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Greetings Missoula, filmmakers and documentary fans,

On behalf of the Big Sky Film Institute, welcome to the 15th Annual Big Sky Documentary Film Festival! This year we revel in a milestone, fifteen years of celebrating documentary film and its power to gather, inform, engage, educate and entertain. It is with immense gratitude to the hundreds of filmmakers, thousands of fans, and most especially the community of Missoula, that we cross this exciting threshold and charge ahead with fresh perspective.

We are pleased to feature over 170 exceptional films, selected from an unprecedented 2,000 submissions from all over the world, exploring visionary stories of humanity, activism, perseverance, innovation and a changing planet. Big Sky will venture into new mediums, presenting audio documentaries in a collective listening session, and virtual reality stories from the far side of the world. We are honored to feature two retrospective programs including the much-lauded non- fiction luminary Kirby Dick and veteran documentary filmmaker Greg Barker. 2018 also marks the launch of the Native Filmmaker Initiative, elevating a long tradition of celebrating Indigenous documentary film. In ad- dition, the 2018 DocShop will spotlight the intersection of film and technology, exploring the mechanics and innovations of a rapidly changing medium.

Contemporary storytelling is increasingly influenced by gadgets and gizmos, however, as depicted by the woman on the cover of this program, the passion and inspiration in documentary film still comes from the heart. Documentaries today have the potential to be innovative in their use of technology and push boundaries with the stories they tell. As film technology advances, so too does the human ingenuity to build resiliency of character and provide a roadmap for the way forward in a changing world. Rachel Gregg Executive Director Big Sky Film Institute CONTENTS Tickets, Passes and Festival HQ 2-3 Special Features 5-14 Festival Jury 16-17 Big Sky DocShop 18-19 Strands 23-27 Venue Map 28-29 Youth Programs & Schoolhouse Docs 30-31 Schedule of Films 32-40 Film Descriptions 42-85 Festival Staff 98 Sponsors 104 Cover Art: Theo Ellsworth BOX OFFICE INFO FESTIVAL HQ

Festival HQ is located in the ROAM office at Purchasing & Pick-Up 125 S. Higgins Avenue, right next to The Wilma Advance tickets: bigskyfilmfest.org (available for pick up at the door) Buy passes: Festival HQ Hours Will call for all passes (All Access, All Screening, 5-Punch): Festival HQ Friday, February 16th: 12pm - 8pm February 17-25: 10am - 8pm daily Passes & Prices Single-Screening Ticket $9 Festival HQ is your source for daily festival information and box office Student/Senior Single-Screening $7 services where you can: 5-Punch Pass $40 Student/Senior 5-Punch Pass $30 • Buy All-Access passes, All-Screening passes and 5-punch cards Schoolhouse Docs $5 • Pick up will call tickets and passes All-Access Pass $325 • Pick up festival credentials, all access passes and filmmaker passes All-Screening Pass $175 Weekend Pass (Films & Parties) $150 Tickets for individual screenings may be purchased at the door. Will call DocShop Pass (Feb 19-23) $150 tickets for individual screenings may also be picked up at the door.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION All-Access Pass Festival Merchandise This pass is good for all screenings, VIP events and parties, and in- Get your 2018 BSDFF merch! T-shirts, hoodies, stickers and more at cludes access to the private filmmaker lounge and DocShop events. The Wilma, The Elks Lodge and MCT! All-Screening Pass This pass is good for all film screenings at the 2018 festival. (Does not include special events, DocShop or parties).

Passes are Non-Transferable Valid ID required to pick up passes and will call tickets.

Arrive Early Congratulations We recommend passholders arrive 15-20 minutes early for screenings. to all the participants in the Seating is first come first serve. Reserved seating for ticketed patrons is guaranteed until 10 minutes prior to start time. PLEASE NOTE Big Sky Documentary Film Festival Most of the films at this festival are not rated by the MPAA. If you are bringing children, please read film synopses carefully as some films may have sensitive content. If you have questions, please contact the festival office at 406-541-FILM (3456).

2018 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival *Find Festival HQ location on map (p.28) 2 New York • Chicago • Los Angeles www.abelcine.com THE ULTIMATE LOCATION OPENING NIGHT

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OPENING NIGHT FILM: DARK MONEY, Directed by Kimberly Reed Friday, February 16th, 7:00 pm, The Wilma, Free Admission Opening night at BSDFF 2018 features the homecoming and exceptional telling of an important Montana story. A century ago corrupt money scarred Montana’s democracy and landscape, but Montanans voted to prohibit corporate campaign contributions. Today, after the Citizens United ruling, dark money floods elections nationwide, but Montanans are standing up to stop history from repeating itself in a struggle that has the potential to change the way elections happen nationwide. CLOSING NIGHT

CLOSING NIGHT FILM: BIRD OF PREY, Directed by Eric Liner Sunday, February 25th, 6:00 pm, The Wilma Join us closing night for a special event featuring the world premiere of the stunning and timely film BIRD OF PREY. Wildlife cinematographer Neil Rettig embarks on what could be the most challenging assignment of his career: to find and film the rarest eagle on the planet. Bird of Prey explores the vanishing world of the Great Philippine Eagle and reveals the people determined to save it. Neil Rettig and Laura Johnson in 2018 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival 800-553-4563 attendance. 5 montanafilm.com Peerless, MT TOWARD ZERO WASTE WASTE LESS | WATCH MORE | FEEL BETTER

In partnership with local sustainability advocates and the City of Missoula, Big Sky strives to be a leader in ecologically sustainable Audio documentary has recently been the fastest growing medium in the event production, reduce our carbon footprint and encourage documentary field, with radio and podcasts enjoying a proverbial 21st century eco-consciousness and sustainable practices. Every year powerful film renaissance. This year, six audio documentary selections will be featured in a live programming addresses environmental issues on scientific and social listening event, a multimedia presentation providing a true festival experience with a medium normally heard in solitude. levels, engaging our audience on serious challenges facing communities across the globe. We continue our Toward Zero Waste initiative this year with support from the High Stakes Foundation in an effort to Wednesday, February 21, 6:15 pm, MCT - $12 significantly reduce the waste produced during the ten day festival, THE 121ST SHIP Director Jessica Hart - 24 min increase awareness of environmental issues and behavioral solutions in our local community, and provide a model for other film festivals Lauren Vuong, who escaped from Vietnam with her family in 1979, recalls the one and the industry at large. person who rescued her family and allowed her a chance at life. DOGS ARE PEOPLE TOO Host Caroline Ballard, Senior Producer Erin Jones, WHAT WE’RE DOING Digital Producer Anna Rader, Executive Producer Micah Schweizer - 23 min • Banning single-use plastic at our VIP events, opting for PLA and BPA certified vessels wherever possible In 2007, more than 50 pit bulls were discovered at former NFL quarterback • Using post-consumer recycled paper for printed materials Michael Vick’s dogfighting ring in Virginia. Most people thought they couldn’t be • Partnering with eco-conscious vendors wherever possible saved. But their stories had just begun. • Providing recycling and compost receptacles at all festival venues • Planning festival events within walking distance, and providing HOOFPRINTS ON THE HEART Host Caroline Ballard, Senior Producer Erin shuttles to for events outside the downtown proper Jones, Digital Producer Anna Rader, Executive Producer Micah Schweizer - 20 min This is the story of a love that spans continents. Jon Dunham set out on the WHAT YOU CAN DO longest, toughest walk of his life. But along the way, he met someone who helped • Walk, bike, or take the FREE Mountain Line downtown! carry the weight. • Take only one program or plan your festivities with our online resources. KENNETH’S FIRST VOTE Director Lance Warren - 6 min • Recycle your program and any paper you collect at the festival. On November 8, 2016, Kenneth Williams voted for the first time. Though he • Recycle! Compost! You’ll find bins at all festival venues. completed a prison sentence for robbery 30 years ago, this 67 year-old business owner lacked voting rights until restored by Virginia's governor following a lengthy Learn more about Towards Zero Waste and the City of Missoula’s Zero application process. by Fifty initiative at www.ci.missoula.mt.us THE LONGEST YEAR Director Jessie Beers-Altman - 12 min Stand Up For Justice Practice Nonviolence The Longest Year represents a young woman's attempt to understand and work Protect Our Planet Shop Fair Trade through a personal, tragic, life-altering event through the memories of friends and

loved ones who shared the experience.

ON DEATH AND SPACE CLOUDS Director Tally Abecassis - 7 min How do you keep someone's memory alive once they have died? A mother and change the child try to make sense of it together. world with us

REASON TO THE MOON Director Ng Sze Min - 4 min

519 S. Higgins The advent of the spacecraft enabled man to reach the moon. And what have we 2018 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival Like us on Facebook 2018 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival www.jrpc.org discovered? 6 7 VIRTUAL REALITY Rooted in the heart of the mountain west, The Big Sky Film Institute nurtures and elevates non-fiction films that have the power to transform our world, our culture, our youth and ourselves. The mission of BSFI is to celebrate and promote the art of nonfiction filmmaking, and to encourage media literacy by fostering public understanding and appreciation of documentary film.

The Big Sky Film Institute, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. THE ANTARCTICA SERIES Our success depend on the support of donors, sponsors, industry NEW YORK TIMES VR partners and year-round fundraising to power the institute and produce the annual festival. Thank you to all our 2017-2018 Showing at MCT February 18-25 supporters! A collection of four virtual reality projects filmed on, above and below the ice in Antarctica. You can become part of our Big Sky Film Institute family by Directors Graham Roberts and Jonathan Corum donating today.

UNDER A CRACKED SKY - 10 min To learn more and donate, contact [email protected] Under eight feet of Antarctic sea ice lies the clearest water on Earth. Plunge through a small hole in the ice to dive with seals, explore ice caves, glide past stalactites of frozen seawater and swim over a rocky black seabed crawling with life. The film was narrated and photographed by two research divers at McMur- do Station, one of whom has more experience under the ice than anyone else on the planet. Free. Docs. All. Year.

THREE SIX JULIET - 12 min The Big Sky Film Series is a year-round screening series highlighting A virtual reality helicopter tour through the McMurdo Dry Valleys, the driest place on earth. Fly along the edge of the East Antarctic ice sheet, visit the traditional and innovative non-fiction film. Produced by the Big Sky saltiest body of water in the world, and stand on a scenic overlook where only Film Institute, the series features Missoula premieres of world-class a handful of humans have set foot before. These valleys are the closest equiva- documentaries and Q&As with filmmakers in attendance. With the lent our planet has to the landscape of Mars. generous support of Missoula Federal Credit Union, admission to every Big Sky Film Series event is free! McMURDO STATION - 9 min Few people will ever visit McMurdo Station, the largest outpost in Antarctica, The 2018 season begins in April. but with virtual reality we can lead viewers on a tour through this fascinating part of the world. McMurdo has been described as part mining camp, part For more information visit college campus and part national science laboratory -- a place where sleds and tents designed 100 years ago by the first Antarctic explorers are still used bigskyfilmfest.org/film-series alongside massive vehicles and equipment that exist nowhere else in the world. Sponsored by

A SHIFTING CONTINENT - 15 min Stand among the penguins and seals that live on the ice, and ride along with 2018 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival scientists in military aircraft as they fly over Texas-sized plains of floating ice, 2018 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival using suites of instruments to study this least understood continent. 9 8 NATIVE FILMMAKER NATIVE VOICES INITIATIVE STRAND

The city of Missoula sits on Salish land, and Montana is home to twelve Eight official selections at BSDFF 2018 are directed or produced by Native tribal nations and seven Indian reservations, each with its own culture, American Filmmakers. language, identity, and history. Uniquely located to elevate Native voices, Big Sky Documentary Film Festival has a long tradition of celebrating The Native Filmmaker Initiative strand films include: Indigenous documentary film, stories from Indian Country and expressions of American Indian filmmakers. THE BLACK WOLF - TREVOR SOLWAY DIG IT IF YOU CAN - KYLE BELL In 2018, the Big Sky Film Institute is proud to introduce the Native - KAREN LYNN WEINBERG Filmmaker Initiative to bring more Indigenous voices to the festival, KEEP TALKING support and engage the American Indian media arts community and LADY EVA - DEAN HAMER, JOE WILSON, HINALEIMOANA WONG-KALU have a greater impact on community youth. The initiative includes special MORE THAN A WORD - KENN LITTLE, JOHN LITTLE festival programming, educational outreach, a digital toolkit curated for OUT OF STATE - CIARA LACY Native filmmakers, and a fellowship program. WATER IS LIFE - JOSEPH ERB WE BREATHE AGAIN - MARSH CHAMBERLAIN, ENEI BEGAYE PETER, RYAN JACOBI, EVON PETER

2018 NATIVE FILMMAKER FELLOWS The Native Filmmaker Fellowship offers four filmmakers the opportunity to attend the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, DocShop filmmaker's forum, and a private seminar with leaders in the Indigenous filmmaking community and the film industry at large. Big Sky is honored to welcome the 2018 class of Native Filmmaker Fellows, Ramona Emerson, Leya Hale, Alexandra Lazarowich, Christen Marquez and Colleen Thurston.

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THE NATIVE FILMMAKER INITIATIVE is supported in part by a FilmWatch grant from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science. Additional support provided by ITVS and Vision Maker Media. 2018 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival 2018 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival THE BLACK WOLF (2017) 10 11 RETROSPECTIVE RETROSPECTIVE KIRBY DICK GREG BARKER Kirby Dick is a two time Emmy-award Greg Barker looks for strong winning and two-time Academy award- personal narratives that nominated documentary film director. illuminate the complexities and His most recent film, THE HUNTING moral ambiguities of global GROUND, a monumental exposé of rape politics and war. For THE culture on college campuses— premiered FINAL YEAR Barker secured at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival, was unprecedented access to released by Radius and CNN, is the the White House and State 2016 recipient of the Producer’s Guild Department, capturing the of America’s Stanley Kramer Award, emotions and human dynamics shortlisted for the Academy Award for Best behind American diplomacy at Documentary Feature, and was nominated its highest levels. for the Academy Award for Best Original Song. His previous film, THE Barker’s other films include INVISIBLE WAR, a groundbreaking investigation into the epidemic of MANHUNT (HBO), about the rape within the US military, won two Emmy Awards for Best Documentary hunt for Osama bin Laden, and Outstanding Investigative Journalism, the 2012 Independent Spirit (PrimeTime Emmy® ), HOMEGROWN: THE COUNTER-TERROR Award 2012 for Best Documentary, a Peabody Award, and was nominated DILEMMA, SERGIO (Sundance editing award), and KORAN BY HEART. for an Academy Award. He also directed TWIST OF FAITH, the story of a Barker previously worked as a journalist, making numerous films for man confronting the trauma of his past sexual abuse by a Catholic priest, PBS/Frontline, including the acclaimed GHOSTS OF RWANDA. which was also nominated for an Academy Award. Other films include OUTRAGE, nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Investigative Journalism; THIS FILM IS NOT YET RATED, a breakthrough investigation of the MPAA’s secretive film ratings system; and DERRIDA, a complex portrait of the world-renowned French philosopher Jacques Derrida. He is the 2012 recipient of the Nestor Almendros Prize for Courage and Filmmaking and the 2013 Ridenhour Documentary Film Prize. He is currently completing a new original investigative feature for Netflix and is in the early stages of production on a Hollywood Assaults film.

