DOCSLIB.ORG

For More Than 45 Years the Good Food Store Has Been Missoula's

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
For More Than 45 Years the Good Food Store Has Been Missoula's For more than 45 years the Good Food Store has been Missoula’s home for locally-produced, organic and bulk foods. 1600 S. 3rd St. West | Missoula | www.goodfoodstore.com WELCOME 3 Welcome Dearest Missoula, filmmakers and documentary film fans, On behalf of the staff and board of the Big Sky Film Institute, thank you for joining us at the 17th annual Big Sky Documentary Film Festival. Here in the heart of winter we welcome you, curious, thoughtful, excited and driven audiences, to experience illuminating stories from around the world. For Big Sky it is a transformative year as we welcome a guest programmer, settle the Institute in an exciting new home, and encounter a profound shift taking place in the modern canon of documentary film. As we enter a new decade we are thrilled to present nearly 150 extraordinary films that explore turning points, tipping points, colliding cultures, dubious power, human resilience, natural wonders and elder wisdom. This year we also welcome two teams of filmmakers for retrospective programs, place-based filmmaker duo Bill Ross and Turner Ross and celebrated documentary veterans Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert. These exciting programs capture a prodigious spectrum of American experience, rights for women and workers, and the remarkable 50-year career of Julia Reichert. We introduce a new event this year, the Big Sky Centerpiece, a mid-festival spotlight on a film at the heart of the festival, which this year will explore the great threat to our public lands. Big Sky artist programs continue to expand as we welcome eight talented artists in the 4th World Indigenous Media Lab and ten films from Indigenous directors and producers. The DocShop filmmaker’s forum will navigate Sustainability & Integrity, exploring paths for building a sustainable career as a documentary filmmaker while upholding integrity as an independent storyteller. Behind the scenes at Big Sky are youth filmmaking workshops, festival field trips and nearly 50 filmmaker visits to schools, bringing documentary storytelling into classrooms across Montana. We are living in a time of immense change. Behind us are lessons from the past, ahead of us are choices about how we influence and impact our children, our cultures and our planet. As documentary enjoys a renaissance, nonfiction storytellers are capturing an important moment in history, lending retrospect to help us make sense of how we got here, and hope for moving forward, together. Rachel Gregg Executive Director Big Sky Film Institute TABLE OF CONTENTS Box Office and Festival Information ......................... 5 Youth Programs and Artist Development .........34-43 Staff & Sponsors .................................................8-10 Film Strands......................................................44-47 Festival Exhibitions ...........................................14-23 Schedule of Films ............................................48-56 Competitions & Festival Jury ............................24-26 Film Guide .....................................................63-109 DocShop & Pitch ...............................................28-33 Festival Map ........................................................110 Get a Front Row Seat to Nature nature.org/montana © Amy Pearson/TNC © Amy BOX OFFICE & FESTIVAL INFORMATION 5 Festival Headquarters Location & Hours Zootown Arts Community Center (ZACC) 216 W Main Street Opens Friday, February 14th at 12:00 pm HOURS: 10am to 7pm daily Feb 15-23 Advance tickets: bigskyfilmfest.org (available for pick up at the door) Buy passes: Festival HQ* Will call for all passes (All Access, All Screening, 5-Punch): Festival HQ Pass Prices: All-Access Pass ......................................................................................................... $325 All-Screening Pass ................................................................................................... $175 Weekend Pass (3-day All Access) ............................................................................. $150 5-Punch Pass ............................................................................................................. $40 Student/Senior 5-Punch Pass .................................................................................... $30 Schoolhouse Docs ....................................................................................................... $5 DocShop Pass (Feb 18-22) ...................................................................................... $150 Single Screening Ticket ............................................................................................... $9 Student/Senior Single Screening Ticket ...................................................................... $7 IMPORTANT INFORMATION: Passes and Merchandise are available for sale at the Festival Headquarters. Single Screening Tickets may be purchased at the door 30 minutes prior to the screening, pending availability. Will call tickets for individual screenings may be picked up at the door. Arrive Early We recommend passholders arrive 15-20 minutes early for screenings. All seating is general admission, first come, first serve. Reserved seating for ticketed patrons and passholders is guaranteed until show time. If you do not arrive by show time your seat may be released to the wait line. Please Note Most of the films at this event are not rated by the MPAA. If you are bringing children, please read film descriptions carefully as some films may have sensitive content. If you have questions, please contact the festival office at 