Big Sky Documentary Film Festival 2009

Huge numbers of abandoned homes, left vacant by foreclosure, have communities facing a new form of suburban blight.

I walked by my father’s side, hanging on to his right hand, trying to catch up on his big steps. I was about to be in Bloomfield football stadium for the first time. People, all dressed in red called my father’s name. “This is my son”, he said, a large hand stroked my hair. Next to the box office, I lost my father". A Cinematic journey to Bloomfield football stadium from a child point of view.

Filmed live at the legendary 9:30 Club in Washington, DC on October 7th 2005, Bob Mould reaches deep into his songbook for a career-spanning electric band performance. Joined onstage by Brendan Canty (Fugazi), Richard Morel (Morel), and Jason Narducy (Rockets Over Sweden), the show features Bob's compositions from Husker Du, Sugar's Copper Blue, and his most recent solo release, Body Of Song. Circle Of Friends is the first fully authorized live concert release by Bob Mould. This performance is the definitive collection for new and longtime fans alike

“How do we walk?” – Frustrated by the fallibility of his joints, an inventor employs unconventional methods to understand the mechanics of the knee.

Inspired by a dancing traffic cop in Brooklyn, NY, Body Job is a New York-paced meditation on moving on the job. The film is a profile of a scientist, farmer, and preacher, who transform their jobs with active bodies: the scientist walks on a treadmill while he works, the farmer teaches body mechanics with tools, and the preacher awes us with his physical awareness and spiritual presence.

BONECRUSHER is a moving account of the love between a father and son, and the unbreakable bond they share. They live in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains where a tight-knit community of coal miners and their families face their harsh life with a toughness and camaraderie as enduring as the earth itself.

'Boy Interrupted' is a feature-length documentary about the life, bipolar illness and suicide of Evan Perry. The film, from the point of view of his mother, director Dana Perry, describes his struggle and the effect his death had on those who loved him the most.

BRONX PRINCESS follows headstrong 17-year-old Rocky's journey as she leaves behind her mother in New York City to reunite with her father, a chief in Ghana, West Africa. Filmed during the tumultuous summer between high-school and college, BRONX PRINCESS tells Rocky's coming-of-age story. By confronting her immigrant parents' ideas of adulthood, Rocky reconciles her African heritage with her dream of independence.

Delbert, Bill, Lyman, and Roscoe Ward are illiterate bachelor brothers who never ventured beyond their 99 acre dairy farm in Central New York State. Known by their neighbors as “The Ward Boys”, they’ve shared a two-room shack with no running water or indoor toilet for as long as anyone could remember. Their quiet life was shattered June 6, 1990, when Bill was found dead in the bed he shared with Delbert. By day’s end, Delbert had confessed to suffocating the ailing Bill as an act of mercy, but the local community believed Delbert was being framed. Delbert’s subsequent retraction, the village’s fervent belief in his innocence, and the national media attention visited upon a sleepy rural community make BROTHER’S KEEPER a real-life murder mystery that examines larger social issues such as euthanasia, the plight of the aging, rural poverty and the fairness of the American justice system.