tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52329292017884795642024-02-20T19:12:46.174-07:00Big Sky Documentary Film FestivalFebruary 17-26, 2012 Missoula, MonatanaSeattle Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08736837411710943832noreply@blogger.comBlogger176125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5232929201788479564.post-89965204461883941632012-09-05T14:19:00.003-06:002012-09-05T14:19:57.818-06:00Regular Deadline Approaching for 2013 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival <br />
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<b>Regular Deadline - Postmarked by September 10, 2012</b></div>
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<b>Final Deadline - Postmarked by October 16, 2012</b></div>
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<a href="http://www.bigskyfilmfest.org/" target="_blank">Big Sky Documentary Film Festival</a>, the premier venue for nonfiction film in the American West, is seeking submissions for its ninth annual event. From February 15-24, 2013 the festival will screen 100+ films, including world and U.S. premieres, classics, rare and experimental works in several venues including the historic Wilma Theater in downtown <a href="http://www.missouladowntown.com/" target="_blank">Missoula, Montana</a>. In addition to ten days of screenings, public and VIP events and receptions, the festival will feature <a href="http://www.bigskyfilmfest.org/bsdff/festival/DocShop" target="_blank">Big Sky Doc Shop</a>, a four-day industry forum with panel discussions, workshops and pitch sessions.<br />
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Celebrating its tenth anniversary in 2013, Big Sky draws an annual audience of 15,000, including thousands of enthusiastic documentary fans, filmmakers, distributors, broadcasters and industry professionals. Held in the idyllic mountain town of Missoula, Montana, Big Sky has grown to become the largest cinema event in Montana, and a destination for documentary devotees from around the world. <br />
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The competitive event is open to non-fiction films and videos of all genres, subject matter, lengths and production dates. Awards and cash prizes will be given for Best Documentary Feature (over 50 minutes), Best Documentary Short (15-50 minutes), Best Mini-Doc (under 15 minutes) and best documentary about the American West (the Big Sky Award).<br />
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DVD (NTSC/PAL) and online screeners accepted for preview.<br />
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Enter via <a href="http://www.withoutabox.com/login/3969" target="_blank">Withoutabox.com</a><http: login="login" www.withoutabox.com="www.withoutabox.com"> or download <a href="http://www.bigskyfilmfest.org/bsdff/festival/submissions" target="_blank">entry form</a> in pdf format<http: bsdff="bsdff" festival="festival" submissions="submissions" www.bigskyfilmfest.org="www.bigskyfilmfest.org"><br /><br />If you would like an entry form emailed to you in pdf format, send a request <a href="mailto:callforentries@bigskyfilmfest.org" target="_blank">here</a>.<callforentries bigskyfilmfest.org="bigskyfilmfest.org"><br /><br />For more information visit <a href="http://bigskyfilmfest.org/">bigskyfilmfest.org</a><http: www.bigskyfilmfest.org="www.bigskyfilmfest.org"><br /></http:></callforentries></http:></http:>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5232929201788479564.post-1196848459702577012012-08-14T15:19:00.001-06:002012-08-14T15:21:05.235-06:00T-SHIRT Design Contest<span class="hasCaption"><b>BSDFF is turning 10!!!</b> And to
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<span class="hasCaption"><span class="hasCaption">DEADLINE: September 15.</span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5232929201788479564.post-3299412350035989162012-05-10T13:49:00.002-06:002012-05-10T14:34:02.835-06:002013 Open Call<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, the premier venue for nonfiction film in the American West, is seeking submissions for its tenth annual event. From February 15-24, 2013 the festival will screen 100+ films, including world and U.S. premieres, classics, rare and experimental works in several venues including the historic Wilma Theater in downtown Missoula, Montana. In addition to ten days of screenings, public and VIP events and receptions, the festival will feature Big Sky Doc Shop, a four-day industry forum with panel discussions, workshops and pitch sessions.<br />
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Celebrating its tenth anniversary in 2013, Big Sky draws an annual audience of 15,000, including thousands of enthusiastic documentary fans, filmmakers, distributors, broadcasters and industry professionals. Held in the idyllic mountain town of Missoula, Montana, Big Sky has grown to become the largest cinema event in Montana, and a destination for documentary devotees from around the world.<br />
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The festival is open to non-fiction films and videos of all genres, subject matter, lengths and completion dates. Awards and cash prizes will be given for Best Documentary Feature (over 50 minutes), Best Documentary Short (15-50 minutes), Best Mini-Doc (under 15 minutes) and best documentary of any length about the American West (the Big Sky Award).<br />
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DVD (NTSC/PAL) and online screeners accepted for preview.<br />
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Enter via <a href="http://www.withoutabox.com/login/3969">Withoutabox</a> or download an <a href="http://www.bigskyfilmfest.org/dwnlds/2013_BSDFF_entry_form.pdf">entry form</a>.<br />
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If you would like an entry form emailed to you in pdf format, send a request to callforentries at bigskyfilmfest.org.<br />
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For more information visit <a href="http://bigskyfilmfest.org/">bigskyfilmfest.org</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5232929201788479564.post-86327254551720030992012-02-27T11:00:00.002-07:002012-02-27T11:01:57.252-07:00Big Sky Mix Tape Highlights<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size: 100%; ">Check out some musical highlights from this year's Big Sky Mix Tape!</span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size: 100%; "><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/37509075?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0" width="400" height="300" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="" mozallowfullscreen="" allowfullscreen="" style="font-size: 100%; "></iframe></div></span><p style="text-align: center;font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia, serif; "><span ><a href="http://vimeo.com/37509075">Mix Tape Highlights</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/bigskyfilmfest">Big Sky Film Fest</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia, serif; "><span >Video by BSDFF Promo Team filmmaker Michael Workman.</span></p>Seattle Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08736837411710943832noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5232929201788479564.post-16737818951941585712012-02-27T09:00:00.000-07:002012-02-27T09:00:03.298-07:00Final Day at the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival<span style="font-size: 100%; "><span >Thank you for a wonderful 2012 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival!</span></span><div style="font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><span ><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><span >SUNDAY PHOTOS</span></div><div style="text-align: center;font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bigskydocfilm/6787982980/" title="GustafsonMichelle-1 by BigSkyFilm, on Flickr" style="font-size: 100%; "><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7049/6787982980_3aed1297f7.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="GustafsonMichelle-1" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span ><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bigskydocfilm/6787983134/" title="GustafsonMichelle-2 by BigSkyFilm, on Flickr" style="font-size: 100%; "><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7178/6787983134_6bde0a116b.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="GustafsonMichelle-2" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bigskydocfilm/6934096395/" title="GustafsonMichelle-4 by BigSkyFilm, on Flickr" style="font-size: 100%; "><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7053/6934096395_6b5bcf66bb.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="GustafsonMichelle-4" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bigskydocfilm/6934097187/" title="GustafsonMichelle-8 by BigSkyFilm, on Flickr" style="font-size: 100%; "><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7053/6934097187_362ae6bde0.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="GustafsonMichelle-8" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bigskydocfilm/6934098417/" title="GustafsonMichelle-14 by BigSkyFilm, on Flickr" style="font-size: 100%; "><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7067/6934098417_802e33c75e.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="GustafsonMichelle-14" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bigskydocfilm/6934100573/" title="GustafsonMichelle-25 by BigSkyFilm, on Flickr" style="font-size: 100%; "><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7180/6934100573_b6513b44f9.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="GustafsonMichelle-25" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bigskydocfilm/6787988752/" title="GustafsonMichelle-31 by BigSkyFilm, on Flickr" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bigskydocfilm/6787988752/" title="GustafsonMichelle-31 by BigSkyFilm, on Flickr" style="font-size: 100%; "><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7045/6787988752_02acff6eda.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="GustafsonMichelle-31" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><span >Photos by BSDFF Promo Team photographer Michelle Gustafson. Click <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bigskydocfilm/sets/72157629099545166/with/6934101351/">here</a> for more photos from Sunday at the festival.</span></div>Seattle Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08736837411710943832noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5232929201788479564.post-54175196158957391272012-02-26T15:00:00.000-07:002012-02-26T15:00:01.189-07:00Firsts and Lasts: Reflecting on the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:officedocumentsettings> <o:allowpng/> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings> </xml><![endif]--> <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:trackmoves/> <w:trackformatting/> <w:punctuationkerning/> <w:validateagainstschemas/> <w:saveifxmlinvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:ignoremixedcontent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:donotpromoteqf/> <w:lidthemeother>EN-US</w:LidThemeOther> <w:lidthemeasian>JA</w:LidThemeAsian> 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I agree, but for me this year, what was lost was also filled, and I’ve felt or seen some transformations over the past week at the festival.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-family:Georgia">Friday night at <i>Monterey Pop </i>my chair pulsed because the lady behind me was rocking out with her foot. I couldn’t blame her. I was shaking my foot too. It’s been hard with these concert documentaries not to just want to get up and dance: from Janis Joplin exploding her lungs on <i>Ball ‘n’ Chain </i>to Otis Redding making my heart palpitate with his hips, and Ravi Shankar proving that human fingers can move as fast as the speed of light. The ‘67 festival was a time of firsts (introducing <i>The Who</i> to the American mainstream) and lasts (Otis’ last major performance – he died six weeks later).</span><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 100%; "> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-family:Georgia">The Monterey Pop documentary, directed by D.A. Pennebaker, has been a time of firsts and lasts for me as well. I first saw the film at the height of my love for the sixties. I watched it in an old, beautiful theater filled with aging hippies. I remember my chest filling with joy at Janis’ performance and wishing I had been born in that era. In my small-town world, the on screen people with their painted faces and tribal dresses summed up all I wanted quite lovely.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-family:Georgia">But Friday I had a moment of terror as the film started. I worried that all the nostalgic feelings I felt for the film, not to mention my adolescence, would be obliterated by a more mature watching. In a way they were. On second viewing, the people looked just like people I see everyday. Their faces were tired as they lugged huge sleeping bags across wet fields, or star struck, or indifferent, as they watched Ravi Shankar perform. I was cynical about the ones with dreamy looks on their faces as they watched the Mamas and the Papas. I understood, maybe for the first time, what it’s like to camp out in the rain. I left the theater remarking how very similar all of those people looked to us.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-family:Georgia">Documentaries have the ability to reach and find what’s been lost - and to make something of it. At the Doc Shop Pitch Session, one of the panelists commented that he didn’t want to see another documentary about naked hippies, one that didn’t capture the truth of the era, as he had known it. I hadn’t realized before the truth in <i>Monterey Pop.</i> I hadn’t seen how it humanized that era and celebrated it, as much as it offered it as a relic to me. I’m just beginning to realize that people’s lives were not better in the past; we only make it seem so.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 100%; "> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-family:Georgia">That is the job of the documentary: to remind us of what’s reality. Out of all the films I have seen this week, the one that struck me most was one I happened in to. <i>Last Call at The Oasis</i> is an urgent, provoking plea to understand our global water troubles. If <i>Last Call</i> is any testament, it shows documentaries teach us to make what has been lost persevere. I left the theater perhaps more excited than I should be, because the film had given me hope for the future, even after an hour of bleak news – as in, we’re past the time of conservation, and the only hope is the use of recycled brown water. Like in <i>Monterey Pop</i>, I was finally able to see how the details in people’s faces and problems facing us are relevant to me. I won’t be rushing out to buy recycled water anytime soon, but I will pay closer attention to the commodities we’re going to lose, like the water we can never get back once it’s flushed and gone, and the people who remind us of decades lost, so that I go into the world with wider eyes and finally appreciate everyone’s story. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span >Article by BSDFF Promo Team writer Zoey Farber</span></p><p></p> <!--EndFragment-->Seattle Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08736837411710943832noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5232929201788479564.post-75230008549876871712012-02-26T12:30:00.000-07:002012-02-26T12:30:01.329-07:00Saturday Delights at Big Sky<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; ">From </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><i>Give Me The Banjo</i></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "> to </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><i>Dogtown and Z Boys</i></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; ">, </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><i>Riding Giants</i></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "> to </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><i>I Don't Hate Las Vegas Anymore</i></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; ">, and </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><i>Visionary Insight</i></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "> to </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><i>Ziggy Stardust</i></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; ">, Saturday featured incredible films and audiences, plus the first BSDFF Awards Screening.</span><div style="font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><br /><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; text-align: center; ">SATURDAY MIDDAY</div><div style="text-align: center; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; "><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bigskydocfilm/6930630067/" title="GustafsonMichelle-1 by BigSkyFilm, on Flickr" style="font-size: 100%; "><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7192/6930630067_dc62f98375.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="GustafsonMichelle-1" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; text-align: center; "><br /></div><div style="text-align: center; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; "><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bigskydocfilm/6784513462/" title="GustafsonMichelle-4 by BigSkyFilm, on Flickr" style="font-size: 100%; "><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7206/6784513462_ce2150bf24.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="GustafsonMichelle-4" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; text-align: center; "><br /></div><div style="text-align: center; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; "><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bigskydocfilm/6930630369/" title="GustafsonMichelle-5 by BigSkyFilm, on Flickr" style="font-size: 100%; "><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7180/6930630369_6c82fd52e9.