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MSU grad’s film headlines Big Sky Documentary Film Festival
February 24, 2021
by Carol Schmidt, MSU News Service
BOZEMAN – A documentary made by a Montana State University film graduate about 21 young people seeking legal relief for their claims that government harm has violated their constitutional rights and created the climate crisis will be the centerpiece film of the virtual 2021 Big Sky Documentary Festival, Feb. 19–28.
“YOUTH v GOV,” a feature-length documentary by Christi Cooper, will be available to stream from the festival’s website Feb. 24–27. A live Q&A with Cooper, a graduate of MSU’s Master of Fine Art in Science and Natural History Filmmaking program, will be online at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 24.
Rose-Walters Prize Recipients
2020: Armond Cohen, the founder and executive director of the Clean Air Task Force (CATF), a leading force in reducing air pollution and climate pollutants from the nation’s power plants, industries and cars and trucks since its founding in 1996.
2019: The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), an international environmental advocacy organization, for work defending America’s wildlands, including the Arctic National Refuge, Bristol Bay in Alaska, and the monuments of the West.
2018: Our Children s Trust, a nonprofit leading a global climate recovery campaign, elevating the voice of youth those with most at stake in the climate crisis to favorably impact their futures through advocacy, public education and civic engagement.