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Big Sky Documentary Film Festival

Big Sky Documentary Film Festival

Now in its 22nd year, the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival is the premier venue for non-fiction film in the American West. Every year, the festival brings over a hundred beautifully-crafted, thought-provoking documentary films to Missoula, Montana. This podcast, a collaboration between the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival and the Missoula Broadcasting Company, gives you the chance to hear directly from filmmakers, gaining insight into what drew them to their subjects and the behind-the-scenes

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16:03

Happy Campers

Big Sky Documentary Film Festival ·

2024/02/19

Every summer, working-class families enjoy waterfront living in a scrappy trailer park off the coast of Virginia. When the relentless march of capitalism threatens their shabby Shangri-La, the denizens of Inlet View face the inevitable, and reveal the secrets to a rich life. Amy Nicholson, the director of Happy Campers, visited the Trail studios to discuss her heartwarming feature film with Mike Smith.

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8:08

Julia Sherman

Big Sky Documentary Film Festival ·

2024/02/19

Big Sky Documentary Film Festival Education Director Julia Sherman talks with Aubrey Nilsen of 104.5 the U about Schoolhouse Docs and the wonderfully rich array of youth programs that are part of the 21st annual Big Sky Doc Film Fest.

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13:44

399: Queen of the Tetons

Big Sky Documentary Film Festival ·

2024/02/17

Known only by her research number, Grizzly 399 has captivated photographers since 2007, becoming the most famous — and photographed — mother bear in the world. The Big Sky Doc Fest's opening night film follows 399 as she struggles to raise an unusually large litter in the face of human encroachment, a rapidly changing climate, and disputes over her Endangered Species protections. Director and producer Elizabeth Leiter visited the Trail studios to discuss her powerful film.

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14:01

Rachel Gregg

Big Sky Documentary Film Festival ·

2024/02/15

Big Sky Documentary Film Festival executive director Rachel Gregg stopped by the Missoula Broadcasting company studios to preview the opening night film 399: Queen of the Tetons and offer a few of her other personal recommendations for films she's looking forward to this week.

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15:01

A Buffalo Story

Big Sky Documentary Film Festival ·

2024/02/14

As buffalo return to the North American landscapes they once defined, the important ecological and cultural impacts of that restoration have begun to manifest. A Buffalo Story follows the work of Jason Baldes, the Tribal Buffalo Manager for buffalo restoration on the Wind River Reservation, whose efforts to help people believe in buffalo again require him to confront his own trauma. In the debut interview of a series focusing on films from the 2024 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival,

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15:54

Between Earth and Sky

Big Sky Documentary Film Festival ·

2023/02/28

Renowned ecologist Nalini Nadkarni pioneered climbing techniques to study the Costa Rican rainforest canopy. After surviving a life-threatening fall from a tree, she turns her research inward to understand the processes of disturbance and recovery in her own life, a journey documented in Between Earth and Sky. Nalini Nadkarni and director Andrew Nadkarni visited the Trail studios to discuss Between Earth and Sky, which won the award for Best Short at the 2023 Big Sky Doc Fest.

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15:55

When The Dust Blows Through

Big Sky Documentary Film Festival ·

2023/02/24

In the middle of a remote desert, two men are assigned to guard the ruins of an ancient kingdom. When the Dust Blows Through follows them as they confront the heat and thirst of the desert, as well as more insidious foes like loneliness and tomb raiders. Director Ethan Wu visited the Trail 103.3 studios to discuss the challenges of filming in such an inhospitable location, and why he felt called to the story anyway.

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13:28

Hollywood's Finest

Big Sky Documentary Film Festival ·

2023/02/24

The film Hollywood's Finest follows three mothers fighting to create a family: Mckenzie, a young woman in recovery who became pregnant while living in a tent; Cat, her nomadic mom; and Leslie, the social worker with her own history of addiction, housing insecurity, and losing children to foster care. Filmmakers Claire Hannah Collins and Gale Holland visited the ESPN Missoula studios to discuss the film, the process of making it and the issues it confronts with Colter Nuanez.

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12:50

The Last of the Nightingales

Big Sky Documentary Film Festival ·

2023/02/23

A chance encounter transformed Bernie Krause's life, setting the prolific composer and sound artist on a path to capture the sounds of a vanishing wilderness. The Last of the Nightengales is a haunting black-and-white film that follows Krause's journey, inviting the audience to experience the rich acoustic beauty of the living world through his ears. Director Masha Karpoukhina visited the Missoula Broadcasting Company studios to talk about the film with Aubrey Nilsen.