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="GustafsonMichelle-5" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; text-align: center; "><br /></div><div style="text-align: center; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; "><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bigskydocfilm/6784513790/" title="GustafsonMichelle-8 by BigSkyFilm, on Flickr" style="font-size: 100%; "><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7177/6784513790_398fbeda87.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="GustafsonMichelle-8" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; text-align: center; "><br /></div><div style="text-align: center; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; "><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bigskydocfilm/6930631045/" title="GustafsonMichelle-13 by BigSkyFilm, on Flickr" style="font-size: 100%; "><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7184/6930631045_8fb84f73ee.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="GustafsonMichelle-13" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; text-align: center; "><br /></div><div style="text-align: center; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; "><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bigskydocfilm/6784514210/" title="GustafsonMichelle-14 by BigSkyFilm, on Flickr" style="font-size: 100%; "><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7053/6784514210_c9890c956c.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="GustafsonMichelle-14" /></a></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: center; "><span>Photos from Saturday midday by BSDFF Promo Team photographer Michelle Gustafson. 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Because Laurel, too, loves surfing films, they went to see <i>Riding Giants</i>. Here are two collaborative poem-reactions:</span><span style="font-family:Georgia; color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="font-size: 100%; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span><br /></span></p><p style="font-size: 100%; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span>* * * * * </span></p> <p style="font-size: 100%; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); min-height: 16px; "><span><br /></span></p> <p style="font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); "><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Georgia;color:#222222">Head Over Spinning</span></b><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); min-height: 16px; "><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:#222222"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p style="font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); "><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Georgia;color:#222222">Kicking the up, the notion of up, </span><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); "><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Georgia;color:#222222">I know the way by the bubbles at my mouth</span><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); "><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Georgia;color:#222222">open or closed, in relation to water, or oxygen, </span><span style="font-family:Georgia; color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); "><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Georgia;color:#222222">all movement - glutted, all kinetic - crackling. </span><span style="font-family:Georgia; color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); "><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Georgia;color:#222222">All waves pitching up their face, shining </span><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); "><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Georgia;color:#222222">with a glaze of surf. <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Black water is hateful,</i> </span><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); "><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Georgia;color:#222222">he says, pulling in his limbs. Within a minute </span><span style="font-family:Georgia; color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); "><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Georgia;color:#222222">they were numb. These hands touch the temples, </span><span style="font-family: Georgia;color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); "><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Georgia;color:#222222">the cold's ice-cream headache. And the leash tethered, </span><span style="font-family:Georgia; color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); "><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Georgia;color:#222222">rock bound, black anchor. Gravity awash with gravity, </span><span style="font-family: Georgia;color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); "><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Georgia;color:#222222">the new terms of breath - fresh bundle of air. </span><span style="font-family:Georgia; color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); "><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Georgia;color:#222222">As if anything could be so bright. Gull crying </span><span style="font-family:Georgia; color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); "><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Georgia;color:#222222">out of its own lung. On the upside, down shore, </span><span style="font-family: Georgia;color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); "><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Georgia;color:#222222">shorn. We let them ramble all the way to the sea,</span><span style="font-family:Georgia; color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); "><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Georgia;color:#222222">polished in the scramble of sand, water and the gasp</span><span style="font-family:Georgia; color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); "><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Georgia;color:#222222">their small heads surfacing from the foam.</span><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); "><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Georgia;color:#222222">The gasp, the gravity, the rhythm sets them down, </span><span style="font-family:Georgia; color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); "><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Georgia;color:#222222">lifts up bodies as if to say:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Here they are.</i></span><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="font-size: 100%; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Georgia; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); font-size: 100%; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><br /></span></p><p style="font-size: 100%; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Georgia; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); font-size: 100%; text-align: -webkit-auto; ">* * * * * </span></p><p style="font-size: 100%; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Georgia; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); font-size: 100%; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><br /></span></p> <p style="font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Georgia; font-size: 100%; "> </span></p> <p style="font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); "><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Georgia;color:#222222;mso-bidi-font-style: italic">600 Miles In</span></b><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); min-height: 16px; "><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:#222222"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p style="font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); "><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Georgia;color:#222222;mso-bidi-font-style: italic">Surf</span><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); "><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Georgia;color:#222222;mso-bidi-font-style: italic">salt land,</span><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); "><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Georgia;color:#222222;mso-bidi-font-style: italic">purified by it</span><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); "><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Georgia;color:#222222;mso-bidi-font-style: italic">and paddling to it.</span><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); "><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Georgia;color:#222222;mso-bidi-font-style: italic">The smell of saltwater rebounds.</span><span style="font-family:Georgia; color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); "><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Georgia;color:#222222;mso-bidi-font-style: italic">Rough it, the chop, thick faced</span><span style="font-family:Georgia; color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); "><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Georgia;color:#222222;mso-bidi-font-style: italic">and huge, gnarly beside their sun-tanned skins.</span><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); "><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Georgia;color:#222222;mso-bidi-font-style: italic">Call it tide pools, these slow pocketed waters.</span><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); "><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Georgia;color:#222222;mso-bidi-font-style: italic">This oblivious green muscle revolving around itself, as if</span><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); "><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Georgia;color:#222222;mso-bidi-font-style: italic">she cups the water and flings it, flush turn hip.</span><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); "><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Georgia;color:#222222;mso-bidi-font-style: italic">This is the way the body clings to motion. Tides return</span><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); "><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Georgia;color:#222222;mso-bidi-font-style: italic">razored or slickered or sand washed or dead or caverns caved in</span><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); "><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Georgia;color:#222222;mso-bidi-font-style: italic">reefs sponging up foam, while bodies buoy or sink. Sun inside water. Water</span><span style="font-family:Georgia; color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); "><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Georgia;color:#222222;mso-bidi-font-style: italic">the board as it tombstones. Dragged up by the dead weight, se anchor low.</span><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); "><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Georgia;color:#222222;mso-bidi-font-style: italic">The actual length of board as compared to the height of a wave, extending. </span><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 100%; "><span><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span >Poems by BSDFF Promo Team writer Laurel Nakanishi and Elizabeth Robinson</span></p> <!--EndFragment-->Seattle 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"History is Unwritten" (3); the eerie fourth-dimensional scope of "Back to Land" (4).)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); ">When I first flipped through the program, I thought to myself, "oh, nature films" and was puzzled by the inclusion of material like "Smoke Songs" (5) and "Painting John." But I quickly realized that this series is about something subtley different and in some ways - and yes, I feel like a traitor for saying this - even more important. It is about human interaction with the landscape in all its iterations.</span><b style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; "><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); "><br /><br /></span></b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); ">Freed from the expectation of a genre, I saw the relevance of films like "Painting John," "Smoke Songs," and "Pot Country" (6), as well as more traditional nature-film concepts like "Among Giants" (7), "The Lookout" (8), and "A Salton Soul" (9), and those films that fell oddly in the middle, being only themselves, like "Guanape Sur" (10) and "Still" (11).</span><b style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; "><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); "><br /><br /></span></b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); ">Sitting in the Wilma, I found myself falling in love again and again. With a dead whale. With the conflicted citizens of Humboldt County. With life as a fire lookout on a mountain top. With the visual elements that cropped up again and again, the dogs and trees and clocks and precipitation, and also with all the faces.</span><b><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); "><br /><span ><br /></span></span></b><span ><span><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); ">(1) Audrey Hall, 11 min. A portrait artist sets out to capture the face of an elderly, isolated rancher in the dead of a Montana winter.</span><b><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); "><br /><br /></span></b><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); ">(2) Torben Bernhard & Travis Low, 12 min. Footage of the ghost town of Frisco, Utah, combined with audio recordings from the 1960s of the last surviving former Frisco residents.</span><b><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); "><br /><br /></span></b><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); ">(3) Aaron Jones, 4 min. A vision of a forest, narrated in the Lushootseed language.</span><b><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); "><br /><br /></span></b><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); ">(4) Tijana Petrovi</span><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); ">ć</span><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); ">, 4 min. A blue whale washes ashore dead after being hit by a boat, and draws onlookers.</span><b><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); "><br /><br /></span></b><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); ">(5) Briar March, 20 min. Three Dine siblings make up the punk band Blackfire, combining cultural and political activism with driving beats.</span><b><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); "><br /><br /></span></b><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); ">(6) Kate McLean & Mario Furloni, 27 min. A look at the history of the marijuana industry in Humboldt county, and the challenges of possible legalization.</span><b><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); "><br /><br /></span></b><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); ">(7) Chris Cresci, Ben Mullinkosson & Sam Price-Waldman, 14 min. A profile of Farmer, an Earth First tree-sitter.</span><b><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); "><br /><br /></span></b><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); ">(8) Brian Bolster, 16 min. A season at a fire lookout station on a northwestern Montana mountaintop.</span><b><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); "><br /><br /></span></b><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); ">(9) Mike Agnew, Greg Balkin, Tim Kressin, 13 min. 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Traditional Yakama hunter Glen Pinkham discusses and demonstrates the hunting rights and methods of his people.</span><span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span >Essay by BSDFF Promo Team writer Carrie Laben</span></p> <!--EndFragment-->Seattle Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08736837411710943832noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5232929201788479564.post-51215741499304081722012-02-25T16:30:00.003-07:002012-02-25T20:44:56.961-07:00Christopher Nagata on the Tradition and Transformation of Sushi<div style="font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; text-align: center; "><span><u><br /></u></span></div><p style="font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); "><span><span >With a step-mother who was raised on traditional Japanese cuisine, I learned the joys of sushi relatively young for a kid in Montana. And when we really wanted the best, we'd make the three hour drive from Bozeman to Sushi Hana. I recently got to chat with Christopher Nagata, owner of Sushi Hana and sponsor of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i><a href="http://www.bigskyfilmfest.org/bsdff/festival/films/jiro_dreams_of_sushi">Jiro Dreams of Sushi</a></i></span><span><span >, about his life as a sushi chef and the sacrifices he’s making to keep his business ecologically sound while going through as much as 400 pounds of rice and 100 pounds of fish a day. </span><span style="font-size: 100%; "><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); min-height: 16px; "><span><br /></span></p><p style="font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); min-height: 16px; "><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLcoIxtjCmcdgvQ5RZbU4EzK3kiOsg2AEn2ASO8koIlhUmR-aAINlGCC3xkTjBToSC0WkRZyWFWS38C5Fu920OdTdSEGOnkP4uD0_QhuQE_MjzyHwe9A76QIrADqA9HBgDXv83xR53-98/s1600/Jiro%252520Dreams%252520of%252520Sushi_websize.jpeg" style="text-align: left; "><span><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLcoIxtjCmcdgvQ5RZbU4EzK3kiOsg2AEn2ASO8koIlhUmR-aAINlGCC3xkTjBToSC0WkRZyWFWS38C5Fu920OdTdSEGOnkP4uD0_QhuQE_MjzyHwe9A76QIrADqA9HBgDXv83xR53-98/s320/Jiro%252520Dreams%252520of%252520Sushi_websize.jpeg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5713205229425254642" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 180px; " /></span></a></p> <p style="font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; font-style: normal; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); "><span ><i><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); ">BSDFF:<span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-weight: bold; "> </span> </span></i><i style="font-weight: normal; "><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); "></span>Can you give me a quick history of how sushi came about?