Trail Listening Post

Emmy Award winning documentary filmmaker Eric Becker stopped by the Morning Trail for a ten minute interview that both of us hijacked at various times to cover everything from this evening's showing of Return To Mount Kennedy (Wednesday 6 p.m. at MCT) to Eddie Vedder's involvement to Eric's claim he can't complete a single pull-up. A raucous good time. 

In 1997, Mr. Wash was given a mandatory life sentence for a non-violent drug offense, and in 2016 was freed by President Barack Obama. While incarcerated he taught himself how to paint, detailing the stories around him. “Mr. Wash” follows his return home, making the case for creativity as an optimistic force against the backdrop of America’s broken criminal justice system.

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Assembled from over 10 years of footage, Markie in Milwaukee tells the story of a midwestern transgender woman as she struggles with the prospect of de-transitioning under the pressures of her fundamentalist church, family and community.

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Fifty years after a flood ravaged his community and killed his parents and sister, Butch New Breast returns to the Blackfeet Reservation “to see if I can still get that old feeling, like I am Blackfeet.”Tickets & Showtimes here --> here

Filmmaker Emily Thomas and her husband John Toner stopped by the Morning Trail to talk about her film Blessings Of Liberty.

Before the chain joined with KFC in 1969, Salt's Fish & Chips had over 500 locations throughout the United States. This story follows the strange tale of forgotten fish & chips legend, Haddon Salt. 

Jesse Alk, director of the film Pariah Dog, joins Alanya to discuss his poetic documentary focusing on several eccentric street dog caretakers in Kolkata, India. Shot over three years, the film paints a kaleidoscopic picture of the city of Kolkata, seen through the prism of four outsiders and the dogs they love. Tickets & Showtimes --> here

A free ranging interview with the director, Drew Nicholas, and one of the subjects, Sandy White Hawk, of the film Blood Memory. Battles over blood quantum and ‘best interests’ resurface in the untold history of America’s Indian Adoption Era - a time when nearly one-third of children were removed from tribal communities nationwide. As political scrutiny over Indian child welfare intensifies, an adoption survivor (Sandy White Hawk) helps others find their way home through song and ceremony. Blood Memory shows Monday at 1:30 at MCT. Tickets & showtimes --> here

Matt Devlin of the Montana Fishing Film Festival stopped by to talk about Saturday's get together at the Dennison Theater on the UM campus. Always a treat to have Matt in the studio because our conversation tends to wander around wonderfully. 

A very impressive upcoming gig for the Big Sky High School Jazz Band. The student musicians will play the Kennedy Center For The Performing Arts in Washington D.C. this April. That, of course, takes money and that, of course, means a fund raiser. Students Sierra Cornwell, Grace Daniel, Ethan Boehner and Hattie Stevens joined me on the Morning Trail Thursday, February 14th to talk about the trip and the Blue Note Cafe.