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SUMMARY:23rd Annual Big Sky Documentary Film Festival (Downtown Missoula)
DESCRIPTION:The 23rd Annual Big Sky Documentary Film Festival features daily screenings around Downtown Missoula at The Wilma\, Zootown Arts Community Center and Missoula Children’s Theatre from Friday\, February 13 thru Sunday\, February 22\n\n\n\n\n\nNow entering its 23rd year\, the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival is the premier venue for non-fiction film in the American West. The upcoming festival will take place February 13-22\, 2026. Big Sky offers an ideal setting for filmmakers to premiere new work and develop lasting relationships with fellow filmmakers and industry. The festival draws an audience of 20\,000 and film entries from every corner of the globe to a uniquely intimate mountain town setting with local Montana flavor. A hybrid festival\, audiences can enjoy the festival program live in unique exhibition spaces across downtown Missoula and in Big Sky’s virtual cinema from nearly anywhere in the world. Selected for 9 years running by MovieMaker Magazine’s 50 Festivals Worth the Entry Fee\, BSDFF is a top-100 rated festival on FilmFreeway and is an Academy Award-qualifying festival for short documentaries. \n\n\n\nThe annual 10-day event takes place each February in downtown Missoula\, Montana. \n\n\n\nThe festival hosts over 200 visiting artists\, presents an average of 150 non-fiction films\, and offers a variety of exciting events at the historic theater The Wilma and neighboring downtown Missoula venues. In addition to screenings\, the Big Sky DocShop is a five-day industry event that includes panels\, master classes\, workshops\, and the Big Sky Pitch session. DocShop’s participants have included: HBO Documentary Films\, Showtime Documentary Films\, Tribeca Film Institute\, Sundance Doc Fund\, The New York Times Op-Docs\, ESPN Films\, Participant Media\, BBC Storyville\, CNN Films\, ITVS\, POV\, PBS\, America ReFramed\, American Experience\, Al Jazeera\, Nia Tero\, Chicken & Egg Pictures\, Field of Vision\, Film Independent\, Ford Foundation and Catapult Film Fund. \n\n\n\nSpecial retrospective programs have included the films of: Barbara Kopple\, The Maysles Brothers\, Travis Wilkerson\, Joe Berlinger\, Julia Reichert & Steven Bognar\, Brett Story\, Lucy Walker\, Matt Wolf\, Ondi Timoner\, Doug Pray\, Daniel Junge\, Bill & Turner Ross\, Chuck Workman\, Jeff & Michael Zimbalist\, Sam Green\, John Cohen\, EyeSteelFilm\, Jeanie Finlay\, Kartemquin Films\, and Les Blank. Special guests have included Indy Rock legends Yo La Tengo\, Comedian Tig Notaro\, Steve James (Hoop Dreams)\, Les Blank (Burden of Dreams)\, Greg Barker (Sergio)\, Joe Berlinger (Crude)\, Ron Mann (Grass)\, Brendan Canty & Christoph Green (the Burn To Shine series)\, Chuck Workman (The Life & Times of Andy Warhol)\, and Hart & Dana Heinz Perry (Sex: The Revolution). \n\n\n\nRecent Award winners at the festival have included: Colette (Anthony Giacchino)\, Public Trust (David Garrett Byars)\, St. Louis Superman (Smriti Mundhra\, Sami Khan)\, My Country No More (Rita Baghdadi\, Jeremiah Hammerling)\, Cradle of Champions (Bartle Bull)\, The Last of the Elephant Men (Daniel Ferguson\, Arnaud Bouquet)\, Siblings are Forever (Frode Fimland)\, A World Not Ours (Mahdi Fleifel)\, This Way Of Life (Thomas Burstyn)\, Steam of Life (Joonas Berghäll & Mika Hotakainen)\, Blood Brother (Steve Hoover)\, Chasing Ice (Jeff Orlowski)\, Last Train Home (Lixin Fan)\, Sweetgrass (Ilisa Barbash & Lucien Castaing-Taylor)\, Gasland (Josh Fox)\, Rough Aunties (Kim Longinotto)\, Ashes of American Flags (Brendan Canty & Christoph Green)\, In A Dream (Jeremiah Zagar)\, and Bronx Princess (Yoni Brook & Musa Syeed). Find the complete list of award winners here. \n\n\n\nPurchase Single Screening Tickets\, 5-Film Pass\, All-Screening Pass\, and All-Access VIP Pass HERE
URL:https://missoulaunderground.com/mugevent/23rd-annual-big-sky-documentary-film-festival-downtown-missoula/2026-02-19/
LOCATION:Downtown Missoula\, Missoula\, Montana\, 59802\, United States
CATEGORIES:Documentaries,Festivals,Film Festivals,Movies,Short Film
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SUMMARY:"Kinship Medicine" author Wendy Johnson\, MD\, MPH in conversation with Robin McLean at Fact & Fiction
