Arts and Entertainment
January 23, 2024
From: Big Sky Documentary Film Festival21st year lineup include 49 features and 73 short documentary films including 40 World Premieres, 7 North American Premieres and 7 U.S. Premieres.
Film Schedule:
Fri, Feb 16th, 2024
7:00pm, Wilma
399: Queen of the Tetons - 90 minutes
Sat, Feb 17th, 2024
11:30am, ZACC
...And The Pursuit of Happiness - 80 minutes
12:00pm, Missoula Community Theater
Hindsight - 18 minutes
Three Promises - 61 minutes
12:30pm, Wilma
The Sound of the Wind - 17 minutes
Behind the Mask - 31 minutes
After Landing - 36 minutes
2:00pm, ZACC
Final Vows - 84 minutes
2:30pm, Missoula Community Theater
Mediha - 90 minutes
3:00pm, Wilma
The Herricanes - 87 minutes
4:30pm, ZACC
More than Brothers - 23 minutes
Bubjan - 28 minutes
Eternal Father - 30 minutes
5:00pm, Missoula Community Theater
The Fisherman and the Banker - 85 minutes
5:30pm, Wilma
Porcelain War - 90 minutes
6:45pm, ZACC
Demon Mineral - 88 minutes
7:30pm, Missoula Community Theater
Confessions of a Good Samaritan - 103 minutes
8:30pm, Wilma
Queendom - 98 minutes
Sun, Feb 18th, 2024
12:00pm, Missoula Community Theater
Story & Pictures By - 86 minutes
12:15pm, ZACC
An Hour from the Middle of Nowhere - 83 minutes
12:30pm, Wilma
A Buffalo Story - 124 minutes
2:30pm, Missoula Community Theater
Without Arrows - 95 minutes
2:45pm, ZACC
unseen - 88 minutes
3:30pm, Wilma
Winding Path - 10 minutes
One For All - 19 minutes
Height of the Kite - 27 minutes
What the Hands Do - 36 minutes
5:00pm, Missoula Community Theater
Seat 31: Zooey Zephyr - 13 minutes
Dark Money - 86 minutes
5:15pm, ZACC
Greener Pastures - 83 minutes
6:00pm, Wilma
One with the Whale - 83 minutes
7:45pm, ZACC
Bicycle Island (A donde nos lleva) - 23 minutes
Someone Lives Here - 75 minutes
8:15pm, Missoula Community Theater
Semi-Aquatic - 6 minutes
Magnificent Beings - 8 minutes
Wise River, MT - 10 minutes
Piñatas of Earthly Delights - 13 minutes
A Body Called Life - 15 minutes
American Grail: A Quest for the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker - 16 minutes
Cristo Negro - 18 minutes
8:30pm, Wilma
!AITSA - 89 minutes
Mon, Feb 19th, 2024
DocShop
11:00am, DocShop
Filmmakers Defining Documentary Influence - 90 minutes
1:00pm, DocShop
ImpactExplored with Ellen Schneider - 90 minutes
3:00pm, Residence Inn
Unionizing the Documentary - 90 minutes
Films
11:00am, ZACC
State Legislature - 217 minutes
12:30pm, Wilma
Winding Path - 10 minutes
Wise River, MT - 10 minutes
Piñatas of Earthly Delights - 13 minutes
Hindsight - 18 minutes
After Landing - 36 minutes
1:15pm, Roxy
Mrs. Iran's Husband - 27 minutes
On the Way Home - 62 minutes
3:00pm, Wilma
The Elwell Ferry - 15 minutes
Happy Campers - 78 minutes
3:45pm, Roxy
Richland - 93 minutes
4:00pm, ZACC
Seat 31: Zooey Zephyr - 13 minutes
Montana Indigenous Voting Rights - 16 minutes
The Test - 16 minutes
Hold the Line - 18 minutes
Denial - 23 minutes
5:45pm, Wilma
Goodbye, Morganza - 15 minutes
Fratelli Carbonai - 17 minutes
Wild Hogs and Saffron - 19 minutes
Through the Storm - 23 minutes
6:15pm, Roxy
Horns and Halos - 80 minutes
6:30pm, ZACC
