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The Big Sky Documentary Film Festival is held annually in Missoula, Montana and is one of the most prestigious documentary film festivals in the US.  It runs from February 14th to February 23rd this year.  

Helen and the Bear screens at this festival this year and has already received acclaim at several other festivals, including winning Best Documentary Editing at the Nashville Film Festival.  

Synopsis:  A rebellious young woman marries a prominent Republican politician twenty-six years older than her. Decades later, anticipating his death, she wrestles with their marriage, her sexuality, and a life spent by his side.

It's the 25 year anniversary for Memento, which is now available on Amazon Prime.

The film was given a budget of $4.5 Million after an executive at Newmarket Films read the script and called it "perhaps the most innovative scripts I had ever seen".  After its release, the indie film gained substantial word-of-mouth press from the festival circuit, but never secured a distributor.  Newmarket would distribute the film itself and it would go on to earn $25 Million domestically.  

Synopsis:  Leonard Shelby, an insurance investigator, suffers from anterograde amnesia and uses notes and tattoos to hunt for the man he thinks killed his wife, which is the last thing he remembers.

The film is available to stream on  Amazon Prime