This award winning story follows the life of a young pilot who flew in Alaska’s frontier arctic. Experience the front-seat thrills of bush planes and helicopters operating in the most dangerous conditions on earth, airborne among the magnificent mountains, glaciers and rivers that only Alaska has to offer. Includes true-life experiences of accidents, comradeship, humor and heartbreak of life in early Alaska, gone forever when dismantled into parks in the 1980’s. Based on the book Last of the Long Hunters by Mark Rose, the scene opens with an early history of the Great Land and those that lived in it through interviews with several life-long Alaskans, including Hilda Lidner, Ray Atkins and Gale Ranny to name a few. Leading up to the introduction of the authors use of a new tool of transport – the single engine airplane, but not without extracting a terrible price. Experience what it was like to growing up among the dangerous game, hunting the massive caribou herds and absorbing the greatness of the county. Pilots will gain from the flying experiences related, and every boy, man and aviator will be compelled to grapple with its final truth, concluding with a crisis encounter that forever changed the pilot's life forever. Filmed on Location in Alaska. Premiere's Spring 2020. www.alaskalonghunters.com
Alayna Rasile is a Montana artist, designer, and costumer who works primarily with plant-based textiles and natural dyes. Her work involves foraged fibers and found fabrics, plant-dyes, woven cloth, and FM transmitters broadcasting loom sounds. With the verve of an astronaut or a child with a butterfly net, their work celebrates the most persistent zeitgeist in history: wonder.
An animated short on how visual perception can be twisted with dyslexia.
In this short animated film titled Arrival/Departure Scott Duce tries to explain through humor and animated drawings how a simple drive to take his wife to the airport brings up confusion and anxiety caused by his inability to read the arrival-departure signs correctly. An insightful explanation of how his brain perceives and mixes words and symbols establishes the first of a series of animated shorts on the exploration into dyslexia stories.
When a spirit visited the bedroom of eight-year-old boy Jack McKey and carried him to a mountaintop at the end of the world, the young man’s life veered toward primitivism. He later discovered hidden skills inside himself for making birch bark canoes and sheep horn bows. Ultimately, it would drive him to a life in the wilderness and the most devastating decision of his life – to leave his young son behind.
“Blood, Bone and Stone” tells the story of McKey’s journey from his adoption into a privileged family in South Georgia to his life as a mountain man in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest. His friends call him a man born out of time. He has hunted bison with a hand-made sheep horn bow – and he is one only a handful of people who can make such a weapon. But he also crafts incredible horse lances, stone knives and war clubs in the styles of ancient North America natives.
The film follows McKey as he eventually reunites with his son, nearly 40 years after leaving him behind. And it follows the two as they travel to Chief Mountain, the site in Montana where the spirit carried McKey as a child and prophesied that the world would end if he set foot there again.
Director Thomas Grant is a professor at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College in South Georgia. This film was made over the course of nearly three years by Dr. Grant and his broadcasting students.
Bonnie Tarses is a designer specializing in one-of-a-kind and custom handwoven textiles. Currently in Missoula, MT, Bonnie creates her unique Color Horoscope Weavings, Woven Words, and Turned-Weft Ikat (a twist on a traditional theme). Full of life and gusto, with masterful skill that is both precise and easeful, Tarses creates works that defy notions of pattern or reduction.
“Bound by Movement” takes its viewers where only those with enough guts, dedication and heart can reach. Join the world's best parkour athletes as they travel to the edge of possibility on an all access behind the scenes journey risking their lives to create a film about doing what they love. Discover what connects this group of pros from 6 different countries and 13 different cities as they as they film some of the world's most insane flips and tricks in iconic land marks and abandon buildings on their 63 day tour around the USA. However breaking the law and pushing the limits of the human body can only go on for so long until something drastic goes wrong.
Directed by Jesse La Flair and produced by Jesse La Flair
A woman encounters a chair with strange properties, but can't decide if the experience is exciting or annoying. Created old-school style, using only pen and paper, and made up of 2,700 individual drawings
A glimpse into the struggle of a young bull riders pursuit to be one of the best.
“David Mirisch, The Man Behind the Golden Stars,” is a feature documentary about the life of revered press agent David Mirisch (known as “The Man with the Gold Rolodex”), whose family founded the legendary Mirisch Film Company and produced classically acclaimed movies such as “Some Like It Hot,” “West Side Story,” “Moby Dick,” and “Fiddler on The Roof.”
With over a 50-year career in entertainment, David carved out a name for himself as a key publicist for some of Hollywood’s most elite stars. He personally discovered Farrah Fawcett when she was still just a student at the University of Texas, threw infamous and lavish parties for basketball great Wilt Chamberlain, created campaigns for some of the most beautiful and talented young actresses that went on to ignite the silver screen, such as Linda Carter, Raquel Welch, and Barbara Hershey. He was instrumental in public relation campaigns for such musical legends as Johnny Mathis, Pat Boone, The 5th Dimension, and Perry Como.
The documentary exposes the “Golden Age Era” of Hollywood and what it really took to create a star then and now, and the instrumental role a publicist plays in advancing careers, especially artists just starting out in the industry.
