Podcasts about big sky documentary film festival

Tricia Binford's Montana State Bobcats are going for a school record on Saturday in the rivalry game against the Lady Griz. Binford joined Colter Nuanez to break it all down. Plus: Patrick Shannon, a filmmaker from the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, and Nate Harris, interim Lady Griz head coach.

What are the strengths and weaknesses of each of the four teams that will play Cat-Griz rivalry games on Saturday in Bozeman? Colter Nuanez and Andrew Houghton discuss. Plus: a filmmaker from the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival visits the studio.

Colter Nuanez recaps the news from the weekend, including wrestling state tournaments, Big Sky hoops and more. Plus: an interview with a filmmaker from the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, Hunter Nolan of the film UNEARTH.

Loren Waters (she/her) is a filmmaker and citizen of the Cherokee Nation and the Kiowa Tribe. Focusing her art on the intersection of film and Indigenous storytelling, Loren has a passion for sharing stories that center environmental knowledge and impact. Loren has participated in fellowships such as Nia Tero 4th World Media Lab and the Intercultural Leadership Institute Year 4. Her second short documentary ᏗᏂᏠᎯ ᎤᏪᏯ (Meet Me at the Creek) premiered at the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival this February 2024. The short is the fourth installment of a documentary film series that focuses on tribal environmental professionals. The first two films, celebrating tribal environmental professionals Polly Edwards and Yvette Wiley, premiered in 2019. The third film, Restoring Néške'emāne recently won Best Short Documentary at North Dakota Environmental Rights Film Festival.In this episode, Loren opens up about her journey as a filmmaker. We talk about her quartet of films centering tribal environmental professionals. Loren tells us about the currently reality of indigenous voices in both the filmmaking space and the environmental justice community. She talks about her experience on Killers of The Flower Moon and Reservoir Dogs.This episode refers to the following works and histories: the Concho Indian Boarding School, Tar Creek Superfund, Rebecca Jim and Loren's films Restoring Néške'emāne, and ᏗᏂᏠᎯ ᎤᏪᏯ (Meet Me at the Creek).Loren Waters (she/her) is a filmmaker and background casting director based in Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA. @lorenkwatersNadine Reumer (she/her) is an actress and producer based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In the 2nd hour of Tuesday's edition of Nuanez Now, producer Andrew Houghton would kick things off with an interview with documentary director Olivia Kuan. Kuan's recent film 'The Herricanes' recently screened at the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival in Missoula. Later in the 2nd hour, Nuanez would finish off the show looking at off-season topics in the college football world at both Montana, and Montana State.

Israel has played a central role in American-Jewish life for quite some time. Eric Axelman and Sam Eilertsen, co-directors of a new documentary film entitled Israelism, join Dan and Lex for a conversation about their film, which explores a movement of young American Jews fighting to redefine Judaism's relationship to Israel-Palestine. Learn more about Israelism by heading to IsraelismFilm.com. The film debuted at the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, won Best Documentary at the Arizona International Film Festival, and garnered a Spirit Award at the Brooklyn International Film Festival. It also won the Audience Award at the 2023 San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, the oldest and largest Jewish film festival in the world. To explore bringing a screening of Israelism to your community, email Contact@IsraelismFilm.com. Access full shownotes for this episode via this link.And a reminder: Elul Unbound is back! Our annual exploration of the final month of the Jewish year, which serves as an on-ramp into Rosh Hashanah, is here. Register for Elul Unbound (almost all components of it are free!) via this link!And if you're enjoying Judaism Unbound, please help us keep things going with a one-time or monthly tax-deductible donation. Support Judaism Unbound by clicking here!  

