If you are a free-flowing-river-loving person, either rooting for the fish, the transportation or a healthy shoreline, you will most likely find the documentary, “Return of a River” a sweet testament to the life-blood of a waterway.
If you are a dam kind of person, you might appreciate the technical aspect as well. The scale of removing a dam from a river is as big an undertaking as the building of one.
The public is invited to a free public screening of the seven-award-winning film, “Return of the River,” this Friday, March 27, at Aberdeen’s JM Weatherwax High School Auditorium at 410 N. G St., Aberdeen. Doors open at 6:30 p.m., film begins at 7 p.m.
John Gussman of DC Productions, one of the filmmakers, will be in attendance for a Q&A/discussion period. Sponsors are Sportsmen for Wild Olympics and the Grays Harbor Institute.
The film has received good reviews, having tribal perspective and a photogenic eye to really reveal the beauty of nature. The cinematography and music chronicles the last hundred years of the Elwha River including the removal of the dam and the restoration of salmon habitat, and features people and perspectives on all sides of the Elwha debate.
A January 15, showing in Seattle sold out, and the showing this Friday is free. The film won seven awards in as many weeks on the film festival circuit.
The Port Townsend Film Festival awarded it the Audience Award for Best Documentary and Jury Award for Film Imact. At the Friday Harbor Film Festival, the film won Audience Choice Award.
In addition, the narrator, Debbie Hirata won the Outstanding Movie Narration category at the Voice Arts award in NYC. This means, it sounds nice, too.
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