Eating Up Easter

[Subtitled] [Opens April 22, Earth Day, in Virtual Cinema sponsored by MSP Film Society; for more information, log on to mspfilm.] Minnesota-based director Sergio Mata'u Rapu's disturbing, engaging, eye-opening, informative, 70-minute, 2018 documentary that briefly examines the tumultuous history and colorful culture of the tree-bare island of Rapu Nui, which is home to the legendary, iconic, mysterious Morai statues and is 2,500 miles from Chile, and focuses on its proud, tight-knit citizens who are "between a rock and a hard place" making a sustainable living through tourism that both boosts their economy but ultimately clutters their Easter Island environment and the surrounding Pacific ocean with trash and the diligent, valiant efforts of Rapa Nui people to protect and clean up their home.
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