The Final Year, 2018 GREG BARKER SELECTIONS HOMEGROWN, 2016, 89 min KORAN BY HEART, 2013, 90 min LEGION OF BROTHERS, 2017, 79 min MANHUNT: THE INSIDE STORY OF The Hunting Ground, 2013 THE HUNT FOR BIN LADEN, 2013, 102 min KIRBY DICK SELECTIONS THE FINAL YEAR, 2018, 89 min THE HUNTING GROUND, 2015, 103 min WE ARE THE GIANT, 2014, 92 min THE INVISIBLE WAR, 2012, 93 min OUTRAGE, 2009, 90 min THIS FILM IS NOT YET RATED, 2006, 96 min

2018 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival TWIST OF FAITH, 2004, 87 min 2018 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival 12 DERRIDA, 2002, 82 min 13 COMPETITIONS

Four BSDFF competitions shine a spotlight on superior works in documentary filmmaking. One prize winner and one Artistic Vision Award will be selected by the festival jury in each of the following categories: FEATURE COMPETITION films over 40 minutes 690 VOPNAFJÖRÐUR THE LIBERATION THE BASTARD MY COUNTRY NO MORE BIRD OF PREY THE QUIET ZONE FEMINISTS: WHAT WERE THEY THE RELUCTANT RADICAL THINKING SICKIES MAKING FILMS IN GOD WE TRUMP SHORT COMPETITION films under 40 minutes THE ARTIFACT ARTIST PINK GOLD BENEATH THE TREES POSITION REPORTS DOWN RIVER ROCKPILE KOKA, THE BUTCHER THE TERRORIST HUNTER LAST DANCE AT JOHNSON’S THE WOMAN WHO WAS IN LOVE WITH BARN SEASHELLS AND OTHER STORIES David Klein, ASC MINI COMPETITION films under 15 minutes A VIEW FROM THE WINDOW MAN ON BIKE RELAX. COMMUNITY PATROL ROOM 140 DRUMMER GIRL TALK TO MY SON THEY’VE WORKED TOGETHER BEFORE. FIRE MOUTH THE TREASURE INHALE XAVIER CORBERO: PORTRAIT OF AN ARTIST IN WINTER Canon cinema cameras, lenses, and 4K reference displays are designed to match industry standards, so you know they’ll work seamlessly with your existing equipment. BIG SKY AWARD And when used together, you can rest assured your image is being captured with films about the american west Canon quality every step of the way. Your story deserves no less. DARK MONEY MORONI FOR PRESIDENT DIRTBAG: THE LEGEND OF NO MAN’S LAND LEARN MORE AT USA.CANON.COM FRED BECKEY THE TROUBLE WITH WOLVES

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NANCY COLLET THEO LIPFERT Nancy is the founder of Cinema Collet, a strategic consulting service Theo Lipfert, Director of the School of Film and Photography at Montana State for international clients including Toronto International Film Festival, University, is a filmmaker exploring the intersection between visual media and The Wrap News, Ketchum Sports, Audience Awards, New York sound. He earned an MFA in Painting at Hunter College in New York City and University and many others. Cinema Collet specializes in festival start- exhibited paintings and prints in North America and Germany before devoting up, event management, production and marketing, film programming, his creative energies to film, video, sound, and teaching. Lipfert was a Fulbright acquisitions, Previously, Collet served as the American Film Institute’s scholar on the African island nation of Mauritius. In 2017 he completed work on a AFI FEST Director of Programming for seven years. full-dome 360-degree planetarium show titled "Einstein’s Gravity Playlist." KIRBY DICK JOSHUA NELSON Kirby Dick is an Emmy-award winning Academy award-nominated Joshua B. Nelson is Director of Film & Media Studies, Associate Professor documentary film director. His film THE HUNTING GROUND, a of English, and affiliated faculty with Native American Studies at the monumental expose of rape culture on college campuses, premiered at University of Oklahoma. He is Lead Organizer of the Native Crossroads the 2015 Sundance Film Festival, is the 2016 recipient of the PGA’s Stanley Film Festival & Symposium, ex-officio member of the Society for Cinema Kramer Award, and was shortlisted for the Academy Award for Best & Media Studies executive board, and interviewer and Associate Producer Documentary Feature. He is currently in the early stages of production on on the forthcoming documentary Searching for Sequoyah. a Hollywood Assaults film. JANNAT GARGI MICHELE OHAYON Jannat Gargi is an Emmy award-winning co-producer of the short Michele Ohayon is an Academy Award nominated director and producer and a documentary, BODY TEAM 12 and Emmy nominated producer of the member of the Academy of Motion Pictures where she serves on the Executive feature documentary, CIRCO. For over a decade, Gargi served as Vice Committee. Her critically acclaimed feature documentaries include COLORS President of the revolutionary Alpha Cine Labs, a premiere independent STRAIGHT UP, nominated for an Academy Award, a DGA Award, and 13 other film lab where she worked closely with emerging and award-winning national awards, and STEAL A PENCIL FOR ME produced with Netflix, winner filmmakers from around the world. Gargi is currently the Director of at the Jerusalem Film Festival. Michele is the CEO and co-founder of Kavana Documentary Films for Paul G. Allen’s Vulcan Productions. Entertainment, with a mission to bridge Hollywood and the rest of the world. LISA HASKO MILTON TABBOT Lisa Hasko is the manager of documentary programs and fiscal Milton Tabbot is Senior Director of Programming at IFP, supervising sponsorship at Film Independent. She oversees outreach, selection all documentary programs and IFP’s Fiscal Sponsorship program. and programming for the FIND Documentary Lab as well as Artist His documentary program management includes the Spotlight on Development initiatives. Prior to joining FIND, Lisa spent seven years Documentaries section of the annual IFP Week, IFP documentary at the International Documentary Association where she oversaw fiscal funding programs, and the documentary project selection for both sponsorship, the Pare Lorentz Documentary Fund and DocuClub, a IFP Week and the documentary edition of IFP’s Filmmaker Labs. works-in-progress screening series. AMY HOBBY CARMEN L. VICENCIO Amy Hobby is the Executive Director at the Tribeca Film Institute and an Carmen is in charge of American Documentary's 26-episode, non-fiction series, Emmy award-winning, Academy Award nominated producer. In 2013, America ReFramed. Discovering filmmaking in college, Carmen has built a career in Ms. Hobby co-founded Tangerine Entertainment- a company dedicated Asia and New York as Assistant Director, Post Production Supervisor, Line Producer, to produce and build community for films directed by women. Her Producer and Director of award-winning short and long-form content for film, TV and producing credits include AND EVERYTHING IS GOING FINE (IFC) digital media. Acclaim for the ReFramed series includes a duPont Award and multiple directed by Steven Soderbergh, as well as LOVE, MARILYN (HBO) and Emmy nominations. Carmen is a member of the Producers Guild of America, and is WHAT HAPPENED, MISS SIMONE? (Netflix) directed by Liz Garbus. actively engaged in its Diversity and Women’s Impact Network Committees. JULIE KECK DREW XANTHOPOULOS Julie Keck is a Chicago-based writer and producer and the Head of Drew Xanthopoulos is the director and cinematographer of the feature Education and Outreach at Seed&Spark. Since 2000, Julie has made documentary THE SENSITIVES which world premiered at the 2017 Tribeca Film two features, several shorts, and over 20 web series, including her Festival and was awarded a Special Jury Mention for the Cinematic Vision Award most recent series F*ck Yes, an adult sex ed series focused on consent. at the Camden International Film Festival. Xanthopoulos freelances as a narrative, Prior to joining Seed&Spark, Julie ran or consulted on crowdfunding documentary, and commercial director/cinematographer whose projects have

2018 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival campaigns that raised over $300k for film projects across the spectrum. premiered at Sundance, SXSW, Edinburgh International Film Festival, and AFI 2018 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival Docs, among others. 16 17 TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 20TH - BELLS & WHISTLES: CUTTING EDGE EQUIPMENT FOR DOCS 10:00 am AbelCine Workshop: Building Your Camera Rig 11:30 am AbelCine Workshop: Lighting on a Budget 1:00 pm AbelCine: High-Speed Shooting for Documentary 2:30 pm Virtual Reality meets Documentary with RYOT and FILM + TECHNOLOGY Fearless360 The DocShop filmmakers forum is a 5-day conference for filmmakers, in- 4:00 pm High Tech High Impact with Vulcan Productions' Ted Richane novators, students and industry to explore cutting-edge ideas shaping the field of documentary film today. This year, DocShop will focus on the in- WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 21ST - MULTIMEDIA TOOLKIT: tersection of film and technology. As filmmakers, our medium is rapidly FORMS, FORUMS AND FRONTIERS changing and it is difficult, yet essential, to keep up with technological trends. DocShop 2018 will explore innovative cameras and production 11:00 am The Intersection of Audio Doc and Doc Film equipment, multi-media platforms for distribution, and how to navigate 12:30 pm Vimeo Case Studies with chief curator Ian Durkin the increasingly prominent world of virtual reality. Join us as we push the definition of non-fiction film and discover what lies at its boundaries 2:00 pm The Art of the Pitch with Tribeca Film Institute and Film through exploring the new. Independent 3:30 pm The Evolution of Sundance New Frontier with chief curator $150 DOCSHOP PASS - includes the conference, a 5-punch film pass and Shari Frilot VIP events. Single session tickets available for $10. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22ND - BIG SKY PITCH AND TRIBECA FREE to All Access passholders & University of Montana or Montana State FILM INSTITUTE SHORTS PITCH University Students and Faculty. *UC Theater at the University of Montana - Free and Open to the Public 9:00 am – 2:00 pm Big Sky Pitch *All DocShop panels and workshops take place at the Holiday Inn Downtown Missoula (200 S Pattee) unless otherwise noted. 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm Tribeca Film Institute IF/Then Shorts Pitch

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23RD - THE INNOVATOR'S MEDIUM 11:00 am Master Class with Greg Barker

DOCSHOP SCHEDULE 12:30 pm Social Media Charm School with Seed & Spark

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 19TH - DESIGN, DISRUPTION AND DOC: 2:00 pm Staying Ahead of the Distribution Curve with Vimeo, TECH CHOICES FOR THE MODERN FILMMAKER Fandor, Sub-genre and Gravitas Ventures 9:00 am Registration opens 3:30 pm The Futurists - Diversity in Innovation with Vision Maker Media, Film Independent, IDA and ITVS 10:00 am Embracing the High Tech Film Toolkit 11:30 am Filmmaking Technology in Extreme Environments 2:00 pm Low Tech: The Case for Simplicity in a Digital World 4:00 pm Master Class with Kirby Dick DocShop is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts The Most News Weather and Sports in Montana Weeknights 5:30 6:30 10:00 9:00

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NATIVE FILMMAKER INITIATIVE films directed by native americans THE BLACK WOLF MORE THAN A WORD DIG IT IF YOU CAN OUT OF STATE

2018 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival KEEP TALKING WATER IS LIFE 2018 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival LADY EVA WE BREATHE AGAIN 24 25 PEACE & CONFLICT SPORTS & ADVENTURE films on the frontline visual adrenaline ALL THAT WE CARRY MANHUNT: THE INSIDE STORY THE ARIA OF BABYFACE MAN ON BIKE AN OUTRAGE OF THE HUNT FOR BIN LADEN CAULIFLOWER BROWN MINDING THE GAP DEATH AND THE JUDGE MY ENEMY, MY BROTHER BEATRICE MY GRANDPA IS A PUNK FERRYMAN AT THE WALL NEVER GIVE UP WHILE YOU COACH NISON ONE BREATH: A LIFE WITHOUT THE FINAL YEAR ARE STILL ALIVE COYOTE: THE MIKE PLANT GRAVITY HOMELAND NO MAN'S LAND STORY ROBERT MIMS: TEXAS BULL RIDER HOMEGROWN: THE COUNTER REBUILDING IN MINIATURE DIRTBAG: THE LEGEND OF FRED A SHOT IN THE DARK TERROR DILEMMA A SNIPER'S WAR BECKLEY SKID ROW MARATHON THE INVISIBLE WAR THE TERRORIST HUNTER FIRE MOUTH THROUGH THE DARKNESS ISLAND SOLDIER THIS IS CONGO INHALE TRANSFORMER KUWEZESHA WANAWAKE WE ARE THE GIANT LADIES FIRST ZION LEGION OF BROTHERS

STRANGER THAN FICTION PUT A BIRD ON IT you can't make this stuff up feathered films THE ARIA OF BABYFACE MANUEL BIRD OF PREY SKY MIGRATIONS MICKEY'S PETS THE DUCK BLIND SKYWARDS CAULIFLOWER BROWN ASK THE SEXPERT THE MISSING TOURIST KOKA THE BUTCHER THEY COME HOME MOOSA, SON OF HOLY SHRINE MICKEY'S PETS WILD NEXT DOOR THE BASTARD CAJUN DEMONOLOGISTS MY GRANDPA IS A PUNK EVERY GHOST HAS AN OUR NEW PRESIDENT ORCHESTRA POSITION REPORTS THE EXPERIMENTAL CITY THE QUIET ZONE FATHER'S KINGDOM RAJ AND THE REBELLION FOREVER 'B' ROCKPILE FROM PARTS UNKNOWN SAFSTOR HOMELAND SAMANTHA'S AMAZING ACROCATS SIGHTS & SOUNDS IN GOD WE TRUMP art, dance & music THE ARTIFACT ARTIST MIGHTY GROUND BIG HIPS, BIG DREAMS MR. FISH: CARTOONING FROM DANCING IN LIMBO THE DEEP END DIG IT IF YOU CAN MY INDIANA MUSE DRUMMER GIRL REBUILDING IN MINIATURE EDDIE SAVING BRINTON YOUNGER THAN YESTERDAY EVERYTHING OLD IS NEW AGAIN SICKIES MAKING FILMS aging is an art, and these films prove it A GARBAGE STORY SLAVE ONE: THE KUNG FU THE GODFATHERS OF HARDCORE JUDGE STORY DEBAJO DE LOS ÁRBOLES LEGACY VIDEO THE HUMAN FACE SPACE WITH MEMORY (BENEATH THE TREES) THE PIER [LIKE MENDING I HAVE SOMETHING TO TELL YOU SPETTACOLO DEIGHTIES: DATING IN YOUR GLASS] KORAN BY HEART TAKING STOCK EIGHTIES THE QUIET HOURS 2018 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival LAND OF THE WIND THIS FILM IS NOT YET RATED EDITH + EDDIE RAM DASS, GOING HOME 2018 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival 26 MICKEY'S PETS XAVIER CORBERO: PORTAIT OF LAST DANCE AT JOHNSON'S SWAN SONG 27 AN ARTIST IN WINTER BARN THE TREASURE

BIG SKY FILM INSTITUTE YOUTH PROGRAMS SCHOOLHOUSE DOCS

Looking for films for the whole family? Check out these films rated FILMMAKERS IN THE SCHOOLS for youth age groups by Missoula educators! Schoolhouse Docs BSDFF filmmakers are invited to screen their films in classrooms all over screenings are $5 at the door. Western Montana, giving students the unique opportunity to ask questions, voice opinions and dive deeper into the content of each film. BSDFF is proud TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 20TH to partner with Inspired Classroom to bring the Filmmakers in the Schools WILD NEXT DOOR, SKYWARDS, DRUMMER GIRL, REBUILDING IN program into over 20 schools across the state via video conferencing. MINIATURE, RAJ AND THE REBELLION, MAN ON BIKE, ZION, LAND OF THE WIND (subtitles) – 6th grade & up BIG SKY DOCUMENTARY YOUTH FELLOWSHIP MCT, 4:00 PM Since 2009, the Big Sky Film Institute has led a five-month mentorship WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 21ST program for up to four Missoula County high school students, offering an THE ARTIFACT ARTIST, LADIES FIRST (subtitles), A VIEW FROM THE opportunity to make a short documentary film. The 2018 Youth Fellows film WINDOW (subtitles) – 6th grade & up will show Thursday, February 22nd at 4:00 pm at MCT. MCT, 4:00 PM THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22ND TEEN DOC INTENSIVE ONE BREATH: A LIFE WITHOUT GRAVITY, YOUTH FELLOW FILM, A This exciting, comprehensive two-day workshop gives teens from across GARBAGE STORY (language warning), THE TREASURE (SUBTITLES), SKY the state the opportunity to shoot, edit and screen a documentary during MIGRATIONS (language warning), TEEN DOC INTENSIVE SHORT – 7th the BSDFF under the mentorship of a local filmmaker. See the Teen Doc grade & up Intensive short Thursday, February 22nd at 4:00 pm at MCT. MCT, 4:00 PM

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23RD KORAN BY HEART (subtitles) – 7th grade & up MCT, 4:00 PM

A VIEW FROM THE WINDOW, 2017 2018 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival 2018 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival

30 31 FILM SCHEDULE SATURDAY – FEBRUARY 17th 7:30 pm SHORTS BLOCK 4: THE ARIA OF BABYFACE CAULIFLOWER BROWN - 5 min, BIG HIPS, BIG DREAMS - 8 min, A GARBAGE STORY - 8 min, LADY EVA - 11 min, FRIDAY – FEBRUARY 16th RAM DASS, GOING HOME - 31 min (Total 64 min) Location: Roxy 2 7:00 pm OPENING NIGHT FILM: DARK MONEY - 102 min 8:30 pm AN OUTRAGE - 34 min, MAN ON FIRE - 54 min Location: Wilma (Total 88 min) Location: Elks th 8:30 pm THE GODFATHERS OF HARDCORE - 95 min SATURDAY – FEBRUARY 17 Location: Wilma 10:00 am LIKE ANY OTHER KID - 90 min 9:15 pm THE BLACK WOLF - 8 min, MIDNIGHT RAMBLERS - 56 min Location: Roxy 1 (Total 64 min) Location: Roxy 2 11:30 am FOREVER B - 90 min Location: Roxy 2 SUNDAY – FEBRUARY 18th 12:30 PM SHORTS BLOCK 1: THE DUCK BLIND - 10 min, THEY COME HOME - 20 min, SKY MIGRATIONS - 15 min, SKYWARDS - 5 min, WILD NEXT DOOR - 2 min, KOKA, 10:45 am KIRBY DICK RETROSPECTIVE: DERRIDA - 85 min THE BUTCHER - 38 minutes (Total 90 min) Location: MCT Location: Roxy 1 11:15 am THE GODFATHERS OF HARDCORE - 95 min 12:30 pm SHORTS BLOCK 2 STRANGER THAN FICTION: CAJUN Location: Roxy 2 DEMONOLOGISTS – 9 min, ROCKPILE - 33 min, 12:30 pm .TV - 23 min, ANOTE’S ARK - 77 min (Total 100 min) EVERY GHOST HAS AN ORCHESTRA - 7 min, HEIMAT Location: Wilma (HOMELAND) - 14 min, FROM PARTS UNKNOWN – 27 min - (Total 90 min) 1:00 pm LOS LECHEROS - 21 min, THE NATIVE TONGUE - 12 min, Location: Wilma THE QUIET ZONE - 45 min (Total 78 min) Location: Elks 1:00 pm SHORTS BLOCK 3: REBUILDING IN MINIATURE - 7 min, QUIET HOURS - 14 min, LAND OF THE WIND - 18 min, 1:15 pm THE WOMAN WHO WAS IN LOVE WITH SEA SHELLS PINK GOLD - 21 min, MY INDIANA MUSE - 44 min AND OTHER STORIES - 15 min, HIDDEN LIFE - 19 min, (Total 104 min) PINK GOLD - 21 min, BLUEFIN - 53 min (Total 108 min) Location: Elks Location: MCT 2:00 pm KIRBY DICK RETROSPECTIVE: TWIST OF FAITH - 87 min 2:00 pm KIRBY DICK RETROSPECTIVE: THE INVISIBLE WAR - 98 Location: Roxy 2 min Location: Roxy 2 3:00 pm WORKING IN PROTEST - 80 min Location: Roxy 1 3:15 pm RODENTS OF UNUSUAL SIZE - 71 min Location: Wilma 3:15 pm SKID ROW MARATHON - 85 min Location: Wilma 3:30 pm SHORTS BLOCK 5: QUIET HOURS - 14 min, DOWN RIVER - 20 min, MAMMOTH - 26 min, RAM DASS, GOING 3:45 pm A BETTER MAN - 78 min HOME - 31 min (Total 91 min) Location: Elks Location: Elks 5:00 pm KIRBY DICK RETROSPECTIVE: 4:00 pm SHORTS BLOCK 6: SWAN SONG - 13 min, IN PLACE - 12 THIS FILM IS NOT YET RATED - 98 min min, THE HUMAN FACE - 14 min, THREE THOUSAND - 14 Location: Roxy 3 min, THEY COME HOME - 20 min (Total 73 min) 5:45 pm OPERATION WOLF PATROL: POACHER'S KINGDOM - 12 Location: MCT min, THE WAR IN BETWEEN – 66 min (Total 78 min) 5:00 pm LIKE ANY OTHER KID - 90 min Location: Wilma Location: Roxy 3 6:00 pm ANOTE'S ARK - 77 min Location: Elks 2018 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival 2018 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival

32 KEY: KEY: 33 SUNDAY – FEBRUARY 18th MONDAY – FEBRUARY 19th 5:30 pm OPERATION WOLF PATROL: POACHERS KINGDOM 3:45 pm THE BLACK WOLF - 8 min, FLAT ROCKS - 10 min, WE - 12 min, KEEPERS OF THE FUTURE - 24 min, BREATHE AGAIN - 57 min (Total 75 min) THE TROUBLE WITH WOLVES - 55 min (Total 91 min) Location: MCT Location: Wilma 5:00 pm SHORTS BLOCK 10: INHALE - 16 min, LOS LECHEROS 6:00 pm A SHOT IN THE DARK - 86 min - 21 min, PRINCE OF SMOKE - 24 min, Location: Elks THE ARTIFACT ARTIST - 26 min (Total 87 min) 6 Location: Roxy 3 6:30 pm SPETTACOLO - 88 min Location: MCT 5:45 pm NO MAN’S LAND - 82 min Location: Wilma 7:30 pm MR. FISH: CARTOONING FROM THE DEEP END - 70 min Location: Roxy 2 6:00 pm ISLAND SOLDIER - 85 min Location: Elks 8:15 pm LADY EVA - 11 min, TRANSFORMER - 78 min (Total 89 min) Location: Wilma 6:15 pm FEMINISTS: WHAT WERE THEY THINKING - 87 min Location: MCT 8:30 pm ZION - 10 min, THROUGH THE DARKNESS - 57 min (Total 67 min) 7:30 pm FOREVER B - 90 min Location: Elks Location: Roxy 2 8:45 pm COYOTE - 107 min 8:15 pm ALL THAT WE CARRY - 9 min, OUT OF STATE - 80 min Location: MCT (Total 89 min) Location: Wilma 9:15 pm SHORTS BLOCK 7: THE LAST HONEY HUNTER - 36 min, MY INDIANA MUSE - 44 min (Total 80 min) 8:30 pm A SHOT IN THE DARK - 86 min Location: Roxy 2 Location: Elks 8:45 pm THE EXPERIMENTAL CITY - 96 min Location: MCT MONDAY – FEBRUARY 19th TUESDAY – FEBRUARY 20th 10:45 am KIRBY DICK RETROSPECTIVE: OUTRAGE - 88 min Location: MCT 1:30 pm SHORTS BLOCK 11: TAKING STOCK - 4 min, SCRAP - 5 11:15 am AN OUTRAGE - 34 min, THE TROUBLE WITH WOLVES min, LINCOLN - 5 min, FLAT ROCKS - 10 min, THE DUCK - 55 min (Total 89 min) BLIND - 10 min, LOVE OF PLACE - 10 min, PROSPERITY - Location: Roxy 2 15 min, PERSON OF THE FOREST - 17 min (Total 76 min) Location: MCT 12:30 pm IN GOD WE TRUMP - 88 min Location: Wilma 3:45 pm MORE THAN A WORD - 69 min Location: Elks 1:00 pm KIRBY DICK RETROSPECTIVE: THE HUNTING GROUND - 103 min 4:00 pm SCHOOLHOUSE DOCS: WILD NEXT DOOR - 2 Location: Elks min, SKYWARDS - 5 min, DRUMMER GIRL - 6 min, REBUILDING IN MINIATURE - 7 min, RAJ AND THE 1:15 pm SHORTS BLOCK 8: DEIGHTIES - 8 min, EDDIE - 10 min, - 7 min, - 9 min, - 10 - 12 min, - 13 min, REBELLION MAN ON BIKE ZION IN PLACE MICKEY’S PETS CONSUMED min, LAND OF THE WIND - 18 min (Total 64 min) - 19 min, BENEATH THE TREES - 21 min (Total 83 min) Location: MCT Location: MCT - 39 min, - 39 min, - 100 min 6:00 pm LADIES FIRST RENGA FOR THE WEST 1:45 pm THE ORGANIZER NEVER GIVE UP WHILE YOU ARE STILL ALIVE - 12 min Location: Roxy 2 (Total 90 min) 3:15 pm FAIL STATE - 94 min Location: MCT Location: Wilma 6:15 pm SHORTS BLOCK 12: I HAVE SOMETHING TO TELL 3:45 pm SHORTS BLOCK 9: A GARBAGE STORY - 8 min, LOVE YOU - 8 min, BEATRICE - 10 min, MICKEY’S PETS - 13 OF PLACE - 10 min, DANCING IN LIMBO - 14 min, min, COACH NISON - 14 min, THE HUMAN FACE - FERRYMAN AT THE WALL - 16 min, DIG IT IF YOU CAN 14 min, EDITH + EDDIE - 31 min (Total 90 min) - 19 min, HIDDEN LIFE - 19 (Total 78 min) Location: Elks Location: Elks 2018 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival 2018 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival

34 KEY: KEY: 35 TUESDAY – FEBRUARY 20th THURSDAY – FEBRUARY 22nd

8:30 pm FATHER’S KINGDOM - 94 min 1:30 pm SHORTS BLOCK 16: A VIEW FROM THE WINDOW - 8 Location: MCT min, BIG HIPS, BIG DREAMS - 8 min, DEIGHTIES - 8 min, CAJUN DEMONOLOGISTS - 9 min, COACH NISON - 14 8:45 pm DIRTBAG: THE LEGEND OF FRED BECKY - 95 min min, BENEATH THE TREES - 21 min (Total 68 min) Location: Elks Location: Elks 1:45 pm TRANSFORMER - 78 min WEDNESDAY – FEBRUARY 21st Location: MCT 3:45 pm BLEEDING INTO ETERNITY - 7 min, MOOSA, SON OF 1:00 pm MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY MFA SHORTS - 80 min HOLY SHRINE - 31 min, DEATH AND THE JUDGE - 60 min Location: Wilma (Total 98 min) Location: Elks 1:45 pm ISLAND SOLDIER - 85 min Location: MCT 4:00 pm SCHOOLHOUSE DOCS: TEEN DOC INTENSIVE FILM - 5 min, ONE BREATH: A LIFE WITHOUT GRAVITY - 7 min, 3:30 pm SHORTS BLOCK 13: WATER IS LIFE - 5 min, SAFSTOR - 15 MY GRANDPA IS A PUNK - 5 min, GARBAGE STORY - 8 min, PERSON OF THE FOREST - 17 min, WALK ON THE min, THE TREASURE - 12 min, SKY MIGRATIONS - 15 min, MOUNTAIN - 19 min, ROCKPILE - 33 min (Total 89 min) (Total 52 min) Location: Wilma Location: MCT 3:45 pm SHORTS BLOCK 14: MANUEL - 8 min, FIRE 6:15 pm COPWATCH - 99 min MOUTH - 9 min, THE NATIVE TONGUE - 12 min, Location: Elks REVOLVING DOORS - 18 min, MOOSA, SON OF HOLY SHRINE - 31 min (Total 78 min) 6:15 pm WALK ON THE MOUNTAIN - 19 min, Location: Elks THE RELUCTANT RADICAL - 76 min (Total 95 min) Location: MCT 4:00 pm SCHOOLHOUSE DOCS: A VIEW FROM THE WINDOW - 8 min, THE ARTIFACT ARTIST - 26 min, 8:45 pm ONE BREATH: A LIFE WITHOUT GRAVITY - 7 min, LADIES FIRST - 39 min (Total 73 min) MIGHTY GROUND - 83 min (Total 90 min) Location: MCT Location: MCT 6:00 pm OUR NEW PRESIDENT - 77 min 8:45 pm EVERY GHOST HAS AN ORCHESTRA - 7 min, Location: Wilma SICKIES MAKING FILMS - 83 min (Total 90 min) Location: Elks AUDIO DOCS - 120 min 6:15 pm Location: MCT rd 6:15 pm SHORTS BLOCK 15: THE ARIA OF BABYFACE FRIDAY – FEBRUARY 23 CAULIFLOWER BROWN - 5 min, THE LAST TAPE - 12 min, THREE THOUSAND - 14 min, KEEPERS OF THE FUTURE - 24 min, THE LAST HONEY HUNTER - 36 min (Total 91 min) 1:00 pm THE RELUCTANT RADICAL - 76 min Location: Elks Location: Wilma 8:15 pm THE LIBERATION - 95 min 1:45 pm FOR AHKEEM - 90 min Location: Wilma Location: MCT 8:45 pm ASK THE SEXPERT - 81 min 3:30 pm SHORTS BLOCK 17: ALL THAT WE CARRY - 9 min, Location: Elks ROOM 140 - 12, min, INHALE - 16 min, LAST DANCE AT JOHNSON’S BARN - 17 min, KOKA, THE BUTCHER - 38 9:00 pm THE SHIFT - 8 min, THE MISSING TOURIST - 52 min min (Total 92 min) (Total 60 min) Location: Wilma Location: MCT 4:00 pm EVERYTHING OLD IS NEW AGAIN - 15 min, IN GOD WE TRUMP - 88 min (Total 103 min) Location: Elks 4:00 pm SCHOOLHOUSE DOCS - GREG BARKER RETROSPECTIVE: KORAN BY HEART- 80 min Location: MCT 2018 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival 2018 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival

36 KEY: KEY: 37 FRIDAY – FEBRUARY 23rd SATURDAY – FEBRUARY 24th 6:00 pm MY COUNTRY NO MORE - 71 min 3:30 pm SHORTS BLOCK 20: DANCING IN LIMBO - 14 min, Location: Wilma HEIMAT (HOMELAND) - 14 min, TALK TO MY SON – 14 min, - 17 min, 6:30 pm LAST DANCE AT JOHNSON'S BARN MINDING THE GAP - 96 min THE TERRORIST HUNTER - 33, min (Total 92 min) Location: Elks Location: Elks 6:30 pm MORONI FOR PRESIDENT - 76 min 4:00 pm THE LIBERATION - 95 min Location: MCT Location: Roxy 3 7:30 pm 690 VOPNAFJORDUR - 57 min 6:00 pm STREET FIGHTING MEN - 108 min Location: Roxy 2 Location: Elks 8:30 pm GREG BARKER RETROSPECTIVE: 6:30 pm FOR AHKEEM - 90 min THE FINAL YEAR - 89 min Location: Roxy 3 Location: Wilma 7:30 pm MY ENEMY, MY BROTHER - 87 min 8:30 pm THE BASTARD - 80 min Location: Roxy 2 Location: MCT 8:45 pm LEGACY VIDEO - 8 min, EDITH + EDDIE - 31 min, 8:45 pm A SNIPER’S WAR - 81 min SAMANTHA’S AMAZING ACROCATS - 58 min (Total 97 min) Location: Elks Location: Elks 9:15 pm ROBERT MIMS THE TEXAN BULL RIDER - 16 min, 9:00 pm SHORTS BLOCK 21: REVOLVING DOORS - 18 min, SLAVE ONE - 19 min, SAMANTHA’S AMAZING SLAVE ONE - 19 min, .TV - 22 min, THE PIER ACROCATS - 58 min (Total 93 min) [LIKE MENDING GLASS] - 26 min (Total 85 min) Location: Roxy 2 Location: Roxy 3 SATURDAY – FEBRUARY 24th SUNDAY – FEBRUARY 25th

