Big Sky Documentary Film Festival has announced the Official Selections for the seventh annual festival in Missoula, Montana, February 12-21, 2010. Culled from 1000 entries, the ten-day event, which will be held at the historic Wilma Theatre in downtown Missoula, features 130 short and length non-fiction films from over thirty countries.
Special features at this years event include Indigenous Visions: Film By Native American Filmmakers (Sponsored by The Academy Foundation, Humanities Montana, The Native American Studies Department of The University of Montana, ITVS & NAPT) a retrospective of films by prolific filmmaker Doug Pray (Art & Copy, Scratch, Hype!) a presentation of ephemeral documentary shorts by archivist Rick Prelinger, and live musical accompaniment to Dziga Vertov’s Soviet propaganda classic Man With A Movie Camera (1929), performed by Alloy Orchestra.
Along with parties, receptions, panel discussions, industry events and filmmaker visits to area high schools and university classrooms, the festival anticipates an audience of 10,000 for this year’s event.
Official Selections:
Opening Night Film (sponsored by HBO Documentary Films)
Sergio (Dir. Greg Barker)
Feature Competition
Antoine (Dir Laura Bari)
Cleanflix (Dir. Andrew James & Joshua Ligairi)
Family Affair (Dir. Chico Colvard)
Full Disclosure (Dir. Brian Palmer)
Gasland (Dir. Josh Fox)
H2Oil (Dir. Shannon Walsh)
Deep Down (Dir. Jen Gilomen & Sally Rubin)
There Once Was an Island (Dir. Briar March )
Last Train Home (Dir. Lixin Fan)
Pinned (Dir. Patrick Norman & Mike Norman)
Special When Lit (Dir. Brett Sullivan)
Big Sky Award Competition
Fire in the Garden (Dir. Zach Kienitz)
Joseph (Dir. Andy Wilson)
Milltown, Montana (Dir. Rainer Komers)
Next Year Country (Dir. Joseph Aguirre)
Sweetgrass (Dir. Ilisa Barbash & Lucien Castaing-Taylor)
Unreserved (Dir. Tracy Rector)
Short Film Competition
Born Sweet (Dir. Cynthia Wade)
Cohen on the Bridge - The Entebbe Rescue (Dir. Andrew Wainrib)
El Loco De La Catedral (Dir. James Rogan)
Danza Del Viejo Inmigrante (Dir. Charlene Music)
Let Your Feet Do the Talkin' (Dir. Stewart Copeland)
My Name is Sydney (Dir. Melanie Levy)
Never Enough (Dir. Kelly Anderson)
Salt (Dir. Michael Angus)
Team Taliban (Dir. Benjamin Kegan)
Mini-Doc Competition (under 15 min)
Close To Home (Dir. Theo Rigby)
A Film from My Parish: 6 Farms (Dir. Tony Dognoghue)
Fledgling (Dir. Tony Gault & Elizabeth Henry)
Found (Dir. Paramita Nath)
Ginseng Empire (Dir. Ryan Spence)
Heartland Transport (Dir. Cody Stokes)
Notes On The Other (Dir. Sergio Oksman)
The Reed Trains (Vozovi Svirac i) (Dir. Amir Husak)
Richmond (Dir. Christoph Rainer)
A Sentence Apart (Dir. Jason Sussberg & Theo Rigby)
Shelter (Dir. Jason Sussberg)
Simple Nature (Dir. David Alvarado)
Trash-Out (Dir. Maria Fortiz-Morse)
Special Programming
Indigenous Visions: Films By Native American Filmmakers
Century of Genocide (Dir. Rosemary Gibbons)
Indian (Dir. Darryl Nepinak)
Miss Navajo (Dir. Billy Luther)
Reel Injun (Dir. Neil Diamond)
Trail Of Tears (Dir. Chris Eyre)
Trudell (Dir. Heather Rae)
Unreserved (Dir. Tracy Rector)
Weaving Worlds (Dir. Bennie Klain)
Wounded Knee (Dir. Stanley Nelson)
Doug Pray Retrospective
Art & Copy
Big Rig
Feel Your Heart Race
Hype!