406-541-FILM (3456). "Reality leaves a lot to the imagination" -John Lennon BIG SKY FILM INSTITUTE 7 BIG SKY FILM INSTITUTE H OME OF THE BIG SKY DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL Rooted in the heart of the mountain west, the Big Sky Film Institute nurtures and elevates nonfiction films that have the power to transform our world, our culture, our youth and ourselves. A 501c3 non-profit artist development in- stitute, 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. BSFI works year-round to bring stories from across the globe to our beautiful mountain town, support the people who create documentary film, create vibrant events that gather our engaged community, and expand knowledge and conversation around issues that matter. BSFI PROGRAMS Big Sky Documentary Film Festival Now in its 17th year, the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival is Montana’s largest cinema event and the premiere documentary film festival in the American West. Native Filmmaker Initiative Uniquely located to elevate Native voices, Big Sky Documentary Film Festival has a long tradition of celebrating Indigenous documentary film, stories from Indian Country and expressions of Indigenous filmmakers. The Native Filmmaker Initiative includes festival programming by Indigenous filmmakers, youth outreach, a digital toolkit curated for Native filmmakers, and a fellowship program for emerging Indigenous artists. Big Sky Film Series The Big Sky Film Series is a free screening series featuring traditional and innovative nonfiction films with local interest. Curated by the BSFI, the series brings world class documentary film to Missoula with filmmakers or pan- elists in attendance for Q&A and community conversation. DocShop Filmmaker’s Forum An industry conference in the heart of BSDFF, DocShop gathers filmmakers, innovators, students and media industry leaders to explore cutting-edge ideas that are shaping the field of documentary film today. Youth Education Programs Big Sky Film Institute offers 5 educational programs that promote media literacy, opportunities for students, filmmakers and families to access, evaluate, create, reflect and engage in discourse on documentary film. • Filmmakers in the Schools takes films and filmmakers to classrooms during the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival • Big Sky Documentary Youth Fellowship is a 5-month college level course in documentary history, theory and hands-on filmmaking • Teen Doc Intensive is a 2-day documentary filmmaking crash course for high school students • Schoolhouse Docs is a slate of kids and family-friendly programming at the festival including films rated for kids by Missoula area educators • NFI Film Club is an educational outreach program that takes a curated selection of Indigenous documentary films, made by Indigenous filmmakers, into classrooms across the state of Montana! 8 STAFF BIG SKY FILM INSTITUTE STAFF Festival Interns Kali Cantrell, Brie White Programmers Executive Director Rachel Gregg Sarah Briggs Programming Director Joanne Feinberg Wendy Conner Education Programs Coordinator Julia Sherman Warren Etheredge Festival Coordinator Adam Miller Technical Director Ken Furrow Rachel Gregg Adam Miller FESTIVAL STAFF Ivan MacDonald Darrel Pearce Print Traffic Coordinators Marshall Granger, Ryan Seitz Daniel TC Molloy Julia Sherman Special Events Austin Wallis Whitney Skauge Projection Design Jason Wiener Ryan Weibush Media Director Nick Davis Michael Workman Operations Manager Brittany Palmer Venue Managers John Budge, Tyler Grutsch, Big Sky Film Institute Board of Directors Michael Higgs, Kyle Hollinger, Lauren Orozco, Ellen Buchanan Conrad Scheid Dru Carr Program Design Kou Moua/KM Creative Bob Homer Festival Artwork David Miles Lusk Sarah McMillan Volunteer Manager Karissa Drye Willy Miller Box Office Managers Mikel Robinson, Kim Skufka John Passuccio Webmaster Jim Coefield Ann Quirk
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Julia Reichert and the Work of Telling Working-Class Stories
    FEATURES JULIA REICHERT AND THE WORK OF TELLING WORKING-CLASS STORIES Patricia Aufderheide It was the Year of Julia: in 2019 documentarian Julia Reichert received lifetime-achievement awards at the Full Frame and HotDocs festivals, was given the inaugural “Empowering Truth” award from Kartemquin Films, and saw a retrospec- tive of her work presented at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. (The International Documentary Association had already given her its 2018 award.) Meanwhile, her newest work, American Factory (2019)—made, as have been all her films in the last two decades, with Steven Bognar—is being championed for an Academy Award nomination, which would be Reichert’s fourth, and has been picked up by the Obamas’ new Higher Ground company. A lifelong socialist- feminist and self-styled “humanist Marxist” who pioneered independent social-issue films featuring women, Reichert was also in 2019 finishing another film, tentatively titled 9to5: The Story of a Movement, about the history of the movement for working women’srights. Yet Julia Reichert is an underrecognized figure in the contemporary documentary landscape. All of Reichert’s films are rooted in Dayton, Ohio. Though periodically rec- ognized by the bicoastal documentary film world, she has never been a part of it, much like her Chicago-based fellow Julia Reichert in 2019. Photo by Eryn Montgomery midwesterners: Kartemquin Films (Gordon Quinn, Steve James, Maria Finitzo, Bill Siegel, and others) and Yvonne 2 The Documentary Film Book. She is absent entirely from Welbon. 3 Gary Crowdus’s A Political Companion to American Film. Nor has her work been a focus of very much documentary While her earliest films are mentioned in many texts as scholarship.
