FHFF Tuesday – Recovering Lost Heritage

How much have your grandparents passed on to you about your family’s heritage? How many generations would it take for your people to forget their past?

This week’s film tells the story of a lost culture and the work being done to recover it. Come out Tuesday, August 27 at 7 pm to view The Adventurers: A Story Told in Stone, the weekly documentary offering from the Friday Harbor Film Festival at the FHFF office (10 First St., next door to The Toy Box. Admission is by donation, including free popcorn. Seating is limited.

This film draws us into the world of the Polynesians of Raivavae in the Austral Islands and the Nuku Hiva on the Marquesas Islands. Edmundo Edwards (Pacific Islands Research and Education Institute) is working with island nations seeking out their lost and deliberately hidden civilization. The people know nothing of their past because following their discovery by Europeans, who brought missionaries and foreign diseases, 80% of the population died within a short period of time. Survivors were converted to Christianity, destroying the symbols of their religion. Now archaeologists are uncovering who these people had been for thousands of years.

3 Days Of Films You Won’t Want To Miss!
Tickets are now on sale for the exciting First Annual Friday Harbor Film Festival. Purchase from the San Juan Community Theatre box office in person (100 Second St.), by telephone at 360-378-3210 or on-line at http://www.sjctheatre.org/. Festival information is available at www.fhff.org.

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