Located at 119 N 29TH ST, BILLINGS, MT 59101 (in the alley)!

opening night AFTER PARTY

7:45 PM @MINT Film Office | 9/16/21
(behind the Babcock Theater)

Join us for the Opening Night After Party at the MINT Film Office Alleyway.

Enjoy food, music, and drinks while experiencing the visual feast of 16mm film projection and a high-energy party! Celebrate community, film, and culture!

• LIVE MUSIC: Music at 8 pm from the indie group Joyce From The Future.

• FOOD: PERCH is making and serving street tacos!

• DRINKS: Cocktails by Tito’s Handmade Vodka. Local Beer served!

• VISUAL FEAST: Old-school 16mm film projection on the side of the building

Access to the After Party is included with your Opening Night Ticket.

Can’t make it to the opening night film program but want to come to the party later? We got you—After Party entry is $5 at the door!

film screening
NARRATIVE SHORT FILM BLOCK

6 PM @Art House Cinema | 9/17/21

Enjoy a block of seven narrative short films. This block of films is made up of a variety of topics, genres, and interests.

• SWIPE, dir. Anthony Sneed - USA, 5 min (Indigenous Voices)
  A delinquent teenage boy learns a valuable lesson about growing up.

• KÓNÁÁHOOT’ÉHÉ, dir. Lonnie Begaye - USA, 15 min (Indigenous Voices)
  Before embarking on a journey of a better life for himself. Dylon, a young Navajo teen, faces a decision that may jeopardize his future and lead him to a darker life.

• YOU CAN CALL ME DAD, dir. Alana Waksman - USA, 12 min (Made in MT)
  When a man in his forties with a strained relationship with his mother returns home after her death, he is greeted by her boyfriend, a Reiki practitioner his own age.

• WILD ANIMAL, dir. Joseph Marconi - USA, 11 min (Made in MT)
  A young, transient MMA fighter is forced to choose between court-ordered Equine Therapy and the familiar path of self-destruction after a traumatic brain injury threatens her promising career.

• THE ANGLER, dir. David Darg - USA, 16 min
  A fisherman and a young mother have a chance encounter on a pier when their lines become tangled. But in this story of a mother’s desperate love for her child, there’s more beneath the surface.

• IN A BAD WAY, dir. Kyle Taubken - USA, 9 min
  A blue-collar gambling addict reaches a new low on Christmas Eve.

• LUISA, dir. Hannah Dougherty - Australia, 9 min
  Inspired by her dream of becoming an architect, Louise travels from Sydney to Spain to study the iconic buildings of Antoni Gaudí.

friday night AFTER PARTY

7:45 PM @The Billings Petroleum Club | 9/17/21

Join us for the Friday Night After Party at The Billings Petroleum Club!

Enjoy food, music, and drinks with the best view in town! Seriously, on floor 22 of the DoubleTree Inn, you’ll experience Billings like nowhere else.

The head chef is cooking up a special menu, including Pad Thai and homemade ice cream!

This after-party is free! Show your VIP Festival Pass and get a free Tito’s Vodka Cocktail!

special event
INDIGENOUS VOICES PANEL

2021 festival panels are free to the public and are made possible with grant funding and support from Humanities Montana.

11 AM @MINT Film Office | 9/18/21

Located at 119 N 29TH ST, BILLINGS, MT 59101

Join us for the 4th Annual Indigenous Voices Panel with special guests DANIEL GOLDING, NATHANIEL GOLDING, LONNIE R. BEGAYE, MICHELLE HERNANDEZ, and JORDAN DRESSER. All four have films screening at MINT (Chasing Voices, Awaken, Kónááhoot’éhé and Douk) and share a multi-generational perspective on filmmaking and storytelling. Moderated by JANE LIND.

Limited in-person seating is available inside the MINT office.

DANIEL GOLDING is an enrolled member of the Quechan tribe and received a BA in Film Production with a minor in American Indian Studies from San Francisco State. He is an award-winning filmmaker and founded Hokan Media LLC in 1997 to produce social issue documentaries and narrative films which have played at Sundance and on PBS. He is the director of CHASING VOICES: THE STORY OF JOHN P. HARRINGTON.

NATHANIEL GOLDING is an enrolled member of the Quechan tribe, Fort Yuma Reservation. AWAKEN is his first film.

LONNIE R. BEGAYE is a Navajo filmmaker and the owner of LRB Entertainment. He studied filmmaking at the Institute of American Indian Arts and is the director of Kónááhoot’éhé.

MICHELLE HERNANDEZ is a Native American / Latino filmmaker and a Wiyot tribal member who grew up on the Table Bluff Reservation. Michelle is finishing up her Masters of Fine Arts degree in Film and Electronic Media at American University in Washington, D.C., and is the director of DOUK.

