Saving Luna

Awards and Reviews

Awards

WINNER, Best Documentary, Indie Awards, Canadian Film and Television Production Association
WINNER, Best Documentary, Bermuda International Film Festival
WINNER, Best Documentary, Victoria Film Festival
WINNER, Best Documentary (Nature/ Environment), Leo Awards
WINNER, Special Jury Prize, Palm Beach International Film Festival
WINNER, Best Environmental Film , Byron Bay Film Festival
WINNER, Audience Choice, Best Feature, Santa Barbara Int'l Film Festival
WINNER, Audience Award, San Francisco Ocean Film Festival
WINNER, Best People and Animals, Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival
WINNER, Best Canadian Film, Projecting Change Film Festival
WINNER, Best Storyline , International Wildlife Film Festival
WINNER, Platinum Remi, Worldfest - Houston International Film Festival

Press

“Stunning... remarkable... a film that will stir even the hardest heart.”
Bermuda Royal Gazette

"Riveting... stunning." Seattle Times

“Astonishing footage… Mesmerizing… Poignant.” Santa Barbara Independent

“[An] astonishing documentary.” Victoria Times Colonist

“A one-of-a-kind true story.” Santa Barbara International Film Festival

“Thought-provoking.” San Francisco Chronicle

"One of the most heart-warming things I've ever seen." indieWIRE

“Compassionate and enchanting.” Vancouver International Film Festival

“[A] delight.” The Globe and Mail

“A local story that found the universal.” Vancouver Sun

“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.” Victoria Film Festival

"A valuable and deeply moving study of interspecies contact." The Georgia Straight

"[T]he pictures are amazing." 24 Hours

"This documentary is one for the whole family." The Province

"[T]he heartbreaking documentary… by Suzanne Chisholm and Michael Parfit....the story they tell, at once so leisurely and yet so gripping, strikes on so many metaphorical chords it's hard to imagine a simple documentary weaving together so many subtle threads." The Courier, Vancouver