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1 40 $ • 50 $ (SCREENINGS ONLY) 125 75 $ $ Hootenanny, Missoula's festival of will present festival selections 10 $ 150 $ The Princess Bride. The Princess Hootenanny events sprinkled throughout the MTFF Simulcast Hootenanny for up to 1 (one) child ALL ACCESS PASS INCLUDES: · Admission to each film. · Event admission to all events & parties Thursday - Sunday. · Access to special events/games/rides at the Hip Strip Block Party, Saturday, October 8. · Ability to reserve seating · Free This year’s MTFF also integrates serious kids stuff, featuring movies, workshops, and, you know, ninja serious kids stuff, featuring movies, training. Look for a serendipitous convergence with the weekend, not the least of which is a special free outdoor screening of Hip Strip Block Party (October 8) and the all-time-classic New this year, throughout the weekend in over a dozen locations across Montana, throughout the weekend in over a never have access to the films including communities that might and diverse lives depicted screening at the fest. The eclectic worlds venues like independent movie in our films will play out at partner in larger cities (Helena, Great theaters, community centers and schools like Deer Lodge and Plentywood Falls, Billings) as well as remote towns (population 1,734). hosts a wealth of guest writers, MTFF’s weekend-long celebration directors, producers, actors and artists, all of whom will participate in Q&As and other special events. Please join the staff of the Roxy as we present MTFF and welcome these innovative creators and curators to the wonderful location we call . • PASS ALL ACCESS SINGLE ADMISSION • PUNCH CARD 5-ADMISSION STUDENT ALL SCREENING • • ALL SCREENING PASS • STUDENT ALL ACCESS Charles To Sleep To - whose careers Kenneth Turan who TICKET INFORMATION TICKET The Hubleys. John & Faith Killer and Sheep Of . Marc Mohan and The Missoula who is here representing her numerous films who is here representing her numerous Erika Fredrickson : For your best chance at seats, always plan to arrive

All films screen at The Roxy. Tickets & Passes are available at The Roxy Theater Box Office (718 South Higgins) during normal business hours, or at theroxytheater.org any old time. Each film or screening block requires a separate ticket for entry. Pass-holders are allowed entry to any screening, however, seating is limited to theater capacity. Pass-holders are encouraged to claim physical tickets at the box office to assure a seat. (Pro tip at The Roxy at least fifteen (15) minutes before published screening time). elcome to the second annual MONTANA FILM FESTIVAL, hosted elcome to the second annual MONTANA

span over 60 years. MTFF is also thrilled to welcome renowned LA span over 60 years. MTFF is also thrilled Times film critic, author and NPR commentator will host several post-screening talkbacks and join a panel of fellow critics, including The Oregonian’s Independent’s own With we are delighted ) and engage with our audiences. Likewise, Anger to host Emily Hubley as well as work of her celebrated parents, as well as work of her celebrated parents, W and the first family of animation, Burnett and the first family of animation, to Montana to present special We are pleased to welcome Mr. Burnett ( screenings of his highly-regarded work by the Roxy Theater in beautiful downtown Missoula, Montana. MTFF by the Roxy Theater in beautiful downtown extraordinary passion that drives celebrates spirit and From producer to director to creative collaboration in film making. the culmination of ardent hearts and actor to DP to designer, cinema is new and revelatory. Our minds working together to create something cinema embodies this inspiration lineup of new, acclaimed independent films, recent festival hits, strange and includes award-winning breakout programming featuring the and beautiful experiments, and retrospective of legendary filmmaker extraordinary cinematic contributions

2 THE MONTANA FILM FESTIVAL MONTANAFILMFESTIVAL.ORG THE ROXY THEATER 3 THE MONTANA FILM FESTIVAL MONTANAFILMFESTIVAL.ORG THE ROXY THEATER , SHIFTED The Alchemist Buster’s Mal Mal Buster’s Winter in the Blood IMAGE FROM which made its international Gimme the Loot TY HICKSON EMILY HUBLEY EMILY LILY GLADSTONE LILY , playing at the fest, which recently made its world premiere at . She has thrice toured nationally with The Montana Repertory . She has thrice toured nationally with Emily Hubley has been making animated shorts for thirty years. Her hand-drawn films explore personal memory and the turbulence of emotional life. Her films are in the permanent collection of the , Department of Film. She is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. She will present three programs of Hubley Animation at the fest. Lily Gladstone was raised on the Blackfeet Reservation in Northwestern Lily Gladstone was raised on the Blackfeet affiliations include Kainai, Montana. Of mixed heritage, Lily’s tribal Nations. In 2008, she graduated Amskapi Piikani and Nimi’ipuu First of Montana with a BFA in Acting, with high honors from the University Film credits include Kelly and a minor in Native American studies. , Alex and Andrew Smith’s Women Reichardt’s Certain Arnaud Desplechin’s Jimmy P, and Sarah Adina Smith’s Arnaud Desplechin’s Jimmy P, and Sarah Heart Theater. Cookbook the 2016 SXSW Film Festival. premiere at the 2012 . referred to Ty as premiere at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. Rolling Stone referred to Ty as a “star in the making” while RogerEbert.com described Ty as “a beautiful humorous energy, and a visceral openness to the camera, rare in a non- professional actor, but rare with professionals as well. He is emotionally transparent.” Ty is the lead in Joel Potrykus’ third feature, Ty Hickson is a New York based actor and musician. He made his feature debut in Adam Leon’s