Anyone who has ever enjoyed watching sports will typically concede that part of the appeal is absolute wonder at the skill, drive, courage, and commitment it takes to perform at the highest levels.  Jamie MoCrazy embodied all of those attributes as an extreme skier until a traumatic brain injury ended her competitive career. MoCrazy is an American freestyle skier and motivational speaker who began winning State Championships on Connecticut in gymnastics and skiing at age nine.  She was the first female skier to land a double backflip in a competition at the Winter X Games XVII in Aspen, Colorado.  Her professional career ended after a skiing accident in 2015 while she was competing in the World Tour Finals in Whistler where she sustained a traumatic brain injury.  Her injury and subsequent recovery has driven her career as a motivational speaker.  She also established MoCrazy Strong, Inc., that serves persons who have survived traumatic brain injury and their family caregivers.  The organization also works to raise awareness of traumatic brain injuries and for patient recovery efforts.  In 2023, MoCrazy co-directed the short documentary, “#MoCrazyStrong,” with Mark Locki, which premiered at Big Sky Documentary Film Festival and won the best biographical documentary short at the Atlanta DocuFest.  MoCrazy holds a bachelor's degree in English Communications from Westminster College in 2019.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jan Selby is an award-winning filmmaker whose work has been screened internationally in settings ranging from film festivals and art museums to university classrooms and on Public Television. BEYOND THE DIVIDE premiered at Montana's Big Sky Documentary Film Festival and won Best Feature Documentary at the Peace on Earth Film Festival. After a year of traveling to festivals world-wide, BEYOND THE DIVIDE was broadcast on Twin Cities Public Television, which led to national distribution by American Public Television.Jan's previous film, A CIRCLE AND THREE LINES, won a regional Emmy, screened at numerous film festivals including the Woodstock Film Festival and was featured in the Walker Art Center exhibit, The Reel Thing. Jan is the founder of Quiet Island Films where she brings her documentary and storytelling experience to projects for corporate and non-profit clients.I interviewed Jan in front of a live audience before screening her film, which she has now made available for streaming for free on the website for BEYOND THE DIVIDE.Between the interview and Q&A segments of the podcast, you will hear musician Chris Koza play the title track from the film.

Michael Workman is a talented filmmaker from Montana, and is also the Director of Features Programming at the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, as well as a board member of Means TV. Michael joins Breht to discuss his films, Means TV, Soviet and American Cinema, Stanely Kubrick, how film can be used to raise class consciousness, storytelling, the lives of our fathers, and much more.  Michael's latest film, Meantime, will be streaming on Means TV and has won a bunch of awards like the Best Short Film Award at Telluride Mountainfilm, Best Short Documentary Award at BendFilm Festival and the Vimeo Staff Pick Award at Palm Springs ShortFest. Michael's website: https://michaeltworkman.com/ Join and Support Means TV here: https://means.tv/ Check out Michaels film Meantime here: https://means.tv/programs/meantime Outro music: "Fashion" by Nicholas Merz Support Rev Left Radio: https://www.patreon.com/RevLeftRadio

Double the interviews, double the great insight and stories from the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival on Thursday. First, Andrew Houghton interviews Jamie MoCrazy and Jeanne Crane-Mauzy of the film #MoCrazyStrong, which is the story of MoCrazy's traumatic brain injury suffered while skiing professionally, her long recovery and the advances in treatment that she now advocates for. Colter Nuanez visits with Claire Hannah Collins and Gale Holland of the film Hollywood's Finest, which follows a homeless expecting mother on the streets of LA, exposing the contradictions complications of the richest country in the world. PLUS, Montana State men's basketball coach Danny Sprinkle.

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Native Lights: Where Indigenous Voices Shine – Weekly Radio ShowNative Lights is a weekly, half-hour radio program hosted by Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe members and siblings, Leah Lemm and Cole Premo. Native Lights is a space for people in Native communities around Mni Sota Mkoce -- a.k.a. Minnesota -- to tell their stories about finding their gifts and sharing them with the community.Native Lights – Documentary Filmmaker Leya Hale's Gift for Powerful Storytelling On today's show, we talk with Leya Hale (Sisseton Wahpeton Dakota and Diné Nations), a producer for Twin Cities PBS, who is known for her feature documentary, The People's Protectors, a Vision Maker Media grant production, and winner of the 2019 Upper Midwest Emmy Award for Outstanding Cultural Documentary. In 2020, Leya was awarded the Sundance Institute Merata Mita Fellowship for Indigenous Artists and attended the 2020 Berlinale European Film Market as a NATIVe Fellow.Most recently, Leya Hale completed her second feature, Bring Her Home, a powerful and hopeful documentary that highlights the stories of three women fighting to vindicate and honor their missing and murdered relatives, while shining a light on this growing epidemic across Indian country. We loved hearing how Leya carved her path to becoming a Director/Producer, how she uncovered her unique voice and vision, and how she shares her gifts by encouraging and mentoring other young Indigenous filmmakers. Bring Her Home premiered at the 2022 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival and is now being distributed nationally by PBS. Find out how you can watch the film here:  https://www.tpt.org/bring-her-home/video/bring-her-home-hf8spa/Native Lights: Where Indigenous Voices Shine is produced by Minnesota Native News and Ampers, Diverse Radio for Minnesota's Communities with support from the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage fund. Online at https://minnesotanativenews.org/

