More than 130 non-fiction films are announced as the official selections for the 11th Annual Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, which takes place February 15-23 in Missoula, Montana. Continuing a tradition with HBO Documentary Films, the festival’s opening night will once again center on an early look at an upcoming film from the network’s documentary film division. PAYCHECK TO PAYCHECK: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF KATRINA GILBERT is described as a searing and heartfelt portrayal of a single mom who struggles under the poverty line despite working a full-time job. Paycheck is executive-produced by Maria Shriver, and is part of the Emmy-winning journalist’s series “The Shriver Report: A Woman’s Nation Pushes Back from the Brink.”
The festival has embraced comedy as its theme for 2014, which will be anchored by a live set from renowned comic Tig Notaro. Other strands of note include “Made in Montana”, which showcases films shot in or created by filmmakers living in Big Sky Country, and “The Wild 50,” a collection of films selected to celebrate the 50th anniversary of The Wilderness Act, the screenings of which will be free to the public.
2014 FEATURE COMPETITION
A Fragile Trust: Plagiarism, Power, and Jayson Blair at the New York Times
A World Not Ours
Alive Inside
Bending Steel
Death Metal Angola
Rent a Family
This Ain’t No Mouse Music
Trucker and the Fox (Ranande va roobah)
Whitey: United States of America V. James J. Bulge
Who Took Johnny
2014 BIG SKY AWARD COMPETITION
Art is War
Momenta
Occupy the Farm
Transmormon
Uranium Drive-In
Where God Likes To Be
White Earth
2014 SHORT COMPETITION
Bhiwani Junction
Blessed Fruit of the Womb
Can’t Stop the Water
Eddie Adams: Saigon ‘68
Herd in Iceland
Prison Terminal: The Last Days of Private Jack Hall
The Record Breaker
Stay Where You Are
Vacant Seat
What I Hate About Myself
2014 MINI-DOC COMPETITION
Adrift
Eugene
Finding Home
Haenyeo: Woman of the Sea
Jared Lyell
Of Cows and Men
Shaped on all Six Sides
Shell Game
The Pixel Painter
Yapawarnti Palu Rijikarrijani (Children Playing)
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