JORDAN DRESSER is currently the Chairman of the Northern Arapaho Business Council and lives on the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming. He has a BA in journalism from the University of Wyoming and has worked as a reporter for the Lincoln Journal Star, the Salt Lake Tribune, the Forum, and the Denver Post. He serves as the Collections Manager at the Northern Arapaho Tribal Historic Preservation Office working closely with the team in tribal repatriation efforts. Jordan played a key role as Associate Producer of Home From School.

JANE LIND is an actress, director and founding member of the Native American Theater Ensemble, created in New York City in 1975. Best known for her film acting in WOLFEN and RETURN TO LONESOME DOVE, she recently finished work on the Alec Baldwin action film SUPERCELL.

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HOME FROM SCHOOL: THE CHILDREN OF CARLISLE

60 Minutes | USA | Documentary Feature
Directed by Geoff O'Gara

1 PM @Art House Cinema | 9/18/21

In 2017 a delegation of Northern Arapaho tribal members travels from Wyoming to Pennsylvania to retrieve the remains of three children who died at Carlisle Indian Industrial school in the 1880s. It’s a journey into the troubled history of Indian boarding schools, and a quest to heal generational wounds.

Ken Burns Prize Fund recipient.

The short documentary film HUNGER WARD plays before HOME FROM SCHOOL.

40 Minutes | USA/YEMEN | Documentary Short
Directed by Skye Fitzgerald

Nominated for a 2021 Oscar®, HUNGER WARD is the third film in the Refugee Trilogy by 2x Oscar® & Emmy® nominated director Skye Fitzgerald. Filmed from inside two of the most active therapeutic feeding centers in Yemen, HUNGER WARD documents two women health care workers fighting to thwart the spread of starvation against the backdrop of a forgotten war.

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DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILM BLOCK

3 PM @Art House Cinema | 9/18/21

Enjoy a block of six documentary short films. This block of films is made up of a variety of topics, genres, and interests.

• ONE ALL THE WAY, dir. David Baram - USA, 24 min
  Three elderly New Jersey men search for the world's greatest Hot Texas Weiner, but along the way, discover what has happened to their hometown, Paterson, New Jersey.

• FUGETSU-DO, dir. Kaia Rose - USA, 13 min
  An intimate portrait of a sweet shop that has been an anchor for the Japanese-American community in Little Tokyo since 1903. Mixed inside are stories of joy and pain, tradition and racism, legacy and loss.

• OUT OF THE DARK: HANNAH, dir. Sarah Klein, Tom Mason - USA, 5 min
  High school athlete Hannah Lucas faced the greatest challenge of her life and found strength she never knew she had. After struggles with depression and suicidal ideation, she developed the app notOK which provides emergency mental health care at the press of a button.

• MISSION MOUNTAIN, dir. Andrew Bydlon, Kody Kohlman - USA, 10 min (Made in MT)
  Mission Mountain follows 1st generation rancher Amy O’Hoyt as she traverses being a woman in a male-dominated industry, learning what it means to be in a business where your product is alive, and why investing in sustainable practices in a circular economy is important for a stronger future.

• FOR LOVE OF THE LAND, dir. Cynthia Matty-Huber - USA, 35 min (Made in MT)
  John Turns 94 this year and has no heirs; he never married and has no children. What will happen to his legacy, and the land that he gave his life for?

• CONNECTED OFF THE GRID, dir. Rachel Bujalski - USA, 20 min
  The last two generations have been striving to build bigger, better, stronger, faster but at a dangerous cost to the environment and society. Connected Off the Grid​ follows three distinct individuals who have found the perfect balance between staying connected and disconnected at the right times in our world today.

film screening
WE BURN LIKE THIS

81 Minutes | USA | Narrative Feature
Directed by Alana Waksman

6 PM @Babcock Theater | 9/18/21

When 22-year-old Rae, a descendant of Holocaust survivors, is targeted by Neo-Nazis in Billings, Montana, her ancestors' trauma becomes real. After hitting a low, she returns home to her mother and uncovers the truth about a childhood accident. As antisemitism continues to rise in the community, we follow Rae on her journey to forgive herself, her mother, and the broken world.

Inspired by true events, this coming-of-age story shows the inherited effects of historical trauma and the strength of survival and healing.

Executive produced by Emmy and Peabody award-winning producer Neda Armian (RACHEL GETTING MARRIED, THE LOVING STORY, MURDER ON MIDDLE BEACH).

closing night AFTER PARTY

8 PM @Bar MT | 9/18/21

Join us for the closing night after party at BAR MT. Enjoy good food, smores (that’s right), a live DJ, karaoke, cocktails by Tito’s Handmade Vodka, and local beers.