Directed by Britni West | USA | 2014 | Fiction/Documentary | 76 mins
Jury Award for Narrative Feature; New Directors/New Films
Film Source: Filmmaker
Every town has a post office, lovers, guns, switchblades and beer. You just have to know where to look and when to look the other way. West’s inspired directorial debut discovers homespun poetry among the good folk of her native Kalispell, Montana. Rarely has Big Sky Country cast such a sweetly comic and tender spell. Photographed in Super 16mm and featuring a mostly non-professional cast (with the exception of indie favorite Alex Karpovsky), this is a wonderful slice of contemporary naturalism.