10:00 am GREG BARKER RETROSPECTIVE: WE ARE THE GIANT - 10:00 am FAIL STATE - 94 min 92 min Location: Roxy 1 Location: Roxy 1 10:30 am GREG BARKER RETROSPECTIVE: HOMEGROWN: THE 11:00 am POSITION REPORTS - 30 min, COUNTER-TERROR DILEMMA - 90 min 690 VOPNAFJORDUR - 57 min (Total 87 min) Location: MCT Location: Roxy 2 12:00 pm THE PIER [LIKE MENDING GLASS] - 26 min, 12:30 pm GREG BARKER RETROSPECTIVE: THE MISSING TOURIST - 52 min (Total 78 min) LEGION OF BROTHERS - 79 min Location: Roxy 2 Location: Roxy 1 12:30 pm MY COUNTRY NO MORE - 71 min 1:00 pm SAVING BRINTON - 87 min Location: Roxy 1 Location: Elks 12:30 pm GREG BARKER RETROSPECTIVE: MANHUNT - 103 min 1:30 pm SHORTS BLOCK 18: RAJ AND THE REBELLION - 7 min, Location: Wilma MOTHER’S DAY - 8 min, FIRE MOUTH - 9 min, THE LAST 12:45 pm SHORTS BLOCK 22: MANUEL - 8 min, ROBERT MIMS TAPE - 12 min, ROOM 140 - 12, min, COMMUNITY THE TEXAN BULL RIDER - 16 min, COMMUNITY PATROL PATROL – 13 min, XAVIER CORBERO - 14 min, THE - 13 min, POSITION REPORTS - 30 min (Total 59 min) WOMAN WHO WAS IN LOVE WITH SEA SHELLS Location: MCT AND OTHER STORIES - 15 min (Total 80 min) Location: Roxy 2 1:00 pm SHORTS BLOCK 23: DRUMMER GIRL - 6 min, I HAVE SOMETHING TO TELL YOU - 8 min, EDDIE 3:00 pm SHORTS BLOCK 19: TAKING STOCK - 4 min, - 10 min, XAVIER CORBERO - 14 min, SPACE WITH UNHEARD - 5 min, SCRAP - 5 min, THE SHIFT - 8 min, MEMORY - 15 min, DIG IT IF YOU CAN - 19 min, A VIEW FROM THE WINDOW - 8 min, SWAN SONG PRINCE OF SMOKE - 24 min (Total 96 min) - 13 min, SPACE WITH MEMORY - 15 min, STANDING Location: Elks STILL/STILL STANDING - 39 min (Total 97 min) Location: Roxy 1 2:15 pm AUDIENCE AWARDS: NATIVE FILMMAKER DOC CHALLENGE WINNERS - 90 min Location: Roxy 2 2018 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival 2018 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival

38 KEY: KEY: 39 SUNDAY – FEBRUARY 25th We bring the Bank 3:00 pm SHORTS BLOCK 24: WATER IS LIFE - 5 min, PROSPERITY - 15 min, SAFSTOR - 15 min, SKY MIGRATIONS - 15 min, DOWN RIVER - 20 min (Total 70 min) Location: Roxy 1 to you! 3:15 pm DARK MONEY - 102 min Location: MCT 3:30 pm SHORTS BLOCK 25: UNHEARD - 5 min, MAN ON BIKE - 9 min, THE TREASURE - 12 min, TALK TO MY SON - 14 min, THE TERRORIST HUNTER - 33 min (Total 73 min) Location: Elks 3:30 pm SHORTS BLOCK 26: MADE IN MONTANA - WILD NEXT DOOR - 2 min, LINCOLN - 5 min, BLEEDING INTO ETERNITY - 7 min, EVERYTHING OLD IS NEW AGAIN - 15 min, DRIVE THEM BUFFALO - 19 min, FROM PARTS UNKNOWN - 27 min (Total 75 min) Location: Wilma 5:45 pm THE BASTARD - 80 min Location: MCT 6:00 pm LEGACY VIDEO - 8 min, KEEP TALKING - 80 min (Total 88 min) Location: Elks 6:00 pm CLOSING NIGHT FILM: BIRD OF PREY- 95 min Location: Wilma 7:45 pm GREG BARKER RETROSPECTIVE: THE FINAL YEAR - 89 min Location: Roxy 2 8:15 pm KUWEZESHA WANAWAKE - 12 min, THIS IS CONGO - 93 min (Total 105 min) Location: MCT 8:30 pm FEMINISTS: WHAT WERE THEY THINKING - 87 min Location: Elks 8:30 pm AWARDS SCREENINGS - 90 min Location: Wilma • Local Loan Approvals • Mobile Banking • Remote Deposit Service • Personal & Commercial Banking Solutions Farmers State Bank www.farmersebank.com Member FDIC 2018 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival 40 KEY: Your Montana Bank Since 1907 FILM GUIDE FILM GUIDE 690 VOPNAFJÖRÐUR THE ARIA OF BABYFACE CAULIFLOWER BROWN In the middle of nowhere, the 645 people Cauliflower Brown explores the craft, of Vopnafjörður, Iceland go about their narrative, and potential meaning daily lives. As single individuals carry the found in independent professional responsibility of ensuring the community’s wrestling. THE ARIA OF BABYFACE future, the fear of depopulation is CAULIFLOWER BROWN offers a inevitable. 690 Vopnafjörður explores the complex portrait of the talent and communal tensions that push people to thought that goes into what some stay or leave a place like Vopnafjörður. consider to be a fake sport.

Iceland, 2017, 57 min Fri. Feb 23 - 7:30 pm, Roxy 2 USA, 2017, 5 min Sat. Feb 17 - 7:30 pm, Roxy 2 DIRECTOR Karna Sigurðardóttir Sat. Feb 24 - 11:00 am, Roxy 2 DIRECTOR Tim Grant Wed. Feb 21 - 6:15 pm, Elks ALL THAT WE CARRY THE ARTIFACT ARTIST A Guatemalan woman tries to make Uprooted from the forests of Conn- a new home for herself in Oakland, ecticut to New York City, 9 year old Scott Jordan proclaimed, 'I won't be California. But can a new beginning erase a city kid!' 45 years later, Scott is an a painful past? urban archeologist, an Indiana Jones in Gotham if you will. By hand-digging out old privies, cisterns and landfills across the five boroughs, Scott preserves New York City history by creating artifact art with the treasures he finds.

USA, 2017, 10 min Mon. Feb 19 - 8:15 pm, Wilma USA, 2017, 26 min Mon. Feb 19 - 5:00 pm, Roxy 3 DIRECTOR Erin Semine Kökdil Fri. Feb 23 - 3:30 pm, Wilma DIRECTOR Russ Kendall Wed. Feb 21 - 4:00 pm, MCT AN OUTRAGE ASK THE SEXPERT Lynching in the American South was once The story of a popular 93-year-old sex ubiquitous to the region, disproportionately advice columnist for a daily newspaper affecting the African American population. in India demonstrates the perseverance Filmed on-location at lynching sites in six of the column’s brand of non-moralistic different states, AN OUTRAGE brings together advice and humor in a country where sex is the stories and perspectives of descendants, a highly taboo subject. The film shows how community activists, and scholars who speak such a column emboldens many to write- in with a range of sex-related questions, to the long-withheld past that exposes the only gaining popularity while a ban on brutalities of America’s history. comprehensive sex education in schools is USA, 2017, 33 min Sat. Feb 17 - 8:30 pm, Elks USA, 2017, 83 min adopted by a third of India’s states. DIRECTOR Lance Warren Mon. Feb 19 - 11:15 am, Roxy 2 DIRECTOR Vaishali Sinha Wed. Feb 21 - 8:45 pm, Elks ANOTE'S ARK THE BASTARD What happens when your country is Ethiopian Daniel Hoek is convinced that he swallowed by the sea? Kiribati, a low- would never have landed himself in jail if his lying Pacific atoll nation, is destined Dutch father had not abandoned him. His Dutch dad, Joop Hoek, is equally certain to disappear within decades - due to that he would have been a different person rising sea levels, population growth, had he not been deserted by his own, and climate change. Interweaving two Dutch-East-Indian, father. THE BASTARD personal stories of survival and resilience, tells the stories of the adult child and his Anote's Ark explores what it takes to elderly father. The two stories add up to a migrate an entire nation with dignity. moving narrative about destiny, DNA and the role of absent fathers. Canada, 2017, 77 min Fri. Feb 23 - 8:30 pm, MCT

2018 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival Sat. Feb 17 - 6:00pm, Elks Netherlands, 2018, 85 min 2018 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival DIRECTOR Matthieu Rytz Sun. Feb 18 - 12:30pm, Wilma DIRECTOR Floris-Jan van Luyn Sun. Feb 25 - 5:45 pm, MCT 42 43 BEATRICE BIRD OF PREY Beatrice Vio started fencing on her feet Wildlife cinematographer Neil Rettig when she was five years old. A bout embarks on what could be the most with meningitis at eleven left her with challenging assignment of his career: all four of her limbs amputated, shifting to find and film the rarest eagle on her relationship with the sport she loves. the planet. BIRD OF PREY explores Beatrice proves her adherence to the the vanishing world of the Great circumstances by becoming a world champion at the age of nineteen. Philippine Eagle and reveals the people determined to save it. Sponsored by Consumer Direct Care Network Italy, 2017, 10 min USA, 2017, 94 min Sun. Feb 25 - 6:00 pm, Wilma DIRECTOR Lorena Alvarado Tues. Feb 20 - 6:15 pm, Elks DIRECTOR Eric Liner BENEATH THE TREES THE BLACK WOLF With the help of an old still camera, Alcohol-addicted Drew Robinson was a Mexican immigrant diagnosed with losing control of his life, and after three memory loss and his granddaughter near death experiences decides to get retrace his journey across the Arizona sober. Using May Thai Boxing and his border over 60 years ago. Blackfoot culture, Drew discovers a way of coping with his drinking habits that keeps him close to his roots.

USA, 2017, 21 min Mon. Feb 19 - 1:15 pm, MCT Canada, 2017, 8 min Sat. Feb 17 - 9:15 pm, Roxy 2 DIRECTOR Crystal Avila Thurs. Feb 22 - 1:30 pm, Elks DIRECTOR Trevor Solway Mon. Feb 19 - 3:45 pm, MCT A BETTER MAN BLEEDING INTO ETERNITY Following a series of intimate conver- Backwoods poet Joe Sawyer takes sations between a former couple who viewers on a first person journey into a lived through two years of domestic rich past riddled with escapades, and abuse, A BETTER MAN infuses new a present that offers humor and clarity energy and possibility into the movement through his poetry. to end violence against women.

Canada, 2017, 79 min Sat. Feb 17 - 3:45 pm, Elks USA, 2017, 7 min Thurs. Feb 22 - 3:45 pm, Elks DIRECTOR Attiya Khan, Lawrence Jackman DIRECTOR Kier Atherton Sun. Feb 25 - 3:30 pm, Wilma BIG HIPS, BIG DREAMS BLUEFIN BIG HIPS, BIG DREAMS follows Tina Told like a mystery story, BLUEFIN is the through an ordinary day of her routines, first film that sees an ocean fish asthe love and her life-long pursuit to be wild animal it is, a thousand-pound warm- comfortable in her own skin. As night blooded giant with gills, which wholesales at up to a million dollars. With stunning falls, she seeks solace on stage and finds cinematography, Director John Hopkins that shedding her layers is the perfect powerfully documents an oceanic "last of way to be her best, boldest self. the buffalo hunt.”

USA, 2016, 9 min Sat. Feb 17 - 7:30 pm, Roxy 2 Canada, 2016, 54 min Sun. Feb 18 - 1:15 pm, MCT 2018 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival DIRECTOR Melanie McLean Brooks Thurs. Feb 22 - 1:30 pm, Elks DIRECTORS John Hopkins 2018 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival 44 45 CAJUN DEMONOLOGISTS COPWATCH A group of demonologists exorcise Following the group who started malicious spirits from possessed individuals “WeCopwatch”, an organization dedicated and haunted homes in Louisiana and to monitoring police in an attempt to stand up to police brutality, COPWATCH offers a Mississippi over one very long night on window into the world of filming as a form Friday, November 13. This entertaining of non-violent protest. As more individuals story of a candid group of exorcists offers take up cameras in an attempt to expose a look into the world of demonology and police actions and hold law enforce- paranormal investigations. ment accountable, COPWATCH offers a provocative look at citizen-journalist-activists challenging police violence. USA, 2017, 9 min Sat. Feb 17 - 12:30 pm, Wilma USA, 2017, 99 min DIRECTOR James Kwon Lee Thurs. Feb 22 - 1:30 pm, Elks DIRECTOR Camilla Hall Thurs. Feb 22 - 6:15 pm, Elks COACH NISON COYOTE: THE MIKE PLANT STORY Nison Aranov was saved from a troubled Mike Plant burned his way through youth the day he met his table tennis coach in life with his daring spirit and an Dushanbe, Tajikistan. 40 years later, he has a unconventional set of rules, leading ping pong club of his own in the basement of him to dark corners of the world before a parking garage in Brooklyn where he trains finding his passion on the sea. COYOTE the next generation of champions - most is the story of a man and his vessel as notably, a mega-talented Israeli immigrant they navigate the unknown waters of the named Mishel. Nison believes Mishel has world via professional offshore sailing – what it takes to make the American national a thrilling account of a man’s insatiable team. appetite for adventure.

USA, 2018, 14 min Tues. Feb 20 - 6:15 pm, Elks USA, 2017, 107 min Sun. Feb 18 - 8:45 pm, MCT DIRECTOR Charlie Hoxie Thurs. Feb 22 - 1:30 pm, Elks DIRECTOR Thomas M. Simmons COMMUNITY PATROL DANCING IN LIMBO Detroit is notorious for being a hotspot When dance becomes the only way for crime. Following the intimate story to express yourself and forget your of a minister in Detroit, COMMUNITY troubles, true passion emerges. PATROL shows a community that comes together in order to push back against a drug house, in an inspiring display of collective action.

Mon. Feb 19 - 3:45 pm, Elks USA, 2017, 13 min Sat. Feb 24 - 1:30 pm, Roxy 2 USA/Malawi, 2017, 17 min DIRECTORS Sat. Feb 24 - 3:30 pm, Elks DIRECTOR Andrew James Sun. Feb 25 - 12:45 pm, MCT Nick McDonald, Amanda Larsh, Caroline Roffe, Hannah Bradford CONSUMED DARK MONEY Following the landscapes, mines, factor- A century ago corrupt money scarred ies, and shipyards of Chinese production, Montana’s democracy and landscape, but CONSUMED offers a stunning look into Montanans voted to prohibit corporate campaign contributions. Today, after the the interconnectedness of what we buy, Citizens United ruling, dark money floods sell, and trade and brings to light the elections nationwide, but Montanans are global impact behind our consumption standing up to stop history from repeating habits. itself in a struggle that has the potential to change the way elections happen nationwide. Sponsored by Montana Free Press China/UK, 2016, 20 min Mon. Feb 19 - 1:15 pm, MCT USA, 2018, 99 min

2018 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival Fri. Feb 16 - 7:00 pm, Wilma 2018 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival DIRECTOR Richard John Seymour DIRECTOR Kimberly Reed Sun. Feb 25 - 3:15 pm, MCT 46 47 2018 Big Sky Documentary Big Sky 2018 Festival Film DEATH AND THE JUDGE DIRTBAG: THE LEGEND OF FRED BECKEY Azizmohammadi is Iran’s most famous Fred Beckey is the original American criminal judge, holding the record for the “Dirtbag” climber whose name has number of death sentences any one criminal evoked mystery, adulation and vitriol judge has sentenced in Iran, and perhaps the since the 1940s. Beckey’s stubborn, world. Following Azizmohammadi and his 45 singular quest to conquer peaks meant a years of service as a criminal judge, DEATH solitary life on the road. His rebel lifestyle, AND THE JUDGE tells the story of a man essential books and unparalleled first who spends his days dealing with decisions ascents form an iconic legacy that lives of life and death both inside and outside of on forever. his work. Iran/Netherlands, 2017, 60 min Thurs. Feb 22 - 3:45 pm, Elks USA, 2017, 96 min Tues. Feb 20 - 8:45 pm, Elks DIRECTOR Hassan Khademi DIRECTOR Daye O'Leske DEIGHTIES: DATING IN YOUR EIGHTIES DOWN RIVER Having lost his wife 18 months earlier, The chief judge of the Yurok Nation octogenarian Phil decides that he no works to break the cycle of domestic longer wishes to be alone, and embarks violence in her tribe through a unique on a quest to find new love. Times have program rehabilitating perpetrators. changed though, and Phil needs to navigate the complexities of the modern tools at his disposal for finding a mate, such as online match-making services and mobile applications.