42 Captain Phillips A Stray at this year’s Nat Turner: A Turner: Nat TV series. See him in Fargo (2003) and a sequence in the omnibus film ZLATKO ĆOSIĆ ZLATKO CHARLES BURNETT BARKHAD ABDIRAHMANBARKHAD fest. (2010) alongside other notable filmmakers like One Dream Rush David Lynch, Gaspar Noe and Taika Waititi. Troublesome Property Property Troublesome Considered one of America’s greatest filmmakers, Charles Burnett Considered one of America’s greatest was born in Mississippi in 1944, he grew up in Watts where he studied at UCLA’s Film Department. He was first noticed in 1981 with Killer which won a prize at Berlin. In 1990, was of Sheep among the first titles named to the . He has made thirty films including features, shorts, TV and documentary. Recent credits include (2013) and the acclaimed Barkhad was born in Nairobi, Kenya. He has appeared in Barkhad was born in Nairobi, Kenya. Zlatko Ćosić is a video artist born in Banja Luka, Yugoslavia. His work spans from short films, video, and sound installations to theater projections and live audio-visual performances. The themes of his work often relate to issues of identity, immigration, and the complexity of living in a new environment, concentrating on the necessity to embrace cultural differences and establish dialogue among people. MTFF will present three of his new films. SHIFTED V/H/S (2012) and 24 IMAGE FROM , to MTFF. Always Shine Gabi On The Roof In JulyGabi On The Roof for which she won the Best , her first feature as writer/director, premiered Green, her first feature as writer/director, premiered SOPHIA TAKAL SOPHIA ALANA WAKSMAN KENNETH TURAN (2013). Kenneth Turan is film critic for the Times and National Public Radio’s Morning Edition as well as the director of the Book Prizes. His most recent books are “Not to be Missed: Fifty-Four Favorites from a Lifetime of Film” and “Never Coming To A Theater Near You”. Sophia Takal attended Vassar College and graduated from Barnard Sophia Takal attended Vassar College in Film Studies. In addition College, Columbia University with a B.A. completed a two-year to her undergraduate film work, Sophia Studio and has studied acting conservatory program at William Esper Conservatory and The Upright and improvisation at the Stella Adler as producer, editor and star Citizens Brigade. Most recently, she served of the feature film in 2010. Other notable Actress award at the Brooklyn Film Festival performances include parts in Joe Swanberg’s Exposures at SXSW in 2011 where it won the SXSW / Chicken & Egg Award. She at SXSW in 2011 where it won the SXSW brings her new feature, Alana is the granddaughter of Polish holocaust survivors and the daughter of spiritual seekers. She was born and raised in the transcendental meditation community of Fairfield, Iowa. She earned a B.A. from Connecticut College in Theater and English, and an M.F.A. from the USC School of Cinematic Arts Film & Television Production Program. Alana has written and directed a number of short films. Her , received the Audience Award at the LA Shorts Fest, Blackout and Best Actor and Best Cinematography at the Women’s Festival. To See More Light See More To IMAGE FROM The Slaughter (2003) and Winter in the Rule Blood by Livingston writer David Quammen. It will ANDREW SMITH JULIA OLDHAM MARC MOHAN MARC Walking Out, With his twin brother Alex Smith, Andrew has directed two widely- acclaimed feature films, (2013). Their upcoming third feature, is an adaptation of the acclaimed short story, Marc Mohan is the lead film critic for The Oregonian, and the former Marc Mohan is the lead film critic for Video Vérité. Marc has written owner of the pioneering DVD rental shop since 1998. His work has also about film and books for The Oregonian Salon.com. appeared in The Portland Mercury and be released in 2017. Julia Oldham combines live action video with traditional animation Julia Oldham combines live action video nature. Raised by a physicist, to create narratives about science and rural Maryland, her formative an avid gardener and a pack of dogs in years were saturated with science and nature presented to her in a loving family setting. MTFF will present three of her recent films.

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THE PRINCESS BRIDE THE PRINCESS IMAGE FROM . Sunday, October 8th, 2:30pm October Sunday, Hootenanny is proud to present the BEST of the renowned New York International Children’s Film Festival. This eclectic program is designed for audiences 8 and above, and features animation and live action shorts from around the world. BEST OF THE NY INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL THE NY OF BEST FILM FESTIVAL CHILDREN’S HOOTENANNY SHORTS: SHORTS: HOOTENANNY HUBLEY SHORTS; JOHN & FAITH JOHN SHORTS; HUBLEY The mesmerizing freeform films of Faith & , produced over a span of thirty years, the films present a living, evolving experimental collaborative art, that included their own children and numerous Jazz The musicians including Dizzy Gillespie, Quincy Jones and Ella Fitzgerald. screening is hosted by their daughter Emily Hubley. Sunday, October 9th, 11:00am October Sunday, ANIMATION WORKSHOP ANIMATION Cels, tweening, Fudd flags: learn these mysterious industry terms and bring your imagination to life at this workshop. You’ll learn the fundamentals of 3D clay animation and have the chance to make a project of your own. Sunday, October 8th, 1:00pm, Missoula Senior Center Senior 8th, 1:00pm, Missoula October Sunday, IWFF PRESENTS selection of award winning wildlife Get back to nature with this awesome 2016 International Wildlife Film films, selected from the Best of the Festival. Saturday, October 8th, 1:00pm October Saturday, Games Food & Fun all day long with a special Outdoor Screening of Games Food & Fun all day long with The Princess Bride at dusk Saturday, October 8th, Starts at 4:00pm, Missoula Senior Center Parking Lot Parking Center 8th, Starts Senior October at 4:00pm, Missoula Saturday, FREEPRINCESS SCREENING BRIDE OF HIP STRIP BLOCK PARTY & PARTY BLOCK HIP STRIP