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19:49

Native Ball: Legacy of a Trailblazer

Big Sky Documentary Film Festival ·

2023/02/23

Megan Harrington and Malia Kipp visit the ESPN Missoula studios to discuss the documentary film Native Ball: Legacy of a Trailblazer, which follows Kipp's journey from the Blackfeet Reservation to becoming the first Native American player in Montana Lady Griz history.

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21:03

Israelism

Big Sky Documentary Film Festival ·

2023/02/23

When two young American Jews raised to unconditionally love Israel witness the mistreatment of Palestinians, they battle the old guard to create a new movement opposing Israel’s occupation, and recentering Judaism itself. That's the story of Israelism, which makes its world premiere Thursday at the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival. Filmmakers Eric Axelman and Sam Eilertsen visited the Trail 103.3 studios to discuss the film.

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13:56

#MoCrazyStrong

Big Sky Documentary Film Festival ·

2023/02/23

When professional skier Jamie MoCrazy fell during the slopestyle event at the World Tour Finals in 2015, she suffered a traumatic brain injury so severe that officials at the ski hill prepared her fatality report. The injury left her in a coma, with her entire right side paralyzed and her brain bleeding in eight places. #MoCrazyStrong is the story of MoCrazy's miraculous years-long recovery that helped revolutionize treatment for traumatic brain injuries and set her on a course to advocate

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14:20

Matter of Mind: My ALS

Big Sky Documentary Film Festival ·

2023/02/22

Director Anna Moot-Levin discusses her film Matter of Mind: My ALS. The documentary follows three people diagnosed with ALS, a neurodegenerative disease with no known cure, and the choices they make as they grapple with how best to treat the illness.

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12:54

The Hamlet Syndrome

Big Sky Documentary Film Festival ·

2023/02/22

Elwira Niewiera and Piotr Rosolowski visit the Missoula Broadcasting Company studios to discuss their documentary film The Hamlet Syndrome. Filmed just months before the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the documentary follows a group of Ukrainian actors struggling with the traumas of war, sexism and homophobia as they attempt to stage an adaptation of Hamlet that grapples with the contemporary challenges of their country.

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12:06

Shadow Of A Dog

Big Sky Documentary Film Festival ·

2023/02/21

Filmmakers Sean Paulsen and Brad Wickham detail the late-night cemetery stakeouts that went into making their film Shadow of a Dog. The film follows a man who roams the forgotten corners of New York, hoping to track down lost pets and re-unite them with their owners.

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27:30

Penny Lane

Big Sky Documentary Film Festival ·

2023/02/21

Documentary filmmaker Penny Lane, the subject of this year's Big Sky Documentary Film Festival Retrospective, visits the Trail 103.3 studio to talk about her films that will shown at the festival, with subjects as diverse as Kenny G, Richard Nixon, the Church of Satan and Depression-era snake oil salesman John Brinkley, who peddled goat testicles as a cure for impotence.

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15:55

A Decent Home

Big Sky Documentary Film Festival ·

2022/02/26

The film A Decent Home opened the 2022 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival by going inside mobile home parks, where some of the most affordable housing in the country is increasingly being bought out by the richest of the rich. In this episode of the BSDFF podcast, the Trail's Robert Chase talks with director Sara Terry about A Decent Home being shown on opening night and the main question of the film: Do we want housing in this country to be available to everyone, or simply treated as a

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17:55

Memory Lanes

Big Sky Documentary Film Festival ·

2022/02/25

While stuck in his apartment during the pandemic, Brian Gersten decided to make a film about one of his family's favorite pastimes - bowling. That film became Memory Lanes. In this episode of the BSDFF podcast, ESPN Missoula's Andrew Houghton sits down with Gersten to talk about the process of making a film completely from archival footage and how he grappled with the dark themes of American history - racism, sexism, violence - that he found intertwined with an innocent, idyllic sport

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11:18

Charm Circle

Big Sky Documentary Film Festival ·

2022/02/25

The closing night film at the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival is Charm Circle, a deeply personal glimpse into the lives of an eccentric New York family. In this episode of the Big Sky Doc fest podcast, the Trail's Robert Chase talks with director Nira Burstein about her first visit to Missoula and the process of making a film that documents her own family's nuances and identity.

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13:21

One Road to Quartzsite

Big Sky Documentary Film Festival ·

2022/02/24

Every winter, a ragtag group of crustpunks, libertarians, snowbirds, and elderly folks become unlikely neighbors during their annual pilgrimage to a temporary longterm camping community in Quartzsite, Arizona. In this episode of the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival podcast, Colter Nuanez talks with Ryan Maxey, director of the film One Road to Quartzsite, about seeing his film make its world premiere and how he told the story of the diverse set of characters that converge on Quartzsite to

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