</i><span style="font-weight: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); "><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p style="font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); min-height: 16px; "><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); "><o:p><span > </span></o:p></span></p> <p style="font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; font-style: normal; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); "><span ><span><span style="color: rgb(35, 35, 35); ">CHRISTOPHER D. NAGATA:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-weight: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); ">You might find conflicting stories, but sushi happened because in the 17th century China introduced rice to Japan. Rice starts to ferment very quickly, and they figured out that if they covered the fresh fish they caught off the coast with fermented rice they could preserve it much longer. So at first rice was a preservative and then became a source of nutrition. </span></span><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); ">It wasn't until the late 1800s that something like what we call modern sushi was seen. It kept evolving of course. What we consider sushi here in the states is much different.</span></span></p> <p style="font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); min-height: 16px; "><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); "><o:p><span > </span></o:p></span></p> <p style="font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; font-style: normal; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); "><span ><i><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); ">BSDFF:<span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-weight: bold; "> </span> </span></i><i style="font-weight: normal; "><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); "></span>How did you start rolling sushi?</i><span style="font-weight: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); "><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p style="font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); min-height: 16px; "><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); "><o:p><span > </span></o:p></span></p> <p style="font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; font-style: normal; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); "><span ><span><span style="color: rgb(35, 35, 35); ">CN:</span><span style="font-weight: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); "> I've been a sushi chef for 25 years. I'm half Japanese, raised in Japan until I was 9, then moved to this country. My mom's American, my dad's Japanese. They moved back to the states to start restaurants in Northern California. </span></span><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); ">I learned from sushi masters my dad had brought over from Japan. I learned from people that had learned the old way in the steps you would learn them. The fact is, you just can't do that the same way anymore. </span><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); ">I grew up most of my life in restaurants. I went to high school and college thinking I would do anything other than restaurants, but all my life I find myself drawn back to it.</span></span></p> <p style="font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); min-height: 16px; "><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); "><o:p><span > </span></o:p></span></p> <p style="font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; font-style: normal; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); "><span ><i><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); ">BSDFF:</span></i><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-weight: normal; "><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); "> </span></span><span style="font-weight: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); "> <i></i><i>How is sushi here different from sushi in Japan?</i><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p style="font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); min-height: 16px; "><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); "><o:p><span > </span></o:p></span></p> <p style="font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; font-style: normal; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); "><span ><span style="color: rgb(35, 35, 35); ">CN:</span><span style="font-weight: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); "> Just like any cuisine introduced from one country to another, the taste pallet and the combinations of foods and ingredients put in inherently changes. It happens with all kinds of cuisine. French food is going to be different in France than it is here, even in the best or most authentic sounding French restaurant. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p style="font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); min-height: 16px; "><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); "><o:p><span > </span></o:p></span></p> <p style="font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); "><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); "><span >In Japan, you're not going to see any of the varieties you would at my restaurant, for example. We have a whole section of house speciality Maki rolls, there are different ingredients including fish, poultry, vegetables, and we combine them in a particular way that isn't traditional. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p style="font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); "><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); "><span ><br /></span></span></p> <p style="font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; font-style: normal; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); min-height: 16px; "><span ><i><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); ">BSDFF: </span></i><i style="font-weight: normal; ">And I'm sure what you can access in terms of the fish market here in Montana is much different than in Japan.</i><span style="font-weight: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); "><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p style="font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); min-height: 16px; "><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); "><o:p><span > </span></o:p></span></p> <p style="font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; font-style: normal; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); "><span ><span><span style="color: rgb(35, 35, 35); ">CN:</span><span style="font-weight: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); "> Yeah, it is. But it's not necessarily the availability of things. If you're willing to spend the money you can get just about anything you want. But you have to consider how much you can charge, what people will pay for it. </span></span><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); ">We keep it right for the people we cater to so we can turn our fish over every day. That way we don't have any leftovers and we're not throwing things away. And we're being as conscious as possible about where we're getting our food.</span></span></p><p style="font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); "><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); "><span ><br /></span></span></p> <p style="font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; font-style: normal; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); min-height: 16px; "><span ><i><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); ">BSDFF: </span></i><i style="font-weight: normal; ">What do you do to be conscientious about where you're getting your fish?</i><span style="font-weight: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); "><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p style="font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; font-style: normal; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); min-height: 16px; "><span ><i style="font-weight: normal; "><br /></i></span></p> <p style="font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; font-style: normal; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); min-height: 16px; "><span ><span><span style="color: rgb(35, 35, 35); ">CN:</span><span style="font-weight: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); "> Mostly it's keeping up to date on what species of fish aren't thriving and choosing not to use them. For example: Tuna. The panoply of tuna is very different. The larger the tuna species, the more fat content it has; the smaller, the leaner. </span></span><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); ">So Blue Fin are highly prized because it's a larger species and therefore has more flavor. Flavor comes from fat, and that's what a lot of people want. But, unfortunately, that species is overfished because of its popularity. Right now it's riding on the borderline of being threatened. They haven't put any regulations on it, but still that tells me I shouldn't use that fish. I choose to use a smaller species of tuna that reproduces quicker, reaches maturity quicker, and isn't threatened. The flavor is still great, and the look of it is magnificent.</span></span></p> <p style="font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); min-height: 16px; "><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); "><o:p><span > </span></o:p></span></p> <p style="font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); "><span ><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); "><span>People ask me all the time, "why don't you serve this fish or that fish" and they assume it's because I can't get ahold of it. But that's not true. I'm trying to do my best to use fish that aren't going to sacrifice the environment the way other fish would. </span></span><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); ">But it's getting to the point where fish is in such demand all over the world that it's going to be hard for me to do this sort of business for a long, long time. I don't see it, for me, going on generations and generations.</span></span></p> <p style="font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); min-height: 16px; "><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); "><o:p><span > </span></o:p></span></p> <p style="font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); "><span ><i><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); ">BSDFF: </span></i><i style="font-weight: normal; "><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); "></span>I applaud you for watching out for the fish. So after we've seen</i><i style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; "> </i><span style="font-weight: normal; ">Jiro Dreams of Sushi</span><i style="font-weight: normal; "><span style="font-style: normal;"> </span>and we're craving a roll, what should we order when we come into Sushi Hana?</i><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); "><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p style="font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); min-height: 16px; "><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); "><o:p><span > </span></o:p></span></p> <p style="font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; font-style: normal; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); "><span ><span style="color: rgb(35, 35, 35); ">CN: </span><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); "></span>What really sums up everything we've been talking about today is The Bodega Sunset. It mixes traditional ingredients and modern techniques in rolling and accompaniments like the wasabi sauce that comes with it. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); min-height: 16px; "><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); "><o:p><span > </span></o:p></span></p> <p style="font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); "><span ><i><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); ">BSDFF: </span></i><i style="font-weight: normal; "><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); "></span>Why was it important to you spons</i><i style="font-weight: normal; ">or</i><i style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; "> </i><span style="font-weight: normal; ">Jiro Dreams of Sushi<i>? </i></span><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); "><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p style="font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; font-style: normal; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); "><span ><i style="font-weight: normal; "><br /></i></span></p> <p style="font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; font-style: normal; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); min-height: 16px; "><span ><span><span style="color: rgb(35, 35, 35); ">CN:</span><span style="font-weight: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); "> It was really a no-brainer for me because of my passion for sushi and food in general. </span></span><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); ">I've been to Japan every other year to visit family. I know a little bit about this gentleman and I'm a humble admirer of his work, the tradition, and the lost art of sushi. Here in the US we have to do things a little different and I've had to change the things I learned as an apprentice in order to fit the demand of making sushi. </span><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); ">Jiro has stuck to tradition, which requires apprenticeships, and teaching his son in the traditional manner. I really admire that. I admire his precision and the time he puts into it, and he's really keeping it an art form. I also feel like I'm an artist and food is one of my canvases.</span></span></p><p style="font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); "><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); "><span ><br /></span></span></p><p style="font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); "><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); "><span ><i><a href="http://www.bigskyfilmfest.org/bsdff/festival/films/jiro_dreams_of_sushi">Jiro Dreams of Sushi</a> </i>plays Sunday, February 26 at 4:00 pm in Wilma 1.</span></span></p><p style="font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); "><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); "><span ><br /></span></span></p><p style="font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); "><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); "><span >Article by BSDFF Promo Team writer Mackenzie Cole</span></span></p> <!--EndFragment-->Seattle Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08736837411710943832noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5232929201788479564.post-33311753379790757792012-02-25T15:30:00.001-07:002012-02-25T16:22:17.721-07:00Patriot Guard Riders at Big Sky<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPn5b6ThqpEgJKfNhIZAqxUdOMKh21xWX9FRg8FbxzT2VKzTPJGihAaSeezmSz1ZF5r8JL6sN7PeMbB3Q3xjYZ7nuSLWsArz_37iPpNOf0TpG1RzCsZFab9bb4fL0X3yYud29uwisSIHY/s1600/Patriot%252520Guard%252520Riders_websize.jpeg" style="font-size: 100%; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; "><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 180px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPn5b6ThqpEgJKfNhIZAqxUdOMKh21xWX9FRg8FbxzT2VKzTPJGihAaSeezmSz1ZF5r8JL6sN7PeMbB3Q3xjYZ7nuSLWsArz_37iPpNOf0TpG1RzCsZFab9bb4fL0X3yYud29uwisSIHY/s320/Patriot%252520Guard%252520Riders_websize.jpeg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5713111293400842418" /></a><p style="font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; font-size: 100%; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); text-align: -webkit-auto; ">In <i><a href="http://www.bigskyfilmfest.org/bsdff/festival/films/patriot_guard_riders">Patriot Guard Riders</a></i>, filmmaker Ellen Frick takes us alongside the Patriot Guard Riders (PGR), a club of leather clad vets on motorcycles, as they roll down small town American streets, flags streaming. We watch as they line up in front of members of the Westboro Baptist Church and drown out lyrics like, “No toes left for their toe tags” in a thunder of revving engines. Frick uses this clash to look at the legacy of American wars. We talked about the PGR and what it was like strapping on leathers and rolling with the gang.</span></p> <p style="font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); min-height: 15px; "><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Georgia;color:#222222"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p style="font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); "><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family: Georgia;color:#222222">BSDFF– How long have you been making documentaries and how'd you get into it?