1-23-03
On a snowy day in January, 2003. Tragedy struck a small town in southwest Montana when a car crash claimed the lives of three high school boys [...]
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A Beautiful and Violent Place
In this Neo-American western, Joel returns home to avenge the death of his first love. Searching for retribution in the decaying landscape of his [...]
A Feast That Never Comes
Four characters inhabit cycles within cycles of contentment, discontentment, inertia, movement, desire, and betrayal. A story emerges—told [...]
A Fire Inside
When a volunteer firefighter drives his car into almost certain death, during the worst fires in Australian history, he does it because he ‘has a [...]
Ascend: Reframing Disability in the Outdoors
Vasu is not seeking to inspire you to feel good. His trauma doesn’t exist solely to benefit the education of others. He is seeking to inspire you [...]
Attack and Release
After moving with his family to the U.S. from Sri Lanka, Ranga lost his father to an unexpected heart attack. Coping with the loss eventually led [...]
Climate Emergency: Feedback Loops
Feedback Loops is a series of five short films, featuring twelve leading climate scientists, that explores how human-caused emissions are [...]
Composure
Shot as a silent film with a skeleton crew, “Composure” is a duet between star Emma Center and composer François Comtois. The film was inspired by [...]
Elevated
Effective communication is a challenge every climber faces. It’s a sport that requires intense focus, dedication, and overcoming fear. For Deaf [...]
Fault Line
FAULT LINE tells the story of a mother and daughter who each harbor a secret that lies beneath the surface. It has been two years since a [...]
Fortune
In desperate need of guidance and connection, a reclusive man turns to a mysterious source for answers in this surreal dark comedy.
Freedom Point
A doctor is assigned the case of a woman who must confront her difficult past. As she describes a recurring nightmare, the truth is revealed.
Golden Eagles Witness to a Changing West
“Golden Eagles: Witnesses to a Changing West” takes you in the field with eagle researchers in Wyoming as they strive to discover how the birds [...]
Graniterock’s Green Journey
There is a major shift happening in making the construction industry a sustainable, environmentally friendly industry, and Graniterock is leading [...]
Grit: A Cowgirl Story
This short film offers a glimpse into the life of Paige Rasmussen, a championship-winning rodeo athlete and college student at Montana State [...]
Handshake
After a chance encounter in the Montana wilderness, mild mannered family man Bill Burdick and failed drug dealer Devin Fowler form an unlikely [...]
Heartbreak Country
The remains of thousands of undocumented immigrants lie undiscovered in the remote and inhospitable landscape of Brooks County, TX. The bodies [...]
Homestead
When renowned painter Tessa Smith returns home to her Montana muse, she must also face her past. Now an established artist due to her depictions [...]
Mango House
Mango House is a film about the largest shared space for refugees in the greater West and the risk-taker behind it all. The film lends insight [...]
Mavericks
Derived from thrilling international competitions, compelling home videos and original cinematography, Mavericks tells the fascinating, timeless [...]
McCarthy 21
Ronald is kicked out of his parent's house after breaking an unbreakable family tradition. Now he needs to decide whether it's worth earning his [...]
Miracle in Missoula
One of the fiercest and oldest rivalries in college football is known as "The Brawl of the Wild". The annual game between the Montana Grizzlies [...]
Mr. Emancipation The Walter Perry Story
Mr. Emancipation is the story of Walter L. Perry's determination to put on a celebration that would transcend divisions of race and class, in [...]
Numb
Lola can't get past the loss of her beloved Martin. At the risk of losing everything else - from her medical practice to her two young daughters [...]
Ocean of Mudra
Exploring ancient ritual in the high Himalaya
Potluck
Loneliness sucks. But a lifetime of not quite fitting in won’t get good natured Carolyn down. Armed with positive affirmations, she desperately [...]
Skyline
Jonathan Zaugg—a young Swiss-American mountaineer from Southwestern Colorado—attempts to become the first person to ever traverse the Sneffels [...]
Something Unseen
August has bipolar disorder. While staying at his parent's house alone, comes to find that ghosts are coming through a portal in the attic.
Sons of Toledo
Sons of Toledo is the true story of the city’s Black-owned barber shops and their work on the frontlines of their communities, especially the [...]
Tag You’re It
We do not live in an ideal world.We must prevent manipulation, use of violence and abuse.From a little girls to a grown up women. From poor parts [...]
Talking to the Starry Sky
The Great East Japan Earthquake occurred on March 11, 2011. Though this unprecedented disaster caused more than 18,000 people to be declared dead [...]
The 90’s Club
A charming documentary film that showcases the vibrant wisdom and life lessons from a dozen diverse individuals between 90- and 99-years-old.
The Lake at the Bottom of the World
An international team of scientists venture into the virtually unknown interior of Antarctica to explore a lake buried 3,600 feet beneath the [...]
The Rest of Your Life
A recent college graduate in Columbus, Ohio seeks agency when his girlfriend moves away and Corporate America fails to meet his expectations, [...]
Touch
TOUCH is a story about the power of love and how we pass that from one generation to the next. Riley and her grandmother, Nana, always had a [...]
Tribal Waters
The Shoshone people have lived on the eastern slope of the Wind River mountains for more than 10,000 years—this water runs deep for them. They [...]
Weight of the Moon
An exploration of the interconnected and reciprocal relationship between body and ocean; a conversation where we experience ourselves not as the [...]
What I Knew He Could Be
Damien (Devenaire), a man riddled with grief and remorse from the loss of his brother Darius (A.J. Ware), seeks help at a Narcotics Anonymous [...]
Yonlu
YONLU is a fiction film based on the real story of a 16 year-old boy who, aided by the internet, won over the world with his talent for music and [...]
You Are Me & I Am You
A documentary about Carmen Cumba, an indigenous midwife in the High Sierras of Ecuador who despite many hardships and obstacles has dedicated her [...]
Yupiit: Eye of Both Worlds
In a remote village in Alaska, local singer/songwriter Byron Nicholai engages a new generation of Yupik natives using rap and beatboxing. [...]