Screening will feature 'Last Best Hope' producer
January 31, 2017
A screening of the film “Last Best Hope: A True Story of Escape, Evasion, and Remembrance”
will be followed by a discussion with David Grosvenor, the film's producer, beginning
at 7 p.m. Friday, Feb. 10, in Schaible Auditorium.
The 90-minute film, completed in 2006, documents the experiences of Grosvenor's father,
an American pilot, after his P-47 fighter aircraft was shot down over Brussels during
World War II. Belgians hid the elder Grosvenor from Germany's Nazis for nearly 8 months
until his capture in 1944.
The free public event is sponsored by the UAF History Department with support from
the Alaska Humanities Forum and Greg Hill, retired Fairbanks North Star Borough libraries
director.
The film’s trailer can be viewed at http://www.alpheusmedia.com/lastbesthope/home.html.
The History Department is part of the UAF College of Liberal Arts. The college, the
largest academic unit at UAF, comprises 20 academic departments representing the arts,
humanities, social sciences and language disciplines.
ON THE WEB: http://www.alpheusmedia.com/lastbesthope/synopsis.html, www.uaf.edu/cla.
CONTACT: Naomi Horne, 907-474-6464, nehorne@alaska.edu
ADDITIONAL CONTACT: Terrence Cole, tmcole@alaska.edu