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From Award-winning, independent, motion picture production company Stars North™ comes “What Hugh Knew,” a film about the impact of Hugh Shaw, a towering surfer who tragically died two weeks before college graduation in 1983. In the wake of Hugh’s death, a tight circle of his friends and family launched an annual tradition that continues to foster deep personal connections more than 30 years later, in an age when technology and other forces threaten those connections.

 

The full-length feature documentary, set on the north shores of Florida, sheds light on the universal power of love and authentic human connection -- timely messages when millions around the world are finding themselves more connected by technology, yet lonelier than any generation prior. Viewers will discover what Hugh knew and find inspiration to re-examine their relationship with technology and enjoy the fleeting gifts of life with the lessons he embodied.

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