The Wilma & Big Sky Documentary Film Festival will present Shorts Block 17 (individual short details below), Shorts Block 18 (individual short details below), Fire on the Hill: The Cowboys of South Central L.A., and Silent Forests on Saturday, February 23rd as part of the 2019 Big Sky Doc Film Fest.
See the full schedule for February 23rd below:
Brett Fallentine, 2018, USA — 86 minutes
Doors @ 5:30 pm / Show @ 6:00 pm –Wilma
Montana Premiere
When a sudden and mysterious fire wipes out the Hill Stable, the last public horse stable in South Central, Los Angeles, a culture of urban cowboys come under threat. This western-documentary follows the life and struggles of three inner-city cowboys and the line they must walk between the gang-filled streets of LA and the path of an American Black cowboy.
Mariah Wilson, 2018, USA — 109 minutes
Doors @ 8:00 pm / Show @ 8:30 pm –Wilma
Northwest Premiere
An intimate portrait of conservationists struggling to stop forest elephant poaching and ivory trafficking in Africa’s Congo Basin, SILENT FORESTS explores their efforts by following Cameroon’s first female eco-guard, a grassroots wildlife law enforcement group, a Congolese biologist studying elephant behavior, a reformed elephant poacher, and a Czech activist who leads a sniffer dog team.