Infamy
Scratch
Surfwise
Veer
Mr. Prelinger’s Amazing Archive
A sampling of films from the Prelinger Archives, a collection of 60,000 advertising, educational, industrial, and amateur films - artistic, historical and cultural oddities ranging from propaganda to artist bios, health class films, civil defense instructional films, highway safety scare flicks and more. Hosted by Rick Prelinger
Man With The Movie Camera (Dir. Dziga Vertov)
With Live Musical Accompaniment by the world renown Alloy Orchestra
Selections from The 2009 International Documentary Challenge (Doc Challenge)
200 Block (Dir. Andrew Sobey & Kate Lain)
Dark Material (Dir. Maile Martinez & Lane Stroud)
Forty Foot (Dir. Leticia Agudo, Aoibheann O’Sullivan & Paul McGrath)
Fragile Ground (Dir. Polar Star Films)
The Greasy Pole” (Dir. Emile Doucette, Tom Papows, Michael Pallazola
A Healing Art (Dir. Ellen Frick)
Lorelei Lee (Dir. Simone Grudzen & Jesse Kerman)
Pipe Dream (Dir. Lindsie Reitz)
Time Well Spent (Dir. Jon Miller, Alice Chang, Grace Statwick & Stanton Wong)
Uncommon Sense (Dir. Tonya Easbey & John Ansotegui)
The Violin Maker (Dir. Greg Brotherton)
Wu Tang Gran (Dir. Patrick Carr)
Big Sky Youth Program Films
AERIE:Internationally Connecting (Dir. Makenzie Enich)
An Anonymous Rebellion (Dir. Michael Workman)
New Doc City: Non-Fiction Films From Around the World
Shorts
Aeric: Internationally Connected (Dir. Mackenzie Enich )
An Anonymous Rebellion (Dir. Michael Workman )
Arresting Ana (Dir. Lucie Schwartz)
Barber's Dozen (Dir. Tara Manandhar)
A Circle and Three Lines (Dir. Jan Selby)
Les Grands Penseurs (Great Thinkers) (Dir. Karina Garcia Casanova)
Long Distance (Dir. Moritz Siebert)
Mezzanotte Obscura (Dir. Lori Petchers)
Presidio Modelo (Dir. Pablo Alvarez-Mesa)
Sense of Sport (Dir. Creda Wilson)
The Commoners (Dir. Jessica Bardsley & Penny Lane)
The Damned (Dir. Till Passow)
Features
65 Red Roses (Dir. Nimisha Mukerji)
9500 Liberty (Dir. Annabel Park & Eric Byler)
An American Journey (Dir. Philippe Seclier)
Anne Perry Interiors (Dir. Dana Linkiewicz)
Breath Made Visible (Dir. Ruedi Gerber)
Children of the Amazon (Dir. Denise Zmekhol)
Chuck Close (Dir. Marion Cajori)
Dark Light: The Art of Blind Photographers (Dir. Neil Leifer)
Freedom of Space (Dir. Steve Olpin & Tim Irwin)
Full Signal (Dir. Talal Jabari)
Garbage Dreams (Dir. Mai Iskaner)
Ghost Bird (Dir. Scott Crocker)
Girls on the Wall (Dir. Heather Ross)
Good Fortune (Dir. Landon Van Soest)
Intangible Asset #82 (Dir. Emma Franz)
Journey From Zansker (Dir. Fredrick Marx)
Junior (Dir. Jenna Rosher)
La Danse - Le ballet de l'Opéra de Paris (Dir. Frederick Wiseman)
The Last One(Dir. Neal Hutcheson)
Mi Chacra (My Land) (Dir. Jason Burlange)
Mighty Uke (Dir. Tony Coleman)
Mine (Dir. Geralyn Pezanoski)
My Name Is Smith (Dir. James Allen Smith)
Neil Young Trunk Show (Dir. Jonathan Demme)
Neshoba (Dir. Micki Dickoff & Tony Pagano)
No Greater Love (Dir. Michael Whyte)
Nollywood Babylon (Dir. Ben Addelman & Samir Mallal)
One Fast Move or I'm Gone: Kerouac's Big Sur (Dir. Curt Worden)
Only When I Dance (Dir. Beadie Finzi)
Orgasm Inc. (Dir. Liz Canner)
Panorama Ephemera (Dir. Rick Prelinger)
Prisoner of Her Past (Dir. Gordon Quinn & Jerry Blumenthal)
Racing Dreams (Dir. Marshall Curry)
Severe Clear (Dir. Kristian Fraga)
Smile 'Til It Hurts: The Up With People Story (Dir. Lee Storey)
Sold American (Dir. Richard Boehm)
Sons of a Gun (Dir. Greg O'Toole & Rivkah Medow)
Super Art Market (Dir. Joran Soloman)
Sweet Crude (Dir. Sandy Cioffi)
Tapped (Dir. Stephanie Soechtig)
Tehran Has No More Pomegranates (Dir. Massouo Bakhshi)
The Tiger Next Door (Dir. Camilla Calamandrei)
Until the Light Takes Us (Dir. Aaron Aites, & Audrey Ewell)
Waiting For Hockney (Dir. Julie Checkoway)
Who Killed Chea Vichea? (Dir. Bradley Cox)
Winning Time: Reggie Miller vs The New York Knicks (Dir. Dan Klores)
Official Sponsors of the 2010 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, HBO Documentary Films, Sony Electronics, Humanities Montana, The Montana Film Office, Morris & Helen Silver Foundation, The L.E.A.W. Family Foundation, Northwest Energy, First Security Bank, Montana Environmental Information Center, Green Light, Kleen Kanteen, Clark Fork Coalition, The Documentary Channel, ITVS, Native American Public Telecommunications, Rocky Mountain School of Photography, Missoula Art Museum, Montana Pubic Television, The Missoula Independent, Montana Public Radio, Blossom Bed & Breakfast, Red Lion Inn, Holiday Inn, Doubletree, Best Western Grant Creek, Campus Inn, Stay at the Wilma, Motel 6, Docurama, Big Sky Brewery, Kettlehouse, Thomas Kemper Soda.
