Friday Harbor Film Festival

The 2023 Friday Harbor Film Festival offers 25 feature films including notable award winners and nominees next week, Oct. 27-29 in Friday Harbor. Showings start Friday morning and the evening ends with the Friday Night Gala honoring filmmakers at the San Juan Community Theatre.

Deborah Giles will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award for her work as research director for Wild Orca, which monitors the Southern Resident killer whales population. Giles has a Ph.D in biogeography. There will be an impressive variety of food and drink and the screening of the award-winning documentary, “Wild Beauty: Mustang of the West.”

The 25 feature films and 14 short films are shown at three venues: the Palace, San Juan Island Grange and the San Juan Community Theatre. There are multiple showings of films through Sunday evening, ending with the showing of the Audience Choice Awards film.

Films include “Buffy Sainte-Marie: Carry It On,” a career-spanning film about the celebrated Canadian musician and activist, nominated for a 2023 International Emmy Award; “Common Ground,” which won the 2023 Tribeca Festival’s Human/Nature Award, established to amplify a film that best exemplifies solution-oriented environmental storytelling; and “Bad Press,” exposing the Muscogee Nation’s censoring of a local newspaper and a reporter’s fight to expose her government’s corruption.

There are a variety of ways to view and pay for your viewing pleasure, from the $250 all access passport to the Friday Night Gala ticket and a saver 6-pack tickets to the on-demand passport for home viewing Oct. 30-Nov. 5.

All information: fhff.org.