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6 THE MONTANA FILM FESTIVAL MONTANAFILMFESTIVAL.ORG THE ROXY THEATER 7 THE MONTANA FILM FESTIVAL MONTANAFILMFESTIVAL.ORG THE ROXY THEATER THURSDAY 10-6 FOR JEAN-PIERREFOR MELVILLE 2015, 6 min. Flowers, Ira Dir. director New Wave and the French of the style and feel to the A love letter and pop overtones, noir Pulsing with film is addressed to. the from whom great love for the a true clock captures film of an assassin on the short this narrative. Award for short Audience visual medium. Winner of the Film shown in French with English subtitles. Ralpete has trouble waking up from a nightmare world filled with “handmade” stop-motion creatures and tasty candles. NUM NUMS 2016, 6 min. Farris, Sean Dir. Filmmaker Julia Oldham in MTFF SHORT BLOCK • ROXY SCREEN 2 • 7:15 PM 2 • 7:15 SCREEN • ROXY BLOCK MTFF SHORT

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The mystery of the girl beneath the floor. Filmmaker Julia Oldham in attendance. GIRL UNDER THE FLOOR UNDER GIRL Julia Oldham, 2016, 1 min. Dir.

Dir. Julia Oldham, 2016, 7 min. Dir. In the animated piece Laika’s Lullaby, Julia Oldham works with musician Lindsay Keast to tell the tragic story of the Soviet space dog Laika, who in 1957 became one of the first animals to be launched into space, her small form orbiting the earth for only a few hours before her death. The video chronicles the events of her one way flight. attendance. LAIKA’S LULLABY LAIKA’S Film shown in Nauvhal with English subtitles. Film shown in After a young woman runs away with the man she loves to avoid an runs away with the man she loves After a young woman their traditional villagers wrestle with preserving arranged marriage, for individual it to the increasing outside demands culture or adapting shot in Vanutu. freedom. First film TANNA min. 2015, 104 & Martin Dean Bentley Butler, Dir. Girl Under the Floor “The Spaces Between The Between “The Spaces Filmmaker Ben Popp in IMAGE FROM feature length exquisite corpse film featuring feature length exquisite corpse film featuring Gina Sgrenci, 2016, 9 min. Gina Sgrenci, the cycle of death For Egyptians, the Sun God Ra symbolizes and rebirth with each dawn. Through the ritual of Dance, this narrative explores the equally transformational journey of Self. Filmmaker Gina Sgrenci in attendance. RA filmmakers from around the globe. attendance. POOP SHOOT POOP 2015, 3 min. Ben Popp, Dir. A walk in the park. Made for the larger Cities” Hers Is Hers MTFF SHORT BLOCK • ROXY SCREEN 2 • 7:15 PM SCREEN • ROXY BLOCK MTFF SHORT Filmmaker Janet McIntyre in attendance. Mingling a sense of dreaming with a sense of drowning, “ Mingling a sense of dreaming with a sense HERS IS WHEREHERS IS BEGINS YOURS 2015, 5 min. McIntyre, Janet Dir. Where... our sorrows ” explores the overriding impulse to submerge mother died of cancer at age with anger. The filmmaker writes, “My unable to grapple with feelings 45 leaving behind an angry teenager inform all my work. Behind all of grief and longing. She continues to because hers is where yours your stories is always your mother’s story, begin.” Dir. Alana Waksman, 2014, 15 min. Alana Waksman, Dir. A story about the fight and pain of addiction. Taylor (Lyndsey Lantz), a 27 year old alcoholic musician, is faced with the choice of continuing her life on a self destructive path, or taking a step towards recovery. Starring Lyndsey Lantz, Mackenzie Phillips, and Don Jeanes. Filmmaker Alana Waksman in attendance. BLACKOUT

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Charles Burnett in attendance. Vagabond Harry (Danny Glover) pays an unexpected visit to his old chum Gideon (Paul Butler), who accepts the aimless man into his home, despite the fact that the household is already overcrowded. Hard-drinking yet charismatic, Harry both entertains and enrages Gideon and his wife, Suzie (Mary Alice). However, after Gideon falls gravely ill, Harry decides to step in and take his friend’s place in the household. Screen at Toronto Film Festival, New York Film Festival and recent 4K Restoration at Film Society Lincoln Center. TO Dir. Charles Burnett, 1990, 102 min. Dir.