    [Show full text]
  • Missoula Urban Transportation District Director of Finance and Administration Job Opening
    MISSOULA URBAN TRANSPORTATION DISTRICT DIRECTOR OF FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATION JOB OPENING (406) 721-3333 www.mountainline.com MISSOULA URBAN TRANSPORTATION DISTRICT DIRECTOR OF FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATION ABOUT THE JOB OPENING The district is seeking a dynamic leader for the position of director of finance and administration. This senior management position works directly with the General Manager and assists in the determination 5 of the Healthiest and Greenest and implementation of short and Cities in America: Missoula, Montana long-range goals and strategies and Greener Ideal, August 2018 has the overall responsibility for managing and providing leadership to the agency’s administration department. The position provides leadership to the agency’s staff as it MISSOULA, MONTANA THE MISSOULA URBAN relates to policies and procedures, and administers and oversees Missoula is a unique and vibrant mountain TRANSPORTATION DISTRICT the finance functions, asset community with incredible personality, management, and human relations rich history, a lively arts and culture scene, The Missoula Urban Transportation Today the Mountain Line system program. Minimum qualifications and world-class year-round recreation District (MUTD) was founded in 1976 operates 24 buses on 12 routes and include a bachelor’s degree in opportunities. Float, kayak and river surf and is governed by a seven-member 11 paratransit vehicles that serve the accounting or an equivalent right in and just outside of town, fly-fish board of directors appointed by the community. Mountain Line was recently combination of education and blue-ribbon trout streams, and ski some of city council and county commissioners, awarded a $500,000 Low-No Emissions experience.
    [Show full text]
  • The BG News February 13, 1987
    Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU BG News (Student Newspaper) University Publications 2-13-1987 The BG News February 13, 1987 Bowling Green State University Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news Recommended Citation Bowling Green State University, "The BG News February 13, 1987" (1987). BG News (Student Newspaper). 4620. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/4620 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License. This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the University Publications at ScholarWorks@BGSU. It has been accepted for inclusion in BG News (Student Newspaper) by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@BGSU. Spirits and superstitions in Friday Magazine THE BG NEWS Vol. 69 Issue 80 Bowling Green, Ohio Friday, February 13,1987 Death Funding cut ruled for 1987-88 Increase in fees anticipated suicide by Mike Amburgey said. staff reporter Dalton said the proposed bud- get calls for $992 million Man kills wife, The Ohio Board of Regents statewide in educational subsi- has reduced the University's dies for 1987-88, the same friend first instructional subsidy allocation amount funded for this year. A for 1987-88 by $1.9 million, and 4.7 percent increase is called for by Don Lee unless alterations are made in in the academic year 1988-89 Governor Celeste's proposed DALTON SAID given infla- wire editor budget, University students tionary factors, the governor's could face at least a 25 percent budget puts state universities in The manager of the Bowling instructional fee increase, a difficult place.
