The Wilma & Big Sky Documentary Film Festival will present Chasing the Taper, Made In Montana Shorts Block (individual short details below), Closing Night Film: Right to Harm, and HOME + AWAY on Sunday, February 24th as part of the 2019 Big Sky Doc Film Fest.
See the full schedule for February 24thMark Allen Davis, 2018, USA — 83 minutes below:
Mark Allen Davis, 2018, USA — 83 minutes
Doors @ 12:30 pm / Show @ 1:00 pm –Wilma
World Premiere
An intimate look into the obsessive and vanishing art of bamboo fly rod making through the eyes of some of the greatest living rod makers in the world as they struggle to preserve this magnificent, yet economically unsustainable labor of love.
Matt Wechsler, Annie Speicher, 2019, USA — 82 minutes
Doors @ 5:30 pm / Show @ 6:00 pm –Wilma
World Premiere
An exposé on the public health impact of factory farming across the United States, told through the eyes of residents in five rural communities. When pushed to their limit, these citizens turned activists band together to demand justice.
Matt Ogens, 2018, USA, Mexico — 84 minutes
Doors @ 8:00 pm / Show @ 8:30 pm –Wilma
Montana Premiere
For many students of Bowie High School in El Paso, TX, crossing the border from Mexico is a daily reality, with their morning commute over the bridge from Juarez in pursuit of higher education. A sports documentary that speaks to our current moment, Home + Away chronicles the inspirational stories of three such students, striving to succeed in sports and academics in pursuit of a better life, while simultaneously exploring Mexico-U.S. relations and the Chicanx border culture they grow up in.