COOKBOOK THE ALCHEMIST THE ALCHEMIST a young hermit hides out in Suffering from delusions of fortune, mystery, but pays a price the forest hoping to crack an ancient Nashville Film Festival, for his mania. Official Selection SXSW, BAMcinemaFest. Dir. Joel Potrykus, 2016, 82 min. Joel Potrykus, Dir. untold stories of the witnesses, heroes and survivors of America’s first the witnesses, heroes and survivors untold stories of out the best when the worst in one man brought mass school shooting, Official Selection Winner Grand Jury Prize SXSW, in so many others. Hot Docs Film Festival. Riverrun, Seattle International, And

On August 1st, 1966, a sniper rode the elevator to the top floor of to the top floor rode the elevator 1st, 1966, a sniper On August the campus Texas Tower and opened fire, holding the University of silenced, the When the gunshots were finally hostage for 96 minutes. shaken nation left three dozen wounded, and a toll included 16 dead, rotoscopic Combining archival footage with trying to understand. never-before-seen way, animation in a dynamic, TOWER Dir. Keith Maitland, 2016, 98 min. Maitland, Keith Dir. is an early Filmmaker Zlatko Ćosić in Synchomy (1971). McLaren’s Synchomy Synchromy Filmmaker Zlatko Ćosić in attendance. puts a magnifying glass on the constant shiftings puts a magnifying glass on the constant Light More See To A MURMURATION 3 min. 2016, Cosic, Zlatko Dir. Abstract explorations of nature. attendance. WAKING THE GREEN SOUND WAKING 15 min. 2016, Ian Lucero, Dir. Three mysterious beings concoct a botanical fugue among the trees, revealed through the peculiar landscapes of dancers. Official Selection San Souci Festival of Dance Cinema, Disability Pride Art & Culture Film Festival. Dir. Kurtis Hough, 2015, 15 min. Dir. of the magnitude that is our Seeing and experience is only a fraction world. an imaginative eye at the birth of of the natural world while peering with Intense imagery is coupled with a something new in the cauldron of old. making this film a truly wonderful blistering soundtrack by Colin Stetson cinematic experience. ROBOT PAVLOV SPUTNIK PAVLOV ROBOT 2016, 7 min. Hockenhull, Oliver Dir. This is a confluence of intent and a revisiting of an iconic animation by Norman McLaren - form of machine art, a formal modernist gesture revealing & reveling in the immediate transparency of code and signal, a chimerical fantasy of speculative references--prophetic futurism reading itself, speaking itself. TO SEE MORE LIGHT SEE MORE TO moves us through a woman’s surreal journey of metamorphosis. Shifted She As she transforms, her inner velocity goes through a series of shifts. is evolving and harmonising with the speed and direction of nature. She passes through memory and trauma, dealing with inner and outer changes. SHIFTED 2014, 5 min. Ćosić, Eleanor Dubinsky & Zlatko Ferro, Laura Dir. MTFF SHORT BLOCK • ROXY SCREEN 2 • 6:15 PM SCREEN • ROXY BLOCK MTFF SHORT Dick, in which Captain Ahab addresses Moby KINGDOM 2016, 7 min. Heyman, Bentley Dir. he is tired. He cannot Our fighter has fought all his life. Now, a new direction. He go on living this way. He must choose fighting for too long, must stop fighting. However, he has been him. His struggle and the voices inside his head still haunt the hardest of his life. is now internal. And this fight will be Filmmaker Bentley Heyman in attendance. THE PANTY THE PANTY SYMPHONIC Zach Strum, 2015, 14 min. Dir. over a mystical pair of An outrageous death leads to a battle this nearly wordless women’s panties. Comic and irreverent, set to the music of narrative short was shot on VHS and Antonín Dvořák and Julius Fučík. SPEAK, THOU VAST SPEAK, VAST THOU AND VENERABLE HEAD Julia Oldham, 2016, 7 min. Dir. This animated film is inspired by the chapter “The Sphynx” in Herman Melville’s the severed head of a sperm whale killed by First Mate Stubbs. In , the whale head speaks back to Head and Venerable Thou Vast Speak, Ahab, and the two share a philosophical conversation about life and death. Filmmaker Julia Oldham in attendance. ZERO DEGREE DEGREE ZERO OVERLAP 2016, 3 min. Cosic, Zlatko Dir. Walking around Lake Celina, one cold sunny day. A distinct sound brought the filmmaker closer to the edge. The sun did the rest. Filmmaker Zlatko Ćosić in attendance.

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each is imperfectly blazing a trail. Shot in Livingston, MT, by each is imperfectly blazing a trail. with moving performances by acclaimed director Kelly Reichart, and Missoula’s own Michelle Williams, Kristen Stewart, Lily Gladstone. post-screening discussion. CERTAIN WOMEN CERTAIN in small-town America, where The lives of three women intersect Dir. Kelly Reichart, 2016, 107 min. Kelly Dir.

