Big Sky Film Institute

The mission of the Big Sky Film Institute is to celebrate and promote the art of non-fiction filmmaking, to establish Missoula as a center of documentary film making, exhibition and criticism, and to encourage media literacy by fostering public understanding and appreciation of documentary film.

The Big Sky Film Institute (BSFI) was established to go beyond the early success of the documentary form and expand the limits of independent production, distribution, and exhibition. Our goal is to provide a successful model of production and distribution, as well as to maintain and cultivate a world-class documentary film festival that displays and promotes the best new documentaries from around the world. For the past fifteen years, the founders of BSFI have been breaking the traditional mold, producing award-winning independent films on extremely low budgets, teaching aspiring filmmakers the tools of production and distribution, and promoting the documentary art form by bringing some of the best documentary filmmakers in the world to beautiful Missoula, Montana to screen their work and meet the local audience in person.

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