There’s a great interview with local animator and writer Andy Smetanka in the Winnipeg Free Press this week, advancing a showing of his animations there. As usual, Andy is erudite and funny as he talks about his work and his town: “I’m too attached to Missoula,” he admits. “It’s a little like Boulder, [...]
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Advertisement Some decent dough is available to Montana filmmakers for all stages of current projects. Here’s the press release from Humanities Montana… [Read More...] As of Monday morning, the production team behind the upcoming film version of “Winter in the Blood” has hit its goal of raising $60,000 via the online “crowd-funding” site Kickstarter.com. With 34 hours left to go in the fundraising campaign, “Winter in the Blood” has raised $60,709. That means the project will receive [...] Local documentary filmmaker Damon Ristau has taken a novel approach (at least, locally speaking) to fundraising for his latest project, titled “The Bus:” He is asking for small individual donations via the online project-incubator Kickstarter.com. You can see a trailer for the film that Ristau wants to make at the Kickstarter page he [...]
Taking a pause from its “Spin the Wheel” tour – where fans are treated to a first set of music that’s determined by one fan spinning a giant, wheel-of-fortune-style wheel prior to the show – Yo La Tengo hits the Wilma Theatre tonight for a two-set performance of the band’s original soundtracks to eight short documentary films by the French filmmaker Jean Painlevé. As the band plays, the films – all of which focus on subjects in the undersea world — will be screened behind them. [Read More...] The upcoming filmed version of James Welch’s beloved novel, “Winter in the Blood,” is still far from finished; but already, it’s getting some high-profile attention. The LA Times ran a short story yesterday about the film’s growing buzz at the Sundance Film Festival and its buzz in Montana as a whole; you can [...] The Après-ski is where to be this weekend, with a pair of concerts in Missoula aimed at celebrating all that is gnarly and sick (that’s ‘extreme’ and ‘good’ to the rest of us). [Read More...] I received a note that I was asked to pass along, looking for volunteers to help out with this year’s upcoming Big Sky Documentary Film Festival. So….I’m passing it along. [Read More...] The Big Sky Documentary Film Festival has announced the names of the 140 films selected for its 2011 festival; but the most recognizable name on this year’s bill isn’t a film at all. On Thursday, the Missoula film festival announced that internationally acclaimed indie-rock trio Yo La Tengo will appear live in concert at this year’s BSDFF, performing live musical accompaniment to a series of documentaries by the late French filmmaker Jean Painlevé. [Read More...] |
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