In New York, a courageous detective named Alex is injured by a detective named Alex is In New York, a courageous Face. Stuck in a himself the Man With the Broken gangster who calls has the ability Leo, a bedridden 11-year-old who hospital, Alex meets Like a ghost, and float around as an apparition. to leave his body When the flies away and passes through walls. invisible to all, he Leo threatens to attack the city’s infrastructure, disfigured criminal plan. to help the lawman foil his evil springs into action PHANTOM BOY PHANTOM Dir. Jean-Loup Felicioli, Alain Gagno, 2015, 84 min. Gagno, Alain Felicioli, Jean-Loup Dir. ROXY SCREEN 1 • 2:15PM ROXY ROXY SCREEN 2 • 4:00PM ROXY TRACKTOWN 2016, 88 min. Teicher, & Jeremy Pappas Alexi Dir. A young, talented, and lonely long-distance runner twists her ankle as she prepares for the Olympic Trials and must do something she’s never done before: take a day off. Co-directed by and starring real-life Olympic runner Alexi Pappas. Official Selection LA Film Fest, Bend Film Festival. A STRAY Musa Syeed, 2016, 82 min. Dir. crosses paths with a stray dog. A young Muslim refugee in Minneapolis Film Festival, CAMcinemaFest. Official Selection SXSW, Provincetown trainer Karen Radford and the Actor Barkhad Abdirhman, animal film’s dog, Ayla in attendance. with English subtitles. English & Arabic Film shown in Saturday, October 8th, 2:00pm October Saturday, film critic Mark film critic Kenneth Turan, Oregonian Los Angeles Times Frederickson discuss the Independent arts editor Erika Mohan, and Missoula in 2016. state of film criticism Saturday, October 8th, 12:00pm 8th, October Saturday, local Waksman and director Alana Gladstone, Blackout star Lily Women Certain Waksman’s newest live table read of Swaney present a Brooke producer/director . Is Burning script, Cheyenne IWFF PRESENTS 2015-2016, 90 min. Various, Dir. A collection of some of the best films featured at the 2016 International Wildlife Film Festival, including live action and animated shorts. CRITICISM CRITICISM NOW SCRIPT READ:SCRIPT CHEYENNE IS BURNING MTFF SHORT BLOCK • ROXY SCREEN 3 • 2:30PM SCREEN • ROXY BLOCK MTFF SHORT

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mily shorts has been making animated films hand-drawn memory and the personal explore Hubley thirty for Her years.

turbulence of emotional life. Thisturbulenceof emotional life. collection of films the encompasses breadth remarkable of Emily’s lengthy film making 1982-2016. Films from work include: featuring career, E Three hate-crime victims meet up . Song by Hamell on Trial. Commissioned by Vic Campos/Creative Outlet Productions. HAIL 2011, 3 min After a young woman’s unexpected encounter with her guardian angel, she reconsiders death, memory and belief. Music: Yo La Tengo. PIGEON WITHIN PIGEON 1999, 4.5 min A girl’s diary depicts her layered, poetic, inner efforts to deal with the world and overcome self-doubt. Music: Georgia Hubley & Ira Kaplan. ONE SELF: FISH/GIRL SELF: ONE 1997, 10 min A person finds a magical fish, wishes for “it all” and learns a lesson A person finds a magical fish, wishes Georgia Hubley & Ira Kaplan. about when enough is enough. Music: ENOUGH 1993, 5 min 1984, 10.5 min the realm of a tower and is With Georgia Hubley. A subject enters way to confrontation. victimized. At length, experience gives Music: Don Christensen. THE TOWER 1982, 7.5 min about the doctor who delivered A woman discusses dreams/experiences and her father who didn’t. her, her mother who survived surgery, DELIVERY MAN DELIVERY Music: Don Christensen. 2016, 4.5 min A song about a woman’s efforts to still her thoughts. Music: Kate Vargas. Co-designed by Max Rosenthal. CALL BACK THE DOGS BACK CALL Director ROXY SCREEN 3 • 4:15PM ROXY ROXY SCREEN 2 • 6:00PM ROXY ROXY SCREEN 1 • 7:00PM ROXY In Watts, an urban and mostly African-American section of Los Angeles, Stan (Henry Gayle Sanders) spends his days toiling away at a local slaughterhouse. His macabre profession seeps into his personal life as he struggles to keep his family afloat and content. Other life situations also prove to be difficult, since it seems that dark intentions lurk within the people he meets outside his family. The layers of stress cause Stan to question whether a better quality of life is possible. Official Selection Berlin Film Festival, Toronto Film Festival, Sundance Film Festival. Added To Library of Congress National Film Registry in 1990. Best friends Anna (MacKenzie Davis) and Beth (Caitlyn Fitzgerald) take Best friends Anna (MacKenzie Davis) a bond broken by years a weekend trip to Big Sur, hopeful to re-establish mount, however, leading to an of competition and jealousy. Tensions changing both of their lives... unexpected yet inevitable confrontation, Davis) Tribeca Film Festival. forever. Winner Best Actress (Mackenzie Boston, . Official Selection Independent Film Festival Filmmaker Sopia Takal in attendance. SHEEP KILLER OF Charles Burnett, 1978, 80 min. Dir. Charles Burnett in attendance. Seventeen-year-old Anne just fell in love with Sasha, the most popular girl at Anne just fell in love with Sasha, the Seventeen-year-old friend Clifton - who school. But when Anne tells her best her LA public high in the way. Official a secret crush - he does his best to get has always harbored Film Festival. Film Festival, Frameline, Toronto LGBT Selection Sundance SHINE ALWAYS 2016, 85 min. Takal, Sophia Dir. FIRST GIRL I LOVED GIRL FIRST 2016, 91 min. Sanga, Kerem Dir.

