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Resident Orca [Screens Dec. 6 at 4:45 p.m. at the Rainbow Cinema as part of the Whistlers Film Festival that runs Dec. 4-8 in Whistler, B.C.; for more information, log on to https://www.whistlerfilmfestival.com.] Stunning visuals dominate Sarah Sharkey Pearce and Simon Schneider's gripping, award-winning, heartbreaking, disturbing, eye-opening, ire-inducing, heartwarming, 97-minute documentary chronicles the diligent, long-term efforts of the Lummi indigenous community to release the Lolita/Tokitae (Sk'aliCh'elh-tenaut) orca, who is part of the endangered species, from the Miami Seaquarium and return her to her native waters of the Salish Sea, and consists of archival film footage and commentary by advocates and Lummi tribal elders Squil-Le-He-Le Raynell Morris and Tah-Mahs Ellie Kinley, fan Louis Aguirre, biologist Terry Newby, orca advocate Howard Garrett, advocate and former trainer Marcia Henton, Miami Seaquarium curator emeritus Robert Rose, Whale Sanctuary Project executive director Charles Vinick, ex-orca catcher and animal transfer and rehab coordinator Jeff Foster, former Miami Seaquarium anonymous veterinarian, Miami-Dade County mayor Daniella Levine Cava, Dolohin Company CCO Renato Lenzi, Singaporean politician and philanthropist Pritam Singh, The Dolphin Company CEO Eduardo Albor, Colts owner Jim Irsay, Lummi tribal elder and spiritual advisor Hy'Oltse Shirley Bob, "Seattle Times" reporter Lynda V. Mapes, and Lummi chairman Tony Hillaire.
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