High Plains Winter:

HIGH PLAINS WINTER, 2006, is a short experimental documentary film that looks at the winter season in relation to human experience. Particular to the open high plains of Montana, and other areas of the American West, is a landscape that in its sheer scope can shrink anything of human scale. When winter settles on this landscape the subtle colors and sounds that come to life in the growing season revert to an even simpler palette, often a near monotone: white hills and blue sky. The wind blows. HIGH PLAINS WINTER is an attempt to understand what becomes of the human spirit in such a landscape and season. Through color and black and white super 8 and 16mm images of snowscapes traversed by large-scale powerlines, small strings of feeding cattle, and the occasional grain bin dotting the whiteness, humans find a way to leave traces in what very often seems an environment hostile to their existence. As people gather to watch and participate in the winter sport Ski-Joring, this act becomes another way of coping with or even celebrating, the long winter season.

HIGH PLAINS WINTER, a ten minute short film by Cindy Stillwell, will be a part of the Sundance Film Festival 2006. From there the film will screen at the International Film Festival of Rotterdam. The short is the third film in Stillwell’s “Western Trilogy.”….more about High Plains Winter

Cindy Stillwell has created award winning commercials, acting as as the producer, director, cinematographer and editor. She also edits and designs DVDs, from portfolios to training and industrials she creates simple, useful designs for companies throughout the region. Her television ad campaign for the Bozeman Community Food Co-op was awarded a Montana Addy  Bronze award. The commercials were shot in black and white super 8 film, and featured interviews with local ranchers. Stillwelll also produced a promotional sponsor ship spot for the Sonoran Institute which was broadcast on Montana PBS.  She has created educational videos for the firm Western CPE, a company who specializes in federal tax update and training for tax planners and accountants.

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