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A delightfully postmodern fairy tale, The Princess Bride is a deft, A delightfully postmodern fairy tale, and comedy that takes an intelligent mix of swashbuckling, romance, makes it fresh. Starring Robin age-old damsel-in-distress story and With great comic turns by Wright, Cary Elwes, Mandy Patinkin. Christopher Guest. Wallace Shawn, Andre and FREE Outdoor Screening. THE PRINCESS BRIDE Dir. Rob Reiner, 1987, 98 min. Reiner, Rob Dir. Suffering from delusions of fortune, a young hermit hides out in of fortune, a young hermit Suffering from delusions a price to crack an ancient mystery, but pays the forest hoping Festival, Selection SXSW, Nashville Film for his mania. Official BAMcinemaFest. COOKBOOK THE ALCHEMIST ALCHEMIST THE min. 2016, 82 Joel Potrykus, Dir. Los Ninos Sicarios IMAGE FROM , the title of the film, refers to the child hit-men working for , the title of the film, refers to the child LAURA, LOST Simon Sandquist, 2016, 11 min. Dir. Childhood friends Cole and Brian haven’t spoken for a while and their friendship is rocky at best. But now Cole needs Brian’s help to find Laura, a girl who he believes was abducted a few weeks ago and who holds a special place in Cole’s heart. But to fulfill their quest, they need to get over their past and break into a cabin occupied by a malicious woodsman deep in an unholy forest. LOS NIÑOS SICARIOS NIÑOS LOS Lambert, Rob 2016, 10 min. Dir. Los Niños Sicarios border states the most desired Mexican drug cartels. Along the Southwestern boys. After 9 months of military recruits are Mexican-American teenage U.S. communities and are ‘on call’ for training the boys are released back into specific targets. born child hit-man or ‘Little Assassin.’ This is a day in the life of an American subtitles. Film shown in Spanish with English MTFF SHORT BLOCK • ROXY SCREEN 2 • 8:15 PM SCREEN • ROXY BLOCK MTFF SHORT is a deceptively simple and Thunder Road Dir. Javier Chillon, 2016, 15 min. Javier Dir. The starship Tantalus drifts through space. THEY WILL ALL ALL WILL THEY IN SPACE DIE MILDRED & PARLOR THE DYING 2016, 10 min. Gayner, Alex Dir. of their home. Today’s Mildred’s parents run a dying parlor out client is not who she expects. Starring Zosia Mamet, Jane Krakowski, Steve Buscemi and Evan Jonigkeit. Official Selection Tribeca Film Festival. THUNDER ROAD THUNDER Jim Cummings, 2016, 13 min. Dir. at this year’s Sundance Winner of Short Film Grand Jury Prize Film Festival, eulogizing his extremely funny film about a police officer Film Grand Jury Prize mother at her funeral. Winner Short SXSW, Seattle at Sundance Film Festival, Official Selection International Film Festival.

