Joshua Records, in association with The Free Willy Keiko Foundation, will release an educational video about the life and legacy of Keiko, the star of the movie Free Willy.

Join Mark Berman from Earth Island Institute and Dr. Naomi Rose, the only marine mammal biologist for the Humane Society of the United States as they share their professional knowledge and personal stories from their time spent with Keiko and marine life over the years.

The goal for this film is to encourage you to take a second look the whole effort to release Keiko back to the wild. We hope to evoke within you a desire:

• to ponder Keiko's own strong will to survive
• to explore his enormous embrace of his own freedom
• to observe his behavior and compare it to orcas in the wild
• to see things about Keiko in a way that maybe you didn't think about before
• to look at what The Free Willy Keiko Foundation and all those directly involved were doing
• to look at the ways in which the effort to release a captive whale into the wild succeeded perhaps from Keiko's point of view
• to encourage the study of so many questions left unexplored...

The "KEIKO'S DREAM... KEIKO'S LEGACY" DVD utilizes footage provided by the Free Willy Keiko Foundation, Ocean Futures Society, Orcalab, and independent videographer Eric Engelken. The DVD is being produced by Joshua Records.

The title song "Keiko's Dream" is an original instrumental piece dedicated to Keiko that evokes the whale's song through the extra-ordinary lead guitar theme written by Theresa Demarest and eloquently performed by Good Company band member Tim Ellis. A second song titled: "Keiko" written for the DVD is performed by Theresa Demarest, and Renato Caranto.

This is Keiko's Dream... This is Keiko's Legacy.

NEWS AND UPDATES

There are so many websites, blogs, YouTube videos, MySpaces, and even FaceBooks about Keiko-- the star of the hit movie Free Willy. So we have created this BLOG to keep people informed about the progress of the Educational Documentary that is being created by Joshua Records in association with the Free Willy Keiko Foundation. How do you know this is the real deal? We are working directly with Mark Berman, the Associate Director of the Earth Island Institute. We are also working with hours of never-before-seen footage captured by several different people working with and around Keiko during his life time.

Joshu Records has worked with the Free Willy Keiko Foundation from early on in Keiko's journey. This project aims to take a hard, honest look at the rehabilitation and release of Keiko, what was learned from it, and what we can do for the future releases of captive Orcas and marine life.

Please go to http://www.keiko.com/ for the latest news on the project, as well as http://www.theresacd.com/ for footage, photos, the film maker statement, and the music behind the documentary. You can view the trailers for the documentary on YouTube-- simply click the YouTube icon at the right of this page. Make sure to visit the archive postings, there are great resources and stories!

Thank you for your interest and support of Keiko's Dream... Keiko's Legacy.