What makes David Mirisch’s story even more remarkable is his humanitarian contributions, responsible for raising over $35 million for charitable organizations and nonprofits, organizing more than 2,500 celebrity events and fundraisers. This documentary exemplars how celebrities can harness their star power to generate awareness to unknown and worthy causes, and help touch lives in an all encompassing and perpetuating domino effect. The documentary touches on the theory that one action is not just “a single drop in the ocean,” their cumulative effect can make a positive change in the world as a whole.
The global pandemic cannot stop a friendship between a 4-year-old girl and boy. This film was shot and edited on the iPhone 11.
Across time and space, an unlikely romance forms between two star crossed lovers, each trapped in a quantum bubble of isolation. When Manny, a sarcastic video blogger wakes to find himself in Quantum Isolation, his only companion is Heather, a vibrant single mother who can only communicate via video chat. Through their communications, we see the joy of love in bloom, and despair as that love is tested. Can Manny and Heather make it through this isolation... or will they remain... THE DISTANCED.
In the early 1970s, twenty-one year old Alex reflects on what led her to participate in the murders of three people. In doing so, we see how she met and was seduced by Jay as a teenager, becoming the first follower of his dangerous cult.
A disenchanted young woman ascribes to the get-rich-quick advice of self-help guru - only to learn the cost of getting exactly what you want.
The Irish Ballad is a wry interpretation of a popular song by Tom Lehrer. It is the grisly tale of a slightly angry and confused young woman. The hauntingly beautiful vocals are sung by Wendi Arnold (Polson), who has professionally performed this song in a various venues. Piano accompaniment is by Trish Tavener (Ronan), a local bookstore owner and longtime Tom Lehrer fan.
After shedding a lifetime of belongings, moving to an assisted living facility with his ailing sweetheart, and now coping with losing his mind, former world-class athlete Alan Jackson, 87, embraces his last tracks, and what remains despite the losses.
A midwestern boy moves to Montana to get into backcountry snowboarding. His splitboard allows him to hike into the mountains under his own power, climb the slopes, then snowboard down. Splitboarding is not just snowboarding though, it's about the adventure of traveling through the mountains in the winter.
In 1910 Louie, Peck and Peeler crash through the woods, bent on skinny-dipping in an abandoned gravel pit. They catch a hobo going through their pockets on shore, tackle him, shove him around and accidently kill him. Louie lies to his older brother Roscoe about that night and leaves with his two friends to keep the secret safe. 48 years later a dying Louie needs to come clean.
Madison Perrins is an artist based in Bozeman, Montana. Madison found her way into the world of paintings when she transformed from photography and found out about the endless possibilities of her creativity.
Gwen Verdon changed the face of Broadway choreography over forty years. Through rare footage of Gwen Verdon performing in iconic stage musicals from Can-Can through Damn Yankees, Sweet Charity and Chicago modern audiences can see Gwen at her best and learn the unexpected and surprising true story behind her success and career.
From overcoming debilitating childhood rickets to becoming pregnant out-of-wedlock at sixteen, Gwen’s rise to success is the story of a woman who never gave up, and persevered to become Broadway’s greatest dancer against all the odds. She was a powerhouse of creativity, talent, and determination whose legacy can still be seen in dancers on Broadway today.
Featuring interviews with family members such as son, James Henaghan, daughter, Nicole Fosse, and nephew, Paul Verdon - they add personal reminiscences as well as never-before-seen home movies. Also featured are fellow cast members, collaborators, and Broadway & film legends such as Chita Rivera, Tab Hunter, John Kander, Charlotte d'Amboise, Harvey Evans, Lee Roy Reams, and dance historian Kevin Winkler. Merely Marvelous is a glorious look at Broadway through the career of one of its greatest stars and her unexpected rise to fame.
Film critic Leonard Maltin calls it, “A welcome celebration of a great, great talent, filled with rare footage of Verdon in her prime."
Navajo Math Circles follows Navajo students in a lively collaboration with mathematicians. The math circles approach puts children in charge of exploring mathematics to their own joy and satisfaction. Applications of math in Native culture highlight the special connections between Navajo culture, natural beauty, and mathematics.
In L.A. Chinatown, a young woman Nan dreams of becoming a chef at her father MEI’s Chinese restaurant. Nan has been taking care of her father for many years, because he has a serious backache due to long hours in the kitchen. An invitation to move in with her boyfriend in New York presents Nan with a choice between moving east and remaining with her father and pursuing her dream of becoming a chef. However, when she discovers that her father plans to will the restaurant to her brother MING, she has to find another plan for her life...
A story about a human trafficking survivor's journey freedom.
A boarding school student is whisked home to Chappaqua, NY to find out that her favorite bakery has been baking more than just sticky buns.
A young and successful lawyer from Chicago is questioning if what he does is meaningful enough. He decides to follow his internal call and try to become a priest. Only then he discovers what his true purpose in this world is.
The story is about men who are the last of a dying breed. It is simultaneously forlorn and beautiful. More and more, living as a cowboy is a choice. Ultimately it is a tale of the American West - rugged individualism that burns bright but fades away as no man and no culture truly stand the test of time.
A veteran, struggling to manage her PTSD, decides to explore psilocybin and finds herself in the face of danger after foreseeing her sister in trouble.
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