Abigail Fuller is an award-winning documentary filmmaker whose work includes five seasons on the Emmy-nominated series Chef's Table, Dear Oprah for Apple TV+, and the feature documentary Do You Dream in Color? Her work has twice premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival, the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, Telluride's MountainFilm, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art to name a few. Abby is dedicated to telling deeply human stories that allow for empathy and sharing new perspectives. Abby joins Chris Sparks to share the elements of telling a great story. What makes a story powerful? How do we become better listeners to reveal the hidden superpowers in the people around us? How can we structure the stories we tell to better connect with an audience? As a director, Abby helps us see ourselves in the people who once seemed different. She has a deep understanding of what makes a character tick, building the rapport and trust necessary to bring their truth out and communicating that truth visually on screen in a way that resonates. For the video recording, resources mentioned, and conversation transcript, visit https://forcingfunction.com/podcast/abby-fuller

It's 80's fantasy movies (and Working Girl) week! Join us as we talk about The Neverending Story, Labyrinth, Working Girl, and The Goonies (starting at 27:15). Which movies held up?  Are any of them just straight-up ridiculous now? What does Amanda call, "the easiest geocache ever?" Shandy also catches us up on her birthday trip to Missoula and the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, Amanda shares a harrowing experience, and Colleen read a book!April 5: My So-Called Life.Feedback: TheBroadcasters3@gmail.com or 331-BROADS3 (331-276-2373)Links:Linktr.ee for Ukraine: https://bit.ly/3MmqIPJMatt's Broadcast Book Club: https://bit.ly/2MDMem3The Broadcast on Spotify: https://spoti.fi/30g6ijbThe Broadcast Facebook Page: https://bit.ly/2TAqeKSPatreon: www.patreon.com/jayandjackFacebook: www.facebook.com/groups/jayandjackgroupMerch: www.jayandjack.com/store

Colter Nuanez catches up with Riley Corcoran, the Voice of the Griz, to answer the question of why both Montana basketball teams are looking shaky as the season heads towards the conference tournament. Colter also shares an interview with Ryan Maxey, director of the film One Road to Quartzite, which recently made its world premiere at the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival. In the final segment, Colter stacks up Big Sky legend Joslyn Tinkle against the other great women's basketball players to come out of Montana.

Colter Nuanez catches up with Montana State men's basketball head coach Danny Sprinkle after the Bobcats lost their first game in months, and with Lady Griz guard Sophia Stiles as their up-and-down season continues. In the latest Big Sky Documentary Film Festival segment, Colter learns about seasonal mushroom harvesting on public lands from Olivier Matthon and Michael Reis of the film Up on the Mountain. Colter also gives his Treasure State Stars of the week.

Colter Nuanez was at the Hellgate boys' barnburner win against Big Sky over the weekend, and he shares his thoughts on the Knights' win plus some sound from Big Sky's Tre Reed and Hellgate's Connor Dick. With the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival in town, Andrew Houghton talks with Henna Taylor, who directed An Accidental Life, about a competitive mountain climber who suffered a life-changing injury. Colter welcomes in the filmmakers from Hockeyland, a film about northern Minnesota, where communities live and die with the fortunes of their high school hockey teams.

After welcoming an international, virtual audience in 2021, the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival is returning to Missoula with more films and audience interest than ever — and a hybrid option to boot.  On this episode of the Second Look, the festival's six-year director reflects on the changes administration has made and the hope they have for this year's event. The Second Look is reported and edited by Elinor Smith.   Questions? Comments? Email us at editor@montanakaimin.com   A podcast from the Montana Kaimin, University of Montana's independent, student-run newspaper.

After moving online for the first time in its 19-year history in 2021, the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival is back in full force. The 10-day event will see more than 200 artists descend on Missoula as their nonfiction films are premiered for an audience of thousands. While films are shown on subjects from around the world, nine are featured in the "Made in Montana" category. On this episode, conversations with the creators and characters of three "Made in Montana" documentaries: "The Cookie Man," "Meantime," and "Daughter of a Lost Bird."   Timecodes for interviews: (01:02) - "The Cookie Man"   (14:45) - "Meantime"   (24:31) - "Daughter of a Lost Bird" Catch full transcripts of our episodes at montanakaimin.com/the_kaimin_cast.    Questions? Comments? Email us at editor@montanakaimin.com   A podcast from the Montana Kaimin, University of Montana's independent, student-run newspaper.