DESCRIPTION:“Kinship Medicine” author Wendy Johnson\, MD\, MPH will be in conversation with Robin McLean at Fact & Fiction in Downtown Missoula at 7:00 pm Thursday\, February 19\n\n\n\n\n\nKINSHIP MEDICINE: Cultivating Interdependence to Heal the Earth and Ourselves is based in the premise that our well-being is rooted in relationships and connection–with each other and the natural world. Western medicine sees our bodies as machines to be repaired\, but a more apt metaphor would be a garden\, we are a part of nature. Your body itself is an ecosystem\, existing inside progressively larger ecosystems until we consider the whole earth itself. We cannot be truly healthy when those ecosystems are sick and dying. Our modern way of living in most of the Western World is incompatible with maintaining the healthy ecosystems on which we depend. KINSHIP MEDICINE is aimed at raising awareness of the deep connection between our well being and the health of the natural world. \n\n\n\nDr. Wendy Johnson is a family physician\, public health professor\, activist and writer who has spent her life advocating for a world where everyone can live long lives in equitable communities. Her career includes stints scaling up HIV treatment in Mozambique\, overseeing and urban health department\, and most recently\, directing a community clinic in Santa Fe. She has a Master of Public Health from Johns Hopkins and hold faculty appointments at the University of Washington and the Universtiy of New Mexico. She currently practices family and addiction medicine in rural Northern New Mexico with El Centro Family Health. Dr. Johnson has been a vocal activist on many progressive issues locally and globally and is a two time TEDx speaker. \n\n\n\nRobin McLean worked as a lawyer and then a potter in the woods of Alaska before turning to writing. Her first story collection Reptile House won the BOA Editions Fiction Prize\, was twice a finalist for the Flannery O’Connor Prize\, and was noted as a best book of 2015 in Paris Review. Her debut novel Pity the Beast was published Nov. 2o21 by And Other Stories was noted as a best book of fiction of the year in such outlets as The Guardian\, Wall Street Journal\, White Review\, and long-listed for the Reading the West Prize. It was a recommended paperback in the NYTimes in Nov 2022. Her second story collection\, Get’em Young\, Treat’em Tough\, Tell’em Nothing was published by And Other Stories in Oct. 2022\, was an Editors’ Choice in the NY Times\, and was longlisted for the 2022 Republic of Consciousness Prize.
URL:https://missoulaunderground.com/mugevent/kinship-medicine-author-wendy-johnson-md-mph-in-conversation-with-robin-mclean-at-fact-fiction/
LOCATION:Fact & Fiction\, 220 N. Higgins Avenue\, Missoula\, Montana\, 59802\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Live Reading,Book Readings,Book Signing,Literature
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SUMMARY:Montana Repertory Theatre "Can't Drink Salt Water" with UM School of Theatre & Dance at UM Montana Theatre
DESCRIPTION:Montana Repertory Theatre presents the world premiere of Kendra Mylnechuk Potter’s “Can’t Drink Salt Water” with the UM School of Theatre & Dance in the Montana Theatre with performances from Saturday\, February 14 through Sunday\, February 22\n\n\n\n\n\nDoors @ 30 minutes before show time \n\n\n\nWith transformative support from The Roy Cockrum Foundation\, and in partnership with UM School of Theatre and Dance\, Montana Repertory Theatre presents the world premiere of Kendra Mylnechuk Potter’s Can’t Drink Salt Water. The opening night of this gripping new play will take place Saturday\, February 14\, 2026 in the Montana Theatre on the UM Campus (PARTV Building)\, with eight additional performances following\, through February 22. \n\n\n\nJuxtaposing a mother’s relentless search for her missing daughter with the journey of a young woman newly arrived at Bethel House\, an evangelical shelter for victims of sex trafficking\, this timely story weaves together Native identity\, maternal grief\, contemporary religious faith\, humor\, and a call to action. The production showcases professional Indigenous talent from across the country\, including cast members Allison Hicks\, Jennifer Rader\, Serenity Mariana\, and Bradley Lewis\, costumes by Asa Benally\, lighting design by Emma Deane\, sound design by Rory Stitt\, and mask design