Fenn’s Searchers, a film by local documentary filmmaker Matthew Maisano, is being screened at Full Frame Theater, 318 Blackwell Street, Durham, on Thursday, June 21st, 2018. Doors open at 7:30 p.m. and the film will start at 8 p.m. The run time is 65 minutes, followed by a group discussion.
This is a free event. Keep up to date on the Facebook event for the screening.
Forrest Fenn is a wealthy collector who was diagnosed with what he thought was terminal cancer. He then decided he wanted to give back some of his acquired gold, rare coins, and valuable gems. So he hid a treasure chest worth $2 million dollars somewhere in the US Rocky Mountains, and released a poem with nine clues as to where it is. Now there are around 30-50,000 people a year from all over the country (and world) who are looking for it.
Forrest Fenn did this to “get kids off the couch and away from their texting machines.” The treasure hunt and film’s mission is to inspire families to spend more time outside.
