Celebrating BAVC Media at Big Sky 2026
Entering its 23rd year, the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival remains a vital platform for non-fiction filmmaking in the American West and is an Academy Award-qualifying festival for short documentaries. The 2026 festival runs February 13-22, and we’re thrilled to be celebrating a strong lineup of films from the BAVC Media community. These projects span a wide range of stories and perspectives.
Read on to learn more about the films and find details on showtimes and tickets.
Wood Street *World Premiere*
Directed by Caron Creighton (2024 BAVC MediaMaker Fellowship project)
ANIKOOBIJIGAN [ancestor / great-grandparent / great-grandchild]
Directed by Zack Khalil, Adam Khalil (2021 BAVC MediaMaker Fellowship project)
Flood
Directed by Katy Scoggin (2019 BAVC MediaMaker Fellowship project)
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Seeds
Directed by Brittany Shyne (2019 BAVC MediaMaker Fellowship project)
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Traces of Home
Directed by Colette Ghunim (2020 BAVC MediaMaker Fellowship project)
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Directed by Hao Zhou (2025 BAVC MediaMaker Fellow)
Paving the Way
Produced by Ivan MacDonald (2024 BAVC MediaMaker Fellow)
True North
Directed by Michèle Stephenson (BAVC Producers Institute 2011)
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Stray Embers *World Premiere*
Editor, composer & co-producer, Daniel Freeman (VERSED instructor)
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Big Sky Pitch: OrquÃdeaÂ
Directed by Emily Cohen Ibañez (2017 BAVC MediaMaker Fellow)
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DOCSHOP: Indigenous Impact Alliance: A New Collective Strategic Model
Paige Bethmann, REMAINING NATIVE (2023 BAVC MediaMaker Fellow)