    [Show full text]
  • Delegates Guide
    Delegates Guide 9–14 March, 2018 Cultural Partners Supported by Friends of Qumra Media Partner QUMRA DELEGATES GUIDE Qumra Programming Team 5 Qumra Masters 7 Master Class Moderators 14 Qumra Project Delegates 17 Industry Delegates 57 QUMRA PROGRAMMING TEAM Fatma Al Remaihi CEO, Doha Film Institute Director, Qumra Jaser Alagha Aya Al-Blouchi Quay Chu Anthea Devotta Qumra Industry Qumra Master Classes Development Qumra Industry Senior Coordinator Senior Coordinator Executive Coordinator Youth Programmes Senior Film Workshops & Labs Coordinator Senior Coordinator Elia Suleiman Artistic Advisor, Doha Film Institute Mayar Hamdan Yassmine Hammoudi Karem Kamel Maryam Essa Al Khulaifi Qumra Shorts Coordinator Qumra Production Qumra Talks Senior Qumra Pass Senior Development Assistant Coordinator Coordinator Coordinator Film Programming Senior QFF Programme Manager Hanaa Issa Coordinator Animation Producer Director of Strategy and Development Deputy Director, Qumra Meriem Mesraoua Vanessa Paradis Nina Rodriguez Alanoud Al Saiari Grants Senior Coordinator Grants Coordinator Qumra Industry Senior Qumra Pass Coordinator Coordinator Film Workshops & Labs Coordinator Wesam Said Eliza Subotowicz Rawda Al-Thani Jana Wehbe Grants Assistant Grants Senior Coordinator Film Programming Qumra Industry Senior Assistant Coordinator Khalil Benkirane Ali Khechen Jovan Marjanović Chadi Zeneddine Head of Grants Qumra Industry Industry Advisor Film Programmer Ania Wojtowicz Manager Qumra Shorts Coordinator Film Training Senior Film Workshops & Labs Senior Coordinator
    [Show full text]
  • The Eddie Awards Issue
    THE MAGAZINE FOR FILM & TELEVISION EDITORS, ASSISTANTS & POST- PRODUCTION PROFESSIONALS THE EDDIE AWARDS ISSUE IN THIS ISSUE Golden Eddie Honoree GUILLERMO DEL TORO Career Achievement Honorees JERROLD L. LUDWIG, ACE and CRAIG MCKAY, ACE PLUS ALL THE WINNERS... FEATURING DUMBO HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON: THE HIDDEN WORLD AND MUCH MORE! US $8.95 / Canada $8.95 QTR 1 / 2019 / VOL 69 Veteran editor Lisa Zeno Churgin switched to Adobe Premiere Pro CC to cut Why this pro chose to switch e Old Man & the Gun. See how Adobe tools were crucial to her work ow and to Premiere Pro. how integration with other Adobe apps like A er E ects CC helped post-production go o without a hitch. adobe.com/go/stories © 2019 Adobe. All rights reserved. Adobe, the Adobe logo, Adobe Premiere, and A er E ects are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Adobe in the United States and/or other countries. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. Veteran editor Lisa Zeno Churgin switched to Adobe Premiere Pro CC to cut Why this pro chose to switch e Old Man & the Gun. See how Adobe tools were crucial to her work ow and to Premiere Pro. how integration with other Adobe apps like A er E ects CC helped post-production go o without a hitch. adobe.com/go/stories © 2019 Adobe. All rights reserved. Adobe, the Adobe logo, Adobe Premiere, and A er E ects are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Adobe in the United States and/or other countries.
    [Show full text]
  • ECON 3240 American Factory Workers in Chinese Factory Spring 2020
    ECON 3240 American Factory workers in Chinese Factory Spring 2020 American Factory is great documentary for us, mainly because it discusses how some can fall out of the middle class, becoming vulnerable if not poor, but then thanks to government policy (what government) claw the their way back into the middle class, keeping the Dream alive for themselves and their children we hope (IG mobility). It is also the almost universal story but a story of how workers and manageres learng by doing (aka learning by doing). For reasons that become obviout in the film the same factories and workers learn to do better overtime, like AI but not artificial, more of a group dynamic with input from workers and managers. Somehow workers can become much more productive over time, using lesst time to produce the same number of cars (or glass panels..). The makers of this documentatry sense this dynamic: the camera dwells on the machinery and workers converting sand (silicon) many shapes of very transparent glass (our Coa our Chinese owner entreprenuer writes a song about transparency, which could have two meanings, and Fu, see the Terry Gross interview below. We see the last GM S-10 truck role through the assembly line and we are off, new owners, some new workers from China and 2000 American workers, some from the GM plant that clased. To spread the pain/ privelidge we can the divide the 1 hour 50 minute file into three sectiosn. Everyone read the cast of characters below should watch the first 20 minutes (some of the key cast members are listed below, the huge factory building itself is a star…I thought it was in Dayton, Ohio but actually in another town, this happens when land intensive factories spring up near cities).