Australia, 2016, 8 min Mon. Feb 19 - 1:15 pm, MCT USA, 2017, 20 min Sun. Feb 18 - 3:30 pm, Elks DIRECTOR Mason Fleming Thurs. Feb 22 - 1:30 pm, Elks DIRECTOR Louisa Conlon Sun. Feb 25 - 3:00 pm, Roxy 1 DERRIDA DRIVE THEM BUFFALO Jacques Derrida, the internationally An intimate look at the only tribal-led renowned French philosopher, is best buffalo drive in North America, DRIVE known for generating a movement known THEM BUFFALO follows members as “deconstruction,” providing a radical of the Blackfeet Nation as they rethinking of the relationship between text experience the power of American and meaning. Following the philosopher’s Bison while driving their herd to their profound influence on the intellectual winter pasture, a ritual of stewardship landscape of the 20th and 21st century, that brings hope for a modern-day DERRIDA offers a reflexive portrait of a cultural rebirth. complex man. USA/France, 2002, 82 min Sun. Feb 18 - 10:45 am, MCT USA, 2017, 19 min Sun. Feb 25 - 3:30 pm, Wilma DIRECTORS Kirby Dick, Amy Ziering DIRECTOR Daniel Glick DIG IT IF YOU CAN DRUMMER GIRL Get up close and personal with Steven Losing her eyesight did not stop the Paul Judd, the dynamic and bold 21st prodigious rock n’ roll drummer, Renee century renaissance man. This insightful Kelly, from pursuing her passion. portrait shows how Judd indigenizes the Moving between past reflections and popular everyday to allow our young to future dreams, Renee's story reveals a see themselves in all aspects of life, while fervent and determined artist, set to a at the same time making his own dreams bold musical score. a reality through his passion and zest for life. Sponsored by Consumer Direct Care Network Sponsored by ZooTown Arts Community Center USA, 2016, 19min Australia, 2017, 7 min Tues. Feb 20 - 4:00 pm, MCT 2018 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival DIRECTOR Kyle Bell Mon. Feb 19 - 3:45 pm, Elks DIRECTOR Sophie Hexter Sun. Feb 25 - 1:00 pm, Elks 2018 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival Sun. Feb 25 - 1:00 pm, Elks 48 49 THE DUCK BLIND EVERYTHING OLD IS NEW AGAIN A man shares his secrets of duck hunting as In 1989, the NEA became a battleground we follow him through a long, demanding for the cultural war in the United States day. THE DUCK BLIND is a peaceful between conservatives and liberals after reminder of the importance of patience and two NEA sponsored grants were deemed silence amidst our daily lives. to fund "obscene" art. EVERYTHING OLD IS NEW AGAIN explores this vicious political fight between the two parties and follows the Trump administration’s influence in the continuing conflict.

Italy, 2017, 11 min Sat. Feb 17 - 12:30 pm, Roxy 1 USA, 2017, 15 min Fri. Feb 23 - 4:00 pm, Elks DIRECTOR Pablo Poletti Tues. Feb 20 - 1:30 pm, MCT DIRECTOR Keelan Williams Sun. Feb 25 - 3:30 pm, Wilma EDDIE THE EXPERIMENTAL CITY An animated documentary about Dr. Alarmed by the growing environmental Eddie Henderson: jazz trumpet player, crisis in 1960’s America, a visionary figure skater, M.D. scientist and a team of committed experts plan a domed city for 250,000 people whose futuristic technology and innovative design will eradicate the pollution and waste of the modern city, and lead the way toward 21st-Century urban life. USA, 2017, 10 min Mon. Feb 19 - 1:15 pm, MCT USA, 2017, 96 min Mon. Feb 19 - 8:45 pm, MCT DIRECTOR Ian Kelly Sun. Feb 25 - 1:00 pm, Elks DIRECTOR Chad Freidrichs EDITH+EDDIE FAIL STATE Edith and Eddie, ages 96 and 95, are In an expansive documentary exposé, America's oldest interracial newlyweds. FAIL STATE reveals the dark story Their love story is disrupted by a family behind the rise of predatory for-profit feud that threatens to tear the couple colleges and how a cabal of politicians apart. and unscrupulous business tycoons sold out the dream of American higher Sponsored by Harvest Home Care education. Fail State is executive produced by news legend Dan Rather and directed by Alexander Shebanow. USA, 2017, 29 min Tues. Feb 20 - 6:15 pm, Elks USA, 2017, 94 min Mon. Feb 19 - 3:15 pm, Wilma DIRECTOR Laura Checkoway Sat. Feb 24, 8:45 pm, Elks DIRECTOR Alexander Shebanow Sun. Feb 25 - 10:00 am, Roxy 1 EVERY GHOST HAS AN ORCHESTRA FATHER'S KINGDOM Paranormal researcher and experimental In the early 1900s, an African-American composer Michael Esposito straddles man named Reverend M.J. Divine the line between spiritual and material, began a religious movement that would asking the audience to reflect on our reach over a million followers at its peak, purpose, legacy and what our actions say crossing racial divisions and advocating for gender and economic equality. about who we are. Father Divine is little remembered today, dismissed by detractors as a con man. The reason: Father Divine claimed to be God. USA, 2017, 7 min Sat. Feb 17 - 12:30 pm, Wilma USA, 2017, 94 min Tues. Feb 20 - 8:30 pm, MCT 2018 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival DIRECTOR Shayna Connelly Thurs. Feb 22 - 8:45 pm, Elks DIRECTORS Lenny Feinberg 2018 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival 50 51 FEMINISTS: WHAT WERE THEY THINKING FLAT ROCKS In 1979, Cynthia MacAdams, an actress turned 79-year-old Louis Diabo battles against photographer, was roaming the streets of the construction of Canada’s Saint Los Angeles and New York photographing women. Following the personal experiences Lawrence Seaway during the 1950s of a variety of women, including Gloria to save his farm and the Kahnawake Steinem, Lily Tomlin, Patti Smith, and others, Mohawk community. FEMINISTS: WHAT WERE THEY THINKING revisits Cynthia’s photographs and uncovers the stories behind the images. A powerful look at the transformation of feminist culture and the movers and shakers behind the Women’s Movement. USA, 2018, 87 min Mon. Feb 19 - 6:15 pm, MCT Canada, 2017, 10 min Mon. Feb 19 - 3:45 pm, MCT DIRECTOR Lisa Remington, Johanna Demetrakas Sun. Feb 25 - 8:30 pm, Elks DIRECTOR Courtney Montour Tues. Feb 20 - 1:30 pm, MCT FERRYMAN AT THE WALL FOR AHKEEM Originally proposed as an international After a school fight lands 17-year-old peace park with Mexico, Big Bend, Daje Shelton in a court-supervised Texas has a unique relationship with its alternative high school, she's determined southern neighbor. For the past 40 years, to turn things around and make a better Mike Davidson has been ferrying tourists future for herself in her rough St. Louis across the Rio Grande for a little taste neighborhood. Through Daje’s intimate of Mexican life — but now, a great, big coming-of-age story, FOR AHKEEM border wall threatens to divide the park. illuminates challenges that many Black teenagers face in America today. Sponsored by Jeanette Rankin Peace Center USA/Canada/Mexico, 2017, 16 min USA, 2017, 91 min Fri. Feb 23 - 1:45 pm,MCT DIRECTOR David Freid Mon. Feb 19 - 3:45 pm, Elks DIRECTORS Jeremy S. Levine, Landon Van Soest Sat. Feb 24 - 6:30 pm, Roxy 3 THE FINAL YEAR FOREVER 'B' Following the account of President On October 17, 1974, 12-year-old Jan Barack Obama’s foreign policy team Bribery was kidnapped by her next-door during their last year in office, THE FINAL neighbor and parents’ closest friend. YEAR explores the inner workings of an Telling the stranger-than-fiction story administration as it prepares to leave of a family that falls under the spell of power after eight years. a sociopathic neighbor, FOREVER ‘B’ reveals the truths behind a family in denial and a crime that could have been prevented.

USA, 2018, 89 min Fri. Feb 23 - 8:30 pm, Wilma USA, 2017, 91 min Sat. Feb 17 - 11:30 am, Roxy 2 DIRECTOR Greg Barker Sun. Feb 25 - 7:45 pm, Roxy 2 DIRECTOR Skye Borgman Mon. Feb 19 - 7:30 pm, Roxy 2 FIRE MOUTH (BOCA DE FOGO) FROM PARTS UNKNOWN In the strong heat of the Carcara Arena, Jesse “Madman” Manson decided to live an enthusiastic sports commentator out his fantasy by starting an underground channels the energy of the stadium with Professional Wrestling league in the contagious zeal. A story that speaks to the backyards of Spokane, Washington. Ten power of sport in the deep heartland of years later, Spokane Anarchy Wrestling is Pernambuco, Brazil in the city of Salguerio, gaining momentum and popularity, but FIRE MOUTH is a delightful observational Jesse’s injuries from years of wrestling are film that transports its viewers to the sports proving to be a threat to the one thing that has given him an outlet to express himself. stadium with infectious gusto. Brazil, 2017, 9 min Wed. Feb 21 - 3:45 pm, Elks USA, 2018, 28 min Sat. Feb 17 - 12:30 pm, Wilma 2018 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival DIRECTOR Luciano Pérez Fernández Sat. Feb 24 - 1:30 pm Roxy 2 DIRECTOR Michael T. Workman Sun. Feb 25 - 3:30 pm, Wilma 2018 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival 52 53 A GARBAGE STORY HEIMAT (HOMELAND) Meet Nick DiMola, a bonafide trash Right-wing populism is spreading through connoisseur. He loves his job and he loves Western Europe like wildfire and it’s garbage. Over 30 years in the garbage gaining popularity in quiet, isolated white business, he has collected a museum’s worth of old and rare items, most of it neighborhoods. HOMELAND portrays a from the estates of dead people. With captivating tongue-in-cheek caricature of every piece of trash that he saves from life in Flemish suburbs that offers a look the landfill, a piece of history lives on. into the current European zeitgeist.

USA, 2017, 8 min Sat. Feb 17 - 7:30 pm, Roxy 2 Belgium, 2016, 14 min Sat. Feb 17 - 12:30 pm, Wilma DIRECTOR Olivier Bernier Mon. Feb 19 - 3:45 pm, Elks DIRECTOR Sam Peeters Sat. Feb 24 - 3:30 pm, Elks Thurs. Feb 22 - 4:00 pm, MCT

GENERATIONS HIDDEN LIFE An examination of Native identity as Following the diverse marine life seen through the eyes of a mother and surrounding California’s oil rigs, HIDDEN her children on the Pyramid Lake Paiute LIFE offers an insight into the controversial Reservation of Northern Nevada. political battle of whether or not the rigs truly benefit the Pacific coast and what our energy consumption costs the planet.

USA, 2017, 19 min Sun. Feb 18 - 1:15 pm, MCT USA, 2017, 7 min Sun. Feb 25 - 2:15 pm, Roxy 2 DIRECTOR Kaitlyn Satter, Hannah Mattner, Mon. Feb 19 - 3:45 pm Elks DIRECTOR Anthony Florez Ethan Stupp, Aaron Kohn, Briana Brinzo THE GODFATHERS OF HARDCORE HINOWU HAND GAMES Roger Miret and Vinnie Stigma are lynchpins A combination of song and game, hand of New York Hardcore (NYHC), and their games offer a way for tribal communities band Agnostic Front played a key role in to interact and engage in important defining, shaping, and establishing the tribal culture. HINOWU HAND GAMES sound and culture code for the still-thriving movement. THE GOD FATHERS OF HARD- explores this vital tool for preserving tribal CORE follows the indelible footprint of heritage and looks at the ways it brings Agnostic Front and an impressive 30-plus tribal communities together through a year career that has been riddled with friendly competition in Lincoln, California. escapades. USA, 2017, 95 min Sat. Feb 17 - 8:30 pm, Wilma USA, 2017, 5 min Sun. Feb 25 - 2:15 pm, Roxy 2 DIRECTOR Ian McFarland Sun. Feb 18 - 11:15 am, Roxy 2 DIRECTOR Danny DeLeon HEADDRESS HOMEGROWN: THE COUNTER TERROR DILEMMA With the help of photographer Nadya HOMEGROWN: THE COUNTER TER- Kwandibens, JJ Neepin, a female ROR DILEMMA explores the real and Indigenous filmmaker, plans to recreate perceived threats of Islamic terrorism her great-grandfather’s portrait, bringing within U.S. borders, following first- to light the powerful symbol behind the hand accounts, family members of headdress in First Nations communities. convicted terrorists, victims of terrorist HEADDRESS is exemplary of the ongoing attacks, and the harsh impact all this conversation regarding indigenous has on Muslim American communities. tradition and cultural appropriation. Canada, 2017, 6 min Sun. Feb 25 - 2:15 pm, Roxy 2 USA, 2016, 90 min Sponsored by Jeanette Rankin Peace Center 2018 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival 2018 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival DIRECTOR JJ Neepin DIRECTOR Greg Barker Sun. Feb 25 - 10:30 am, MCT 54 55 THE HUMAN FACE IN PLACE Kazuhiro Tsuji’s artistry lies within his keen Finlay, a young skateboarder, Shannon, interest and ability to bring to light the a university student, and Roddy, a retired intricacies of the human face through librarian all have something in common: sculpture. THE HUMAN FACE expresses they all harm themselves and they all share how the minuscule details of the human the same coping strategy that helps them not to. The three all have somewhere they face are simply the tip of the iceberg go to satisfy the feelings they crave. They for us to understand the thoughts and explain what it is they are looking for and, emotions hidden underneath. together, begin to explore the blurred line between what is safe and what is harmful. USA, 2017, 14 min Sun. Feb 18 - 4:00 pm, MCT UK, 2017, 12 min Sun. Feb 18 - 4:00 pm, MCT DIRECTOR Aline Pimentel Tues. Feb 20 - 6:15 pm, Elks DIRECTOR Genevieve Bicknell Mon. Feb 19 - 1:15 pm, MCT THE HUNTING GROUND INHALE One in five women in college are sexually Through horses, a man feels an assaulted, yet only a fraction of these irrepressible duty to move in harmony crimes are reported, and even fewer with his pain. INHALE explores the result in punishment for the perpetrators. infinite momentum of life via an energy Through verité footage, expert insights, never destroyed, only transformed. and first-person testimonies, THE HUNTING GROUND offers a piercing, monumental exposé of rape culture on campuses, poised to light a fire under a national debate. USA, 2015, 103 min Mon. Feb 19 - 1:00 pm, Elks UK, 2017, 16 min Mon. Feb 19 - 5:00 pm, Roxy 3 DIRECTOR Kirby Dick DIRECTOR Sean Mullan Fri. Feb 23 - 3:30 pm, Wilma I HAVE SOMETHING TO TELL YOU THE INVISIBLE WAR A fine-art photographer turns to his craft Today, a female soldier in Iraq and to cope with his HIV/AIDS diagnosis. Afghanistan is more likely to be raped by a fellow soldier than killed by enemy fire. Focusing on the powerfully emotional stories of several young women, THE INVISIBLE WAR reveals the systematic cover-up of the crimes against them and their struggles to rebuild their lives while they fight for justice. USA, 2017, 9 min Tues. Feb 20 - 6:15 pm, Elks USA, 2012, 93 min Sun. Feb 18 - 2:00 pm, Roxy 2 DIRECTORS Benjamin Joyner, Dumaine Babcock Sun. Feb 25 - 1:00 pm, Elks DIRECTOR Kirby Dick IN GOD WE TRUMP ISLAND SOLDIER IN GOD WE TRUMP is an examination The untold story of Micronesian citizens of the symbiotic relationship between fighting America’s wars at staggeringly Donald Trump and Evangelicals featuring high rates per capita. Told through the intimate personal odyssey of the Nenas, leading voices from the Christian Left. a family strives for their piece of the “American Dream”, and deals with the consequences of military service against the backdrop of a pristine Pacific island on the brink of economic collapse.