<o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p style="font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); min-height: 15px; "><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Georgia;color:#222222"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p style="font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); "><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Georgia;color:#222222">ELLEN FRICK– I've been working on documentaries only about 10 or 11 years. I had another career before that of civil engineering. I actually got sick, I got breast cancer and did that sort of cliche of, “oh is this what I want to do with my life?” </span><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt; ">I was really working with clients to circumvent environmental regulations because that's what the people who paid the bills wanted. I decided I wanted to write non-fiction. Then I came to making documentaries instead of writing.</span></p> <p style="font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); min-height: 15px; "><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Georgia;color:#222222"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p style="font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); "><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family: Georgia;color:#222222">BSDFF– That's really admirable. I saw that your production company, Wall Fly Films, is devoted to social issues. Why was this an important directive for you?<o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p style="font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); min-height: 15px; "><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Georgia;color:#222222"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p style="font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); "><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Georgia;color:#222222">EF–For me, the only thing that matters in terms of putting all this work and money in is to tackle some of the issues of today and inspire people to think about things they haven't thought about before. In this case it's military funerals. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); min-height: 15px; "><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Georgia;color:#222222"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p style="font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); "><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family: Georgia;color:#222222">BSDFF– How did you settle on the PGR?<o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p style="font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); min-height: 15px; "><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Georgia;color:#222222"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p style="font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); "><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Georgia;color:#222222">EF– I read about the Westboro Baptist Church, the "I hate fags" groups, coming to the military funerals because, as they said in their Supreme Court argument, that was the highest pulpit in the land. I heard about the bikers going too and started looking into it and of course the story got much deeper than that when I learned about who the bikers are and why they're there.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); "><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Georgia;color:#222222">You know I actually just called them up and asked if I could come on a "mission." I went by myself without any crew or camera. I just rode on the back of somebody's bike and was part of the flag line to see what that felt like. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); min-height: 15px; "><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Georgia;color:#222222"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p style="font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); "><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family: Georgia;color:#222222">BSDFF - In the movie we see the Patriot Guard Riders going on several "missions," both to be on hand at funerals but also to honor returning soldiers. What do you feel is the most important action that they take? <o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p style="font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); min-height: 15px; "><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Georgia;color:#222222"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p style="font-size: 100%; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); "><span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); ">EF– You've heard the quote, "from the greatest evil comes the greatest good" and I'm most impressed that after this war ends they're going to carry on honoring veterans. There's nobody who has been going to veterans' funerals all this time. Especially the homeless vets. </span><span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); ">It touches my heart that somebody is paying attention, even if it's these weird guys, these leather clad bikers. </span><span>We have plenty of homeless Iraq and </span><span>Afghanistan</span><span> vets and</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Georgia; "> </span><i style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Georgia; ">somebody</i><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Georgia; "> </span><span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Georgia; ">is paying attention.</span></p> <p style="font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); min-height: 15px; "><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Georgia;color:#222222"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p style="font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); "><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family: Georgia;color:#222222">BSDFF– A lot of people come back from the war and feel lost. We need to be doing more to be taking care of the people who go through war for our country.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p style="font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); min-height: 15px; "><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Georgia;color:#222222"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p style="font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); "><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Georgia;color:#222222">EF– And doing it in this informal, noninstituitional sort of way really struck me. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); min-height: 15px; "><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Georgia;color:#222222"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p style="font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); "><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family: Georgia;color:#222222">BSDFF– It seems hard for anyone to identify with the Westboro Baptist Church, but is there any part of their message worth paying attention to?<o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p style="font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); min-height: 15px; "><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Georgia;color:#222222"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p style="font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); "><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Georgia;color:#222222">EF– Honestly, no. I think of them as an "I told you so Ministry." Even if people believed what they said about the Bible, it's too late. Only one family is going to get into the gates of heaven and it's their family. Thank goodness people can't join their church. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); min-height: 15px; "><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Georgia;color:#222222"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p style="font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); "><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family: Georgia;color:#222222">BSDFF– What do you hope people take away from the film?<o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p style="font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); min-height: 15px; "><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Georgia;color:#222222"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p style="font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); "><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Georgia;color:#222222">EF– A new understanding of war. That these statistics in the paper are real people, with real families. Getting people to go to military funerals is my first goal. Hey, maybe we wouldn't have war if everybody could see what this is like. </span><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt; text-align: left; ">I know that's altruistic, and, of course, it's not altogether true. There's plenty of Generals going to military funerals. But if the general public experienced what I've experienced the last couple of years just standing there at a nineteen year old kid's funeral in the high school they graduated from the year before… Some kids go back to their high school to say to hi their teachers, but not when they're dead.</span></p> <p style="font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Georgia;color:#222222"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p style="font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Georgia;color:#222222"><br /></span></p><p style="font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); "><i><a href="http://www.bigskyfilmfest.org/bsdff/festival/films/patriot_guard_riders">Patriot Guard Riders</a></i> plays Sunday, February 26 at 2:00 pm in Wilma 1.</span></p><p style="font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Georgia;color:#222222"><br /></span></p><p style="font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-family: Georgia, serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-family: Georgia; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); "><span >Article by BSDFF Promo Team writer Mackenzie Cole</span></span></p> <!--EndFragment-->Seattle Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08736837411710943832noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5232929201788479564.post-61328660197556731632012-02-25T13:00:00.000-07:002012-02-25T13:00:00.407-07:00Cold Hard Cash Plays Big Sky<span style="font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><span style="font-style: normal; ">Check out this rockin performance by Johnny Cash tribute band Cold Hard Cash. They played Wednesday night before </span><i>The Winding Stream</i>.</span><br /><br /><div style="font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: center; "><iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/37419595?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0" width="400" height="300" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="" mozallowfullscreen="" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></div><p style="font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: center; "><span ><a href="http://vimeo.com/37419595">Cold Hard Cash</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/bigskyfilmfest">Big Sky Film Fest</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.</span></p><p style="font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: center; "><span >Video by BSDFF Promo Team filmmaker Jeri Rafter.</span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>Seattle Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08736837411710943832noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5232929201788479564.post-48599796108994052892012-02-25T12:30:00.000-07:002012-02-25T12:30:00.898-07:00Friday in Photos! Big Sky Kicks Off the Weekend in Style<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; " >Friday brought the fun, with screenings of "Ordinary Skier" and "I Am A Sex Addict," the visiting artist reception at the Brink Gallery, and an after party at Zoo City Apparel.</span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; "><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bigskydocfilm/6782894630/" title="CAL by BigSkyFilm, on Flickr" style="font-size: 100%; "><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7070/6782894630_ecdfc0c1c6.jpg" width="333" height="500" alt="CAL" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; "><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bigskydocfilm/6782927692/" title="CAL-11-2 by BigSkyFilm, on Flickr" style="font-size: 100%; "><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7197/6782927692_7a9a943169.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="CAL-11-2" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; "><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bigskydocfilm/6929044907/" title="CAL-10-2 by BigSkyFilm, on Flickr" style="font-size: 100%; "><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7045/6929044907_8702a8e0c0.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="CAL-10-2" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; "><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bigskydocfilm/6929043261/" title="CAL-9-2 by BigSkyFilm, on Flickr" style="font-size: 100%; "><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7052/6929043261_715fee569b.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="CAL-9-2" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; "><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bigskydocfilm/6782921646/" title="CAL-7-2 by BigSkyFilm, on Flickr" style="font-size: 100%; "><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7178/6782921646_dcbef9b8e1.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="CAL-7-2" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; "><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bigskydocfilm/6782918234/" title="CAL-5-2 by BigSkyFilm, on Flickr" style="font-size: 100%; "><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7181/6782918234_e5d7aafa63.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="CAL-5-2" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; "><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bigskydocfilm/6782916906/" title="CAL-4-2 by BigSkyFilm, on Flickr" style="font-size: 100%; "><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7204/6782916906_8f78762f8a.jpg" width="333" height="500" alt="CAL-4-2" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; "><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bigskydocfilm/6929032543/" title="CAL-2-2 by BigSkyFilm, on Flickr" style="font-size: 100%; "><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7065/6929032543_4e21eac336.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="CAL-2-2" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; "><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bigskydocfilm/6929074111/" title="CAL-9-3 by BigSkyFilm, on Flickr" style="font-size: 100%; "><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7199/6929074111_749c1a5a66.jpg" width="333" height="500" alt="CAL-9-3" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; "><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bigskydocfilm/6929068421/" title="CAL-6-3 by BigSkyFilm, on Flickr" style="font-size: 100%; "><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7048/6929068421_512ae85271.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="CAL-6-3" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; "><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bigskydocfilm/6929065583/" title="CAL-5-3 by BigSkyFilm, on Flickr" style="font-size: 100%; "><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7208/6929065583_07f104855c.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="CAL-5-3" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; "><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bigskydocfilm/6929061749/" title="CAL-3-3 by BigSkyFilm, on Flickr" style="font-size: 100%; "><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7057/6929061749_a4984c8c21.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="CAL-3-3" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; "><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bigskydocfilm/6782990160/" title="CAL-2-2 by BigSkyFilm, on Flickr" style="font-size: 100%; "><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7199/6782990160_ac63896483.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="CAL-2-2" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; "><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bigskydocfilm/6782982762/" title="CAL-13-2 by BigSkyFilm, on Flickr" style="font-size: 100%; "><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7067/6782982762_397fc43a4a.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="CAL-13-2" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; "><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bigskydocfilm/6782932528/" title="CAL-14 by BigSkyFilm, on Flickr" style="font-size: 100%; "><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7059/6782932528_9740081e60.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="CAL-14" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; "><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bigskydocfilm/6929023355/" title="CAL-7 by BigSkyFilm, on Flickr" style="font-size: 100%; "><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7065/6929023355_d1b2665712.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="CAL-7" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; "><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bigskydocfilm/6929056715/" title="CAL-17 by BigSkyFilm, on Flickr" style="font-size: 100%; "><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7052/6929056715_4e388c4dbe.