Presented by Suffolk University's Ford Hall Forum, Communication, Journalism, & Media Department, and the Newburyport Documentary Film Festival
There will be a Q&A with Director David Abel immediately following the screening.
Friday, April 26th at 7 PM at the
Modern Theatre
Admission is FREE. Registration is Required.
This event will take place on Friday, April 26th at 7 PM, at the Modern Theatre, located at 525 Washington Street, Boston, MA 02111.
This event is free and open to the public. Registration is required.
Online registration will close at 5 PM on April 26th. Walk-up registration will be available at the box office at the Modern Theatre, subject to availability.
The lobby and the box office at the Modern Theatre will open at 6:00 PM, one hour before the event's start time.
All unclaimed reservations will be released at 6:50 PM, ten minutes before the event's start time. Please arrive at the theatre and check in before your tickets are released.
IN THE WHALE is a feature-length film about arguably the greatest fish story ever told, though this one is true. It's the account of a man who survived to tell the tale of being swallowed by a whale, and what happened after being spit out.
In the shark-filled waters off Cape Cod, Michael Packard has long tempted fate. For several months a year, Packard and his longtime mate, Josiah Mayo, cast off nearly every morning around dawn and navigate through the half-light to their diving grounds off Provincetown, Packard buckles on his scuba tank and plunges into the cold waters to hunt on the seafloor.
As the region’s last-remaining commercial lobster diver, the 57-year-old father has had his share of harrowing experiences, which include close encounters with great whites, nearly drowning, and having to pull up the body of a fellow diver. He even survived a plane crash in the jungles of Costa Rica, where he ran a charter fishing business. But what happened to him on a routine dive during a clear June morning was something he never imagined possible, and many around the world refused to believe.
In an experience of biblical proportions, Packard was engulfed by a humpback whale, caught in the watery cavity of its massive mouth. After some 30 seconds of a pitch-black captivity, in which he expected to die, he was spit out, fins first, to the surface.
The publicity was similarly dizzying for the reclusive fisherman, whose survival story spread around the world in news dispatches. But what came after the limelight dimmed was even more significant for Packard.
For ticketing questions and assistance, please reach out boxoffice@suffolk.edu .