USA, 2017, 88 min Mon. Feb 19 - 12:30 pm, Wilma Micronesia/USA/Afghanistan, 2017, 85 min Mon. Feb 19 - 6:00 pm, Elks 2018 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival 2018 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival DIRECTOR Christopher Alan Maloney Fri. Feb 23 - 4:00 pm, Elks DIRECTOR Nathan Fitch Wed. Feb 21 - 1:45 pm, MCT 56 57 KA PUA KORAN BY HEART Inspired by the saying, “Aia no ka pua i Each year during Ramadan, more luna” (the flower is still on the tree), KA than one hundred students from more PUA takes a look into the life of a 93-year- than 70 countries across the Islamic old woman, Elizabeth Lau, to explore the world converge in Cairo for Egypt’s meaning behind the Hawaiian proverb. International Holy Koran Competition. Following Elizabeth, KA PUA offers a KORAN BY HEART is a coming of age beautiful, reflective look at a woman’s story of three 10-year-old kids who are dynamic life through her values and own up against over 100 other competitors sense of aloha. in the ultimate test of memorization: the 600-page Koran. USA, 2017, 5 min Sun. Feb 25 - 2:15 pm, Roxy 2 USA, 2013, 80 min DIRECTOR Erin Lau DIRECTOR Greg Barker Fri. Feb 23 - 4:00 pm, MCT KEEP TALKING KUWEZESHA WANAWAKE Four Alaska Native women are fighting to Originally from the Democratic Republic save the threatened language of Kodiak of Congo, Justine Binwa was resettled Alutiq, an endangered language spoken with her family to Missoula, MT. Through by less than 40 remaining fluent Native self-documentation, Justine examines Elders. KEEP TALKING follows these her new home and reflects on what it women and their small community as means to be a woman of Africa. they travel to the remote Afognak Island to start teaching the children Alutiq. Sponsored by Soft Landing Missoula

USA, 2017, 79 min Sun. Feb 25 - 6:00 pm, Elks USA, 2018, 12 min Sun. Feb 25 - 8:15 pm, MCT DIRECTOR Karen Lynn Weinberg DIRECTOR Justine Binwa KEEPERS OF THE FUTURE LADIES FIRST Following the civil war in El Salvador, a The survival story of Deepika Kumari peasant movement puts down roots. follows a girl born on the roadside to abject Soon these farmers and fishers discover poverty in rural India whose relationship new challenges: climate crisis and an with archery has helped her trail blaze in a male-dominated world. Following extraction economy. On the surface, the Deepika’s dream of becoming the first life of these campesinos may resemble Indian woman to win an Olympic Gold the past, but in their solutions may lie the Medal, LADIES FIRST is an inspirational key to the future. story that follows one woman’s struggle to overcome life's obstacles with zeal and strength. El Salvador/USA/Canada, 2017, 24 min Sun. Feb 18 - 5:30 pm, Elks India/Brazil/England/USA, 2017, 40 min Tues. Feb 20 - 6:00 pm, MCT DIRECTOR Avi Lewis Wed. Feb 21 - 6:15 pm, Elks DIRECTOR Uraaz Bahl Wed. Feb 21 - 4:00 pm, MCT KOKA, THE BUTCHER LADY EVA Koka’s world revolves around one simple Meet the irrepressible Eva Baron, a young and well-known bird: the pigeon. As a transgender woman on a journey to respected figure in Cairo’s pigeon fighting become her true self in the South pacific world, Koka devotes his time to training Kingdom of Tonga – with a little inspiration and caring for hundreds of pigeons in his from Tina Turner along the way. self-built wooden tower. Under immense pressure from his conservative community to quit his passion, Koka is faced with the possibility that his pigeon fighting days may be coming to an end.

Germany/Egypt, 2017, 38 min Sat. Feb 17 - 12:30 pm, Roxy 1 Tonga/Hawai'i, 2017, 11 min Sat. Feb 17 - 7:30 pm, Roxy 2 2018 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival DIRECTOR Bence Máté Fri. Feb 23 - 3:30 pm, Wilma DIRECTORS Dean Hamer, Joe Wilson, Sun. Feb 18 - 8:15 pm, Wilma 2018 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival 58 Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu 59 LAND OF THE WIND LEGACY VIDEO Patagonia is a distinct and beautiful region A thoughtful and personal look into the of South America, a region spanning the struggle of capturing the essence of a lower sections of Argentina and Chile down to the extreme southern tip of the sick loved one, LEGACY VIDEO is a rare country - further South than most people and beautiful homage to the difficulties ever dare to venture. Following the fine-art of saying goodbye. photographer Eliseo Miciu, LAND OF THE WIND shows the transformative effects of the breath-taking landscape that pushes Eliseo to learn more about himself as he sets to capture Patagonia’s moving soul. UK /Argentina, 2017, 18 min Sat. Feb 17 - 1:00 pm, Elks USA, 2017, 8 min Sat. Feb 24 - 8:45 pm, Elks DIRECTOR DIRECTOR Laura Belinky Tues. Feb 20 - 4:00 pm, MCT Elivia Shaw Sun. Feb 25 - 6:00 pm, Elks LAST DANCE AT JOHNSON'S BARN LEGION OF BROTHERS Since 1952, generations of North Dakota After the 9/11 attacks, teams of Green families have attended dances at Johnson’s Berets went to Afghanistan on a mission Barn. The barn is an icon on the prairie - so to overthrow the Taliban. Reflecting on integral to the community fabric that scarcely a family in the region can’t trace a courtship their experiences and on the enduring or marriage back to the barn. But when the impact of war, the soldiers of the Green farm’s owner, Brian Johnson, falls ill, he and Berets offer a compelling celebration of his family face a heartbreaking decision. heroism and a sobering, dissuasive story of what comes from years of fighting.

USA, 2017, 18 min Fri. Feb 23 - 3:30 pm, Wilma USA, 2017, 79 min Sat. Feb 24 - 12:30 pm, Roxy 1 DIRECTOR Clay Haskell Sat. Feb 24 - 3:30 pm, Elks DIRECTOR Greg Barker THE LAST HONEY HUNTER THE LIBERATION In the mist-shrouded mountains of Nepal’s Following three students of the Culinary Training Program of D.C. Central Kitchen, Hongu River valley, the Kulung people THE LIBERATION tells the story of three of carve their lives out of the land and practice the twenty-five recovering addicts, former an ancient form of animism structured drug dealers, recently released felons, around the god Rongkemi. There, a wiry and homeless men and women who are and unassuming man named Mauli Dhan working through the three month program Rai is believed to be chosen by the gods in pursuit of a new life. In the basement of for the perilous rite of honey harvesting. a homeless shelter, the students must test themselves as they learn the ins and outs of the culinary working world. USA/Nepal, 2017, 35 min Sun. Feb 18 - 9:15 pm, Roxy 2 USA, 2017, 96 min Wed. Feb 21 - 8:15 pm, Wilma DIRECTOR Ben Knight Wed. Feb 21 - 6:15 pm, Elks DIRECTORS Brendan Canty, Christoph Green Sat. Feb 24 - 4:00 pm, Roxy 3 THE LAST TAPE LIKE ANY OTHER KID As Artiom prepares to fight for the Ukrainian Following the relationships between army, Anatoly, his 88-year-old grandfather incarcerated youth and staff in three and war veteran, records their diminishing secure prison facilities across the U.S., time together and questions his choice. LIKE ANY OTHER KID follows the youths’ rocky paths towards success as staff attempt to use guidance, limits, and love to rehabilitate them.

Germany, 2017, 12 min Wed. Feb 21 - 6:15 pm, Elks USA, 2017, 90 min Sat. Feb 17 - 10:00 am, Roxy 1 2018 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival DIRECTOR Cyprien Clement-Delmas Sat. Feb 24 - 1:30 pm, Roxy 2 DIRECTOR Victoria Mills Sun. Feb 18 - 5:00 pm, Roxy 3 2018 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival 60 61 LINCOLN MAN ON BIKE A young man living in Havre, Montana At the surface, MAN ON BIKE is the story unintentionally becomes a knife maker of a man with a hobby. Taking a closer after the death of his brother. look, David’s story proves to be filled with a dark, complicated past that touches his daily life and fills him with fear. A powerful film about life’s complexities and how we utilize our hobbies to cope with our past.

USA, 2017, 6 min Tues. Feb 20 - 1:30 pm, MCT UK, 2016, 9 min Tues. Feb 20 - 4:00 pm, MCT DIRECTOR Laura Lovo Sun. Feb 25 - 3:30 pm, Wilma DIRECTOR Matteo Palmas Sun. Feb 25 - 3:30 pm, Elks LOS LECHEROS MAN ON FIRE The fates of undocumented immigrant Grand Saline, Texas, a town east of Dallas, workers and Wisconsin's $43 billion has a history of racism, that the community dairy industry are closely intertwined doesn’t like to talk about. This shroud of and are both grappling with their secrecy was confronted by an elderly white options for survival as fears of ICE raids preacher, emboldened by the injustices of and deportations under the Trump the past, who sought to bring attention to administration grow. the town’s dark and undeniable history. MAN ON FIRE untangles the pieces of one man’s protest in a small Texas town.

USA, 2017, 21 min Sun. Feb 18 - 1:00 pm, Elks USA, 2017, 54 min Sat. Feb 17 - 8:30 pm, Elks DIRECTOR Jim Cricchi Mon. Feb 19 - 5:00 pm, Roxy 3 DIRECTOR Joel Fendelman LOVE OF PLACE MANHUNT: THE INSIDE STORY OF THE HUNT FOR BIN LADEN When an invasive species plant threatens The untold story of the C.I.A.’s 20-year to take over a beautiful desert river an hunt for Osama bin Laden. Filled with obsessive park ranger sets out to kill it. testimony and recollection from actual agents, MANHUNT offers an in-depth account of the pursuit of the world’s most notorious terrorist.

USA, 2017, 10 min Mon. Feb 19 - 3:45 pm, Elks USA, 2013, 102 min Sun. Feb 25 - 12:30 pm, Wilma DIRECTOR Brian Olliver Tues. Feb 20 - 1:30 pm, MCT DIRECTOR Greg Barker MAMMOTH MANUEL In the remote Russian Arctic an aging By the train tracks in Old Havana, 87-year- scientist and his son are trying to recreate old Manuel brews an aphrodisiac juice the Ice Age. The two call their experiment called Pru. From the inside of his shop, 'Pleistocene Park', a perfect home for and in between encounters with his woolly mammoths resurrected by modern thirsty customers, Manuel recounts the genetics. Interestingly, the mammoths are a bittersweet loves that have defined his means to a bigger end: defusing a carbon life. time bomb frozen in the permafrost to slow the effects of global warming.

USA/Russia, 2017, 27 min Sun. Feb 18 - 3:30 pm, Elks Cuba/USA, 2017, 8 min Wed. Feb 21 - 3:45 pm, Elks 2018 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival DIRECTOR Grant Slater DIRECTOR Gabriela Cavanagh Sun. Feb 25 - 12:45 pm, MCT 2018 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival 62 63 MICKEY'S PETS THE MISSING TOURIST The National Taxidermy Championships When a Japanese tourist goes missing in is an annual event that looks for Canada’s remote Northwest Territories taxidermists that are the best at their during a trip to see the Aurora Borealis, craft. Mickey is a young taxidermist a community is left reeling for answers. participating in her first year at the Tracing the investigation from southern event. With her trusty peacock, Mickey Japan to the wilderness of the Canadian must overcome her insecurities in order north, THE MISSING TOURIST breaks to win first place at the world-renowned down cultural boundaries to bring competition. closure to this unsettling mystery. USA, 2017, 13 min Mon. Feb 19 - 1:15 pm, MCT Canada, 2017, 52 min Wed. Feb 21 - 9:00 pm, MCT DIRECTOR Ashley Brandon Tues. Feb 20 - 6:15 pm, Elks DIRECTOR Geoff Morrison Sun. Feb 25 - 12:00 pm, Roxy 2 MIDNIGHT RAMBLERS MOOSA, SON OF HOLY SHRINE Following five drug users, Kye, Tobe, MOOSA, SON OF HOLY SHRINE follows Paul, Kim, and Tattoo, MIDNIGHT Moosa, an endearing teenage boy whose RAMBLERS brings its viewers into the life is centered around a graveyard. self-perpetuating cycle of drug users Moosa earns his living memorizing the and the difficulties of living on the names on the graves and showing them streets of Montreal. Without a proper to the people in search of their lost loved support system in place, can dreams of a ones. A story of the healing effects of different life become a reality? connecting to our past and those that help along the way. France, 2017, 57 min Sat. Feb 17 - 9:15 pm, Roxy 2 Iran, 2017, 31 min Wed. Feb 21 - 3:45 pm, Elks DIRECTOR Julian Ballester DIRECTOR Reza Goudarzi Thurs. Feb 22 - 3:45 pm, Elks MIGHTY GROUND MORE THAN A WORD Ronald Troy Collins has a gift: his voice. The history behind the Washington Ronald also happens to be a homeless football team name, Redskins, has man living on the streets of Skid Row. deep, contentious roots. MORE THAN MIGHTY GROUND follows the powerful A WORD dives into the history behind story of Ronald and the impact he makes the name and offers a dynamic analysis on his peers and loved ones, offering of the issues surrounding the derogatory a potent reminder of the possibility of term, examining an often overlooked redemption and transformation at any history of cultural appropriation and stage in life. insensitivity. USA, 2017, 83 min Thurs. Feb 22 - 8:45 pm, MCT USA, 2017, 70 min Tues. Feb 20 - 3:45 pm, Elks DIRECTOR Delila Vallot DIRECTORS Kenn Little, John Little MINDING THE GAP MORONI FOR PRESIDENT Bing, 24, returns home and reconnects Moroni Benally is running for the with his friends Zack and Keire, whom he’s presidency of the Navajo Nation, the been skateboarding with since childhood. largest Native American nation in the MINDING THE GAP explores their past U.S. Young, gay, Mormon, and highly and the close connection formed as they struggled with toxic family life. Questioning educated, he sets out to confront the the line between discipline and domestic political establishment in a homecoming abuse and the transition from childhood to that challenges what he imagined adulthood, the three men are faced with home, and himself, to be. unexpected disclosures that threaten to destroy a decade-long friendship.

2018 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival USA, 2018, 98 min USA, 2018, 78 min Fri. Feb 23 - 6:30 pm, MCT 2018 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival DIRECTOR Bing Liu Fri. Feb 23 - 6:30 pm, Elks DIRECTORS Saila Huusko, Jasper Rischen 64 65 MOTHER'S DAY MY ENEMY, MY BROTHER An annual bus service takes children to Zahed and Najah have a rich and visit their mothers in prison on Mother’s complicated history. The two former Day. This film is a poignant exploration enemies from the Iran-Iraq war become blood brothers for life after one saves of the impact of mass incarceration on a the other’s life on the battlefield and, generation of youth. after 25 years, the two journey back into the heart of a region ravaged by war and ISIS.