    [Show full text]
  • History Overview Detailed 2020-2021 Tri 2
    TRIMESTERTRIMESTER 2 HISTORYHISTORY OVERVIEWOVERVIEW 2020-2021 1/4-1/4-1/1/77 ​ ​ ​ ​ The Constitution Date ​ ​ ​1787 Themes ​ ​Rise and Fall of Empires and Nations ​ ​ ​Trade and Commerce Readings ​ ​1/4-5 ​Hist US V3 Ch 35, 36 ​ ​ ​ ​Shhh! p 7-26 1/6-7 ​Hist US V3 Ch 37, 38 ​ ​ ​ ​Shhh! p 28-44 ​ ​ ​1/11-12 ​Hist US V3 Ch 39, 40 ​ ​ ​ ​Who Was Geo Washington? pp 1-21 ​ ​ ​ ​Founding Mothers – Mrs. Jay ​ ​ ​ ​Story of George Washington Ch 1-2 ​ ​ ​1/13-14 ​Hist US V3 Ch 41, 42 ​ ​ ​ ​Who Was Geo Washington? pp 22-42 ​ ​ ​ ​Story of George Washington Ch 3-4 BriefBrief OverviewOverview ofof AmericaAmerica inin thethe AftermathAftermath ofof thethe RevolutionaryRevolutionary WarWar The state of American affairs post-Revolutionary War: Congress and the states are in debt, and a postwar depression on the scale of the Great Depression of the 1930s exacerbates the troubles. Currency is losing value. Army vets are unpaid – given promissory notes that are worth little due to inflation. Vets sell their notes to put clothes on their backs and food in their mouths. Economic slump of the 1780s had many sources: • Massive quantities of property were destroyed in the war. • Because men were fighting in the war, they were unable to perform their regular jobs. Economic output fell. • Enslaved men, women, and children emancipated themselves by leaving with the British or simply running into forests and swamps. This was a financial loss to their enslavers. • Britain refused to allow Americans to trade with British sugar islands in the Caribbean – one of the American’s greatest income sources.
    [Show full text]
  • National Conference
    NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE POPULAR CULTURE ASSOCIATION AMERICAN CULTURE ASSOCIATION In Memoriam We honor those members who passed away this last year: Mortimer W. Gamble V Mary Elizabeth “Mery-et” Lescher Martin J. Manning Douglas A. Noverr NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE POPULAR CULTURE ASSOCIATION AMERICAN CULTURE ASSOCIATION APRIL 15–18, 2020 Philadelphia Marriott Downtown Philadelphia, PA Lynn Bartholome Executive Director Gloria Pizaña Executive Assistant Robin Hershkowitz Graduate Assistant Bowling Green State University Sandhiya John Editor, Wiley © 2020 Popular Culture Association Additional information about the PCA available at pcaaca.org. Table of Contents President’s Welcome ........................................................................................ 8 Registration and Check-In ............................................................................11 Exhibitors ..........................................................................................................12 Special Meetings and Events .........................................................................13 Area Chairs ......................................................................................................23 Leadership.........................................................................................................36 PCA Endowment ............................................................................................39 Bartholome Award Honoree: Gary Hoppenstand...................................42 Ray and Pat Browne Award
    [Show full text]
  • Re - Regular Session
    MINUTES MONTANA SENATE 54th LEGISLATURE - REGULAR SESSION COMMITTEE ON LABOR & EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS Call to Order: By CHAIRMAN TOM KEATING, on January 17, 1995, at 1:00 P.M. ROLL CALL Members Present: Sen. Thomas F. Keating, Chairman (R) Sen. Gary C. Aklestad, Vice Chairman (R) Sen. Steve Benedict (R) Sen. Larry L. Baer (R) Sen. James H. "Jim" Burnett (R) Sen. C.A. Casey Emerson (R) Sen. Sue Bartlett (D) Sen. Fred R. Van Valkenburg (D) Sen. Bill Wilson (D) Members Excused: None. Members Absent: None. Staff Present: Eddye McClure, Legislative Council Mary Florence Erving, Committee Secretary Please Note: These are summary minutes. Testimony and discussion are paraphrased and condensed. Committee Business Summary: Hearing: HB 47 HB 31 SB 80 Executive Action: None. HEARING ON HB 47 Opening Statement by Sponsor: REPRESENTATIVE DON LARSON, HD 58, Seeley Lake, stated HB 47 was introduced at the request of the Department of Labor. REP. LARSON stated the bill clarifies statute concerning alternative membership on the five member board of personnel appeals; grants the board the ability to testify in hearings by telephone teleconference mechanisms; clarifies the ability of district courts to enter judgements; and enables the department to allocate the cost of fact finding to a professional fact finder. The bill also appeals the little used and discriminatory Bar and Restaurant Protection Act. The bill has no fiscal impact, unless killed, then a negative amount affects the General Fund. The 950117LA.SM1 SENATE LABOR & EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS COMMITTEE January 17, 1995 Page 2 of 14 effective date is immediate due to the number of hearings and the desire to cut costs.