and creation by Cannupa Hanska Luger. As a co-production\, it showcases UM student actors\, designers\, and crew alongside the professionals. The cast includes students Shadie Wallette\, who previously performed in the 2023 staged reading\, and Octavio Jimenez\, who has toured the state over the past year with State of Mind\, a collaboration between The Rep and the University of Montana Co-Lab for Civic Imagination. UM Students in the crew include Ronnie Avansino as the Props Designer\, Rae Scott as the Assistant Stage Manager\, and Aaron Prati as the Assistant Lighting Designer. The playwright\, Kendra Mylnechuk Potter\, is a University of Montana alum\, and is based in Missoula. \n\n\n\n“I am humbled to have the opportunity to collaborate with so many artists in this meaningful way. And for the work to get to live on this particular stage where I first worked over 20 years ago as a student\, my “home stage” as it were\, is a straight up dream\,” Potter said. “The caliber of work – soup to nuts – from designers through performers\, is just such a treat for our town to get to share in\, and getting to mingle seasoned professionals at the top of their craft while highlighting the talent here in town with that of our UM student artists is a joy that brings this experience additional heart. My sincere hope is that we are able to provide a theatrical experience that feels like a useful contribution to the issues we seek to address: Missing and Murdered Indigenous People\, community care\, ecosystems\, and seeing what (and who) has been here all along.” \n\n\n\n“The School of Theatre and Dance is proud to partner with Montana Repertory Theatre to tell this vital story. We are so grateful to the Native artists\, The Roy Cockrum Foundation\, and to all involved for sharing their artistry\, talents and resources with our students and we look forward to welcoming audiences to the Montana Theatre to see Can’t Drink Salt Water\,” said Bernadette Sweeney\, Director of UM School of Theatre and Dance. \n\n\n\n This project began in 2019 with the idea to commission an original work from an Indigenous artist\, grounded in The Rep’s action-oriented Land Acknowledgement: “Montana Repertory Theatre acknowledges that we are in the aboriginal territories of the Salish and Kalispel people. We also acknowledge the privilege of gathering on this land to share stories. We pledge to always hold a place on our stages for the stories of this land and of its first peoples.” The original commission was supported by the Warren Miller Performing Arts Center in Big Sky\, Montana\, and this story was chosen by a nationwide team of Indigenous artists\, including Lily Gladstone\, DeLanna Studi\, Madeline Sayet\, and Andre Bouchard. \n\n\n\n“The Warren Miller Performing Arts Center (WMPAC) is thrilled to see the next phase of Can’t Drink Salt Water coming to life in Missoula this spring. Any chance we can get to help support new\, adventurous work like the piece that Kendra Mylnechuk Potter has created\, we’re fully on board\, especially when it comes to cultural realities that authentically embody lived experiences here in Montana\,” said John Zirkle\, Executive Director / Artistic Director at WMPAC. \n\n\n\nThis production is supported by a generous grant from The Roy Cockrum Foundation. Founded in 2014 by Roy Cockrum and Benita Hofstetter Koman with winnings from Mr. Cockrum’s Powerball lottery jackpot\, the Foundation’s mission is to award grants to support world-class performing arts projects in not-for-profit professional theatres throughout America. Since 2014\, 76 American theaters and performing arts organizations have received major grants from the Foundation. Inspiration for its mission derives from a Camus quote:“Without culture\, and the relative freedom it implies\, society\, even when perfect\, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.” ― Albert Camus\, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays.This performance includes mature themes. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPurchase Tickets LINK
URL:https://missoulaunderground.com/mugevent/montana-repertory-theatre-cant-drink-salt-water-with-um-school-of-theatre-dance-at-um-montana-theatre/2026-02-19/
LOCATION:UM Montana Theatre\, 32 Campus Drive\, Missoula\, Montana\, 59812\, United States
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