FilmWest

12/08/2020

Entertainment | Video | Yellowstone National Park "Yellowstone" TV series to move entire production to Montana beginning this month August 08, 2020 Photo Courtesy of Paramount Network (https://www.paramountnetwork.com/) MISSOULA -- The hit television series "Yellowstone" featuring Kevin Costner will...

02/05/2019

University of Montana

We had a blast producing this short doc for the Missoula Economic Partnership about Taylor McDermott and her inspiring journey to the University of Montana and beyond.

Taylor McDermott, a 2017 UM alumna from rural Forsyth, Montana, finds herself as a strategy and corporate development consultant for ATG in Missoula. She credits UM for her journey to becoming a young leader in the tech world.

08/12/2018

Missoula nonprofit wins $1M grant from Facebook founder Zuckerberg, Rockefeller Foundation

We are so proud to have produced the short documentary that helped our friends at MoFi win this 1 million dollar grant from the Zuckerberg and Rockefeller Foundations!
http://missoulian.com/news/local/article_7aa99086-09ba-5697-94c1-a06b3a261ce9.html

The poorest people in any community in America face systemic obstacles to breaking out of poverty, including a lack of job-attainment necessities like dress clothes, interviewing skills and resume-building.

09/11/2018

The Bug Movie

This was a blast.

Take a ride with Ewan McGregor in his beetle! Enjoy these excerpts from the film. https://vimeo.com/299772148 Watch the full movie on iTunes or https://chassy.com/product/the-bug/

23/07/2017

Our economic future depends on storytellers

This is a great article on the bright future of the storytelling economy: https://qz.com/1030774/our-economic-future-depends-on-storytellers/

If you consider yourself a storyteller, your future looks bright.

25/05/2017

Upstanders

Really happy to be working on the new season of "Upstanders" with Starbucks. Check out the powerful storytelling using the documentary form. https://upstanders.starbucks.com

Upstanders is an original collection of short stories, films and podcasts sharing the experiences of Upstanders – ordinary people doing extraordinary things to create positive change in their communities. Produced by Howard Schultz and Rajiv Chandrasekaran, the Upstanders series helps inspire us to…

21/04/2017

FilmWest - Video Production - Missoula, Montana

Really happy to launch our new website and reel today. Check it out: https://www.filmwest.org/

FilmWest is an award-winning film and video production studio based in Missoula, Montana. For more than 20 years we've developed our craft and visual artistry.

21/04/2017

FilmWest's cover photo

16/04/2017

Aerial Cinematography Reel

Check out our new aerial cinematography reel: https://vimeo.com/213388340

Sometimes to get the right shot, you need to get high. Whether we are shooting from a helicopter or using a drone, we love the creative freedom that aerial cinematography…

27/02/2017

Montana State Fund - Young Workers at Montana Conservation Corps

We're really proud of this piece we produced in conjunction with PartnersCreative for the Montana State Fund about young workers working safely at the Montana Conservation Corps. Check it out.
https://vimeo.com/189222922

This is "Montana State Fund - Young Workers at Montana Conservation Corps" by Firewater Film Company on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the…

13/02/2017

2017 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival Trailer

This is going to be an amazing year at the Big Sky Doc Fest. Check out the amazing trailer for a sneak peek: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wbzyjqn_qes

Big Sky Documentary Film Festival February 17-26, 2017 More info at bigskyfilmfest.org

01/02/2017

The 10 best movies we saw at Sundance 2017

Congrats to Alex Smith and Andrew Smith for killing it at Sundance this year with "Walking Out." https://www.timeout.com/newyork/blog/the-10-best-movies-we-saw-at-sundance-2017-013017

For three years running, the Sundance Film Festival has provided me with my list-topping favorites—the ones I've hung onto for months.

21/12/2016

Martin Scorsese: 'Cinema is gone'

Martin Scorsese: 'Cinema is gone' (from ) http://bigstory.ap.org/931d13ebfb6245e0b00169d7447208d2

NEW YORK (AP) — Martin Scorsese's Manhattan office, in a midtown building a few blocks northwest of the cordoned-off Trump Tower, may be the most concentrated bastion of reverence for cinema on the face of the earth. There's…

19/08/2016

Inside the Mind of Werner Herzog, Luddite Master of the Internet

Werner Herzog: No selfies, no facebook, no cell phone. A personal hero.
http://www.wired.com/2016/07/warner-herzog-lo-and-behold/

What happens when the legendary German director is hired to make a promotional film about the Internet? You get a true document of the modern age.

