Library and Wild Montana Present ‘Bring them Home,’ April 30th at Lewis & Clark Interpretive Center

The Great Falls Public Library, in conjunction with Wild Montana, welcomes the co-creators of 'Bring them Home,' on Wednesday, April 30 from 6 to 7:30 pm in this free showing of their film at the Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center, located at 4201 Giant Springs Rd in Great Falls. Co-directors Ivy and Ivan MacDonald and Daniel Glick, will answer questions in a Q&A session both before and after the showing of the film! Bring Them Home tells the story of a small group of Blackfoot people and their mission to establish the first wild buffalo herd on their ancestral territory since the species’ near-extinction a century ago, an act that would restore the land, re-enliven traditional culture and bring much needed healing to their community. Narrated by Academy Award-nominated Blackfeet / Nez Perce actor Lily Gladstone, this film won the 2024 Big Sky Award at the Big Sky Film Festival and also won the 2024 Best Score award at the Nevada City Film Festival. Ivan MacDonald (Blackfeet) is an Emmy winning filmmaker based in Montana. His most recent project Murder in Bighorn premiered at the 2023 Sundance film festival aired nationally on Showtime. It was recently nominated for an independent spirit award. He is an inaugural fellow for the Netflix and Illuminative Producers Fellowship, and is also inaugural recipient of the Hulu and Firelight Kindling Fund. Ivy MacDonald (Blackfeet) is a director, producer, screenplay writer and cinematographer based in Montana. She won an Emmy for her producing work on Blackfeet Boxing: Not Invisible for ESPN and her first docuseries Murder in Big Horn, which she produced, premiered at 2023 Sundance Film Festival. She was a part of the Fourth World Media Fellow for Tracey Rector’s indigenous filmmaker program and is currently a part of the Firelight Media Documentary Lab. Daniel Glick has directed and produced a wide range of narrative and documentary shorts, commercials, web series and more. His first feature documentary film, A Place to Stand (2016), told the true story of poet Jimmy Santiago Baca. In 2016, he completed Our Last Refuge which tells the story of the Badger-Two Medicine, the sacred homeland of the Blackfeet, and the 35-year struggle to protect it from oil and gas exploration. It was this film that led him to connect with the Blackfeet Buffalo Program. For more information, contact Jake Sorich at jsorich@greatfallslibrary.org or 406-453-0349 ex. 220.