U.S. Park Ranger Susan Fishman-Tudor said the movie, which is under the First Friday Films program, will be shown in cooperation with the celebration of the National Arts and Humanities Month.
“The Navigators: Pathfinders of the Pacific” runs for 59 minutes and explores the ancient navigational heritage of the Pacific people.
The film will bring viewers back to over 1,000 years ago when navigators who settled in the islands of Polynesia used only the stars, waves and flights of birds to guide them.
The movie tells about how ancestors of today’s Polynesians built 60-foot double-hulled canoes with their hands and double-hulled canoes 60-feet long and sailed across a vast ocean area larger than Europe and North America combined.
Anthropologist/filmmaker Sanford Low visited the tiny coral atoll of Satawal in the remote Caroline Islands to explore this ancient navigational heritage.
The film showing is in cooperation with the NMI Council for the Humanities, the Tan Siu Lin Foundation, the Division of Environmental Quality and the National Park Service.
The First Friday Films is free and open to the public.