Home is a Hotel - 95 minutes
8:00pm, Wilma
Admissions Granted - 90 minutes
Tue, Feb 20th, 2024
DocShop
11:00am, DocShop
Truth and Trust - 90 minutes
1:00pm, DocShop
Documentary and Democracy - 90 minutes
3:00pm, DocShop
AI Transparency with the Archival Producer’s Alliance - 90 minutes
Films
1:30pm, Roxy
Voice of the Hi-Line - 14 minutes
For This and Future Generations - 57 minutes
2:00pm, ZACC
Dear Kin: Neech Yanagut Yéil - 3 minutes
Good Relatives - 3 minutes
Return to the Blanket - 13 minutes
Kowloon! - 16 minutes
My Queerceañera - 17 minutes
Height of the Kite - 27 minutes
4:30pm, ZACC
Semi-Aquatic - 6 minutes
Otters of Yellowstone - 6 minutes
Elladj - 6 minutes
Little Boy Loon - 10 minutes
Forbidden Pond - 13 minutes
5:30pm, Roxy
Grasshopper Republic - 94 minutes
6:15pm, ZACC
Ancestral Threads - 12 minutes
Anagama - 61 minutes
8:00pm, Roxy
Above and Below the Ground - 86 minutes
8:30pm, ZACC
Balloon Boy - 17 minutes
Spot Fire - 33 minutes
Incident - 30 minutes
Wed, Feb 21st, 2024
DocShop
10:00am, DocShop
Legal Clinic: Understanding and Crafting the Documentary Waterfall - minutes
12:00pm, DocShop
Legal Clinic: Fair Use and Licensing: Use of Archival Content in Post-Warhol Era - 75 minutes
2:00pm, DocShop
Legal Clinic: Avoiding Unnecessary Risk in the Production Process - 75 minutes
4:00pm, Residence Inn
Legal Clinic: Politics and Transparency: Gaining Access to Public Records - 75 minutes
Films
2:00pm, ZACC
Existimos en la Memoria (We Exist in Memory) - 13 minutes
Hold the Line - 18 minutes
Wild Hogs and Saffron - 19 minutes
Spot Fire - 33 minutes
3:00pm, Roxy
Scenes from Salé - 14 minutes
Through the Storm - 23 minutes
Until He's Back - 39 minutes
4:30pm, ZACC
You Can't Shrink Love - 6 minutes
Magnificent Beings - 8 minutes
Strong Grandma - 15 minutes
Tiny - 17 minutes
5:30pm, Roxy
To Be Invisible - 21 minutes
Si Pudiera Quedarme (If I Could Stay) - 75 minutes
6:30pm, ZACC
Bye Bye Tiberias - 82 minutes
8:00pm, Roxy
I Am Ready, Warden - 37 minutes
Until He's Back - 39 minutes
Thu, Feb 22nd, 2024
DocShop
11:00am, DocShop
The Art of Resistance - 90 minutes
1:00pm, DocShop
Jeanie Finlay Master Class - 90 minutes
3:00pm, DocShop
Distribution Toolkit - 90 minutes
Films
11:30am, ZACC
Headshot - 8 minutes
???? ??? (Meet Me at the Creek) - 10 minutes
Tilted Arc - 14 minutes
Suborbital Triptych - 14 minutes
I Am Ready, Warden - 37 minutes
12:30pm, Wilma
Knit’s Island - 95 minutes
1:00pm, Roxy
(Wild)life - 5 minutes
Otters of Yellowstone - 6 minutes
New Old Love - 12 minutes
Racing the Dream - 15 minutes
Terra Draconis - 22 minutes
2:00pm, ZACC
MIRASOL, Looking at the Sun - 37 minutes
Iniskim-Return of the Buffalo - 39 minutes
2:45pm, Wilma
Photophobia - 71 minutes
3:15pm, Roxy
Nottingham Lace - 25 minutes
Sound It Out - 75 minutes
4:30pm, ZACC
Over the Wall - 18 minutes
A Symphony of Tiny Lights - 31 minutes
5:00pm, Wilma
You Can't Shrink Love - 6 minutes
The Haenyeo of Jeju Island - 11 minutes
Now I am Old and Do Not Need the Moon - 12 minutes
Strong Grandma - 15 minutes
Kowloon! - 16 minutes
My Queerceañera - 17 minutes
6:00pm, Roxy
Anxious in Beirut - 93 minutes
