2007 News Updates
Montana Made Film Selected for Film Festival
"Paper Dolls" has been selected as one of the films to be featured in this years Eerie Horror Film Festival! The filmmakers recieved a personal call from the director of the festival expressing his excitement for the film and he informed them that they are up for every award at the festival! The festival runs from Oct. 10-14 in Eerie, PA.
To see the Paper Dolls Trailer, please click HERE
To see the Paper Dolls Teaser, please click HERE
Film industry panel of studio executives scheduled at 2007 Montana Economic Development Summit in Butte
Montana Film Professionals and all interested Montanans are invited to attend the 2007 Montana Economic Development Summit in Butte on April 30 and May 1. Join conference sponsors Senator Max Baucus, Senator Jon Tester, Governor Brian Schweitzer, Montana Tech, and Headwaters RC&D in welcoming top business leaders, world class experts, and foreign dignitaries to the Big Sky state. The summit will be held at Montana Tech in Butte and there is no charge for attendance.
Breakout sessions focus on a range of economic development issues, and include a panel of studio executives discussing the Montana Film Industry. Keynote speakers for the conference are Bill Gates, Chairman of Microsoft Corporation, Ben Bernanke, Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, August Busch IV, President & CEO of Anheuser-Busch Companies, and Harold McGraw, President & CEO of McGraw-Hill Companies.
Montana Film Office encourages you to learn more about the summit and register at www.montanaeconomicsummit07.org.
"Charlie's Lake"
"Charlie's Lake", the documentary about Jon Whitmer of Billings, MT is will premiere on KUSM – Montana PBS on Tuesday, April 3, 2007 at 9:30 PM following a documentary on Frontline called "So Much So Fast". "Charlie's Lake" will rebroadcast on Saturday April 14 at 5pm and Sunday April 15 at 8:30am on KUSM.
To find the KUSM's station number in your area, use the address listed below and click on the town you live in. It will give you both the Cable KUSM and standard television KUSM channel for that area.
www.montanapbs.org/AboutUs/BroadcastArea/
Here's a description of the film:
CHARLIE'S LAKE explores a year in the life of Jon Whitmer, a man with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. With a sharp wit and an insatiable sense of adventure, Jon loves nothing more than a good road trip to keep things in perspective. But despite this incredible optimism, the realities of his muscle wasting disease leave Jon waking each day not knowing what new challenges will arise or how he's going to handle them. CHARLIE'S LAKE follows Jon as he and his family wrestle with the unexpected, and reflect on what makes the fight worthwhile.
For more information please go to their website: www.montanapbs.org/CharliesLake/
Former MSU film student to have film featured on "The Lot"
Bozeman Filmmaker Colin McWilliams has submitted a 5-minute film to Steven Spielberg’s "On The Lot" reality TV show, premiering Tuesday May 22nd on FOX television. The film, "War Between Angels", is a World War II Adventure/Drama shot by Director of Photography Ken Glynn of Luminous Digital Media.
The film features actors Vince Cusomato and Jeff Spicer as rival aviators who shoot each other down, and are forced to continue their dogfight without wings in the rugged terrain of the Black Forest. Shot last fall in the scenic Tobacco Root mountains of Montana, “War Between Angels” is partly inspired by Spielberg's use of war footage in his childhood films.
Celebrate a Montana homage to the cinema world by viewing the film here: http://films.thelot.com/films/30769
Then watch FOX TV’s "On The Lot" reality show this May to see if Colin will compete for a $1 Million Dreamworks film deal!
Missoula, Montana - January 20, 2007
Dr. George Schaller to Receive IWFF Lifetime Achievement Award At 30th Anniversary International Wildlife Film Festival
One of the highlights of the 30th Anniversary International Wildlife Film Festival – Missoula, May 12-19, will be the first IWFF Lifetime Achievement Award which will be given to Dr. George Schaller. Dr. Schaller is one of the world’s premier wildlife scientists who has contributed invaluable research and scientific information to wildlife conservation efforts globally and has helped to save and preserve some of the world’s greatest living species and land masses on earth.
With over four decades of field research around the world, George Schaller has pioneered the study of vanishing wildlife, contributing landmark studies on mountain gorillas, tigers, lions, jaguars, cheetah, leopards and the Giant Panda and many others. By focusing on a particular species’ role within its environment and encompassing indigenous people, vegetation and other animals, Dr. Schaller has helped to create the paradigm of conservation biology, and his efforts have helped to establish five of the world's important wildlife reserves, including the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska and the Chang Tang Wildlife Reserve in Tibet.
Dr. Schaller’s most recent global conservation efforts are focused on what is known as the Greater Pamir Initiative, an effort to bring together the countries of Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan and China in an effort to create a four country International Peace Park. This far-reaching initiative focuses on managing joint resources on a solid scientific foundation in cooperation with local communities, facilitating cooperation for mutual benefit, and encouraging good neighborly relations – an International Peace Park that, in the words of IUCN, is “formally dedicated to the protection and maintenance of biological diversity and of natural and associated cultural resources, and to the promotion of peace and cooperation.”
As Vice-President of the Wildlife Conservation Society's Science and Exploration Program, Dr. Schaller has spent most of his life in the field. Today, at the age of 73, he continues to spend most of his time in the wild, studying wildlife throughout Asia.
Dr. Schaller will receive the IWFF Lifetime Achievement Award and deliver a keynote address on Friday, May 18th in Missoula as part of the public awards ceremony of the 30th IWFF.
For more information, please contact Janet Rose, Executive Director/Festival Director of IWFF/International Wildlife Media Center at 406.728.9380 or Email: iwff@wildlifefilms.org