19/08/2016

It's fair to say we are obsessed with these desolate ribbons of tarmac leading to the unknown.

04/08/2016

The Bus Movie

The Bus Movie

This would be pretty amazing: http://jalopnik.com/tesla-may-call-its-new-van-a-spacebus-1784656419

14/07/2016

James Cameron sells NZ

https://www.facebook.com/deny.staggs/posts/10100316553971181

Avatar director James Cameron says you can't beat New Zealand.

10/07/2016

By data mining a vast collection of novels, researchers have identified the six basic plots that...

By data mining a vast collection of novels, researchers have identified the six basic plots that...

Scientists at the Computational Story Laboratory have identified the six emotional arcs that form the building blocks of all stories.

08/07/2016

Ad of the Day: Ewan McGregor Waxes Poetic on Human Achievement for Cisco

Great ad. Our buddy Ewan McGregor is a glass half-full type of guy!
http://www.adweek.com/news/advertising-branding/ad-day-ewan-mcgregor-waxes-poetic-human-achievement-cisco-172080

Most readers probably won't know that Cisco is responsible for all of human evolution, past, present and future. But the argument almost seems convincing when delivered by Ewan McGregor.

21/06/2016

Why filmmaker David Lynch says Transcendental Meditation is the secret to success

http://www.latimes.com/health/la-he-0604-david-lynch-talks-transcendental-meditation-20160531-snap-story.html

David Lynch says he hasn’t missed a day of Transcendental Meditation since he started practicing it 43 years ago.

01/04/2016

50 documentaries you need to see

http://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/mar/27/50-best-documentaries-alex-gibney-joshua-oppenheimer-james-marsh

Ten of the best nonfiction film-makers today choose their own favourites, from serial killer stories to meta pranks.

27/03/2016

Stanley Kubrick : The Lost Tapes (Full Documentary)

Stanley Kubrick : The Lost Tapes (Full Documentary)

A short documentary about the early life and feature films of the great Stanley Kubrick, as narrated by himself. The narration was pulled from interviews tha...

27/03/2016

22 Inspiring Spike Lee Quotes About Filmmaking

http://flavorwire.com/566606/22-inspiring-spike-lee-quotes-about-filmmaking

Chi-Raq and Malcolm X director Spike Lee celebrates his birthday today. Lee’s career has been dedicated to exposing the uncomfortable truths about America’s race struggles, politics, and more…

23/03/2016

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03/03/2016

Our Storry

Firewater recently produced this fun short film for Missoula Federal Credit Union celebrating their 60 years in Missoula. Check it out!
https://vimeo.com/157493965

Founded in 1956 right here in Missoula, Montana, we’re a credit union with deep roots and clear values. This great community is built into the fiber of our…

21/01/2016

The Bug | Big Sky Documentary Film Festival

Very happy to be screening our new film here next month!
http://www.bigskyfilmfest.org/festival/films-2016-peak/bug/c

The Big Sky Documentary Film Festival celebrates the art of nonfiction film by giving voice to the powerful ideas that come forth in documentary. The festival is an important international platform, blending our inspiring Rocky Mountain setting with filmmaking of exceptional merit and artistic innov…

21/01/2015

Public Domain

Great FREE resource for public domain footage.

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08/01/2015

Live Riveted

We were happy to provide footage for Airstream's "Live Riveted" video!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzY56azD1aI&feature=youtu.be

Doing. Being. Seeing. Experiencing. Overcoming. Loving. Risking. Living riveted is about discovery. It's the exploration not only of places and spaces, but a...

21/11/2014

Open season

http://missoulanews.bigskypress.com/missoula/open-season/Content?oid=2100557

The U.S. Forest Service has waltzed into a political minefield over its requirement that journalists and commercial photographers obtain permits in order to shoot pictures...

01/10/2014

GARDEN OF ONE THOUSAND BUDDHAS

It was kind of a stormy day yesterday at the Ewam Garden of One Thousand Buddhas. Shot some test footage with the new GoPro-carrying quadcopter: https://vimeo.com/107755386

Shot with DJI Phantom 2 GoPro 3 1080x1920 24 fps

25/03/2014

Beyond Jodorowsky’s Dune: 10 greatest movies never made

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20140323-the-10-greatest-movies-never-made

Jodorowsky’s Dune depicts how the sci-fi novel’s first film adaptation fell apart. Christian Blauvelt picks other unrealised movies that are equally fascinating