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MTFF SHORT BLOCK BLOCK SHORT MTFF 2 SCREEN ROXY min 11:00AM, 81 IMAGE FROM WINDY DAY WINDY 1967, 8min, 35mm An improvised dialogue of two little girls is the background for the expressive visualization of their view of marriage and babies, love and death. Voices: Emily and Georgia Hubley. URBANISSIMO 1968, 6min, 35mm A comic allegory depicting a runaway “city” devouring its environs. A farmer has an encounter with the “city” and deserts his rural home for the imagined joys of urban life. Music by Benny Carter. 1987, 9.5min, 35mm of Texcoco (1420-1472), The poetry of Nezahualcotl, Aztec Emperor Jose Chocano of Peru reminds us tells us of our brief moment on Earth. Gabriela Mistral of Chile speaks of the terror of the conquistadors and our children. Music by William of angel who watched over Russo. TIME OF THE ANGELS TIME OF ADVENTURES OF AN ASTERISK AN OF ADVENTURES 1957, 10min, 35mm delights in the visual A baby, represented by the “*” symbol, his ability to see diminishes. excitement of the world. As he matures, vision. Music: Benny Carter. Eventually, his own child freshens his Soloist: Lionel Hampton. he mesmerizing free form films form he mesmerizing free of Faith represent the Hubley John & pioneering spirit of independent animators T like perhapslike no other films. American with In a world outlets few the independent animators, for soldiered on, Hubleys producing a strikingly nearly work original passing in 1977. Producedspan of thirty a John’s until year, over every years, the films present a living, evolving experimental collaborative art, that included their Jazz and numerous children own musicians includingand Ella Dizzy Gillespie, Peterson Oscar The Jones, Fitzgerald. screening is Quincey Benny Carter, theirhosted by this at daughter is featured work own whose Emily Hubley, festival. year’s A jazz version of the song “Tenderly,” provides the soundtrack for a delicate tale of love. Music Performed by Ella Fitzgerald and the Oscar Peterson Trio. THE TENDER GAME 1958, 6min, 35mm On planet Earth, the Goddess of Fertility is lovingly sowing the seeds of life, which brings her into direct conflict with her partner, Death. He wants her to slow down. She counters by presenting a future in which there is no death. A three-face multi-planet god intervenes, suggesting an alternative of planning, self-control, and love. When Fertility and Death are assigned a new planet, we see that Earth’s inhabitants will own Music into their Quincy hands. by have to take these matters Jones. EGGS 1970, 10min, 35mm 1959, 10min, 35mm hunt an imaginary bird. Their In a magical adventure, two brothers Academy Award for Best dialogue is improvised. Winner of the Ray Hubley. Animated Short Film. Voices: Mark & MOONBIRD 1959, 10 min, 35mm in which Gillespie and his A satiric look at the advertising industry Rope Ladder” commercial. band are hired to score music for an “Instant DATE WITH DIZZY WITH DATE COCKABOODY Two sisters engage in imaginative pre-bedtime play. As the girls explore their parents’ bedroom and bathroom, they experience a range of emotions from intense anger to loving tenderness. Voices: Emily and Georgia Hubley. 1973, 8.5min, 35mm MTFF SHORT BLOCK • ROXY SCREEN 2 • 5:00 PM SCREEN • ROXY BLOCK MTFF SHORT MTFF SHORT BLOCK • ROXY SCREEN 3 • 2:30 PM 3 • 2:30 SCREEN • ROXY BLOCK MTFF SHORT ROXY SCREEN1 • 12:00PM ROXY Take an early look at the upcoming feature film Walking at the Take an early look , Andrew Out Alex. brother twin his made in collaboration with feature, third Smith’s Slaughter previous films, Their MTFF in 2015) screened at (which Rule and Winter In The and in world theatrically the played around have Blood Fest. including Sundance and LA Film numerous festivals and discuss will present clips Andrew Smith, & Co-Director, Co-Writer of David film, an adaptation anticipated much making of the the MT. year in Livingston, last shot Story, Quammen’s Short I LOST MOMMY WORM MOMMY I LOST Dir. Alex & Andrew Smith, 2016, 90 min. Smith, 2016, & Andrew Alex Dir. WALKING OUT INSIDE: WALKING Dir. Gary 2016 Henderson, Dir. THE NOTES 2016 Matoon, Larkon Dir. MADE IN MT • ROXY SCREEN 2• 1:00 PM 2• SCREEN • ROXY IN MT MADE MISSOULA MID-SUMMER • ROXY SCREEN 2• 3:00 PM 2• 3:00 SCREEN MISSOULA MID-SUMMER • ROXY YOU WILL NEVER WILL YOU BODY FIND MY 2016 Morgan, Kyle Dir. Midnight Tomorrow Productions, 2016 Productions, Midnight Tomorrow Dir. Michael Busch, 2016 Michael Busch, Dir. M SQUAD HOOKING UP HOOKING