For the past 9 years, Hannah's mission has been to learn firsthand the many languages of filmmaking so she can communicate with her cast and crew and create engaging stories. This challenge has seen her working with a variety of storytelling mediums including live-action, hand-painted and computer animation, stop motion, and puppetry. Hannah has directed, shot, edited, and animated music videos, fashion films, and award-winning short films. After gaining a Bachelor of Film Production she moved straight into editing and designing live-action and animated television commercials at PostBox Sydney. Since then she has collaborated with various production and post-production companies such as Film Boldly, The Gingerbread Man, and Medium Rare for an eclectic array of clients including Universal Music, 604 Records, Nike, Qantas, Vogue, Coles, Sydney Dance Company, and The Brandenburg Orchestra. Her dedication and reputation for storytelling catapulted her from Sydney to Melbourne, New York, Paris, and Barcelona, settling in Vancouver. Five of her shorts have been selected to screen in international film festivals such as VIFF, Flickerfest, and Big Sky Documentary Film Festival. She has been awarded Best Editing at VWIF, People's Choice at UK Indie Festival, a Vimeo Staff Pick, the MINT Spirit Award, and the chance to take part in TedX Sydney as well as the Berlinale Talent Development program in Germany. Hannah finds new ways to tell stories and form connections with the world around her through painting and short stories, traveling all over in search of adventure, knowledge, and conversations with as many fascinating people as she can find. Watch Hannah's films, music videos, documentaries, and other creative projects. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/americanfilmmaker/support

Director Gabriel Gaurano talks about his boxing bocumentary Team Meryland about 12-year-old Meryland Gonzalez fights in-and-out of the ring attempting to be crowned the 2019 Junior Olympics Champion. Director, Editor and Director of Photography, Gabriel Gaurano is a filmmaker whose work has screened and garnered awards at festivals like AFI, Palm Springs International Shorts Fest, and many more. Gaurano's experiences have pulled him towards telling real stories of resilient families who push through the impossible. In this case, Gaurano was lucky enough to be in a San Diego, CA park when he met Meryland Gonzalez's father who approached them in wanting to tell the story of his young daughter training for the 2019 Junior Olympics in the sport of boxing. Meryland Gonzalez is from the Watts district of Los Angeles, born to immigrant parents that struggle to make ends meet while supporting their daughter's dreams of becoming a champion. Official Synopsis: Gabriel Gaurano's documentary short film Team Meryland focuses on a 12 year old Mexican-American boxer's second chance at life as she overcomes a past medical trauma. This inspirational story already screened at many prestigious film festivals including the Oscar qualifying Big Sky Documentary Film Festival and Cleveland International Film Festival where it won the FilmSlam Best Short Award. It will be screening at the 2021 Indy Shorts International Film Festival: Heartland Film this month. The documentary is a beautifully made film and we can only hope to see what is next for Gaurano and the Gonzalez family as she will possibly strive to become an Olympian in the adult games, once she is old enough. Team Meryland is one of those documentaries that you wish was longer and I am thrilled I got to watch it and speak with Gaurano. Follow Team Meryland on Instagram @teammerylandfilm and visit their official website www.teammerylandfilm.com.

Jesse Alk's father, Howard, was a documentarian who died when Jesse was a child. Decades later, Jesse wound up retracing his father's footsteps to Kolkata, India, where Howard had documented West Bengali musicians in the early '70s. Jesse fell in love with the city, its people, and particularly its native street dogs. He filmed the dogs and the people who care for them, capturing the loneliness and suffering of both. His film, Pariah Dog, debuted in 2019 at the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival and won Best Feature.

