February 14-20, 2008

Big Sky Documentary Film Festival Announces 2008 Selections

By BSDFF, Guest Writer, 1-18-08

Official selections for the 2008 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival are now on-line, here. See complete list below.

From February 14 - 20, 2008, the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival celebrates its 5th year by showcasing 98 films from 40 countries. The official selections represent a broad array of filmmaking styles, formats and production dates, from classics to World Premieres. The 2008 films were selected from nearly 1000 submissions from across the globe.

The event includes three competitions:

• Documentary Feature Competition
• Documentary Short Competition
• Big Sky Award Competition

Passes are now available for sale on-line at www.bigskyfilmfest.org/tickets.html and will also be sold at the box office at the Wilma Theatre during the week of the festival.  For ticket prices, pass purchases and more information for this year’s festival visit www.bigskyfilmfest.org.

2008 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival Official Selections

Features:
2nd Verse The Rebirth of Poetry
4 Elements
24 Solo
A Dream in Doubt
A Father’s Music
A Snowmobile for George
A Walk to Beautiful
Achieving the Unachievable
An Audience of One
Bending Space
Bomb It
Butte, America
Cartoneros
Che Guevara-The Body and the Legend
Civilians on the Battlefield
Class C
Doubletime
Eloquent Nude
Finding Normal
Flying On One Engine
From Prison to Home
Golden Days
Hear and Now
Hell on Wheels
I Love Hip Hop In Morocco
In the Shadow of the Moon
Jimmy Rosenberg - The Father, the Son & the Talent
King Corn
Knee Deep
Knuckleball
Kurt Cobain: About A Son
La Americana
Lynch
Mexiphobia
Movement (R)evolution Africa
Oh My God! It’s Harrod Blank!
Polis is This
River Ways
Row Hard, No Excuses
Second Chance Season
Sex - The Revolution
Shadow of the House
Silhouette City
Soldiers of Conscience
The Gates
The Linguists
The Listening Project
The Little Red Truck
The Sky Below
Up the Yangtze
We Feed the World
When Clouds Clear
Wild Horse Redemption
Wrath of Gods

Shorts:
Atlantis Unbound
Begging for Grace
Blind Faith
Body & Soul - Diana & Kathy
Broadcast Cowboy
Casualty of the Promised Land
City of Cranes
City of Lost Carts
Conversing With Aotearoa
Conviction
Crack in the Sidewalk
Dimmer
El Otro Lado
Getting Eve Off
Hattenhorst
Inheritance
Landscape as Muse - The Forest with Peter Von Tiesenhausen
Left in Baghdad
Love Takes
Ma’Rib
Milk Matters
Night Visions
Pictograph
Portraits of Hope
Prayer of Peace
Resting Places
Reversing the Odds
State of Mind
The End for Beginners
The Farther, The Dearer
The Legend of Rosalie
The Man With the Electric Boots
The Storytellers
The Ville
Unfettering the Falcons
Verve
Ya Shadad

Perry Films Retrospective:
And you Don’t Stop - 30 years of Hip Hop
Harlan County, USA
Hartigan
Imagining America
John Hammond: From Bessie Smith to Bruce Springsteen
Making a Noise: A Native American Musical Journey with Robbie Robertson
The Rest is Silence

Contact:
Big Sky Documentary Film Festival
131 South Higgins Avenue, Suite 307
Missoula, Montana 59802
(406) 541-3456
http://www.bigskyfilmfest.org/

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