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="CAL-17" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; "><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bigskydocfilm/6782895702/" title="CAL-2 by BigSkyFilm, on Flickr" style="font-size: 100%; "><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7205/6782895702_49e855f8ce.jpg" width="500" height="427" alt="CAL-2" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; "><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bigskydocfilm/6782912338/" title="CAL-11 by BigSkyFilm, on Flickr" style="font-size: 100%; "><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7067/6782912338_5528123c1b.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="CAL-11" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; "><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bigskydocfilm/6929029043/" title="CAL-10 by BigSkyFilm, on Flickr" style="font-size: 100%; "><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7206/6929029043_101554b332.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="CAL-10" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; "><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bigskydocfilm/6929021083/" title="CAL-6 by BigSkyFilm, on Flickr" style="font-size: 100%; "><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7067/6929021083_eafd7a97f2.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="CAL-6" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; "><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bigskydocfilm/6782897348/" title="CAL-3 by BigSkyFilm, on Flickr" style="font-size: 100%; "><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7069/6782897348_51c0b0ba80.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="CAL-3" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><span >Photos by BSDFF Promo Team photographer Carmine Leighton. Click <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bigskydocfilm/sets/72157629088163144/with/6782985456/">here</a> for more photos from Friday night at the festival.</span></div>Seattle Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08736837411710943832noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5232929201788479564.post-67319360042418966802012-02-25T10:00:00.002-07:002012-02-25T10:00:07.013-07:00Big Sky Presents the Films of Agi Orsi<span style="font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia; ">When I began surfing at 13, I was just psyched to catch whitewater and get tumbled by Oahu’s mellow south shore waves. But as the years passed, surfing became a passion and addiction. Now, landlocked, I can only dream of the waves that are breaking without me. At this point, surf films are the only things getting me through.</span><div><span style="font-size: 100%; "><br /></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYk85SdGlhxmOTtvci9iIpXAqsI-vtDO3vIm7-AIYowS9IyOp56hrqjlt3zl1ETnKLLLUEUcw6C9NZGz7r_6VepT0uNiX26ikrQEHesMpTCHF1OYYe77rAD1syA22K8aBA9BzxqSAv8uQ/s1600/Riding%252520Giants_websize.jpeg" style="font-size: 100%; "><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 180px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYk85SdGlhxmOTtvci9iIpXAqsI-vtDO3vIm7-AIYowS9IyOp56hrqjlt3zl1ETnKLLLUEUcw6C9NZGz7r_6VepT0uNiX26ikrQEHesMpTCHF1OYYe77rAD1syA22K8aBA9BzxqSAv8uQ/s320/Riding%252520Giants_websize.jpeg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5712948801473050066" /></a> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; "><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 100%; ">Luckily, this year Big Sky Documentary Film Festival is showing </span><a href="http://www.bigskyfilmfest.org/bsdff/festival/films/riding_giants" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 100%; "><i>Riding Giants</i></a><i style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; "> – </i><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 100%; ">a film about big wave surfing. Agi Orsi, the producer, will be screening a number of her films, including </span><i style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 100%; "><a href="http://www.bigskyfilmfest.org/bsdff/festival/films/dogtown_and_z_boys">Dogtown and Z Boys</a><span style="font-style: normal;"> </span></i><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 100%; ">and</span><i style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 100%; "> <a href="http://www.bigskyfilmfest.org/bsdff/festival/films/no_room_for_rock_stars">No Room for Rock Stars</a>,<span style="font-style: normal;"> </span></i><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 100%; ">on Saturday, February 25.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; "><span style="font-family:Georgia">We sat down to gush about movies and waves.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; "><span style="font-family:Georgia"><o:p> *</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; "><i><span style="font-family:Georgia">BSDFF: So, what do you do as a producer? </span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; "><span style="font-family:Georgia">Agi Orsi: As a documentary producer, which is different than a feature producer, I get the coffee. I get the financing. I choose the crew. A lot of times I have an idea and then I develop it and put it all together. Its fun being a producer because you can multi-task… it’s never boring. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; "><i><span style="font-family:Georgia;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">BSDFF: You are known as one of the foremost producers of adventure films. What is it about these topics that interest you?</span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; "><span style="font-family: Georgia; ">AO: Well, I like adventure; I am drawn to those kinds of sports. I like outdoor activities and in a way, it is kind of like producing. You start with a goal, and you don’t know what is going to happen. You might not reach that goal, but something else happens. At least that is the way that I came to <i>Dogtown and Z Boys.</i> Initially, I was talking to Vans about financing a snowboarding documentary that I had developed. But then I met Stacy Peralta [director and famous skateboarder] so I called Vans and ask them if they wanted to finance this film about Dogtown. I had done some adventure documentaries before that, but that was the film that got people to return my phone calls.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; "><i><span style="font-family:Georgia;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">BSDFF: And it made such a huge splash at the Sundance Film Festival.</span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; "><span style="font-family:Georgia;mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">AO: We were surprised by that; we were just making the film. We didn’t know what would happen. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; "><i><span style="font-family:Georgia;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">BSDFF: So what have you been up to since then? </span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; "><span style="font-family: Georgia; ">AO: I just finished <i>No Room for Rock Stars</i>, which is all about the Vans Warped Tour. It started when Vans marketing approached me and asked if I was busy. And you’re supposed to always be busy. So I said “Sure, I’m busy. But what do you have in mind?” And they asked if I wanted to produce the Vans Warped Tour documentary. It will play here, and then we are opening it on Thursday night, March 1, in 50 theaters across the country. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; "><i><span style="font-family:Georgia;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">BSDFF: So what is your next project?</span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; "><span style="font-family:Georgia;mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">AO: Well, now I am starting a documentary on Eddie Aikau. You must know who he is, being from Hawaii…</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; "><i><span style="font-family:Georgia;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">BSDFF: Wow, Eddie Aikau! Yes. [Note: Eddie Aikau was a famous big-wave surfer, waterman and island-hero from Hawaii] When is it coming out? I’d like to see it. </span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; "><span style="font-family:Georgia;mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">AO: I think it should be done around July. We are doing the editing right now. There is a lot of footage, a lot to work with. We are doing the story about Eddie’s life, so we interviewed his family members. They were totally cooperative - they gave us a lot of archival film and photographs. We also interviewed professional surfers like Shaun Tomson and Jeff Hakman; we’ve got a lot of good people. I think it will be a great film. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; "><i><span style="font-family:Georgia;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">BSDFF: It seems like with documentary films, there are so many different threads of stories that you can follow. How do you decide which story you want to tell? </span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; "><span style="font-family:Georgia;mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">AO: You need to be familiar with the subject before hand. The interesting thing about documentary is that you really don’t know what is going to be said. You might think you know the story, but then someone you are interviewing could come up with something new that you want to follow.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; "><i><span style="font-family:Georgia;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">BSDFF: That’s got to be an exciting process, right? Because you don’t really know what will come out of it. </span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; "><span style="font-family:Georgia;mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">AO: Yes, absolutely.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; "><i><span style="font-family:Georgia;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">BSDFF: So what do you think is the role of film festivals in documentary film?</span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; "><span style="font-family:Georgia;mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">AO: I think they are more and more important. Documentaries aren’t getting the theatrical release because the market has changed. We don’t have the DVD release that we used to have: where the theater release was really marketing for the DVD. I think that the way to have any revenue now is with iTunes. Because theatrical release is so expensive, festivals are the way to get out there, a way to get your film known and liked. Festivals are more and more important, and it seems like there are more festivals.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; "><i><span style="font-family:Georgia;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">BSDFF: One last question, I read that you are a snowboarder… would you like to go snowboarding on Sunday?</span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; "><span style="font-family:Georgia;mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">AO: I fly out on Sunday, but maybe I could change my flight… I would love to. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; "><span style="font-family:Georgia;mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; "><span style="font-family: Georgia; "><a href="http://www.bigskyfilmfest.org/bsdff/festival/films/riding_giants"><i>Riding Giants</i></a> plays in the Wilma 2 on Saturday, February 25 @ 1:00 pm; </span><span style="font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia; "><a href="http://www.bigskyfilmfest.org/bsdff/festival/films/dogtown_and_z_boys"><i>Dogtown and Z Boys</i></a> plays in the Wilma 2 </span><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 100%; ">on Saturday, February 25 @ 3:15 pm; </span><i style="font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia; "><a href="http://www.bigskyfilmfest.org/bsdff/festival/films/no_room_for_rock_stars">No Room for Rock Stars</a><span style="font-style: normal;"> plays in the Wilma 1 on </span></i><span style="font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia; ">Saturday, February 25 at 5:15 pm.</span><span style="font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia; "> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 100%; "> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; "><span style="font-family: Georgia; " >Article by BSDFF Promo Team writer Laurel Nakanishi</span></p> <!--EndFragment--></div>Seattle Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08736837411710943832noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5232929201788479564.post-86837688327866608032012-02-25T09:00:00.001-07:002012-02-25T09:00:03.420-07:00Visionary Insight at Big Sky<a style="font-family: georgia;" href="http://www.bigskyfilmfest.org/bsdff/festival/films/visionary_insight_behind_the_scenes_of_the_film_winter_in_the_blood">“Visionary Insight: Behind the Scenes of the Film ‘Winter in the Blood’”</a><span style="font-family:georgia;"> is the story behind a larger story.</span><span style="font-family:georgia;"> </span><span style="font-family:georgia;">It’s a film that takes a look at the people who helped bring to life the adaption of one of the greatest novels ever written by an American Indian about American Indians.</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4RWLrxnLirUnSI_kcd7EbNgX_MiePEJTScCGF5oNJau0CgXLOmP1zOnMbdV2HShA7bmTWdkBjm43wtiALFMX7j7JpcbA134WGxjq2uurncuLtfeuKNvR0QOHawUii0MIB3gDSNIlJM70/s1600/Visionary+Insight_websize.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4RWLrxnLirUnSI_kcd7EbNgX_MiePEJTScCGF5oNJau0CgXLOmP1zOnMbdV2HShA7bmTWdkBjm43wtiALFMX7j7JpcbA134WGxjq2uurncuLtfeuKNvR0QOHawUii0MIB3gDSNIlJM70/s320/Visionary+Insight_websize.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5712872427921014626" border="0" /></a><br /> <style>@font-face { font-family: "Cambria Math"; }@font-face { font-family: "Calibri"; }p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri; }p.MsoNoSpacing, li.MsoNoSpacing, div.MsoNoSpacing { margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri; }.MsoChpDefault { font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri; }.MsoPapDefault { margin-bottom: 10pt; line-height: 115%; }div.WordSection1 { page: WordSection1; }</style> <p class="MsoNoSpacing"> </p><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:georgia;">The 37-minute “Visionary” documentary provides a space for the filmmakers – no matter how small or large their role – to express thoughts about being on set for the adaptation of Blackfeet author James Welch’s <span style="font-style: italic;">Winter in the Blood</span>, a book award-winning author, poet and playwright Sherman Alexie describes as “thee” novel of Native American literature.</span><br /><br /></span> <p style="font-family: georgia;font-family:georgia;" class="MsoNoSpacing"> </p> <p style="font-family: georgia;font-family:georgia;" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:100%;">“It’s the first real shot of Native American realism, naturalism, that was based on everyday life, not mythology,” says Alexie onscreen. “It’s the first novel I read where I completely identified with the main character. I read it when I was 19 and I thought, ‘I’m Virgil. I’m Virgil.’ So, now to see Virgil walking around the streets of Montana… I started crying when I got here. This is so important.”</span></p><p style="font-family: georgia;font-family:georgia;" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p style="font-family: georgia;font-family:georgia;" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:100%;">Chaske Spencer, the hunky wolf pack leader in the blockbuster <span style="font-style: italic;">Twilight</span> Saga vampire series, plays the lead role of Virgil First Raise.</span></p><p style="font-family: georgia;font-family:georgia;" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span></p> <p style="font-family: georgia;font-family:georgia;" class="MsoNoSpacing"> </p> <p style="font-family: georgia;font-family:georgia;" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:100%;">Here’s the IMBD plot summary: It begins when First Raise’s wife leaves him. </span><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;font-size:100%;" >“Virgil sets out to find her -- beginning a hi-line odyssey of inebriated encounters, sexual skirmishes, and improbable cloak-and-dagger intrigues with the mysterious 'Airplane Man.' Virgil's quest also brings him face-to-face with childhood memories and visions of his beloved, lost brother Mose -- some glorious, some tragic. Only when Virgil seeks the counsel of an old, blind man named Yellow Calf, does he grasp the truth of his origins and begin to thaw the ice in his veins.”</span></p><p style="font-family: georgia;font-family:georgia;" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;font-size:100%;" ><br /></span></p> <p style="font-family: georgia;font-family:georgia;" class="MsoNoSpacing"> </p> <p style="font-family: georgia;font-family:georgia;" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:100%;">“Visionary Insight” shows Saturday, February 25 at 5:15 pm in the Wilma 1 Theatre.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">Rector and University of Montana School of Media Arts students Mike Matthews, Mat Miller, Jeri Rafter, Caitlin Hofmeister, Zach Smith and Travis Coleman -- as well as recent Media Arts alums Patrick Cook and Dani Lacy -- will attend the screening and answer questions afterward.</span></p><p style="font-family: georgia;font-family:georgia;" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p style="font-family: georgia;font-family:georgia;" class="MsoNoSpacing"> </p> <p style="font-family: georgia;font-family:georgia;" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:100%;">The making of “Winter in the Blood” brought some American Indian luminaries in film and literature and a fresh-faced cast of nine Longhouse Media interns to Montana, all of which was captured by “Visionary Insight” directors Tracy Rector and Lou Karsen.