This week, we chat with Whitney Skauge, director of the short documentary The Beauty President, premiering at SXSW this week. The Beauty President asks the question, “If a bad actor can be president, why not a good drag queen?” In 1992, Joan Jett Blakk made a historic bid for the White House as an openly queer write-in candidate. Today, Terence Smith, the man behind the persona, reflects back on his place in gay rights history at the height of the AIDS crisis. By making this film, Whitney's vision is to fill in one of the many gaps in the oral history of queer America. Though popular history has often swept the triumphs of gay heroes under the rug, documentary film helps us bring these incredible stories back into the light of day. As a black queer person, Whiney understands how imperative it is to share perspectives from underrepresented communities. Whitney Skauge is an award-winning filmmaker dedicated to diverse storytelling and representation. Their films act as an extension of social and political activism with hopes of helping audiences understand themselves and the world around them better. Having worked at Breakwater Studios, Women In Film, Sundance Institute, and the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, their career has demonstrated a consistent commitment to the art of independent filmmaking. They received their B.F.A. in Digital Filmmaking from the University of Montana. We loved chatting with Whitney about the perseverance needed to make the film, the process, and what they hope people will come away with after watching the film. Enjoy!

This week, we chat with director Ashley O'Shay and producer Morgan Johnson about their film Unapologetic. They talked about collaborating, their love for Chicago, and why this doc following two fierce abolitionist leaders coming of age within the Movement for Black Lives in Chicago is a timely watch. The film most recently screened at TIFF Next Wave Festival and will be playing at the Black Lesbian Film Festival and Big Sky Documentary Film Festival this weekend. Check out unapologeticflm.com to see where you can watch. Enjoy our conversation!

In this episode, Haddy and Yassi talk about the provocation from Episode 16 Provocation (#ArtIfPodcast) Take photos of anyone who see wearing Red and Black Plaid (“the shared fabric of humanity”) and tag us and Andy’s other instagram account: www.instagram.com/peoplewearingredandblackplaid Andy Sarjahani (b. 1983, Richland, WA) is an American-Iranian documentary filmmaker and photographer raised in the Ozarks of Arkansas and currently based in East Tennessee. He is interested in people, our relationship to place and how that shapes our worldview. He has a Masters of Science in Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems from Montana State University and left his career in academia in 2012 to tell stories with a camera. He worked on the critically acclaimed documentary Tower (Keith Maitland, 2016) and his work has been featured in Vice, Outside, Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, and numerous other festivals and universities. Find Andy Online WEBSITE/SOCIAL MEDIA www.andysarjahani@gmail.com www.instagram.com/andysarjahani --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Episode Summary: Reality bites in this week’s gallery chat as Haddy talks about the aesthetics of information visualization in graphs and charts and Yassi talks about the ways in which surveillance culture blur art and reality. Documentary filmmaker Andy Sarjahani, this week’s interview guest, joins in the conversation sharing his experiences in how visual storytelling works to convey deep truths and tackles existential questions. Andy Sarjahani (b. 1983, Richland, WA) is an American-Iranian documentary filmmaker and photographer raised in the Ozarks of Arkansas and currently based in East Tennessee. He is interested in people, our relationship to place and how that shapes our worldview. He has a Masters of Science in Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems from Montana State University and left his career in academia in 2012 to tell stories with a camera. He worked on the critically acclaimed documentary Tower (Keith Maitland, 2016) and his work has been featured in Vice, Outside, Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, and numerous other festivals and universities. Find Andy Online WEBSITE/SOCIAL MEDIA www.andysarjahani.com www.instagram.com/andysarjahani WORK SAMPLES LAST DAYS OF TOYS R US (photo essay): https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/438awm/depressing-photos-from-the-last-days-of-toys-r-us HORNS OUT (short doc): https://rockandice.com/videos/climbing/horns-out-maurice-horn-reflects-lifetime-climbing/ DOWNSTREAM PEOPLE (short doc): https://vimeo.com/173096029 Provocation (#ArtIfPodcast) Take photos of anyone who see wearing Red and Black Plaid (“the shared fabric of humanity”) and tag us and Andy’s other instagram account: www.instagram.com/peoplewearingredandblackplaid Mentioned in the Show Tangled Up in Blue NYTimes Corona Virus Article Kantar Information is Beautiful Awards Light Map Into Eternity (Swedish documentary about nuclear waste) The Truman Show Deepfakes We Live in Public You are Watching Me (Link to film no longer works) Errol Morris Cinema Verité Maysles Brothers 1619 Podcast --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

