Arid Lands in Montana
This month’s Big Sky Film Series takes us into a world of sports fishermen, tattoo artists, housing developers, ecologists, and radiation scientists living and working in the Columbia Basin of south-eastern Washington State. Arid Lands tells the story of how these people changed the landscape over time, and how the landscape affected their lives. Sixty years ago, the Hanford nuclear site produced plutonium for the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, and today the area is the focus of the largest environmental cleanup in history. It is a landscape of incredible contradictions. Coyotes roam among decommissioned nuclear reactors, salmon spawn in the middle of golf courses, wine grapes grow in the sagebrush, and federal clean-up dollars spur rapid urban expansion. Following the screening there will be a Q and A with Arid Lands Director, Josh Wallaert.
The Big Sky Film Series is a periodic monthly screening series highlighting traditional and innovative non-fiction film and video. It is held the first Friday of the month as part of down town Missoula, Montana’s “Art Walk.” All screenings are held in the Historic Wilma Theatre (Wilma 3 downstairs) and are free and open to the public.
Tuesday 17 Jul 2007 | Paul | Film Festivals and Events, New and Upcoming Films