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Best friends Anna and Beth take a weekend trip to Big Sur, hopeful to re-establish a bond broken by years of competition and jealousy. Tensions mount, however, leading to an unexpected yet inevitable confrontation, changing both of their lives...forever. Winner Best Actress (Mackenzie Davis) Tribeca Film Festival. Official Selection Independent Film Festival Boston, Venice Film Festival. Sopia Takal in attendance. ALWAYS SHINE ALWAYS Dir. Sophia Takal, 2016, 85 min. Takal, Sophia Dir. Film shown in Nauvhal with English subtitles. Film shown in After a young woman runs away with the man she loves to avoid runs away with the man she loves After a young woman their villagers wrestle with preserving an arranged marriage, demands or adapting it to the increasing outside traditional culture for individual freedom. Dir. Bentley Dean, Martin Butler, 2015, 104 min. 2015, 104 Martin Dean, Bentley Butler, Dir. TANNA Witch Madness Witch Madness My Universe Inside Out Universe My IMAGE FROM MTFF SHORT BLOCK BLOCK SHORT MTFF 3 SCREEN ROXY 76 min 6:00PM, HELLO 1984, 9 min delightful fable. Their message is Extra-terrestrials contact earth in this is a celebration. Voices: Emily, “HELLO” in many languages, and there Gillespie. Music by William Russo. Georgia, Mark & Ray Hubley and Dizzy Soloists: Dizzy Gillespie and Toots Theilemans. traces the violent persecution of women throughout history, climaxing in the frenzy of the European witch hunts of the Renaissance, which resulted in the murder of hundreds and thousands, perhaps millions of women. Stunning images depict the savage oppression of females by their male inquisitors, a nightmarish parade of beheadings, burning and torture in the name of justice. The film explores a disturbing aspect of human nature. The flame of love is soon rekindles and balance and oneness are achieved. Music by Don Christensen. Cello: Faith Hubley. “Tall Time Tales blends ethereal images, surrealist landscapes, and an “Tall Time Tales blends ethereal images, of time, culture, rhythm and reality evocative soundtrack to turn our sense vignettes, the viewer experiences “upside down.” In a series of whimsical past, through cyclic, biological, the flow of time from the future to the Is time cyclic? Music: Don curved and paradoxical time. Is it linear? Ira Kaplan, and Max Rosenthal. Christensen. Voices: Georgia Hubley, MADNESS WITCH 1999, 8.5 min 30,000 years ago, women were revered for their wisdom, strength, compassion, and magic. This golden age was not to last: TALL TIME TALES TALL 1992, 8min, 35mm aith in collaboration many years for with worked Hubley the John, her husband Studios Disney Art Director at once F and the Faith passed in 1977, of Mr Magoo. creator legendary into the which lasted John After career, her own continued on influences Drawing and a decidedly cultures, indigenous 21st century. international from Faith’s sensibility, feminist aesthetic and striking on an exotic embarked work hitherto in the unseen previous collaborations with Abandoning John. beautifully yet narrative, shapes abstract embracing Faith’s and poetic forms, are enchanting. creations This collectionof films includes: 1996, 25min, 35mm NORTHERN ICE GOLDEN SUN GOLDEN ICE NORTHERN 2001, 6.5min, 35mm Northern explores the Inuits’ deep attachment to the Golden Sun Ice, natural world. They hunt, fish, dance, care for their young and make art in tune with the seasonal cycle of the Arctic. During the fearsome winter months, they rely on the mysterious powers of the Shaman. The new threat of industrial invasion looms over their land and their culture. But, the Inuit survive. The land reawakens, and all the people and animals rejoice under the glowing sun. Music by Don Christensen. Cello: Faith Hubley. RAINBOWS OF HAWAII OF RAINBOWS 1995, 9.5min, 35mm Calling upon Hawai’ian legends and the art of the South Pacific, dramatizes the battle of Hi’iaka and the Dragon of Hawai’i Rainbows God, the tale of the little green shark who becomes the favorite of the village, the fables feats of Maui the prankster, and natural childbirth as taught by Haumea the singing tree. The sacredness of all children is celebrated by the dance of life and death. Music by Don Christensen. MY UNIVERSE INSIDE OUT OUT INSIDE UNIVERSE MY a is an animated tour de force that provides Inside Out Universe My Hubley. Moments in her personal context for the life work of Faith universe as she recalls infancy, life connect with the unfolding of the youth, life with her late childhood, turbulent adolescence, adventurous sudden death, crisis and joy, husband John and their four children, her present search for meaning. more than fifty years of struggle and Hubley. Music by Don Christensen. Cello: Faith W.O.W. (WOMEN OF THE WORLD) THE OF (WOMEN W.O.W. 1975, 10min, 35mm and global view of the This animated collage presents a historical Music by William Russo. changing relationships between the sexes. John Taylor. Associate Producers: John Hubley and

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FIRST GIRL I LOVED GIRL FIRST A STRAY begins with one simple conceit: God exists! He lives in conceit: God exists! one simple begins with Testament New A Brand His wife and daughter. tyrant to his a petty bastard, a real Brussels and he’s grasp and live among us, father’s managed to escape his son is known well; JC Ea is ten too. a daughter, But God has process. killed in the himself getting playthings. as his using humanity father of her enough years old and has had computer and leaks to into his hacks she opportunity, right the spies she When follows What of death. inevitable date via text message their world entire the what loaded question: the answer to and eccentric witty is Jaco Van Dormael’s to live? Official left time you had much how knew exactly would you do if you London Film Festival. Festival, Helsinki Film Festival, Selection Cannes Film A young Muslim refugee in Minneapolis crosses paths with a A young Muslim refugee in Minneapolis Provincetown Film Festival, stray dog. Official Selection SXSW, CAMcinemaFest. Karen Radford and the film with English subtitles. English & Arabic Film shown in Dir. Kerem Sanga, 2016, 91 min. Kerem Dir. Dir. Musa Syeed, 2016, 82 min. Dir. Dir. Jaco Van Dormael, 2015, 113 min., FRENCH 113 min., Dormael, 2015, Van Jaco Dir.

Film shown in French with English subtitles French with English Film shown in A BRANDTESTAMENT NEW Seventeen-year-old Anne just fell in love with Sasha, the most popular Seventeen-year-old Anne just fell in love with Sasha, the most popular girl at her LA public high school. But when Anne tells her best friend Clifton - who has always harbored a secret crush - he does his best to get in the way. Official Selection Sundance Film Festival, Frameline, Toronto LGBT Film Festival. Chad Bishop Renee Hofeldt Rob Whitehair Kristin King-Reis , Treasurer , Secretary THE ROXY MISSION THE ROXY Vice President , Vice ROXY BOARD MEMBERS BOARD ROXY the that Film Academy Roxy thousands serve of students each year. Maggie Angle Jerry Fetz Roy O'Connor President Janice Givler, Board The Roxy is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization whose mission is to inspire, educate organization non-profit is a 501(c)(3) & engage about TheRoxy audiences diverse programs includeprograms events, and cultural cinematic year-round film screenings, the nightly Wildlife annual International Film Festival (AprilFilm Festival 15th-27th, and educational Hootenanny presented under programs Film Festival, Montana 2017), the through worlds and human natural events. and cultural cinematic Along with theater, our historic stewarding Roxy

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