The International Wildlife Film Festival Post Tour
Established in 1977 in Missoula, Montana the International Wildlife Film Festival (IWFF) has become an event where film and filmmaking are the focus, where ethical filming and ethical treatment of wildlife are as important as special effects.
Montana Outdoor Science School is proud to bring hand-picked selections from the IWFF to Bozeman as the International Wildlife Film Festival Post Tour.
Friday, September 29, 7 pm Emerson Center
$5 donation at the door.
Food and drinks available by the Emerson Grill
Three award-winning films will be shown from the International Wildlife Film Festival Post Tour. This is the only stop in Bozeman for the Post Tour!
Terminal Velocity
This is the story of one man's obsession with the fastest bird on Earth. It took Ken Franklin 30 years of field study, breeding and training to understand enough about peregrine falcon so that he could persuade it to fly along side a skydiver in freefall. To record the extraordinary images of a peregrine falcon at full speed, Norman Kent had to wear a heavy slow motion camera on his head, while also matching the peregrine's speed and lightning fast movements. For the first time ever, you can "look into the eye of a falcon as it dives".
25 minutes
Crown of the Continent - Alaska' s Wrangell - St. Elias
Crown of the Continent is a wilderness love story, grand and intimate. With braided rivers coursing through remote valleys, calving glaciers in hidden fjords, endless spruce forests, and countless unnamed and unclimbed peaks, Wrangell - St. Elias fulfills the romantic, mythic image of Alaska - then exceeds it. This stunning film examines the transformative power of this wilderness with spectacular cinematography, charming home movies and a Coplandesque orchestral score. Ultimately, Crown of the Continent is a personal film with universal application: a meditation on the revelations to be found in the natural world.
28 minutes
Andes to Amazon
Lost Worlds - Setting foot in South America is like traveling back in time to a lost world, where weird and wonderful animals roam across a land full of extremes – mighty rivers, high plains, rich seas, and dry deserts. Giant anteaters, sloths, guanacos and red-faced monkeys all seem to have been built for a very strange and unfamiliar plan.
50 minutes
– call 582-9087 for show times
Alaska’s Coolest Birds
Alaska is a cool place for beautiful scenery, animals and Birds. Birds especially like Alaska in the summertime when it is like a giant refrigerator filled with their favorite foods. Alaska's coolest Birds is narrated by a 5 year old who wonders unabashedly about the many different kinds of birds, and the amazing things that they do during this migration vacation. The beautiful High Definition Photography captures, up close, the feathered horns above a Puffin's eyes, a Peregrine chick hatching from it's egg, Bald Eagles playing a mid-air game of fish catch and all the cute chicks finding their way in a new world. It's convinced Zachary, the narrator, that "Alaska's birds are the coolest."
52 minutes
The First Spring Flood
Stories from the Seventh Fire is a half-hour animated/live-action series featuring short stories presented by Aboriginal storytellers, Tantoo Cordiral and Gordon Tootoosis. The First Spring Flood is a story about the power of friendship and cooperation. In the time before there were people on Turtle Island (North America), the Creator put the shape-shifter Wesakechak on the earth to take care of all the creatures. This makes Machias, a bad spirit, very envious and angry. Wesakechak is tricked by this jealous spirit, who tries to drown him during a spring flood. Jackfish, Goose and Beaver come to the aid of their friend who has helped them in the past.
12 minutes
