Friday Harbor Film Festival: Three Fall Films

The Friday Harbor Film Festival will be hosting three premiere films this coming fall!

The 2nd Annual Friday Harbor Film Festival will be held November 7-8-9, 2014 on San Juan Island.  We are very proud to announce that we will feature 3 premiere films this year:

• The Barefoot Bandit documentary
• Fragile Waters
• and Material of the Future. 

Click here for more information on these films and the Film Festival…

The Barefoot Bandit Documentary (directed by Carly Bodmer) Tells the tale of Northwest native Colton Harris-Moore, following his legendary two-year international crime spree that captured the imagination of the nation’s public and press. The film explores the dynamics of his family as well as his personal exploration and growth. Colton, a teenage boy who camped in the woods and, wearing no shoes, broke into vacation homes, became obsessed with airplanes. His dream of flying and designing airplanes became a reality when he broke out of a halfway house at the age of 15 and stole his first of five airplanes. He survived several crash landings while flying across the U.S. and eventually landed in the Bahamas, where he was arrested.  Colton’s captor, lawyer, mother and the FBI team that hunted him for two years, tell the almost unbelievable story of “The Barefoot Bandit.” 

Fragile Waters (directed by Rick Wood).  This groundbreaking documentary makes a very strong case that there’s one time to save our beloved Southern Resident killer whales from extinction, and that moment is right now. Filmed by Blaine residents/filmmakers Rick Wood and Shari Macy, in collaboration with the Orca Network, Fragile Waters explores the relationship between people, whales, water, and fish.  Focusing on the local Southern Resident orcas and wild Chinook salmon, as well as their environment, the Salish Sea, the film spotlights the people, (orca experts, fishermen, hatchery scientists and Native leaders), who are currently working to save both the whales and the salmon in a multi-pronged effort that is aimed at preventing an ecological disaster unparalleled in modern times. And where there are heroes such as these, there is hope.

The Material of the Future, inspired by the recent discovery of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, tells the troubling story of how plastic — the same miracle material that has enabled us to land on the moon, rebuild a human heart, curb epidemics, and alter the course of history – is now choking our oceans and poisoning our lives.  The film offers solutions and it challenges us to rethink our role in the use of plastic.

This year’s festival will also feature a total of over 30 award winning documentaries and docu-dramas over 3 days in 4 venues.  Our films will feature Stories of the Pacific Rim, from Chile to Alaska.  Our mission is to Entertain our film goers, while also Inspiring them to get involved in issues that speak to them and Enlighten those in attendance to environmental issues, social concerns, humanitarian efforts and tales of grand adventures.  We will be giving awards for:

• Best documentary
• Best short film
• Best representation of “Tales of the Heart”
• Best representation of “Explorers and Adventures”
• Best representation of “Issues to Consider”
• and Best representation of “Local Heroes”

We will also host a Filmmakers Forum and the Young Filmmakers Project.

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