7:30pm, ZACC
Love Takes - 10 minutes
Goth Cruise - 75 minutes
8:00pm, Wilma
Welcome Space Brothers - 94 minutes
Fri, Feb 23rd, 2024
DocShop
11:00am, DocShop
Big Sky Pitch 2024 - 270 minutes
Films
12:30pm, Wilma
Some Thoughts on the Common Toad - 11 minutes
Boca Chica - 14 minutes
Suborbital Triptych - 14 minutes
Tilted Arc - 14 minutes
I Am the Immaculate Conception - 18 minutes
Please Ask for It - 20 minutes
1:00pm, Roxy
Panto! - 71 minutes
2:00pm, ZACC
Patrol - 83 minutes
2:30pm, Roxy
Indietracks - 26 minutes
Teenland - 60 minutes
3:00pm, Wilma
Existimos en la Memoria (We Exist in Memory) - 13 minutes
Nkashi: Race for the Okavango - 71 minutes
4:30pm, ZACC
Reem Al Shammary - The Bedouin Boxeur - 15 minutes
Bicycle Island (A donde nos lleva) - 23 minutes
5:30pm, Roxy
Orion: The Man Who Would Be King - 86 minutes
5:45pm, Wilma
Finding the Money - 95 minutes
7:15pm, ZACC
Headshot - 8 minutes
Ancestral Threads - 12 minutes
Forbidden Pond - 13 minutes
Eat Flowers - 15 minutes
Montana Indigenous Voting Rights - 16 minutes
4DWN - 18 minutes
8:00pm, Roxy
A Symphony of Tiny Lights - 31 minutes
Called to the Mountains - 53 minutes
8:15pm, Wilma
Your Fat Friend - 96 minutes
Sat, Feb 24th, 2024
12:00pm, ZACC
Game of Thrones: The Last Watch - 110 minutes
12:30pm, Wilma
Singing Back the Buffalo - 99 minutes
1:00pm, Roxy
This World is Not My Own - 97 minutes
2:45pm, ZACC
Our Grandmother The Inlet - 9 minutes
???? ??? (Meet Me at the Creek) - 10 minutes
Tiny - 17 minutes
Iniskim-Return of the Buffalo - 39 minutes
3:30pm, Wilma
Troll Storm - 83 minutes
3:45pm, Roxy
Seahorse: The Dad Who Gave Birth - 89 minutes
5:15pm, ZACC
The Body Politic - 92 minutes
6:00pm, Wilma
Bring Them Home / Aiskótáhkapiyaaya - 85 minutes
6:15pm, Roxy
Little Boy Loon - 10 minutes
Seeds of Change - 27 minutes
MIRASOL, Looking at the Sun - 37 minutes
7:45pm, ZACC
The Great Hip Hop Hoax - 88 minutes
8:30pm, Roxy
I'm Just Here for the Riot - 77 minutes
8:45pm, Wilma
Patria y Vida: The Power of Music - 86 minutes
Sun, Feb 25th, 2024
12:00pm, ZACC
A Golden Life - 85 minutes
12:30pm, Wilma
Fishtail: The Last Best Place - 10 minutes
James Florio at Tippet Rise - 17 minutes
Tomorrow's Town Today - 23 minutes
Flowing Air - 40 minutes
2:30pm, ZACC
Scenes from Salé - 14 minutes
Frontier Town - 30 minutes
Postcards From the Verge - 39 minutes
3:30pm, Roxy
Q - 93 minutes
4:00pm, Wilma
Youth Fellowship Films 2023 - 30 minutes
Elladj - 6 minutes
Reem Al Shammary - The Bedouin Boxeur - 15 minutes
Over the Wall - 18 minutes
5:00pm, ZACC
Awards Screening 1
6:30pm, Wilma
The Wonder and the Worry - 98 minutes
7:30pm, ZACC
Awards Screening 2
Fest Date: February 16 - 25, 2024
Locations:
Zootown Arts Community Center, 216 W Main Street, Missoula, MT 59802
The Wilma, 131 S Higgins Avenue, Missoula, MT 59802
ZACC Show Room, 216 W Main Street, Missoula, MT 59802
Missoula Community Theater (MCT), 200 N Adams, Missoula, MT 59802
The Roxy Theater, 718 S Higgins, Missoula, MT 59802
DocShop Venue: Missoula Public Library, 455 E Main Street, Missoula, MT 59802
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