Orca Action Month Film Series: Resident Orca & Lime Kiln State Park and the Killer Whales

The Stewardship Network of the San Juans continues the Orca Action Month Film Series with a free double bill at The Grange — Sunday, June 21 at 7 PM. 

Lime Kiln Point State Park and the Killer Whales celebrates the iconic relationship between Lime Kiln Point and the Southern Resident orcas that return to its waters every season, while Resident Orca (2024, 97 min.) chronicles the decades-long fight to free Sk'aliCh'elh-tenaut — captured in the 1970 Penn Cove mass capture and held for over 53 years in what was widely described as the smallest killer whale tank in North America — reframing the story not as animal rights but as inherent Indigenous rights, with the Lummi Nation at its heart.

Q&A to follow with Marcia Henton Davis, Tokitae's trainer and caretaker at the Miami Seaquarium from 1987 to 1995. Free to attend; $5 donation encouraged. Co-sponsored by the Friday Harbor Film Festival, San Juan Islands Visitors Bureau, The Whale Museum, Center for Whale Research, F.O.L.K.S. (Friends