finds himself desperately alone, and like we humans, killer whales are highly social and depend on their families, separated from his kind, Luna tries to make contact with people. He begs for attention at boats and docks and people fall in love with him but the government decides that being friendly with Luna is bad for him and tries to keep him and people apart.

But this friendship is complicated and people who love Luna cannot agree on how best to help him. The fisheries officer wants Luna captured and trucked away to try to force him to connect with his family. The First Nations think this is disrespectful because they believe that Luna is the spirit of a deceased chief. Nothing goes as planned on Nootka Sound, and the unexpected always happens. Finally even the filmmakers become swept up in events that catch everyone by surprise and challenge the very nature of that special and mysterious bond we humans call friendship.

In the end 'A killer whale called Luna' explores one of the greatest of mysteries: Who are these lives who share the planet with we humans, and what are the connections between us that we do not yet know?