Sponsored by Jeanette Rankin Peace Center USA, 2017, 9 min Sat. Feb 24 - 1:30 pm, Roxy 2 Canada, 2017, 88 min DIRECTORS Elizabeth Lo, R.J. Lozada DIRECTOR Ann Shin Sat. Feb 24 - 7:30 pm, Roxy 2 MR. FISH: CARTOONING FROM THE DEEP END MY GRANDPA IS A PUNK Mr. Fish, a successful and outrageous One of the first adopters of snow- editorial cartoonist, finds that his profession boarding and founder of ‘Edge of the is dying. Struggling to maintain his unique World’, Greg Barrow explains what it defiant voice as satirical humor loses its was like to see the winter sport blossom commercial grounding, Mr. Fish must face into what it is today. Following the story the hardship of supporting his family while of a snowboarding legend with a variety of quirky hobbies, MY GRANDPA IS holding on to the integrity of his work. A PUNK offers a witty portrait of a grandfather and the charming family unit that helps keep his legacy alive. USA, 2017, 70 min Sun. Feb 18 - 7:30 pm, Roxy 2 USA, 2018, 5 min Thurs. Feb 22 - 4:00 pm, MCT DIRECTOR Pablo Bryant DIRECTOR Sage Chimo MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY MFA SHORTS MY INDIANA MUSE A collection of films from student Through an unconventional sequence of filmmakers in Montana State University's events artist Robert Townsend discovers MFA program including Johnny Holder, his muse and embarks on an ambitious David Samollow, Chema Domench, and emotional project that will take Sarah Lanier, Evangeline Koonce, Patrick more than a decade to complete. Tormey, Ariel Savage, Cynthia Huber, and Alain Douchinsky. Find individual film listings at bigskyfilmfest.org

USA, 2017, 80 min Wed. Feb 21 - 1:00 pm, Wilma USA, 2017, 44 min Sat. Feb 17 - 1:00 pm, Elks DIRECTORS Ric Serena, Jennifer Serena Sun. Feb 18 - 9:15 pm, Roxy 2 THE NATIVE TONGUE MY COUNTRY NO MORE The Blackfoot language had been passed Following the rise and fall of the new down from elders and parents to youth American oil boom, MY COUNTRY NO for generations. With the introduction of MORE paints an intimate portrait of a rural the residential school system, much of community in crisis, forced to confront the this heritage has been lost. As the survival meaning of progress as they fight for a of the Blackfoot language becomes disappearing way of life. threatened, THE NATIVE TONGUE examines the importance of involving both young and old in preserving a culture and reviving a native tongue that once thrived throughout the Siksika reserve. USA, 2017, 71 min Fri. Feb 23 - 6:00 pm, Wilma Canada, 2015, 13 min Sun. Feb 18 - 1:00 pm, Elks 2018 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival 2018 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival DIRECTORS Rita Baghdadi, Jeremiah Hammerling Sun. Feb 25 - 12:30 pm, Roxy 1 DIRECTOR Jeanette Many Guns Wed. Feb 21 - 3:45 pm, Elks 66 67 NEVER GIVE UP WHILE YOU ARE STILL ALIVE THE ORGANIZER Director Joel Kambale escaped conflict Before its infamous demise, ACORN was in the Democratic Republic of Congo to once the largest community organization refugee camps in Tanzania, where he lived in the U.S. Following the founder, Wade for over 20 years. Through struggle and Rathke, in the establishment and growth perseverance, Kambale brings the viewer of ACORN, THE ORGANIZER illustrates on his search for a safe and permanent the transformation of the organization home. into a national political powerhouse for the poor and the external pressures that Sponsored by Soft Landing Missoula would lead to its tragic downfall. USA, 2018, 12 min USA/Canada/Honduras/India, 2017, 100 min Mon. Feb 19 - 1:45 pm, Roxy 2 DIRECTOR Joel Kambale Tues. Feb 20 - 6:00 pm, MCT DIRECTOR Joey Carey, Nick Taylor _ NO MAN'S LAND OUR NEW PRESIDENT On January 2, 2016, armed militants seized As more details of Russia’s meddling the headquarters of the Malheur National in the 2016 U.S. presidential election Wildlife Refuge in Harney Country, Oregon. emerge, filmmaker Maxim Pozdorovkin What began as a protest to condemn assembles a fever dream of Russian the sentencing of two ranchers quickly propaganda, aimed at both Clinton morphed into a call for those eager to and Trump via a variety of media register their militant antipathy toward the platforms. Within this alternate universe federal government. NO MAN’S LAND of misinformation, we witness the seeds tells the story of those inside the movement of the 2016 fake news cycle take root and attempts to uncover what it is that and successfully infiltrate the collective draws individuals to the edge of revolution. conscience of a Russian populace trained USA, 2017, 82 min Sponsored by Backcounty Hunters & Anglers USA, 2018, 77 min to distrust truth and objectivity. DIRECTOR David Byars Mon. Feb 19 - 5:45 pm, Wilma DIRECTOR Maxim Pozdorovkin Wed. Feb 21 - 6:00 pm, Wilma ONE BREATH: A LIFE WITHOUT GRAVITY OUT OF STATE Christina and Eusebio Saenz De David and Hale are two incarcerated Santamaria have a very unique relationship criminals who share a common as husband and wife and freediver background: their Hawaiian roots. Telling training partners. ONE BREATH offers the story of two men who discover their an immersive insight into the life of the indigenous traditions from behind bars, two freedivers as they attempt to go the OUT OF STATE follows David and Hale as they return back to Hawaiian life and deepest any two humans have gone in just uncover the challenges that await them one breath. as they adjust to life outside of prison.

Thurs. Feb 22 - 4:00 pm, MCT UK, 2017, 7 min Mon. Feb 19 - 8:15 pm, Wilma Thurs. Feb 22 - 8:45 pm, MCT USA, 2017, 79 min DIRECTOR Sebastian Solberg DIRECTOR Ciara Lacy OPERATION WOLF PATROL: POACHER'S KINGDOM OUTRAGE Following wolf activists as they endeavor In Washington, D.C. a group of closeted to raise awareness regarding poaching in politicians actively campaign against the LGBT community they covertly the Midwest, OPERATION WOLF PATROL: belong to. Revealing the hidden lives POACHER’S KINGDOM offers insight of some of the United States’ most into the controversial group, ‘Wolf Patrol,’ powerful policymakers, OUTRAGE and looks at how things like the Hunter takes a comprehensive look at the harm Harassment law make animal protection closeted homosexual politicians inflict on and preservation tricky business. millions of Americans as they fight the searing hypocrisy of their actions.

USA, 2017, 12 min Sat. Feb 17 - 5:45 pm, Wilma USA, 2009, 90 min Mon. Feb 19 - 10:45 am, MCT 2018 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival 2018 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival DIRECTOR Joe Brown Sun. Feb 18 - 5:30 pm, Wilma DIRECTORS Kirby Dick 68 69 PERSON OF THE FOREST PRINCE OF SMOKE In the vanishing lowland rainforests A story of artisanal tradition and connection of Borneo, research is underway to to the past, PRINCE OF SMOKE shows uncover and understand the unique the process of tobacco farming through cultural behaviors of wild orangutans. the eyes of Hirochi Robaina, Cuban Photographer Tim Laman, researcher tobacco farmer and artisan cigar maker, Cheryl Knott, and young explorer Robert and the influential factors of the climate, Suro shed new light on the similarities the land, and the grower that play a part in between ourselves and our ancient the delicate process. Having centered his ancestors before it's too late for our fellow entire life around his work, Hirochi fights fuzzy primates. to preserve a 172 year old family legacy. USA, 2017, 17 min Tues. Feb 20 - 1:30 pm, MCT USA/Cuba, 2017, 25 min Mon. Feb 19 - 5:00 pm, Roxy 3 DIRECTORS Melissa Lesh, Tim Laman Wed. Feb 21 - 3:30 pm, Wilma DIRECTOR Matthew Gelb Sun. Feb 25 - 1:00 pm, Elks THE PIER [LIKE MENDING GLASS] PROSPERITY The filmmaker’s grandfather, suffering Located in the mountains of Appa- from Alzheimer’s, remembers, obses- lachia, Bluefield, West Virginia saw sively, an episode from his youth. In an unprecedented growth during the attempt to reconstruct a memory, THE coal boom of the early 20th century. PIER revisits a personal story of the PROSPERITY follows a now dwindling grandfather before he fades away. The population and the limited economic development that has left the city at a last image that stays with him is that of crossroads with the present decline of the pier. coal in the region.

USA, 2016, 26 min Sat. Feb 24 - 9:00 pm, Roxy 3 USA, 2017, 15 min Tues. Feb 20 - 1:30 pm, MCT DIRECTOR Anna Hogg Sun. Feb 25 - 12:15 pm, Roxy 2 DIRECTOR Christopher D. Lusk Sun. Feb 25 - 3:00 pm, Roxy 1 PINK GOLD PROTECT Looking through the lens of the crew of In July 2016, Indigenous community the fishing boat “Kolsillo,” PINK GOLD organizers and advocates caravanned offers a portrait of shrimp fishing off the across the United States to voice impacts coast of Mexico in the Sea of Cortez. from toxic extractive industries. Gathering A stunning portrait of a community’s stories from Indigenous communities at dependence on the sea and the bounty the forefront of work for a just transition that it grants them. from toxic to clean energy, participants unveil the front-line struggles to protect lands, air, waters and health of their people. Mexico, 2018, 20 min Sat. Feb 17 - 1:00 pm, Elks USA, 2017, 7 min Sun. Feb 25 - 2:15 pm, Roxy 2 DIRECTOR Daniel Anguiano Zúñiga Sun. Feb 18 - 1:15 pm, MCT DIRECTOR Deidra Peaches POSITION REPORTS QAMANIQ Northern Germany’s coastal landscapes In August 2017, a team of 3 women, juxtapose industrial and urban aesthetics aged 25-30, embark on a quest to in relation to man and nature in this acquaint themselves with their ancestral expansive cinematic film. POSITION lands. Covering 100 km in just a few days REPORTS conveys, in a very sensory way, through Kuururjuaq National Park, along just how differently “time” is lived and Mont d’Iberville, and across the Koroc experienced across all forms of life. River, the three women embark on a mission to deepen a cultural and spiritual understanding of their Inuit background.

Germany, 2017, 30 min Sat. Feb 24 - 11:00 am, Roxy 2 USA, 2017, 8 min Sun. Feb 25 - 2:15 pm, Roxy 2 2018 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival 2018 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival DIRECTOR Rainer Komers Sun. Feb 25 - 12:45 pm, MCT DIRECTORS Florence Pelletier, Caroline Côté 70 71 QUIET HOURS REBUILDING IN MINIATURE Being a nationally acclaimed author is no Ali Alamedy is a displaced Iraqi artist with easy feat. QUIET HOURS follows Donald an inventive imagination. REBUILDING IN Hall, America’s Poet Laureate and winner MINIATURE follows the Iraqi artist and the of the National Medal of Arts, and shows incredible detailed dioramas of the places how one man balances the fragile space he has read about but has never been. between loneliness and solitude with creative work.

USA, 2018, 13 min Sat. Feb 17 - 1:00 pm, Elks Turkey, 2017, 8 min Sat. Feb 17 - 1:00 pm, Elks DIRECTOR Paul Szynol Sun. Feb 18 - 3:30 pm, Elks DIRECTOR Veena Rao Tues. Feb 20 - 4:00 pm, MCT THE QUIET ZONE THE RELUCTANT RADICAL In a remote mountainous region of West If a crime is committed in order to Virginia a community of electro-sensitives prevent a greater crime, is it forgivable? lives in the shadow of a massive radio Is it, in fact, necessary? THE RELUCTANT telescope. Sheltered from a barrage RADICAL explores these questions of cell phone signals and other wire- by following activist Ken Ward as he less frequencies, the electro-sensitives confronts his fears and puts himself in the struggle to heal themselves while reflecting the growing concerns regarding direct path of the fossil fuel industry to the permeation of communications combat climate change. technology. Sponsored by 350 Montana Canada, 2017, 45 min Sun. Feb 18 - 1:00 pm, Elks USA, 2017, 77 min Thurs. Feb 22 - 6:15 pm, MCT DIRECTOR Daniel Froidevaux, Elisa Gonzalez DIRECTOR Lindsey Grayzel Fri. Feb 23 - 1:00 pm, Wilma RAJ AND THE REBELLION RENGA FOR THE WEST A teenage boy reveals a world of In 2016, Montana opened its doors to dragons and magic amidst the mundane refugees for the first time this century. landscapes of suburbia. RENGA FOR THE WEST explores the relationship between new refugee arrivals and long-time Montanans through a tapestry of self-directed first-person stories.

Sponsored by Soft Landing Missoula USA, 2018, 39 min USA, 2017, 7 min Tues. Feb 20 - 4:00 pm, MCT DIRECTORS A.R.T.S. - African Refugees Telling Stories, Tues. Feb 20 - 6:00 pm, MCT DIRECTOR Nathan Reich Sat. Feb 24 - 1:30 pm, Roxy 2 Bryan Bello, Ryan Seitz, Gabe Sweeney, Claire Haughey RAM DASS, GOING HOME REVOLVING DOORS Twenty years after suffering a life-altering 50% of people who come out of prison go stroke, Ram Dass, a psychedelic pioneer, back to prison. Following Jason Bobbit, author, and outspoken advocate for father and ex-convict, REVOLVING DOORS death-and-dying awareness, finds himself offers a lens into the lives of those who are approaching the end of life. Through an forever marked as convicts in the United examination of Ram Dass's life learning States Justice system and the fine line and wisdom over the years, RAM DASS, between recidivism and a hope for a better GOING HOME offers a meditative nod to future. life, death and the soul’s journey home. USA, 2017, 32 min Sat. Feb 17 - 7:30 pm, Roxy 2 USA, 2017, 19 min Wed. Feb 21 - 3:45 pm, Elks 2018 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival 2018 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival DIRECTOR Derek Peck Sun. Feb 18 - 3:30 pm, Elks DIRECTOR James Burns Sat. Feb 24 - 9:00 pm, Roxy 3 72 73 ROBERT MIMS THE TEXAN BULL RIDER SAFSTOR After forty three years of riding bulls, Contrasting the Three Mile Island Robert Mims is approaching retirement. Nuclear Power Plant with the memories Robert is one of the few competing black of local residents of the partial meltdown Texan riders and has become legendary among fellow riders for his wit and skill in on March 28, 1979, SAFSTOR explores the dangerous sport. The question of his archival materials and the landscape retirement is looming over Robert as he around the plant, begging the question: struggles with whether or not to continue “What will happen to these plants as pursuing the fast-paced, risky sport that has they become decommissioned?” his loved ones fearing for his life. Netherlands, 2017, 17 min Fri. Feb 23 - 9:15 pm, Roxy 2 USA, 2016, 15 min Wed. Feb 21 - 3:30 pm, Wilma DIRECTOR Doug Hancock Sun. Feb 25 - 12:45 pm, MCT DIRECTOR Adam Diller Sun. Feb 25 - 3:00 pm, Roxy 1 ROCKPILE SAMANTHA'S AMAZING ACROCATS Retired teacher Tom Whelan investigates Self-taught animal trainer Samantha the shadowy history of his rural Missouri Martin quits her day job to follow her community, unprepared for the answer dream of creating the world's first he’s about to unfold. ROCKPILE follows traveling cat circus, The Amazing Tom and the story of a looming structure Acrocats. As debt mounts and a moody in town that holds a mysterious past. troupe of circus cats threaten to capsize her, success seems elusive. How long can Samantha hold out for circus stardom?

USA, 2017, 33 min Sat. Feb 17 - 12:30 pm, Wilma USA, 2017, 58 min Fri. Feb 23 - 9:15 pm, Roxy 2 DIRECTOR Kyle Pyatt Wed. Feb 21 - 3:30 pm, Wilma DIRECTOR Jacob Feiring Sat. Feb 24 - 8:45 pm, Elks RODENTS OF UNUSUAL SIZE SAVING BRINTON Hard headed Louisiana fisherman Thomas In a farmhouse basement in the Iowa Gonzales doesn’t know what will hit him next. countryside, eccentric collector Mike After decades of hurricanes and oil spills he Zahs makes a remarkable discovery: faces a new threat: hordes of monstrous 20 the showreels of the man who brought pound swamp rats. RODENTS OF UNUSUAL SIZE follows the giant swamp rats invading moving pictures to America’s Heartland. coastal Louisiana and the defiant people on SAVING BRINTON follows the unlikely the edge of the world who are defending their Midwestern folk hero and portrays communities, culture, and livelihoods from a meditation on living simply and a the onslaught of this curious and unexpected celebration of dreaming big. invasive species. USA, 2017, 71 min Sun. Feb 18 - 3:15 pm, Wilma USA, 2017, 87 min Sat. Feb 24 - 1:00 pm, Elks DIRECTORS Chris Metzler, Quinn Costello, Jeff Springer DIRECTORS Tommy Haines, Andrew Sherburne

ROOM 140 SCRAP Immigrants just released from detention In the shadow of the global metal trade, centers spend their first night in Oakland a metal scrapper hunts the streets of at a motel paid for by one of the workers. Oakland searching for his day’s keep. For one night of respite, the weary travelers rest, reflect, and prepare for the next phase of their journey.

USA, 2016, 6min Tues. Feb 20 - 1:30 pm, MCT

USA, 2017, 12 min 2018 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival 2018 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival Fri. Feb 23 - 3:30 pm, Wilma DIRECTOR Sat. Feb 24 - 3:00 pm, Roxy 1 DIRECTORS Priscilla Gonzalez Sainz Sat. Feb 24 - 1:30 pm, Roxy 2 Chris Filippone 74 75 THE SHIFT SKY MIGRATIONS As dusk descends across the San Francisco Each fall our skies fill with the wings of Bay, the city’s 911 dispatchers prepare for migrating raptors, a migration that relies the busiest time of day: the swing shift. on two hemispheres worth of wild and Looking at the lives behind emergency healthy ecosystems. Join ecologist and phone call-ins, THE SHIFT explores the filmmaker Charles Post as he shines a emotional impact on 25 dispatchers in light on the network of backcountry charge of guiding the other end of the line scientists and sentinels at the front lines through crisis. of raptor conservation.