</span></p><p style="font-family: georgia;font-family:georgia;" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span></p> <p style="font-family: georgia;font-family:georgia;" class="MsoNoSpacing"> </p> <p style="font-family: georgia;font-family:georgia;" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:100%;">Longhouse Media interns arrived in Montana to provide film support to “Winter in the Blood” directors Alex and Andrew Smith. In addition, the interns had the chance to meet and work with renowned author Alexie, and the movie stars Gary Farmer of Powwow Highway fame and Spencer, whose mother is from the Fort Peck Reservation on the Montana Hi-line.</span></p><p style="font-family: georgia;font-family:georgia;" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span></p> <p style="font-family: georgia;" face="georgia" class="MsoNoSpacing"> </p> <p style="font-family: georgia;" face="georgia" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:100%;">“Visionary” does more than explore the making of a film, but it also captures the splendor of the plains with luminous landscapes and great big skies. “I was so impressed with the work Tracy and Lou had done of the film, having been there, I wasn’t aware of the amount of footage that had been taken,” said UM Media Arts major and intern Travis Coleman. “I was really impressed with how they put it all together.”</span></p><p style="font-family: georgia;" face="georgia" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p style="font-family: georgia;" face="georgia" class="MsoNoSpacing"> </p> <p style="font-family: georgia;" face="georgia" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:100%;">Most of the “Winter” interns arrived in north central Montana near Havre the summer of 2011 with a background in film, whether it was through Longhouse Media programs or a university, said Rector, executive director of Longhouse Media. Rector’s Seattle based indigenous media arts company has worked with more than 2,000 students around the country.<br /></span></p><p style="font-family: georgia;" face="georgia" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p style="font-family: georgia;" face="georgia" class="MsoNoSpacing"> </p> <p style="font-family: georgia;" face="georgia" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:100%;">Rector said the students had a great professional role model in Spencer. “All of the interns felt really respected by him and were interested in learning from him. That was an absolute highlight for interns to work with him.”</span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span></p> <p face="georgia" class="MsoNoSpacing"> </p> <p style="font-family: georgia;" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:100%;">“Confidence is built through experience,” she said. “Having the chance for a hands-on work opportunity on a set and the cultural exchange, brought out the strengths and knowledge of these interns.”</span></p><p style="font-family: georgia;" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p style="font-family: georgia;" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:100%;">The interns discovered the beauty of the Montana Hi-Line, the region’s people, and learned what it was like to work 16-hour days on a film set blasted by High Plains heat. “It’s so cool to see young Native people working and achieving their goals and they’re learning fast!” said Spencer.</span></p><p style="font-family: georgia;" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p style="font-family: georgia;" class="MsoNoSpacing"> </p> <p style="font-family: georgia;" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:100%;">Intern Dallas Pinkham spent about three weeks working with Longhouse Media during the filming of “Winter.” He left with a heightened sense of what he can do with a camera and a good story. It’s likely film will play big role in his life.<br /></span></p><p style="font-family: georgia;" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: georgia;" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:100%;">“I’d love to become a movie director and hopefully have my own production studio… I hope I can share my stories through media.”</span></p><p style="font-family: georgia;" class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></p><p style="font-family: georgia;" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://www.bigskyfilmfest.org/bsdff/festival/films/visionary_insight_behind_the_scenes_of_the_film_winter_in_the_blood">"Visionary Insight: Behind the Scenes of the Film 'Winter in the Blood'"</a> screens Saturday, February 25 at 5:15 pm in Wilma 1.<br /></span></p><p style="font-family: georgia;" class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></p><p style="font-family: georgia;" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Article by BSDFF Promo Team writer Jodi Rave</span><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing"> </p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style=""> </span> </p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing"> </p>Seattle Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08736837411710943832noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5232929201788479564.post-3634980035567001042012-02-24T21:00:00.002-07:002012-02-24T23:05:30.509-07:00Ziggy Played Guitar<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDYzQpvivfF6-H8GqyCpPrfjv87mLfnXob8Zx3_hF8QeeaD_M8Th9BzkCeQzrjI3cdQUJDDHGD4RoSSqX8aM8wTLlu833gCY_pHBdL8CPreE7OEvh8mSCcRgW70C-pfEKKIPbyI3rjcQ8/s1600/bowie+photo.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 259px; height: 194px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDYzQpvivfF6-H8GqyCpPrfjv87mLfnXob8Zx3_hF8QeeaD_M8Th9BzkCeQzrjI3cdQUJDDHGD4RoSSqX8aM8wTLlu833gCY_pHBdL8CPreE7OEvh8mSCcRgW70C-pfEKKIPbyI3rjcQ8/s320/bowie+photo.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5712453723841350354" border="0" /></a><br /> <style>@font-face { font-family: "Arial"; }@font-face { font-family: "Cambria Math"; }@font-face { font-family: "Calibri"; }@font-face { font-family: "Georgia"; }@font-face { font-family: "Century Gothic"; }@font-face { font-family: "SimSun"; }p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Century Gothic"; }.MsoChpDefault { font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; }div.WordSection1 { page: WordSection1; }</style> <p style="font-family: georgia;font-family:georgia;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:100%;">Nobody does it better and no, I’m not talking about Carly Simon. No musical artist yet has eclipsed David Bowie in genius style, showmanship, and complete world fascination. One glimpse of his costumes, that hair, those legs, and men, women, and children of every nation swoon. Out of fifteen plus addictive albums<i>, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars</i> (1972) remains memorable for Bowie’s groundbreaking use of his androgynous alien persona, Ziggy Stardust. </span></p><p style="font-family: georgia;font-family:georgia;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:100%;"><span style=""> </span>His clothes and colors are fantastically retro, yet the excellence of his musical tracks endure four decades later. The ultimate concept album<i>, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust</i> inspires pity for a younger generation fed hit singles and empty promotion. The album’s popularity and Bowie’s resulting fame drew a cult following as resistant to Bowie’s many future musical evolutions as folkies were to Dylan’s plugging in. In fact, the same documentarian who captured Dylan’s swagger in <i>Don’t Look Back</i> (1967) also captured the final concert of David Bowie performing as Ziggy Stardust in London in 1973.</span></p><p style="font-family: georgia;font-family:georgia;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:100%;">This awesome rock time capsule, <a href="http://www.bigskyfilmfest.org/bsdff/festival/films/ziggy_stardust"><i>Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars</i></a> (1973) screens Saturday night at the Wilma and is sponsored by Carlo’s One Night Stand, the vintage and costume specialty store on Missoula’s Hip Strip. <span style=""> </span>Come dressed as Ziggy Stardust or another Bowie-era character and receive half price admission to the show! </span></p> <p style="font-family: georgia;font-family:georgia;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:100%;">Max Gilliam, Carlo’s owner, says his store has everything you could possibly need to outfit yourself as the andro-enigma, including tights, sequins and makeup.<br /></span></p><p style="font-family: georgia;font-family:georgia;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:100%;">“What I do at Carlo’s is try to have costumes and vintage that’s very representative of the periods. I work hard at that all the time and make it affordable.”<br /></span></p><p style="font-family: georgia;font-family:georgia;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Mr. Gilliam came to Missoula from Santa Barbara in 1977. The G.I. Bill gave him $411 a month and he used to bike around town and stop at rummage sales, finding fabulous pieces for just a quarter. When his stock piled up, Mr. Gilliam would put on his own sales to cover rent and food. Since that time, Carlo’s One Night Stand has had three locations: at the UM, 6th and Higgins and now at 109 South 3rd, right next to the Higgins Street Bridge.</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Mr. Gilliam says his favorite Bowie tune is "Space Oddity," and he enjoys all types of music except country. “I don’t drink, I’ve already been divorced, and my truck works,” he says in his defense. We hope to see him in some serious vintage of his own this Saturday 2/25 when </span><a style="font-family: georgia;" href="http://www.bigskyfilmfest.org/bsdff/festival/films/ziggy_stardust"><i>Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars</i></a> screens at 9:30 in Wilma 1. Don’t forget to dress as Bowie to receive half price admission!</span></p><p style="font-family: georgia;font-family:georgia;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Article by BSDFF Promo Team writer Cecile Berberat</span><br /></span></p>Seattle Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08736837411710943832noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5232929201788479564.post-14564948180153531332012-02-24T19:30:00.002-07:002012-02-24T19:46:10.586-07:00Welch in the Blood<style>@font-face { font-family: "Arial"; }@font-face { font-family: "Cambria Math"; }@font-face { font-family: "Calibri"; }@font-face { font-family: "Georgia"; }@font-face { font-family: "Century Gothic"; }@font-face { font-family: "SimSun"; }p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Century Gothic"; }.MsoChpDefault { font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; }div.WordSection1 { page: WordSectio</style><span style="line-height: 115%;font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;" >Ask a Missoulian to list their favorite authors. Then ask a writer to name their favorites. Now ask a writer in Missoula. James Welch’s name will appear on each of these lists. And for good reason. The late Mr. Welch’s written works have helped define what it means to be Montanan, Blackfoot, an outsider, an adolescent, down and out, and drunk. His books and poems describe the most universal of human experiences, death, isolation, and desperation, all with the darkest and most endearing humor. There’s no one you’d rather sit with at the bar.<br /><br /></span><a style="font-family: georgia;" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIzquAMKyjLuoi5PVzbIV7mf7oG2zrNpvtr-ZwwdMBv46S-Bkylvl0By63tpzaTIiIGISjFj33hmJaovJGiuf4Ehs9Mg-f-RUr1Fp0sSLgTVvS_7WNePjeir2CtzVOvyTJCq4UFyy8j_E/s1600/winter+in+the+blood2+on+set.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 212px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIzquAMKyjLuoi5PVzbIV7mf7oG2zrNpvtr-ZwwdMBv46S-Bkylvl0By63tpzaTIiIGISjFj33hmJaovJGiuf4Ehs9Mg-f-RUr1Fp0sSLgTVvS_7WNePjeir2CtzVOvyTJCq4UFyy8j_E/s320/winter+in+the+blood2+on+set.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5712569918735496274" border="0" /></a><span style="line-height: 115%;font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;" >It’s no surprise then that the upcoming film adaptation of his first novel, <i>Winter in the Blood </i>(1974) is awaited with great anticipation by filmmakers, writers, and audiences alike. Montana film heroes, Andrew and Alex Smith, whose previous feature<i>, The Slaughter Rule</i>, garnered critical acclaim and awards in 2002 spent this past year filming on the Montana Hi-Line. They and their crew are now in post-production.</span><span style="line-height: 115%;font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;" ><br /><br />The excitement and energy surrounding this project serve to enliven the literary and visual arts communities of Missoula and the wider state. More importantly, it inspires our population of young artists in discovery and offers an opportunity for youth to get involved.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;">The short documentary by Tracy Rector and Lou Karsen, "</span><a style="font-family: georgia;" href="http://www.bigskyfilmfest.org/bsdff/festival/films/visionary_insight_behind_the_scenes_of_the_film_winter_in_the_blood">Visionary Insight: Behind the Scenes of the Film Winter in the Blood</a><span style="font-family:georgia;">," follows eight American Indian interns who took part on the Brothers Smith’s movie set. Also screening at this event is the official trailer for the upcoming feature film.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;">For more information about </span><i style="font-family: georgia;">Winter in the Blood</i><span style="font-family:georgia;"> the movie please visit http://www.winterinthebloodfilm.com/.</span><br /><br /><a style="font-family: georgia;" href="http://www.bigskyfilmfest.org/bsdff/festival/films/visionary_insight_behind_the_scenes_of_the_film_winter_in_the_blood"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">"Visionary Insight: Behind the Scenes of the Film Winter in the Blood</span></span></a><a style="font-family: georgia;" href="http://www.bigskyfilmfest.org/bsdff/festival/films/visionary_insight_behind_the_scenes_of_the_film_winter_in_the_blood">" </a><span style="font-family:georgia;">screens Saturday, February 25 at 5:15 PM in Wilma 1.</span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:85%;" >Article by BSDFF Promo Team writer Cecile Berberat</span>Seattle Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08736837411710943832noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5232929201788479564.post-41859088534223400572012-02-24T19:10:00.004-07:002012-02-24T19:41:57.816-07:00Thursday Night Thrills at Big Sky<span style="font-family:georgia;">Thursday night rocked with "New Garage Explosion," "The Bus," "Eddie Vedder Live," "(This Is Known As) The Blues Scale" and "The Slog Movie."</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center; font-family: georgia;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bigskydocfilm/6780969220/" title="0001_DanDoranPhotography by BigSkyFilm, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7057/6780969220_c5c4a2970f.jpg" alt="0001_DanDoranPhotography" height="333" width="500" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bigskydocfilm/6780969398/" title="0002_DanDoranPhotography by BigSkyFilm, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7193/6780969398_793b2d2b20.jpg" alt="0002_DanDoranPhotography" height="333" width="500" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bigskydocfilm/6780969662/" title="0004_DanDoranPhotography by BigSkyFilm, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7203/6780969662_83a72e1316.jpg" alt="0004_DanDoranPhotography" height="333" width="500" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bigskydocfilm/6927088111/" title="0005_DanDoranPhotography by BigSkyFilm, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7039/6927088111_d7ba656649.jpg" alt="0005_DanDoranPhotography" height="500" width="333" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bigskydocfilm/6927088727/" title="0008_DanDoranPhotography by BigSkyFilm, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7069/6927088727_b7c2a6b0e0.jpg" alt="0008_DanDoranPhotography" height="333" width="500" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bigskydocfilm/6780971386/" title="0014_DanDoranPhotography by BigSkyFilm, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7197/6780971386_6cd6ab3aa8.jpg" alt="0014_DanDoranPhotography" height="333" width="500" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bigskydocfilm/6927090131/" title="0016_DanDoranPhotography by BigSkyFilm, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7048/6927090131_42169c6d44.jpg" alt="0016_DanDoranPhotography" height="333" width="500" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bigskydocfilm/6780972136/" title="0018_DanDoranPhotography by BigSkyFilm, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7042/6780972136_6ded2cefc6.jpg" alt="0018_DanDoranPhotography" height="333" width="500" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bigskydocfilm/6927090837/" title="0020_DanDoranPhotography by BigSkyFilm, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7040/6927090837_f92dfb5038.jpg" alt="0020_DanDoranPhotography" height="333" width="500" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bigskydocfilm/6927091221/" title="0022_DanDoranPhotography by BigSkyFilm, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7196/6927091221_abb6368598.jpg" alt="0022_DanDoranPhotography" height="381" width="500" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bigskydocfilm/6780973328/" title="0024_DanDoranPhotography by BigSkyFilm, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7069/6780973328_c25f08f5b3.jpg" alt="0024_DanDoranPhotography" height="333" width="500" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bigskydocfilm/6780973654/" title="0026_DanDoranPhotography by BigSkyFilm, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7059/6780973654_e0ce08d57b.jpg" alt="0026_DanDoranPhotography" height="333" width="500" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bigskydocfilm/6927092757/" title="0031_DanDoranPhotography by BigSkyFilm, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7189/6927092757_ec7f17b859.jpg" alt="0031_DanDoranPhotography" height="333" width="500" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bigskydocfilm/6927094127/" title="0038_DanDoranPhotography by BigSkyFilm, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7177/6927094127_661e5c51e7.jpg" alt="0038_DanDoranPhotography" height="333" width="500" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bigskydocfilm/6927094267/" title="0039_DanDoranPhotography by BigSkyFilm, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7199/6927094267_14e750c92b.jpg" alt="0039_DanDoranPhotography" height="333" width="500" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Photos by BSDFF Promo Team photographer Dan Doran. Click <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bigskydocfilm/sets/72157629082695804/with/6927094267/">here</a> for more photos from Thursday night at the festival.