Established 2015
The Montana Film Festival began at the Roxy Theater in 2015, the brainchild of visionary duo Andrew Rizzo and Aaron Roos. From the start, MTFF has been committed to screening independent films from all over the world, with a special focus on Montana’s cinematic past, present, and future. Now under the artistic stewardship of Roxy programming director Mike Emmons, MTFF has continued to celebrate the most innovative, uncompromised, and powerful films the medium has to offer, while introducing scores of filmmakers to the natural beauty–and surplus of talent–that Montana has to offer.
Previous Festivals
For more than a decade, MTFF has welcomed filmmakers and other special guests to Missoula. These guests include Lily Gladstone, Charles Burnett, Bill Pullman, Sophia Takal, Anna Camp, Toby Poser, Vera Drew, J.D. Shields, Frances Chewning, Mya Taylor, Harris Dickinson, Sarah Adina Smith, Emily Hubley, Wendy McColm, Kenneth Turan, Neal Block, Andrew and Alex Smith, Annick Smith, Vera Brunner-Sung, Krisha Fairchild, and more.
Past titles which had their Montana premieres at MTFF include: Shiva Baby, Cowboys, Thunder Road, Tangerine, Mandy, Certain Women, Wildlife, Montana Story, The Unknown Country, Bitterbrush, Quantum Cowboys, The Power of the Dog, The People’s Joker, Fancy Dance, Bitterroot, Rap World, and Eephus.
Good Times at MTFF