USA, 2017, 9 min Wed. Feb 21 - 9:00 pm, MCT USA, 2017, 16 min Sat. Feb 17 - 12:30 pm, Roxy 1 DIRECTORS Elivia Shaw, Paloma Martinez Sat. Feb 24 - 3:00 pm, Roxy 1 DIRECTOR Charles Post, Max Lowe, Forest Woodward Thurs. Feb 22 - 4:00 pm, MCT Sun. Feb 25 - 3:00 pm, Roxy 1 A SHOT IN THE DARK SKYWARDS Despite a lifetime of adversity, a blind high A poetic and evocative visual study, school wrestler attempts to win a New SKYWARDS takes the viewer on a Jersey State Championship before the journey into the world of pigeon flying, end of his senior year. high above the bustling and crowded streets of Old Delhi. Sponsored by Consumer Direct Care Network

USA, 2017, 86 min Sun. Feb 18 - 6:00 pm, Elks UK, 2017, 5 min Sat. Feb 17 - 12:30 pm, Roxy 1 DIRECTORS Chris Suchorsky, Oliver Ferraro Mon. Feb 19 - 8:30 pm, Elks DIRECTOR Eva Weber Tues. Feb 20 - 4:00 pm, MCT SICKIES MAKING FILMS SLAVE ONE: THE KUNG FU JUDGE STORY A love letter to the movies, SICKIES Judge John Phillips is the essence of MAKING MOVIES examines American a jack-of-all-trades: a lawyer, a Civil history and questions our urge to censor Court Judge, a filmmaker and a karate movies. By focusing on the nation’s expert. SLAVE ONE: THE KUNG FU longest lasting censor board, the JUDGE STORY follows the rise and fall Maryland Board of Censors, we discover of Judge John Phillips, whose legacy reasons both absurd and surprisingly was shattered by corruption and understandable. gentrification at the heart of Brooklyn’s African American community.

USA, 2018, 84 min Thurs. Feb 22 - 8:45 pm, Elks USA, 2017, 18 min Fri. Feb 23 - 9:15 pm, Roxy 2 DIRECTOR Joe Tropea DIRECTOR Juan Leguizamon Sat. Feb 24 - 9:00 pm, Roxy 3 SKID ROW MARATHON A SNIPER'S WAR On LA's Skid Row, a criminal court judge A SNIPER'S WAR is the story of a sniper organizes a running club comprised whose anti-U.S. views led him to join of homeless, recovering alcoholic and the pro-Russian rebels in the ongoing paroled men and women who seek to Ukrainian conflict, a primary source of rediscover their sense of self-worth and political tension between the United dignity. States and Russia. When social media becomes a communication platform to Sponsored by Montana Legal Justice schedule sniper duels, the film’s focus, Deki, finds his life in jeopardy. USA, 2017, 85 min Sat. Feb 17 - 3:15 pm, Wilma Ukraine/Russia, 2017, 80 min Fri. Feb 23 - 8:45 pm, Elks 2018 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival 2018 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival DIRECTORS Mark Hayes, Gabi Hayes DIRECTOR Olya Schechter 76 77 SPACE WITH MEMORY SWAN SONG Five students from the Madrid Film Van is an 86-year-old twin from Brooklyn School go through the corridors of the who dreams of sailing the world until Conservation and Restoration Center of he dies and swims with the fishes for the Spanish Film Archive to create a portrait eternity. of the largest film repository in Spain in search of the ultimate cinematographic formula.

Spain, 2017, 15 min Sat. Feb 24 - 3:00 pm, Roxy 1 USA, 2017, 13 min Sun. Feb 18 - 4:00 pm, MCT DIRECTORS Luz Arnao, Berta Rico de Torres Sun. Feb 25 - 1:00 pm, Elks DIRECTOR Igor Myakotin Sat. Feb 24 - 3:00 pm, Roxy 1 SPETTACOLO TAKING STOCK Once upon a time there was a tiny hill Using his failed attempts at creating town in Tuscany that found a remarkable profitable stock footage, a filmmaker way to confront their issues: they turned reflects on the absurd, mundane and their lives into a play. Every summer for funny side of being trapped inside the past 50 years, their piazza becomes your own head as an out of work, self- their stage and villagers from 6 to 90 play employed freelancer. a part: the role of themselves.

Sponsored by PayneWest Insurance Italy/USA, 2017, 91 min Scotland/UK, 2017, 5 min Tues. Feb 20 - 1:30 pm, MCT DIRECTOR Jeff Malmberg, Chris Shellen Sun. Feb 18 - 6:30 pm, MCT DIRECTOR Duncan Cowles Sat. Feb 24 - 3:00 pm, Roxy 1 STANDING STILL / STILL STANDING TALK TO MY SON Yoga has been practiced, studied, and Kyung-hee, a barista in South Korea, is a espoused as transformative for several North Korean defector who left her son thousand years. STANDING STILL / STILL in China 13 years ago. With the help of STANDING follows the transformations a filmmaker, she records her voice for her of three individuals for whom Matthew son to explain the story of his birth and Sanford, a paraplegic yoga instructor, is a why she had to leave him. last hope. Taught by a man who can only use half of his body, the three individuals learn the strength and vitality of the human body. USA, 2017, 40 min Sat. Feb 24 - 3:00 pm, Roxy 1 South Korea /USA, 2017, 14 min Sat. Feb 24 - 3:30 pm, Elks DIRECTOR Andrew Walton DIRECTOR Sangsun Choi Sun. Feb 25 - 3:30 pm, Elks STREET FIGHTING MEN THE TERRORIST HUNTER Facing dwindling public services, growing Rita Katz is a spy lauded by some for inequality, and escalating violence, her work fighting terrorism, while others three Detroit men must fight to build claim she creates terrorist plots where something lasting for themselves and none exist. Following the story of the future generations. controversial spy, THE TERRORIST HUNTER weaves Rita’s tale within the context of the multi-billion dollar counter-terrorism industry, exposing how fear and terror play out in our society.

USA, 2017, 108 min Sat. Feb 24 - 6:00 pm, Elks Canada/USA, 2017, 33 min Sat. Feb 24 - 3:30 pm, Elks 2018 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival 2018 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival DIRECTOR Andrew James DIRECTOR Ann Shin Sun. Feb 25 - 3:30 pm, Elks 78 79 THEY COME HOME THROUGH THE DARKNESS Two dedicated pigeon breeders decide The San Quentin State Prison is the to enter their pigeons into a local only prison in the world with a baseball competition. Focusing on their love for program where teams from the outside the tradition and their passion for the come in to play. Following three birds, THEY COME HOME paints a quiet convicted felons struggling to overcome portrait of interspecies connection and their darkest moments, THROUGH THE male friendship, paying homage to a DARKNESS tells the inspiring story unique community in New York City. of the healing power of sports in the search for hope and redemption. USA/Australia, 2017, 21 min Sat. Feb 17 - 12:30 pm, Roxy 1 USA, 2017, 58 min Sun. Feb 18 - 8:30 pm, Elks DIRECTOR Rowena Potts Sun. Feb 18 - 4:00 pm, MCT DIRECTOR Tomas Leach THIS FILM IS NOT YET RATED TRANSFORMER The Motion Picture Association of In the summer of 2015, former U.S. Marine America (MPAA) ratings system rates and and world record weightlifter Matt “Kroc” restricts everything from the exhibition Kroczaleski was publicly outed as being of independent and foreign films, gay- transgender. TRANSFORMER follows themed films, and rates sexuality more Janae as she attempts to find her place in a harshly than violence. THIS FILM IS NOT world where one day she is alpha male and YET RATED examines the MPAA and the the next she is a delicate woman. Will her standards and methods its ratings board passage from being a male bring her the uses to rate the movies, exposing a secret peace she’s looking for or complicate her system that is long overdue for change. own physical and psychological wellbeing? USA, 2006, 98 min Sat. Feb 17 - 5:00 pm, Roxy 3 Canada/USA/South Korea, 2017, 78 min Sun. Feb 18 - 8:15 pm, Wilma DIRECTOR Kirby Dick DIRECTOR Michael Del Monte Thurs. Feb 22 - 1:45 pm, MCT

THIS IS CONGO THE TREASURE (EL TESORO) The deadly ongoing conflict in the Democratic Little Vera is determined to accompany Republic of the Congo is one of the world’s her grandfather Luis in a search for longest continuing conflicts, having stretched treasure hidden somewhere in the two decades. Following four compelling forest. THE TREASURE follows the characters — a whistleblower, a patriotic young girl as she discovers the true military commander, a mineral dealer and meaning of the treasure hunt and the a displaced tailor — THIS IS CONGO offers truths that get uncovered along the way. viewers a truly Congolese perspective on the problems that plague this lushly beautiful nation. Sponsored by Soft Landing Missoula DRC/USA/Canada/Qatar, 2017, 91 min Spain, 2017, 12 min Thurs. Feb 22 - 4:00 pm, MCT DIRECTOR Daniel MacCabe Sun. Feb 25 - 8:15 pm, MCT DIRECTORS Marisa Lafuente Esteso, Nestor del Castllo Sun. Feb 25 - 3:30 pm, Elks THREE THOUSAND THE TROUBLE WITH WOLVES Diving into the National Film Board’s Death threats, court battles, and an iconic vast archive, Inuk artist, Asinnajaq, endangered species caught in the middle, parses through a vast and complicated THE TROUBLE WITH WOLVES takes an cinematic representation of Alaska Inuits, up-close look at one of the most heated via newsreels, propaganda, ethnographic and controversial wildlife conservation docs, and works of Inuit filmmakers. debate of our time. The film explores Embedding historic footage into original whether coexistence is truly possible by animation, Asinnajaq conjures up a vision hearing from the people most directly of hope and beautiful possibility. involved. Canada, 2017, 14 min Sun. Feb 18 - 4:00 pm, MCT USA, 2017, 57 min Sun. Feb 18 - 5:30 pm, Wilma 2018 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival 2018 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival DIRECTOR Isabella-Rose Weetaluktuk Wed. Feb 21 - 6:15 pm, Elks DIRECTOR Collin Monda Mon. Feb 19 - 11:15 am, Roxy 2 80 81 TURQUOISE UNITED BY WATER The beauty of Native American jewelry lies The 5 tribes of the Upper Columbia in the cultural diversity and history of its River unite on the water in traditional makers. Through the relationship between canoes for the first time since the Grand a granddaughter and her grandmother, Coulee Dam flooded their waterways 76 TURQUIOSE explores the connection years ago. With archival footage from the last Salmon Ceremony in 1940 and to the past that is inherent in the Navajo the 2016 tribal reunion at Kettle Falls, jewelry. UNITED BY WATER offers an expansive and historical look at an important history that is often overlooked. USA, 2017, 5 min Sun. Feb 25 - 2:15 pm, Roxy 2 USA, 2017, 4 min Sun. Feb 25 - 2:15 pm, Roxy 2 DIRECTOR Michael Redhouse DIRECTOR Derrick LaMere .TV A VIEW FROM THE WINDOW The much sought-after, two-letter web An immersive glimpse of a school day domain suffix of the title is examined through the eyes of deaf children. as both a form of capital and an emblem of a country on the brink of Sponsored by Consumer Direct Care Network a climate-induced catastrophe. This is a simultaneously humorous and illuminating essay film centered on the environmentally contentious Pacific Islands of Tuvalu. USA/Tuvalu/New Zealand/France, 2017, 23 min Sun. Feb 18 - 12:30 pm, Wilma USA, 2017, 8 min Wed. Feb 21 - 4:00 pm, MCT DIRECTOR G. Anthony Svatek Sat. Feb 24 - 9:00 pm, Roxy 3 DIRECTORS Chris Filippone, Azar Kafaei Thurs. Feb 22 - 1:30 pm, Elks Sat. Feb 24 - 3:00 pm, Roxy 1 TWIST OF FAITH WALK ON THE MOUNTAIN Ohio fireman, Tony Comes, was abused by Junior Walk is an anti-coal activist in West a priest at the age of 14. Years later, now Virginia and he makes it his job to expose the married with two children, Tony’s past starts environmental and economic distress caused to resurface as the stories of other boys by coal fields. Following Junior, WALK ON victimized by priests come to light in the THE MOUNTAIN tells the story of the people media. Faced with the decision of whether living in southern West Virginia suffering from to prosecute the priest who sodomized him the decline of the coal industry and the every as a young teenager, Tony must question day battle they fight to feed their families, as his own belief in God as he processes a they struggle with deciding where they stand painful past. - with Junior or with the coal companies. USA, 2004, 87 min Sat. Feb 17 - 2:00 pm, Roxy 2 USA, 2017, 19 min Wed. Feb 21 - 3:30 pm, Wilma DIRECTOR Kirby Dick DIRECTORS Will Gregg, Eddie Mostert Thurs. Feb 22 - 6:15 pm, MCT UNHEARD THE WAR IN BETWEEN Amidst the depths of despair, a grieving Following an incredible bond between mother finds her voice to challenge the combat veterans and rescued wolves forces of injustice and inspire hope. both suffering from PTSD, THE WAR IN BETWEEN shows how ‘Back to Nature’ therapy helps men and animals learn how to trust each other to heal.

USA, 2016, 6 min Sat. Feb 24 - 3:00 pm, Roxy 1 USA, 2017, 66 min Sat. Feb 17 - 5:45 pm, Wilma 2018 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival 2018 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival DIRECTOR Erin Semine Kökdil Sun. Feb 25 - 3:30 pm, Elks DIRECTOR Riccardo Ferraris 82 83 WATER IS LIFE THE WOMAN WHO WAS IN LOVE WITH SEASHELLS AND OTHER STORIES The Standing Rock Sioux Nation is In the fight to make ends meet in the struggling to survive. As they try to uphill battle against fishing regulations, protect the water source and the sacred a changing climate, and their own lands of their small nation, the Sioux geographical isolation, multiple gen- Nation finds their heritage under attack. erations of the residents of Atlantic, WATER IS LIFE explores this story through NC tell stories about their home and its animation and a narrative by the Standing environment. Rock Chairman.

USA, 2016, 5 min Wed. Feb 21 - 3:30 pm, Wilma USA, 2017, 16 min Sun. Feb 18 - 1:15 pm, MCT DIRECTOR Joseph Erb Sun. Feb 25 - 3:00 pm, Roxy 1 DIRECTOR Olivia Booker Sat. Feb 24 - 1:30 pm, Roxy 2 WE ARE THE GIANT WORKING IN PROTEST Any revolutionary faces a difficult task when Weaving together the themes of race, standing up to injustice: whether to take power, and the media from over 30 years up arms and fight, or to advocate change of footage, WORKING IN PROTEST through peace and non-violence. Following offers an observational narrative about the lives of six extraordinary individuals, WE the history of protest and activism in the ARE THE GIANT explores the agonizing United States and universal dilemmas of those struggling for justice and freedom in the face of oppressive regimes. Sponsored by Jeanette Rankin Peace Center USA, 2014, 92 min USA/Greece, 2017, 81 min Sat. Feb 17 - 3:00 pm, Roxy1 DIRECTOR Greg Barker Sat. Feb 24 - 10:00 am, Roxy 1 DIRECTORS Michael Galinsky, Suki Hawley, David Beilinson WE BREATHE AGAIN XAVIER CORBERO: PORTRAIT OF AN ARTIST IN WINTER For centuries, Alaska Native peoples Following the iconic Spanish sculptor survived the harsh conditions of life in the Xavier Corbero, XAVIER CORBERO: far north. As the battle to claim Alaska PORTRAIT OF AN ARTIST IN WINTER began when United States territory offers a kaleidoscopic portrait of the expanded, disruption to an old and life and career of a man who managed cherished heritage took root. Following to traverse a turbulent time in Spain’s the lives of four Alaska Natives determined to break free from traumatic pasts, WE history. BREATH AGAIN explores the issue of suicide among Alaska Native peoples. USA, 2017, 57 min Mon. Feb 19 - 3:45 pm, MCT UK/Spain, 2017, 14 min Sat. Feb. 24 - 1:30 pm, Roxy 2 DIRECTOR Marsh Chamberlain, Enei Begaye Peter, DIRECTOR Nathalie Biancheri Sun. Feb 25 - 1:00 pm, Elks Ryan Jacobi, Evon Peter WILD NEXT DOOR ZION A short film about the beauty of nature Born without legs and growing up in Montanans can find without traveling the foster care, Zion Clark has struggled with world. fitting in his whole life. Following the story of the young wrestler, ZION shares the inspirational story of a young man who pushes himself to great lengths to pursue his passion.

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