TRURO — Provincetown isn’t the only local hot spot for Hollywood films; the Truro Select Board has approved a film agreement with Big Wave Productions for a shark documentary.

In June Provincetown’s Commercial Street welcomed the STARZ TV production of “Hightown.” Big Wave will be filming biologist Greg Skomal of the state’s Div. of Marine Fisheries as he conducts great white shark research. The documentary will air in July 2020 on the Discovery Channel.

Skomal told the select board it’s a research-centric film that will focus on the predator-prey relationship of sharks and seals. Skomal’s research will be featured during the Discovery Channel’s 2020 Shark Week in “5 Sharks, 5 Weeks,” a documentary on following five tagged great white sharks.

The film’s goal is to “forecast where we think shark attacks are most likely to occur,” said Skomal.

Select board chair Jan Worthington asked Skomal whether the production company will be conducting interviews for the film. Cameras will be trained on Skomal most of the time, but it is guaranteed that “they are going to talk to interested parties and beachgoers,” he said.

In addition to interviews with people on Truro’s beaches, Big Wave Productions also wants to hear from the harbormaster and beach staff.

Skomal said the company will be using accelerometer tags on sharks to track their activity. The tags will provide fine-scaled movement to determine what sharks are doing relative to the shallow-water environment.

Discovery is funding the project, which will film sharks at night using infrared light. Live listening stations deployed along the shores of Truro’s beaches will alert monitors to the presence of a tagged great white shark. By recording shark behavior patterns, researchers hope to determine where sharks are at certain times of the day and night, said Skomal.

Skomal said when a shark goes for a human, the shark believes it is attacking a seal. So, “If we can figure out what the seals and sharks are doing, we think we can protect people’s lives,” he told the select board.

This will be Skomal’s tenth time working with Big Wave Productions. He described the company as level-headed when it comes to portraying the science behind research.