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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...