    [Show full text]
  • Staff Faculty Funding
    Special thanks from the FOCUS Media Journal Staff to the following for their continuous support: Staff Joe Palladino Janice Strobach Dana Welch Faculty Peter Bloom Anna Brusutti Alenda Chang Michael Curtin Anna Everett Cynthia Felando Jennifer Holt Ross Melnick Laila Shereen-Sakr Cristina Venegas Janet Walker Funding Associated Students UCSB FAMST Department Michael Curtin i ii President Ian Laughbaum Vice President Elizabeth Cook Secretary Matthew MacPherson Officer Alejandra Gularte Chief Copy Editor McKinsey Fidellow Copy Editors Irene Chen, Catalina Fernandez, Angelina Garcia, Hannah Maerowitz Writers Alejandra Gularte, Alex Tritt, Cassidy Pyle, Catalina Fernandez, Elizabeth Cook, EmmaClaire, Fong Kuo, Ian Laughbaum, Joey Goodman, Kai Glick, Keana Alden, Matthew MacPherson Graphic Designer Tinna Lam Staff Advisor Joe Palladino iii ABOUT THE STAFF President: Ian Laughbaum After having come out of the FOCUS editorial board last year confused as to how he became president in the first place, now fourth-year Ian Laughbaum knew he wanted to do it again, right this time. He’d like to give out his thanks to all of the journal’s authors, the faculty and staff who made it possible, and of course the journal’s staff, without whom he’d be utterly lost and probably doing something silly. Vice President: Elizabeth Cook Elizabeth Cook is a second-year double major in Film and Media Studies and Feminist Studies hailing from Los Altos, CA. When she’s not talking about women in film, she performs with the Women’s Ensemble Theatre Troupe and volunteers with Camp Kesem, an incredible non-profit dedicated to supporting kids through and be- yond their parent’s cancer.
    [Show full text]
  • Journey to the Academy Awards: an Investigation of Oscar-Shortlisted and Nominated Documentaries (2014-2016) PRELIMINARY KEY
    Journey to the Academy Awards: An Investigation of Oscar-Shortlisted and Nominated Documentaries (2014-2016) PRELIMINARY KEY FINDINGS By Caty Borum Chattoo, Co-Director, Center for Media & Social Impact American University School of Communication | Washington, D.C. February 2016 OVERVIEW For a documentary filmmaker, being recognized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences for an Oscar nomination in the Best Documentary Feature category is often the pinnacle moment in a career. Beyond the celebratory achievement, the acknowledgment can open up doors for funding and opportunities for next films and career opportunities. The formal recognition happens in three phases: It begins in December with the Academy’s announcement of a shortlist—15 films that advance to a formal nomination for the Academy’s Best Documentary Feature Award. Then, in mid-January, the final list of five official nominations is announced. Finally, at the end of February each year, the one winner is announced at the Academy Awards ceremony. Beyond a film’s narrative and technical prowess, the marketing campaigns that help a documentary make it to the shortlist and then the final nomination list are increasingly expensive and insular, from advertisements in entertainment trade outlets to lavish events to build buzz among Academy members and industry influencers. What does it take for a documentary film and its director and producer to make it to the top—the Oscars shortlist, the nomination and the win? Which film directors are recognized—in terms of race and gender?
    [Show full text]
  • Missoula Bridges Planning Study
    Missoula Bridges Planning Study March 2014 DRAFT Prepared For: Prepared By: DRAFT March 2014 CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ...................................................................... III ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS .................................................... IV EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ..................................................................... VI ES.1 Existing and Projected Conditions ............................................................... vii ES.2 Needs and Objectives ................................................................................. viii ES.3 Recommended Improvement Options ........................................................ ix 1.0 INTRODUCTION .........................................................................1 1.1. Study Process................................................................................................. 1 2.0 PUBLIC AND AGENCY PARTICIPATION ........................................2 2.1. Study Website ............................................................................................... 3 2.2. Public and Agency Involvement Activities .................................................... 3 2.3. Advisory Committee Meetings ...................................................................... 6 3.0 LOCAL PLANNING ......................................................................6 3.1. Transportation Planning ................................................................................ 6 3.2. Land Use Planning ........................................................................................
    [Show full text]