In this episode, we feature a two-part conversation with the remarkable and highly acclaimed feminist, experimental filmmaker and poet Lynne Sachs. Lynne Sachs is a Memphis-born, Brooklyn-based artist who has made over 35 films. Her work explores the intricate relationship between personal observations and broader historical experiences by weaving together text, collage, painting, politics, and layered sound design. Lynne Sachs is currently one of the artists in focus at Sheffield Doc Fest where her most recent feature documentary film, FILM ABOUT A FATHER WHO is presented alongside a curated selection of five of her earlier films.We caught up with Sachs recently to discuss the many aspects of her work, including feminist film theory, experimental filmmaking, and her collaborative approach. We also discuss her short film, A MONTH OF SINGLE FRAMES (FOR BARBARA HAMMER). https://www.docsinorbit.com/masters-edition-in-conversation-with-lynne-sachs

Vera Brunner-Sung is a filmmaker who uses experimental, documentary, and narrative techniques to explore the relationship between place and identity. Vera's documentary short film, Character, premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival. The child of immigrants from Korea and Switzerland, Vera grew up in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Early on, her intercultural, mixed-race experience created a fluid sense of belonging that informs her work. After undergraduate work in public policy and visual art at Brown University, she moved to California to study film with Thom Andersen, Rebecca Baron, James Benning, and Betzy Bromberg at CalArts. Vera’s films, videos, and photographs have been presented at festivals, museums, and galleries in the U.S. and abroad, including Sundance, the Torino Film Festival, CPH:DOX, Leeum Samsung Museum of Art, MoMA PS1, San Francisco International Film Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival, and Images Festival. Her first feature, Bella Vista, had its world premiere at the International Film Festival Rotterdam in 2014, and went on to win her the George C. Lin Emerging Filmmaker Award at the 15th San Diego Asian Film Festival. She is a 2015 Fellow with the Center for Asian American Media and a 2020 Sundance FilmTwo Fellow. In addition to making films, Vera is a writer and educator. Her essays, reviews, and reports have appeared in print and online publications including Sight & Sound, Cinema Scope, and Millennium Film Journal. Her chapter on the representation of site-specific art in contemporary documentary film appears in Documenting the Visual Arts (ed. Roger Hallas, Routledge, 2019). She has taught at the University of California, San Diego, and the University of Montana, and is currently an assistant professor at The Ohio State University. This episode was recorded in partnership with the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/americanfilmmaker/support

In this episode, I speak with director/writer, Emily Cohen Ibañez, and protagonist/writer Ashley Solis Pavon about their upcoming project Fruits of Labor and what it’s like to collaborate on the filmmaking process. Like Rob Base and DJ EZ Rock say, “It Takes Two.” I spoke with them at the 2020 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival.

In this episode, I speak with Choctaw/Seminole co-founder of Longhouse Media, Tracy Rector about her filmmaking, her new gig with Nia Tero and, her mentoring of the 4th World Indigenous Media Lab. With everything that she does, like Chaka Khan and Whitney Houston, Tracy’s informal mantra should be “I’m Every Woman.” I spoke with her at the 2020 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival.

The guys talk PARASITE and the Oscars. Dave dispatches from The Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, sees WATCHMEN, JOJO RABBIT, and RAIDERS!: THE STORY OF THE GREATEST FAN FILM EVER MADE. Palmer teases his unboxing video for the STAR WARS Comic art premium pinball machine, sees DON’T F**K WITH CATS; HUNTING AN INTERNET KILLER, and destroys a toilet. PLUS: in the "King Corner," THE OUTSIDER and a bountiful installment of "JCVD & Me" in which Dave runs down the news items involving "The Muscles From Brussels"--as they relate to himself personally. (Recorded February 20, 2020). Dreaming Out Loud Archive Outro Song: “Rupture” by Four Degrees North from Four Degrees North [EP] (Expanded Edition) Download the full album for free @ https://dreamingoutloudrecords.com/album/four-degrees-north-ep-expanded-edition Join the conversation on Twitter: https://twitter.com/lwsdpod #LWSD82 Email us: lwsdpod@gmail.com Download a free audiobook on us by visiting our sponsor: http://www.audibletrial.com/lwsd Subscribe, rate, and review using your favorite podcast app: iTunes - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/long-walk-short-drink/id1184182879?mt=2 Stitcher - http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=125872&refid=stpr Google Play - https://play.google.com/music/m/Ifz6es6bsg4a3oqtysxexheuzzm?t=Long_Walk_Short_Drink YouTube - https://bit.ly/2LXHysC

