Point and Shoot – December 7th

Join us on December 7th at 6:30 PM for the fifth screening in this years’ Bozeman Doc Series! The fifth screening is featuring the documentary Point and Shoot by Marshall Curry, two-time Academy Award nominated filmmaker.

Winner of the Best Documentary Award at the Tribeca Film Festival, POINT AND SHOOT follows Matt VanDyke, a timid 26-year-old with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, who left home in Baltimore in 2006 and set off on a self-described “crash course in manhood.” He bought a motorcycle and a video camera and began a three-year, 35,000-mile motorcycle trip through Northern Africa and the Middle East.

While traveling, he struck up an unlikely friendship with a Libyan hippie, and when revolution broke out in Libya, Matt joined his friend in the fight against dictator Muammar Gaddafi.  With a gun in one hand and a camera in the other, Matt fought in — and filmed — the war until he was captured by Gaddafi forces and held in solitary confinement for six months. Two-time Academy Award nominated documentary filmmaker Marshall Curry tells this harrowing and sometimes humorous story of a young man’s struggle for political revolution and personal transformation.

Doors of the Emerson Center for the Arts and Culture open at 6:30 PM and the screening beginning at 7 PM with tickets available online and at the door.

Check out the film’s official site here to find out more!

Walking Under Water – November 23rd

Join us on November 23rd for the fourth screening of the Bozeman Doc Series! Walking Under Water by director Eliza Kubarska and producer Monika Braid will be screened at the Emerson Center for the Arts and Culture beginning at 7 PM.

Winner of a Special Jury Award at the Hot Docs Documentary Film Festival, Walking Under Water chronicles the last days of the Borneo sea nomads. A touching story of a 10-year-old Sari and his uncle Alexan, the last Badjao compressor diver from Mabul island and their unique bond with the ocean. The film presents the Badjao tribe’s ancient traditions as a magical narrative, spinning the urgent pressures into a hybrid of fantasy, fiction and fact.

Check out the film’s official site to learn more about this story here!

Doors open at 6:30 PM with the film beginning at 7 PM in the Emerson Center for the Arts and Culture. Tickets will be available for purchase online and at the door.

Marmato – November 16th

Join us on November 16th for the third screening of the Bozeman Doc Series! Official selection of the Sundance Film Festival and the 2014 Winner in Documentary Editing at the Ashland Film Festival, Marmato will be screened at the Emerson Center for the Arts and Culture.

Every day in Marmato, a shimmering Colombian mountain town, families pray for safety as their men walk out their doors and down into the mines, scratching out a living with little more than shovels and outdated sulphur lamps. Beneath their village lies one of the largest gold reserves on the planet. In 2006, the Colombian government invited foreign investment to the region to stimulate economic growth, unleashing a corporate gold rush. As plans progress to destroy residents’ homes and level the beautiful mountaintop for an open-pit mine, Marmato charts the mounting crisis as the local community struggles to protect its way of life and economic sovereignty.

Filmed over the course of 6 years, MARMATO, winner of the Best Documentary award at the 2014 Seattle International Film Festival, is a canvas of magic realism and the confrontation with globalized mining.

“A beautifully shot portrait of resistance…” Screen Daily

Check out the film’s official site here!

Doors open at 6:30 PM at the Emerson Center for the Arts and Culture and the screening beginning at 7 PM!

Tickets will be available for purchase online and at the door.

Waiting for August – November 2nd

Join us on November 2nd at the Emerson Center for the Arts and Culture at 7 PM for the second screening of the Bozeman Doc Series with the recently released documentary Waiting for August by filmmaker Teodora Ana Mihai. Doors open at 6:30 PM.

“Waiting for August follows Georgiana Halmac who turns 15 this winter. She lives with her six brothers and sisters in a social housing condo on the outskirts of Bacau, Romania. Their mother Liliana was forced to leave her family behind to go to Turin, Italy, to earn money. She won’t be back before summer. During their mother’s absence, Georgiana has been catapulted into the role of head of the family, responsible for her siblings cutting her adolescence short.

Caught between puberty and responsibility, Georgiana moves ahead, improvising as she goes. Phone conversations with her mom are her only guidelines. Intimate scenes from the daily life of the seven siblings show us – in an uncensored, fly-on-the-wall style – how real events are experienced and interpreted with great imagination by the children.

You can’t help being amazed by their ingenuity, while also realizing how precarious their daily equilibrium is.”

 

To learn more about the film and Teodora, follow this link to the official Waiting for August website.

Opening Night – Virunga

Join us for the opening night of the first Bozeman Doc Series season! We will be kicking off the inaugural season with Virunga by director Orlando Von Einsiedel that follows a group of park rangers in the Virunga National Park of the Congo.

Check out the official site of the film here!

Doors open at 6:30 PM at the Emerson Center for the Arts and Culture on October 19th.