The Big Sky Documentary Film Festival is now accepting applications for the position of Festival Director. The job involves planning, promoting, and facilitating the annual event in February, coordinating sponsorships, grant writing and other fundraising activities, supervising volunteers and temporary staff, and handling festival administration. Applicants must be available to begin work in Missoula, Montana no later than August 1, 2008. This is a full-time, year-round position. Excelle...
The Big Sky Documentary Film Festival opens Thursday, February 14 at Missoula's Wilma Theatre for the first of seven consecutive days and nights of world-class documentary cinema. The fifth annual event boasts 106 films from more than 40 countries, including many world premieres. In addition to screenings, the festival includes panel discussions, a Retrospective Series, Q&A sessions with dozens of filmmakers, as well as VIP events, receptions and parties. Since its 2004 debut, the Big Sky Docum...
From February 14 - 20, 2008, the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival celebrates its 5th year by showcasing 98 films from 40 countries. The official selections represent a broad array of filmmaking styles, formats and production dates, from classics to World Premieres. The 2008 films were selected from nearly 1000 submissions from across the globe.Since 2004 the festival has grown into a premier international venue for exhibition of innovative, contemporary and classic non-fiction cinema. Screen...
The Big Sky Documentary Film Festival is pleased to announce the 2007 winning films, each of which will be screened during a special encore presentation Wednesday, February 21, at Missoula's historic Wilma Theatre.Best FeatureThe Cats of MirikitaniDirector - Linda HattendorfBest ShortA Revolving DoorDirector - Marilyn BravermanBest MiniDocHa Ha Ha AmericaDirector - JD LigonBig Sky AwardSalvation MountainDirector - Travis PetersonArtistic Vision AwardThe Colour of OlivesDirector - Carolina Riva...
The Big Sky Documentary Film Festival opens Thursday, February 15 at Missoula's Wilma Theatre for the first of seven consecutive days and nights of world-class documentary cinema. The fourth annual event boasts 100 films from 32 countries, including 30 world and North American premieres. In addition to screenings, the festival includes panel discussions, Q&A sessions with dozens of filmmakers, as well as VIP events, receptions and parties. Since its 2004 debut, the Big Sky Documentary Film Fest...
This winter, the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival celebrates its 4th year of showcasing the best in documentary film from around the world. From February 15-21, 2007 Big Sky will present 100 films from 32 countries, including 30 World and North American Premieres.Created in 2004, the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival has quickly evolved into an internationally-recognized venue for showcasing innovative, contemporary and classic works, and has established itself as a premier venue for nonfiction...
Filmmaking team, Doug Hawes-Davis & Drury Gunn Carr to receive first annual awardTrue/False West has announced that Doug Hawes-Davis and Drury Gunn Carr will receive its first annual True/West Visionary award, given to a filmmaker(s) that has placed an indelible mark on the world of documentary filmmaking. Doug Hawes-Davis and Drury Gunn Carr founded High Plains Films in 1992, and have produced and distributed their own non-fiction films for more than a decade. They have co-directed or co-produc...
Big Sky Documentary Film Festival Celebrates Its 3rd Annual February 16-22Missoula, MontanaThe Big Sky Documentary Film Festival announces program highlights at its third annual event with seven days full of screenings, panels, filmmaker Q & As, and public and VIP events. Big Sky brings the best new and classic documentaries to the Rocky Mountain West, with 96 films, as well as special screenings. Now in its third year, Big Sky continues to attract many of the most compelling films from around ...
This winter, the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival celebrates its 3rd year of showcasing the best in documentary film from around the world. From February 16 - 22, 2006 Big Sky will present 96 films and videos from 28 countries, including 14 World Premiers and 10 U.S. and North American Premiers.Big Sky has quickly built a strong national and international reputation for its programming excellence and established itself as the premier venue for nonfiction film in the American West. In 2005, afte...
The Big Sky Documentary Film Festival closed Wednesday, February 23, with an awards celebration honoring three films picked to carry the titles "Best Short", "Best Feature" and "Big Sky Award Winner." Three additional filmmakers were awarded Artistic Vision Awards as Special Jury Prizes. The seven-day event screened non-stop, 10 am to midnight at Missoula's Historic Wilma Theater and featured seventy-six films from more than 15 countries, with classics running side-by-side with world premiers. T...
Big Sky Documentary Film Festival Announces 2005 Line-upOfficial selections for the 2005 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival are now on-line at http://highplainsfilms.org/festival/selections.html.All screenings will be held at the historic Wilma Theater in downtown Missoula February 17-23, 2005. The festival will showcase over 70 non-fiction films from all styles, formats and production dates. Three separate awards will be presented for the competition films: Best Documentary Feature, Best Documen...