This week, Patagonia Films premiered the documentary feature Public Trust at the 17th annual Big Sky Documentary Film Festival in Missoula. The film examines how private interests, especially extractive industries, are attempting to undermine America’s public lands legacy. The film focuses on three specific conflicts at Utah’s Bears Ears National Monument, Minnesota’s Boundary Waters Wilderness, and northeastern Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The film prominently features Hal Herring, an award-winning journalist and Montana resident who has spent more than two decades working in, and writing about, public lands in the American West. Herring tells Montana Free Press editor-in-chief John S. Adams, “We should understand that there is a movement afoot to privatize the American public lands, and we should know what those [lands] are before we come down on one side or another in that debate. And we should know who’s driving that debate, and what is at stake for us, and our children and grandchildren.” The public lands issue has become a rallying point for the Democratic Party in the American West. But while Herring supports the concept of public lands, he’s also sometimes critical of Democratic approaches to the issue, noting that sweeping changes such as the Bill Clinton-era roadless rule and Barack Obama’s Bears Ears National Monument designation have been undertaken without making the case to citizens. As Herring tells Adams, “I’m convinced that we can not leave environmental and conservation eggs in the basket of one party.” He pushes back on ideological public-lands stances taken by Democrats and Republicans alike, saying the parties “need to horse trade.” He also suggests that the issue presents a unique opportunity for conservative political candidates, saying he’s “waiting for a kind of quiet revolution in conservative America to come to solving environmental problems in the future.” Herring and Adams also discuss the history of the American public lands movement, from the aftermath of the Mexican-American War through the privatization ideology promoted by President Ronald Reagan, which continues to resonate. Herring’s conversation with Adams was recorded on the eve of the film’s public premiere. The Montana Lowdown podcast is a weekly publication of Montana Free Press.

A conversation about the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival with Executive Director Rachel Gregg. This is Missoula Montana’s Primier Film Festival featuring 150 films both international and domestic.

Today's episode is a special preview of this year's Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, which runs February 14-23. Executive Director Rachel Gregg (UM 2009, 2011) previews what to expect from this year's selections and tells us all about the many other great things happening at the Big Sky Documentary Film Institute.

Eric Becker is an Emmy Award-winning director and documentary film maker. He is interested in social justice, conservation and human rights and tries to illuminate these issues by capturing emotional connection on film. He recently visited Missoula to show his beautiful, Return to Mount Kennedy, at the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival. The film tracks the sons of the famed climber Jim Whittaker and the late Senator Robert Kennedy as they recreate their fathers' historic climb of Mt. Kennedy, a remote peak in the Yukon. Eric discusses the highs and lows of a career in film, where it has taken him, and how he views his responsibility as a story teller.

Filmmakers Nic Davis and Tim Williams join Alanya on Friday afternoon of the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival to discuss the premier of their film Enormous: The Gorge Story. It's the never before told story of one of the world's most beautiful and iconic music venues. A stellar soundtrack compliments this exquisite film, starring Dave Matthews, Pearl Jam, Lake Street Dive & more!

Filmmaker Denali Tiller joins Alanya on the Trail Lunchbox to discuss the Montana premier of the film Tre Maison Dasan, screening as part of the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival. Tre Maison Dasan is an intimate portrait of three young boys growing up in Rhode Island, each with a parent in prison. You can learn more about the film here

