Showing Coming Friday, February 19th—2010 Academy-Award Nominated Short Films
7pm - Live-Action Shorts Program
9pm - Animated Shorts Program
$7/one program or $10/both programs.

Enjoy a special evening out and a chance to win an Oscars Gift Package from The Bozone and the Bozeman Film Festival! Pick the 2010 Academy-Award winners in the Bozone’s Annual Oscars contest. Look for your ballot in The Bozone. The Awards will be televised March, 7th.

Categories are Best Actor & Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor & Best Supporting Actress, Best Director, Best Film and the bonus categories of Best Animated Short & Best Live-Action Short. Winners prizes include dinner for 2 at Main Street's newest, most fabulous eatery Blackbird Kitchen and a Make-Over at Indulgence!

Remember- the only way to see the Oscar Short Film Entries is to come to the Bozeman Film Festival screening on February 19th. The most refreshingly imaginative, witty and intelligent short films from around the Globe comprise this annual collection of Short Films. Always a crowd-pleaser, the 2010 Collection is no different-or completely different - and that’s the point. This Double-Feature evening will include 5 Live-Action and 5 Animated Short films.

Come early and enjoy Food and drink at Emerson Grill North. Owner, Robin Chopus, is generously donating 20% of EGN's proceed to the BFF. Tell her you're going to the Academy Shorts Films in her main restaurant, The Emerson Grill, and she'll donate 20% to the BFF, as well. Thanks, Robin!

Tickets available at Cactus Record and day of show 1 hour before screening in Emerson Lobby.

More information and previews on the official web site.

Big Sky Documentary Film Festival
February 12 - 21, 2010 in Missoula

This is not offiliated with the Bozeman Film Festival, and it is in Missoula but we thought you might be interested.

Culled from 1000 entries, the ten-day event, which will be held at the historic Wilma Theatre in downtown Missoula, features 130 short and feature length non-fiction films from over thirty countries.

Special features at this years event include Indigenous Visions: Films By Native American Filmmakers. a retrospective of films by prolific filmmaker Doug Pray (Art & Copy, Scratch, Hype!), a presentation of ephemeral documentary shorts by archivist Rick Prelinger, and live musical accompaniment to Dziga Vertov’s Soviet propaganda classic Man With A Movie Camera (1929), performed by Alloy Orchestra.

Along with parties, receptions, panel discussions, industry events and filmmaker visits to area high schools and university classrooms, the festival anticipates an audience of 10,000 for this year’s event.

See official selections and more information on their web site.

Fall/Winter 2009 Film Schedule - Bozeman Film Festival

Thursday 1/28/2010
Food, Inc. (Robert Kenner) 94 min - 7:00 PM
Sponsored by the Coop

Friday 2/19/2010
Academy Award Nominated Shorts
Double Feature
Live-Action Shorts Program at 7:00 PM &
Animation Shorts Program at 9:00 PM

Thursday 3/18/2010
Where The DJ's Roam - 6:30 PM
Broken Embraces (Pedro Almodovar) Spain - 8:00 PM

Films to watch for at the Mall's Hollywood Theater

Hollywood Theaters is bringing Crazy Love w/Golden Globe Winner Jeff Bridges on 02/02/10.

Prices and Membership Information

• $7 - General Admission
• $6 - Emerson Center member or Museum of the Rockies member
• $5 - Students and Seniors

Two Membership Options

Cheap Seat Discount Pass
The pass costs $30 and includes admission to 6 BFF movies bringing the price down to $5 per film. There is no expiration date.

Patron Passes
The Bozeman Film Festival and Montana Ale Works have teamed up to offer a great deal. Purchase a BFF Patron Pass for $100 and receive a $25 gift certificate to Montana Ale Works.

Patron Pass holders also receive fabulous year-round benefits from Over the Tapas ($4 off food tab over $20 on Monday or Tuesday nights), Borders Books (20% off 1 book or CD per visit with a free Borders Reward Card) and The Emerson Grill (1 free appetizer with purchase of 2 dinners Monday – Thursday evenings).

Patron Passes are valid for one year from the date of purchase and entitle the holder and a guest to admission to all regular BFF movies and reduced admission to Partner Films.

Purchase a Patron Pass by mailing a check made out to the Bozeman Film Festival to:

Bozeman Film Festival
Emerson Center for the Arts
111 S Grand Ave, Suite 112
Bozeman, MT 59715

Be sure to include the name, address, and email address of the pass holder. Passes can also be purchased at any BFF movie. For more information, please call 585.8881.

Keep 'Em Flickering!

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BoZone, Bozeman Daily Chronicle, Mint Dentistry, Emerson Center for the Arts, Eco Auto, Montana Ale Works, Indulgence, McGuire & Associates Accounting, Gillette Law Firm, Comma-Q Architecture, Plonk, Martell Consulting and Organizational Research, Erotique, Mountain Home Vacation Rental

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As a non-profit organization, Bozeman Film Festival has brought quality independent and foreign films to Southwest Montana since 1978. For over 31 years BFF has been a mainstay in Bozeman's cultural community providing a cinematic venue year around. Today, we still strive to seek out and present those films and documentaries which engage, entertain, and foster an understanding of the world community around us. Keep em Flickering!

Bozeman Film Festival Board Members:
Lisa McGrory, Paula Mozen, Bill Neff, Brenda Papera, Melissa Richey, Michael McGough, Ron Gompertz, Billy Costigan, Paula Posey and Jeff van den Noort.