ANNOUNCING THE 2021 FILMS IN COMPETITION
The Big Sky Documentary Film Festival is pleased to announce 36 films in competition at the 18th annual festival. Four award categories spotlight superior works in documentary filmmaking, including two Academy Award qualifying categories for short films. Selected by a jury of filmmakers and documentary industry professionals, winners will be announced at a special presentation during the virtual festival on Thursday, February 25. Congratulations to the finalists! |
Feature Competition Films over 40 minutes in length A Cops and Robbers Story - Ilinca Calugareanu A Crime on the Bayou - Nancy Buirski Duty Free - Sian-Pierre Regis The Falconer - Annie Kaempfer Havana Libre - Corey McLean Holy Bread - Rahim Zabihi Il Mio Corpo - Michele Pennetta The Place That Makes Us - Karla Murthy A Reckoning in Boston - James Rutenbeck The Snow Calls - Marjan Khosravi
Big Sky Award Films that artistically honor the character, history, tradition and imagination of the American West Ale Libre - Maya Cueva The Bears on Pine Ridge - Noel Bass Bitterroot - Adam Meeks Manzanar Diverted: When Water Becomes Dust - Ann Kaneko Red Heaven - Lauren DeFilippo & Katherine Gorringe Victoria - Sofie Benoot, Liesbeth De Ceulaer, Isabelle Tollenaere
Shorts Competition Films under 40 minutes in length Arctic Summer - Daniel Fradin, Kyle Rosenbluth Driven - Cody Wilson The Interview - Jonathan Miller, Zachary Russo Khoniyar's Children - Arman Gholipour Dashtaki Meltdown in Dixie - Emily Harrold Rust - Rafal Malecki Say His Name: Five Days for George Floyd - Cy Dodson Seahorse - Nele Dehnenkamp Team Meryland - Gabriel Gaurano We The Power - David Garrett Byars
Mini Doc Competition Films under 15 minutes in length 57 Days - Mario Lumbreras, Laura Brasero Águilas (Eagles) - Kristy Guevara-Flanagan, Maite Zubiaurre Blackthorn - Dom Bush Feelings of Invisibility - Charmaine Kachibaia Ms Diva Trucker - Dana Reilly My Little Hilton - Kevin Duncan Wong, Todd Sills The Orange Candidate - Ryan Weibush Paulette - James Gallagher The Roots Weaver - Fernando Saldivia View - Odveig Klyve
Special thanks to our esteemed competition jury members for their thoughtful consideration of films in competition. Click below to meet the jury members and learn more about the slate! |
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The 2021 DocShop conference will focus on issues of power, ethics and agency, a deep dive into the challenges and new opportunities brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. Big Sky is pleased to welcome industry participants from Firelight Media, Nia Tero, imagineNATIVE, Sundance Institute, Working Films, Audible, Oscilloscope, ARRAY, Utopia Distribution, Field of Vision and more. The Big Sky Pitch for documentary works-in-progress will welcome ten projects to pitch to a jury panel of funders and commissioning editors including Ford Foundation, Women In Film, Magnolia Pictures, Sundance Institute, Chicken & Egg Pictures and The Redford Center. Click below to meet the panelists and learn more about the contributors for the 2021 conference. |
The DocShop conference is supported by an ArtWorks Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and can be joined via live-stream on the festival’s Eventive virtual cinema. Passes are on sale now, single session tickets available February 2nd. |
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FESTIVAL SPONSORS Great thanks to the major funders of the Big Sky Film Institute and festival sponsors for making the 2021 virtual Big Sky Documentary Film Festival possible! |
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Big Sky Documentary Film Festival
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