Tobias Schliessler most recently lensed Ava Duvernay’s adaptation of A WRINKLE IN TIME for Disney, starring Chris Pine, Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Reese Witherspoon. Schliessler also recently shot Bill Condon’s visually stunning film BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, starring Emma Watson and Luke Evans. Condon and Schliessler first teamed up on the Academy Award winning film DREAMGIRLS, followed by THE FIFTH ESTATE, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, and more recently, the beautifully shot MR. HOLMES, starring Ian McKellen. Last year Schliessler lensed Peter Berg’s Boston Marathon drama PATRIOT’S DAY, starring Mark Wahlberg. Berg and Schliessler previously collaborated on a number of films including: the action/drama LONE SURVIVOR, also starring Mark Wahlberg; the sci-fi thriller BATTLESHIP; HANCOCK, starring Will Smith; the high school football drama FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS; and THE RUNDOWN, starring The Rock. Other notable credits include Tony Scott’s crime thriller THE TAKING OF PELHAM 123; as well as Antoine Fuqua’s BAIT, starring Jamie Foxx. A native of Germany, Schliessler studied cinematography at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, Canada. He began his career shooting documentaries, and then segued into independent features, television movies, music videos and commercials. Schliessler was honored by the Association of Independent Commercial Producers (AICP) for his cinematography on Audi’s commercial WAKE UP in 2000, and Lincoln’s Financial spot DOCTOR in 2001. Both are now part of the permanent archives of The Museum of Modern Art’s Department of Film and Video in New York City. His commercial work also includes ads for such high end brands as Mercedes Benz, BMW, Bank of America, Citibank , AT&T and Verizon. Aisha Schliessler is a writer and director living in Los Angeles, California. A third-generation filmmaker, life behind the camera is in her blood. She has worked across a wide range of projects including shorts, music videos and commercials. Her short documentary, DOBLE 9, about four Cuban exiles connected through Miami’s Calle Ocho domino park, screened at multiple film festivals in 2016 including The Miami International Film Festival and the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival in Montana. In 2017 she wrote and directed THE END, about a lonesome beauty and her unusual dinner date, which won the Audience Choice Award at the New York City Short Film Festival (NYC Shorts). Most recently, Aisha wrote and directed the short film PASSING in collaboration with Zeiss lenses, which will premiere in 2018. Topics Discussed In This Episode: How he got into cinematography Tobias’s father’s path into mountain climbing and documentarian filmmaking Rainer Werner Fassbinder (filmmaker) Robby Müller (Dutch cinematographer) Directors he’s worked with, Bill Condon and Peter Berg Pushing each other creatively in collaborative partnerships A film Tobias worked on called, “Friday Night Lights” His experiences on set Mentoring younger people entering the film industry Working on “Lone Survivor” The film, “The American Friend” The film, “The Square” Working with directors Peter Berg and Bill Condon www.artistdecoded.com

Sean Peoples is an award-winning international film producer who documents strong and compelling personal stories and weaves them with major global issues and policy questions. It is a unique form of storytelling. Until recently, Peoples was a multimedia producer/program associate at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars where he spent 9.5 years. He is now a producer at Think Out Loud Productions. Peoples has been heralded by The New York Times as one of a “new generation of visual communicators who are breaking down conventional definitions of media.” People’s latest film, Broken Landscape: Confronting India’s Water-Energy Choke Point, premiered at the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival in 2015. Since then, it has been selected for a number of film festivals including the Athens International Film + Video Festival. The film focuses on the battle between coal mining and water quality in a remote area of India. It features the human stories behind a battle between clean and safe resources and jobs and economic survival. It has won numerous awards including a Silver Telly Award where it was selected for recognition from over 12,000 entries. Recently it was shown on CNN India to over 54 million viewers.

Doug Hawes-Davis on Big Sky Documentary Film Festival in Missoula, Montana.

A conversation with legendary documentary filmmaker Les Blank during the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival in Missoula, Montana.

A Lot More With Les– Les Blank comes from a conversation with legendary documentary filmmaker Les Blank at the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival in Missoula, Montana in 2007. Les Blank is best known for poetic films that transform folk cultures into art forms. His soft spoken contemplative thoughts allows free flowing revelations. That was […] The post A Lot More With Les – Les Blank appeared first on Film Festival reViews.

I'm joined by Colter Olmstead and Shadow Deveraux, the Montana-based creators of the LAST OF THE NOBODIES. This is one of the most unique stories I've had the privilege to hear and I'm glad they've given me the opportunity to share it. LAST OF THE NOBODIES follows 23 Montana made artists coming together for 10 days to create a collaborative album. In this episode, we talk about how the duo came together; how hiphop and indie filmmaking actually have a lot in common, even in Montana; the challenges of making a music documentary; and when and what you should expect to see with LAST OF THE NOBODIES.Shout out to the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, you've got a great one coming your way in your backyard. Colter's Indie Filmmaker Highlight: RC Cone/Tributaries Digital Cinema (https://www.instagram.com/wearetributaries/)Links:Indiegogo: https://igg.me/at/lotn/x/35781306#/Website: https://www.lastofthenobodies.com/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lastofthenobodiesInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/lastofthenobodies/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@LastoftheNobodiesColter Olmstead's Website: https://www.colterolmstead.com/Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/first-time-go/donations