</span><br /></div>Seattle Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08736837411710943832noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5232929201788479564.post-55714244797488530652012-02-24T18:30:00.002-07:002012-02-25T09:51:29.339-07:00Friday Morning at the Movies<span><span >Check out shots from Friday morning at Big Sky - a packed school screening of "Cafeteria Man" at the Wilma!</span><br /></span><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; text-align: center; "><span><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bigskydocfilm/6780645508/" title="IMG_1169 by BigSkyFilm, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7065/6780645508_8f6213f23e.jpg" alt="IMG_1169" height="500" width="383" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bigskydocfilm/6926763929/" title="IMG_1179 by BigSkyFilm, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7040/6926763929_9124dfa5b4.jpg" alt="IMG_1179" height="357" width="500" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bigskydocfilm/6780647500/" title="IMG_1184 by BigSkyFilm, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7196/6780647500_d432d5b54b.jpg" alt="IMG_1184" height="273" width="500" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bigskydocfilm/6780648400/" title="IMG_1186 by BigSkyFilm, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7046/6780648400_0b082b8a0b.jpg" alt="IMG_1186" height="333" width="500" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bigskydocfilm/6926767783/" title="IMG_1198 by BigSkyFilm, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7040/6926767783_b0c35e5921.jpg" alt="IMG_1198" height="333" width="500" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bigskydocfilm/6926768627/" title="IMG_1199 by BigSkyFilm, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7188/6926768627_85c4bdb28e.jpg" alt="IMG_1199" height="333" width="500" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bigskydocfilm/6926770097/" title="IMG_1207 by BigSkyFilm, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7064/6926770097_dee084d4a5.jpg" alt="IMG_1207" height="370" width="500" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bigskydocfilm/6926772717/" title="IMG_1231 by BigSkyFilm, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7039/6926772717_3a043dbc92.jpg" alt="IMG_1231" height="333" width="500" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bigskydocfilm/6780656690/" title="IMG_1255 by BigSkyFilm, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7177/6780656690_1cb6b82912.jpg" alt="IMG_1255" height="333" width="500" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bigskydocfilm/6926774827/" title="IMG_1260 by BigSkyFilm, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7041/6926774827_30cc5ec678.jpg" alt="IMG_1260" height="333" width="500" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bigskydocfilm/6780657678/" title="IMG_1271 by BigSkyFilm, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7204/6780657678_d6044db755.jpg" alt="IMG_1271" height="333" width="500" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bigskydocfilm/6780659942/" title="IMG_1306 by BigSkyFilm, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7184/6780659942_6e3918f4c4.jpg" alt="IMG_1306" height="333" width="500" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bigskydocfilm/6780662664/" title="IMG_1321 by BigSkyFilm, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7195/6780662664_1c24933b76.jpg" alt="IMG_1321" height="333" width="500" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bigskydocfilm/6926782601/" title="IMG_1349 by BigSkyFilm, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7067/6926782601_50ebba870c.jpg" alt="IMG_1349" height="333" width="500" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bigskydocfilm/6780669486/" title="IMG_1385 by BigSkyFilm, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7209/6780669486_05932e6dcb.jpg" alt="IMG_1385" height="333" width="500" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: 85%; "><span>Photos by BSDFF Promo Team photographer Tom Seiler. Click </span><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bigskydocfilm/sets/72157629082001260/with/6926791131/">here</a><span> for more photos from Friday morning at the festival.</span></span></span><br /></div>Seattle Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08736837411710943832noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5232929201788479564.post-90842474912544048752012-02-24T17:30:00.002-07:002012-02-24T17:30:00.528-07:00Awards Night at Big Sky!<span style="font-family: georgia;">Thursday night marked the Documentary Channel Awards Night at the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival. Filmmakers joined festival attendees at the Loft to celebrate several of this year's great films.</span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><a style="font-family: georgia;" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bigskydocfilm/6926488875/" title="BSDFF Documentary Awards 2012 by Michelle Gustafson by BigSkyFilm, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7192/6926488875_bcacc40b9c.jpg" alt="BSDFF Documentary Awards 2012 by Michelle Gustafson" height="333" width="500" /></a><br /><br /><a style="font-family: georgia;" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bigskydocfilm/6780371654/" title="BSDFF Documentary Awards 2012 by Michelle Gustafson by BigSkyFilm, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7040/6780371654_edb581b206.jpg" alt="BSDFF Documentary Awards 2012 by Michelle Gustafson" height="333" width="500" /></a><br /><br /><a style="font-family: georgia;" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bigskydocfilm/6780371940/" title="BSDFF Documentary Awards 2012 by Michelle Gustafson by BigSkyFilm, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7046/6780371940_23238515ed.jpg" alt="BSDFF Documentary Awards 2012 by Michelle Gustafson" height="333" width="500" /></a><br /><br /><a style="font-family: georgia;" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bigskydocfilm/6926489529/" title="BSDFF Documentary Awards 2012 by Michelle Gustafson by BigSkyFilm, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7052/6926489529_fcfb8582e7.jpg" alt="BSDFF Documentary Awards 2012 by Michelle Gustafson" height="333" width="500" /></a><br /><br /><a style="font-family: georgia;" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bigskydocfilm/6926489713/" title="BSDFF Documentary Awards 2012 by Michelle Gustafson by BigSkyFilm, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7176/6926489713_b90bf7a143.jpg" alt="BSDFF Documentary Awards 2012 by Michelle Gustafson" height="333" width="500" /></a><br /><br /><a style="font-family: georgia;" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bigskydocfilm/6926489809/" title="BSDFF Documentary Awards 2012 by Michelle Gustafson by BigSkyFilm, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7045/6926489809_85a83aef42.jpg" alt="BSDFF Documentary Awards 2012 by Michelle Gustafson" height="333" width="500" /></a><br /><br /><a style="font-family: georgia;" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bigskydocfilm/6780372552/" title="BSDFF Documentary Awards 2012 by Michelle Gustafson by BigSkyFilm, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7205/6780372552_6a4b616f34.jpg" alt="BSDFF Documentary Awards 2012 by Michelle Gustafson" height="333" width="500" /></a><br /><br /><a style="font-family: georgia;" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bigskydocfilm/6926490535/" title="BSDFF Documentary Awards 2012 by Michelle Gustafson by BigSkyFilm, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7180/6926490535_11ce484ecd.jpg" alt="BSDFF Documentary Awards 2012 by Michelle Gustafson" height="333" width="500" /></a><br /><br /><a style="font-family: georgia;" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bigskydocfilm/6926490671/" title="BSDFF Documentary Awards 2012 by Michelle Gustafson by BigSkyFilm, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7204/6926490671_73376e248c.jpg" alt="BSDFF Documentary Awards 2012 by Michelle Gustafson" height="333" width="500" /></a><br /><br /><a style="font-family: georgia;" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bigskydocfilm/6780373224/" title="BSDFF Documentary Awards 2012 by Michelle Gustafson by BigSkyFilm, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7210/6780373224_2c87a4bffc.jpg" alt="BSDFF Documentary Awards 2012 by Michelle Gustafson" height="333" width="500" /></a><br /><br /><a style="font-family: georgia;" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bigskydocfilm/6780373324/" title="BSDFF Documentary Awards 2012 by Michelle Gustafson by BigSkyFilm, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7036/6780373324_7ec6abe6b1.jpg" alt="BSDFF Documentary Awards 2012 by Michelle Gustafson" height="333" width="500" /></a><br /><br /><a style="font-family: georgia;" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bigskydocfilm/6780373436/" title="BSDFF Documentary Awards 2012 by Michelle Gustafson by BigSkyFilm, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7066/6780373436_9e2f162df9.jpg" alt="BSDFF Documentary Awards 2012 by Michelle Gustafson" height="333" width="500" /></a><br /><br /><a style="font-family: georgia;" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bigskydocfilm/6926491613/" title="BSDFF Documentary Awards 2012 by Michelle Gustafson by BigSkyFilm, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7063/6926491613_9977713788.jpg" alt="BSDFF Documentary Awards 2012 by Michelle Gustafson" height="333" width="500" /></a><br /><br /><a style="font-family: georgia;" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bigskydocfilm/6926491755/" title="BSDFF Documentary Awards 2012 by Michelle Gustafson by BigSkyFilm, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7201/6926491755_886bc7b2a9.jpg" alt="BSDFF Documentary Awards 2012 by Michelle Gustafson" height="333" width="500" /></a><br /><br /><a style="font-family: georgia;" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bigskydocfilm/6926491823/" title="BSDFF Documentary Awards 2012 by Michelle Gustafson by BigSkyFilm, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7201/6926491823_afbdb7b8db.jpg" alt="BSDFF Documentary Awards 2012 by Michelle Gustafson" height="333" width="500" /></a><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;font-size:85%;" >Photos by BSDFF Promo Team photographer Michelle Gustafson. Click <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bigskydocfilm/sets/72157629445800517/with/6926491823/">here</a> for more photos from Awards Night.</span><br /></div>Seattle Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08736837411710943832noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5232929201788479564.post-14446750042617189432012-02-24T17:00:00.001-07:002012-02-24T17:59:57.525-07:00A Mini-Doc on Screening "The Bus"<span style="font-family:georgia;">Check out scenes from Thursday's pre-party at Zip Auto before the screening of Damon Ristau's film <span style="font-style: italic;">The Bus</span>. A packed house and great music added to the buzz of this much anticipated film about the history of a cultural icon. </span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/37408913?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0" webkitallowfullscreen="" mozallowfullscreen="" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="300" width="400"></iframe></div><p style="text-align: center; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="http://vimeo.com/37408913">The Bus</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/bigskyfilmfest">Big Sky Film Fest</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.<br /></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Video by BSDFF Promo Team filmmaker Katrina Shull.</span></span><br /></div>Seattle Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08736837411710943832noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5232929201788479564.post-11427177503663920402012-02-24T16:30:00.001-07:002012-02-24T16:30:01.807-07:00Images of Strength<style>@font-face { font-family: "Arial"; }@font-face { font-family: "MS 明朝"; }@font-face { font-family: "Cambria Math"; }@font-face { font-family: "Georgia"; }p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }.MsoChpDefault { font-size: 10pt; }div.WordSection1 { page: WordSection1; </style><a href="http://www.bigskyfilmfest.org/bsdff/festival/films/baring_it_all"><i><span style="font-family:Georgia;">Baring It All</span></i></a><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><a href="http://www.bigskyfilmfest.org/bsdff/festival/films/baring_it_all"> </a> is a film that speaks to the heart of what Missoula's Advanced Imaging Services is all about - helping patients beat breast cancer not merely in order to survive, but to thrive and live a whole life. For many women, the disease is not merely illness -- it changes the way they look at themselves and the way the world looks at them. </span><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><br /></span></b></p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.bigskyfilmfest.org/bsdff/festival/films/baring_it_all"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 256px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLYTgd9HyPmVtcwiRVo_J2Nt9cUfVHwsVN2LWnqqJ-eV6qWKNKAwtXdXrhtOEkLbKky_GSQ-DBJ1BGf5ZdFBqJErrybOQEq_3O5kn_bdgXcZkDr-Nvuqk9z_FLSUn6Sebnve1ohwx8gwc/s320/Baring+it+all-2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5712778479107020066" border="0" /></a><br /> <style>@font-face { font-family: "Arial"; }@font-face { font-family: "MS 明朝"; }@font-face { font-family: "Cambria Math"; }@font-face { font-family: "Georgia"; }p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }.MsoChpDefault { font-size: 10pt; }div.WordSection1 { page: WordSection1; }</style><span style="font-family:Georgia;">In <i>Baring It All</i>, survivors take back their self-image in a series of bold and challenging photo shoots with fashion photographer David Jay. Jay founded The SCAR project to create images of women under forty who have been diagnosed with breast cancer, fighting the perception that it is a cancer of the elderly, an “old ladies’ disease.” In fact, 10,000 women under the age of forty are diagnosed with breast cancer per year.</span><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><br /></span></b><span style="font-family:Georgia;">Michelle Weaver-Knowles of Advanced Imaging was one of those women. She also lost her sister to breast cancer in her thirties. She now works with Advanced Imaging because, as she says, “it’s a passion. People don’t realize that by helping them, it’s helping me.” </span><b><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><br /><br /></span></b><span style="font-family:Georgia;">Cathy Palmer also found her family touched by the disease - in her mother’s family of seven girls, five would eventually be diagnosed with breast cancer. “You develop a rapport with the patient,” at Advanced Imaging, and that rapport helps drive the work she does.</span><b><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><br /><br /></span></b><span style="font-family:Georgia;">Both women describe the healing process as one of discovering strength through adversity, and to them that is the heart of what <i>Baring It All</i> means to them. “In the film, you can see it in their eyes,” Michelle tells me. “... when she’s posing, even though she’s bald, you can just see the beauty in her eyes.” Cathy adds, “It’s very raw, there’s nudity, but it’s tastefully done. It’s emotional.”</span><b><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><br /><br /></span></b><span style="font-family:Georgia;">In addition to sponsoring the film, Advanced Imaging will be providing information on breast cancer screening and self-examination at the event. Their twenty-strong support group plans to attend, but Cathy hopes that the biggest impact will be on women who have not yet considered the possibility of breast cancer in their own lives. “Women need to learn to take care of themselves,” she says, “and pay attention to what’s going on in their own bodies.”</span><b><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><br /><br /></span></b><a href="http://www.bigskyfilmfest.org/bsdff/festival/films/baring_it_all"><i><span style="font-family:Georgia;">Baring It All</span></i></a><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><a href="http://www.bigskyfilmfest.org/bsdff/festival/films/baring_it_all"> </a>screens at the Wilma at 3:30 pm on Saturday, February 25, as part of the<a href="http://www.bigskyfilmfest.org/bsdff/schedule/screening_blocks/wilma1-25d"> Art Docs</a> shorts series.