Butte Magic of Ignorance is a film about genealogy, about the search for an ancestor, and
about Butte, Montana, a city built atop a mountain of copper. It is a silent film with radio
soundtrack.
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You can see the original 98 minute version as streaming video
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Read what the
Montana Standard had to say about the movie!
Noel Holston,
television writer for the Minneapolis Star Tribune, recently mentioned the movie in his
column.
Watch this space for more information on upcoming
screenings, or buy a copy.
The film is a production of Neversweat Films, which is the team of Rob Price and John Akre.
Pre-production planning began years ago, and the first script
was written in near-Exquisite Corpse fashion by Akre and Price through
e-mail. Filming took place
in Butte and Bozeman, Montana during the first two weeks of August
1999. The film was edited on a home computer with an inexpensive firewire
card and lots of fast hard drive storage. The first cut was finished
in early October. The producers are now seeking
exhibition for the film and entering it in festivals.
The world premiere showing of Butte Magic of Ignorance
was held on Wednesday December 8, 1999.
It was also screened at the Irish Times Pub in
Uptown Butte a couple times
around St. Patrick's Day 2000, and at the Acadia Coffee shop
in Minneapolis in August.
We had a Butte gala screening on June 8, 2001 at the auditorium of Montana Tech, and a
Minneapolis gala screening on July 22, 2001 at the Heights Theatre.
The cast of the film
Mary Charlotte Farmer......Irene
Dan Akre.......Frank
Kristine Harley.......Emily
Dan Glenn.......Irene's boyfriend
Megan Shaw.......a friend
The film features music by
The Sandwiches,
Own, Skyward, and The Los Hermanos Brothers.
Total Running Time: 88 minutes
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