BRING THEM HOME with Ivy MacDonald
BRING THEM HOME writer/director IVY MACDONALD will visit The Ross on Friday, September 12 for a Q&A with the audience following the 7:30 p.m. opening night screening. MacDonald will also visit the Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts for the IGNITE Colloquium earlier in the day (details coming soon).
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 and broadcast nationally on Showtime. 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.
BRING THEM HOME
SHOWING SEPTEMBER 12-25
DIRECTED BY Ivan and Ivy MacDonald
with Daniel Glick
Narrated by Lily Gladstone, Bring Them Home/Aiskótáhkapiyaaya chronicles a decades-long initiative by members of the Blackfoot Confederacy to bring wild buffalo (Blackfeet: iinnii) back to the Blackfeet Reservation. A thriving wild buffalo population would not only reconnect Blackfeet with a central part of their heritage, spirituality, and identity but would also provide economic opportunities and healing for the community. Along the way, however, the initiative faces obstacles from ranchers who see the buffalo as a threat to the cattle ranches that dominate the land and are a legacy of colonization. More info…