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Article by BSDFF Promo Team writer Carrie Laben</span><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"> </span></p>Seattle Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08736837411710943832noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5232929201788479564.post-85293629232400993732012-02-24T14:00:00.001-07:002012-02-24T14:00:02.375-07:00In the Reality Box with Caveh Zahedi<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1S8Y_8D3ejR3Y2csu-_GRjW9H1u_mgE6tymcaP9XREooGOZL8EBcwFrbsjTwfUFTrarh3AolQqFlujWzAFy1Zm7OPmFIw3i_AbuMuA3vXterAVo2SEZR_xFonnBLYaZXXrMCUvaIsQxw/s1600/Zahedi.Bathtub.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1S8Y_8D3ejR3Y2csu-_GRjW9H1u_mgE6tymcaP9XREooGOZL8EBcwFrbsjTwfUFTrarh3AolQqFlujWzAFy1Zm7OPmFIw3i_AbuMuA3vXterAVo2SEZR_xFonnBLYaZXXrMCUvaIsQxw/s320/Zahedi.Bathtub.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5712771376609191458" border="0" /></a><br /> <style>@font-face { font-family: "Cambria Math"; }@font-face { font-family: "Georgia"; }p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }.MsoChpDefault { font-size: 10pt; }div.WordSection1 { page: WordSection1; }</style><span style="font-family:Georgia;">I first encountered Caveh Zahedi when I was sixteen and very stoned. My friends and I were watching <i style="">Waking Life, </i>an animated Richard Linklater movie beloved by potheads and philosophers alike, and on-screen, a cartoonized version of Zahedi was drawing film frames in the air and talking about “holy moments.” His cartoon eyes were bugging out. Sparks were leaping from his fingers. My reaction was one of: shit, man.</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><br /><i style=""> </i></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Georgia;">Nine years later, watching Caveh Zahedi’s most recent non-fiction film, <a href="http://www.bigskyfilmfest.org/bsdff/festival/films/i_am_a_sex_addict"><i style="">I Am a Sex Addict</i></a>, screening tonight at the Crystal at 7:15 pm, I added an exclamation point: shit, man!<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Georgia;">It is impossible to remain unresponsive to Zahedi’s work – his films are open-eyed funny, tangential, lascivious, bizarrely pretty, and honest to the point of untruth. After studying philosophy at Yale, he moved to France, where he failed to charm Jean-Luc Godard and was consistently shot-down in his attempts to convince French television and the French government to fund his work. Tenacious, he moved back to LA to attend UCLA film school, where he co-directed the film <i style="">A Little Stiff, </i>which (finally!) premiered in competition at the Sundance Film Festival. Since then, his films have won wide critical acclaim, and they have also been, to quote his website, “virulently panned.” When his films have lacked in critical adoration, however, they’ve made up for it in cult followings, and BSDFF is proud to be counted among the Zahedi adherents.<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Georgia;">Mr. Zahedi was kind enough to answer a few questions for us.<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Georgia;">*</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i style=""><span style="font-family:Georgia;">BSDFF: Your films are not the typical “documentary” fare, and I wonder how you view your own work under this umbrella term: do you feel you are seeking to “document” something?</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i style=""><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><br /></span></i><span style="font-family:Georgia;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Georgia;">Caveh Zahedi: I do feel that I am seeking to "document" something but that "something" is perhaps different than the "something" that traditional documentarians seeks to "document."<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i style=""><span style="font-family:Georgia;">BSDFF: Since you are often the subject of your films, would you say you’re attempting to document yourself?</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i style=""><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><br /></span></i><span style="font-family:Georgia;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Georgia;">CZ: Absolutely. Myself and the Reality around me, with a capital R.<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i style=""><span style="font-family:Georgia;">BSDFF: And how does documentation differ from storytelling?<br /></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i style=""><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><br /></span></i><span style="font-family:Georgia;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Georgia;">CZ: I think the difference has to do with the point of departure. The point of departure in documentation is Reality, which, as has been pointed out many times, is stranger than fiction. In documentaries, storytelling is simply a means to convey the essential strangeness of Reality. Whereas traditional storytelling seeks to convey a sense of reality but the point of departure is really an idea or a narrative construction. In other words, reality is forced to fit into the box of storytelling, whereas in documentary filmmaking, storytelling is forced to fit into the box of Reality. It's never a perfect fit and it is this excess which makes documentaries unique and different from traditional storytelling.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i style=""><span style="font-family:Georgia;">BSDFF: Do you feel more honest with a camera on you? Does film-honesty feel different from everyday honesty?</span></i><span style="font-family:Georgia;"></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Georgia;">CZ: There is definitely such a thing as film-honesty and there is definitely such a thing as everyday honesty and the two things are definitely different. I would say that my film-honest quotient is much higher than my everyday honesty quotient whereas my guess would be that for most people, the exact opposite is true.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i style=""><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><br /></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i style=""><span style="font-family:Georgia;">BSDFF: When showing I Am a Sex Addict at festivals such as BSDFF, how do you feel walking amongst the audience afterward, knowing that they all just watched you receive many re-created blowjobs? Any particularly memorable reactions from audience members?</span></i><span style="font-family:Georgia;"></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Georgia;">CZ: It's definitely an odd and often surreal experience. I remember a gentleman in his eighties pulling me aside and asking me in hushed tones which countries' prostitutes gave the best blow jobs, as if he were about to head for the nearest travel agency and buy a one-way ticket to whatever country I had recommended. But the most memorable reactions are from sex addicts and sex workers who come up to me afterwards and reveal the most intimate details of their sex lives. It's actually a pretty wonderful experience and it always feels like an honor and a privilege.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i style=""><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><br /></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i style=""><span style="font-family:Georgia;">BSDFF: In many ways, you are very exposed in I Am a Sex Addict. However, I couldn’t help but notice the proliferation of naked women in contrast to your mostly-clothed body. Was there a reason behind your comparative modesty? </span></i><span style="font-family:Georgia;"></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Georgia;">CZ: The main reason for my comparative modesty was that I needed to hide the fact that I didn't in fact have an erection during most of the scenes in which I was supposed to. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i style=""><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><br /></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i style=""><span style="font-family:Georgia;">BSDFF: I wonder, too, about a point in the film where you refer to yourself as having been a feminist – does feminism still play a part in your filmmaking process? What does your feminist side think about having so many lovely breasts onscreen?</span></i><span style="font-family:Georgia;"></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Georgia;">CZ: I do still think of myself as a feminist but not the dogmatic variety. There are so many different schools of feminism that the word has became very vague indeed. One problem I had with casting during the film was from feminists who felt that the script was too shame-based and not sex-positive enough. That type of feminism is all about breasts being exposed. In other words, my feminist side has no problems with it.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Georgia;">*</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Georgia;">We will be screening four of Caveh Zahedi’s movies over the next two days: <a href="http://www.bigskyfilmfest.org/bsdff/festival/films/i_am_a_sex_addict"><i style="">I Am a Sex Addict</i></a> screens Friday, February 24 at 7:15 pm. <i style=""><a href="http://www.bigskyfilmfest.org/bsdff/festival/films/i_dont_hate_las_vegas_anymore">I Don’t Hate Las Vegas Anymore</a>, <a href="http://www.bigskyfilmfest.org/bsdff/festival/films/in_the_bathtub_of_the_world">In the Bathtub of the World</a>, </i>and his newest untitled film will screen Saturday, February 25 at 3:00 pm, 5:00 pm, and 7:15 pm, respectively. All films screen at the Crystal Theater.<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /><span style="font-family:Georgia;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Georgia;font-size:85%;" >Article by BSDFF Promo Team writer Emma Törzs </span></p>Seattle Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08736837411710943832noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5232929201788479564.post-72265631107964164452012-02-24T12:30:00.003-07:002012-02-26T12:48:45.173-07:00Putting the Doc in Doc Shop<span style="font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; " >Check out a mini-documentary about this year's Doc Shop at the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival!</span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span ><br /></span></div><span ><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/37435911?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0" width="400" height="300" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="" mozallowfullscreen="" allowfullscreen="" style="font-size: 100%; "></iframe></div></span><p style="text-align: center; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><span ><a href="http://vimeo.com/37435911">Doc Shop</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/bigskyfilmfest">Big Sky Film Fest</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.</span></p><p style="text-align: center; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><span >Video by BSDFF Promo Team filmmaker Michael Workman.</span></p>Seattle Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08736837411710943832noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5232929201788479564.post-32887829330876459352012-02-24T09:55:00.004-07:002012-02-24T12:11:45.670-07:00Big Sky Documentary Film Festival Announces Awards for 2012 Festival<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEip_rYsEgPhVLPwQJJ1DYMSG4THPp5tjfjp2wjCLPTMrIbCvCxMVg6_FdUyFYcvNQKVwY8iwMuJRQ3tV3GqEHG2JJiHfl6cqQveM4O3TopmqxMb25nh0Yb4voauprUKhQa8Xxy_QKBH2U8/s1600/392004_243268175736368_118218721574648_680111_859995071_n.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 210px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEip_rYsEgPhVLPwQJJ1DYMSG4THPp5tjfjp2wjCLPTMrIbCvCxMVg6_FdUyFYcvNQKVwY8iwMuJRQ3tV3GqEHG2JJiHfl6cqQveM4O3TopmqxMb25nh0Yb4voauprUKhQa8Xxy_QKBH2U8/s320/392004_243268175736368_118218721574648_680111_859995071_n.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5712748008264031474" border="0" /></a><br /> <style>@font-face { font-family: "MS 明朝"; }@font-face { font-family: "Cambria Math"; }@font-face { font-family: "Georgia"; }p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }a:link, span.MsoHyperlink { color: blue; text-decoration: underline; }a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed { color: purple; text-decoration: underline; }.MsoChpDefault { font-size: 10pt; }div.WordSection1 { page: WordSection1; }</style> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Georgia;">The judges of the 9th annual Big Sky Documentary Film Festival have announced this year's award winning films in the four competitive categories: Best Feature, Big Sky Award, Best Short Film and Best Mini Doc (under 15 minutes). The awards were announced Thursday evening at a ceremony at The Loft in downtown Missoula. Each category winner will receive $500, courtesy of The Documentary Channel.<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"> This year's jury included Yance Ford of POV, Amy Shatsky-Gambrill of Independent Lens, Ben Fowlie of The Camden International Film Festival, Reva Goldberg of Cinereach, and filmmakers Marshall Curry, Beth Harrington and Caveh Zahedi.<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Georgia;">_______________________<br /><br />At a reception sponsored by the Documentary Channel, the jury announced the following awards:<br /><br />FEATURE FILM COMPETITION<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Georgia;">The Best Feature prize was awarded to Jeff Orlowski of </span><span style="font-family:Georgia;">CHASING ICE, about National Geographic environmental photographer James Balog. Jurors Amy Shattsky and Ben Fowlie called the film an extremely timely and important documentary about one man's journey to demonstrate global warming in action by photographing the recession of the glaciers. Touching, terrifying and informative, we feel the highs, lows, frustrations and joys of the ultimate success of his experiment. Through a patient and thoughtful filmmaking approach, the director vividly captures the power and awe of the glaciers falling apart. As they recede into the ocean, the glaciers cry out, warning us of the peril that our planet is in.<br /><br />SHORT FILM COMPETITION<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Georgia;">Reva Goldberg and Caveh Zahedi awarded the Short Film prize to Matt Leigh's BLUE RINSE, a sweet observational film set in a Dublin hair salon. They also awarded an Artistic Vision Award to KUDZU VINE by Josh Gibson.<br /><br />MINI-DOC COMPETITION<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Georgia;">Yance Ford awarded the Mini Doc awarded to MR SMITHS PEACH SEEDS, Stewart Copelands beautifully realized portrait of Tennessee folk artist Roger Smith.<br /><br />BIG SKY AWARD<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Georgia;">Brian Bolster's film THE LOOKOUT received the Big Sky Award, presented by filmmakers Marshall Curry and Beth Harrington. In addition, Audrey Hall's film about portrait artist Hugh Wilson was give an Artistic Excellence Award.<br /><br />All awarded films will re-screen the final weekend of the festival. The Awards Screenings will take place in the Wilma Theatre, February 25 & 26. The schedule for this weekend's screenings is as follows:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.bigskyfilmfest.org/bsdff/schedule/screening_blocks/wilma1-25f"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Saturday, February 25 at 7:00 pm</span></a><br />THE LOOKOUT, Brian Bolster, 16 min.<br />PAINTING JOHN, Audrey Hall,10 min.<br />KUDZU VINE, Josh Gibson, 20 min.<br />BLUE RINSE, Matt Leigh, 16 min.<br />MR SMITHS PEACH SEEDS, Stewart Copeland, 11 min.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.bigskyfilmfest.org/bsdff/schedule/screening_blocks/wilma1-26f"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sunday, February 26 at 8:00 pm</span></a><br />CHASING ICE, Jeff Orlowski, 71 min.<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.bigskyfilmfest.org/bsdff/schedule/screening_blocks/wilma1-26g"><span style="font-family:Georgia;">Sunday, February 26 at 9:30 pm</span></a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Georgia;">A special encore presentation of MARINA ABRAMOVIC THE ARTIST IS PRESENT<br /><br />Thanks to the overwhelming response from audiences, Big Sky will rescreen some of the most popular films at the festival in several screening blocks set aside on Sunday, February 26 at the Crystal Theater and The Wilma. The films selected to rescreen, determined by attendance and general buzz, are as follows:<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sunday, February 26 @ the Crystal Theater</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Georgia;">Wilma 1<br />11:15 am ANDREW BIRD: FEVER YEAR & PIANO PAT<br />1:15 pm SING YOUR SONG<br />3:15 pm CALVET<br />5:15 pm CRAZY HORSE<a href="http://www.bigskyfilmfest.org/bsdff/festival/films/crazy_horse"></a><br /><br />Wilma 2<br />11:00 am PIANOMANIA<br />1:00 pm TALES OF THE WARIA & KEVIN<br />3:00 pm LADS & JOCKEYS<br />5:00 pm BATTLE FOR BROOKLYN<br /><br />In the final weekend of the festival, All Screen Passes will be available at a discounted price of $75. Passes may be purchased at the Wilma box office.<br /><br />For more information about the festival or to see a full schedule, visit <a href="http://www.bigskyfilmfest.org/"><span style="">www.bigskyfilmfest.org.</span></a></span></p>Seattle Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08736837411710943832noreply@blogger.com