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The TV show Yellowstone has brought a surge in tourism to Montana, but some locals feel it perpetuates misconceptions about ranching and the state's climate. Tourism due to the show's fame has led to an economic boost, with millions of visitors spending $730 million in Montana in 2021. Montana residents hope that visitors will appreciate the genuine aspects of the state beyond the show's portrayal and recognize the nuanced realities of life in Big Sky Country.

The TV show Yellowstone has been showcasing Montana's breathtaking vistas since its first episode in 2018. But does the show truly reflect the lives of Montanans, especially its ranchers? The local populace has shared their thoughts, and they're not what you might expect. When a TV series gains widespread popularity, it can offer its filming locations a surge in tourism, but sometimes at the cost of perpetuating misconceptions.

Co-created by Taylor Sheridan, Yellowstone dives into the tumultuous lives of the Dutton family,...

Yellowstone has significantly boosted Montana's tourism industry, with 2 million people visiting the state in 2021 because of the show, spending $730 million. However, Yellowstone has also led to misconceptions about Montana, as the show's portrayal of ranching as the Wild West doesn't accurately reflect modern ranching in the state. Residents have mixed feelings about Yellowstone's impact, with some appreciating the prosperity it brings but others feeling that it has given ranchers a bad name.

Yellowstone's impact on the state of Montana receives a candid response from real residents who claim the show has given their ranchers "a bad name." Co-created by Taylor Sheridan and premiered in 2018, Yellowstone primarily follows the fictional Dutton family, who own and operate the largest ranch located in the state of Montana. The show follows family conflicts at the ranch, but also bloody conflicts that break out between the bordering Broken Rock Indian Reservation and outside land developers.

The Sundance Institute has set 10 fellows for its inaugural Producers Intensive, taking place virtually from October 21-22.

The artists and projects selected on the nonfiction side are Rachel Dickinson (Let the Little Light Shine), Alba Jaramillo (La Flaca), Rajeswari Ramanathan (The 1980 Civil Case), Chris Renteria (Chain of Rocks) and Shannon Sun-Higginson (You Lucky You Got a Mamma). Those chosen for the Fiction fellowship are Beverley Gordon (Experience), Lauren López de Victoria (forward), Breanne Thomas (In the Jackpot), Jesy Odio (Molokai’ Bound) and Ashley Chrisman (The Homesick).

The Producers Intensive was designed through a collaboration between Sundance’s Documentary Film and Feature Film Programs, as a means of providing creative, strategic and professional development support for emerging fiction and nonfiction producers from traditionally underrepresented communities.

The two-day program features interactive group sessions and round table conversations on topics including the producer/director collaboration, pitching, legal & business affairs, packaging and financing, and budgeting.

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What would happen if Nikki and Kim Parker from The Parkers lived in New York City? Apparently, they'd be giving us incredible dance numbers. At least, that's how dancers Sonia Allen and Tiffany Rae reimagined the popular characters in a video, courtesy of Andii Media. The clip, which was shared on Nov. 26, features Rae and Allen transforming into Kim and Nikki, respectively, as they get down to the theme song for The Parkers, as well as a special mashup of "Lose My Breath" by Destiny's Child and Missy Elliott's hits "Work It" and "All N My Grill."

Rae, who choreographed the routine, shared the video on Instagram, writing: "The Parker's In Newyork‼️ Happy thanksgiving!!

After stints in television on with Narcos and The Terror, Josef Kubota Wladyka returns to feature film with the indie thriller Catch The Fair One. Winner of the Jury Award for Best New Narrative Director at the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival for Manos sucias, Wladyka shot his latest in Buffalo back in November of 2019 with professional boxer Kali “K.O.” Reis leading the charge. The project was a Sffilm grant recipient.

Gist: After her sister’s mysterious disappearance, a Native American boxer plans her own abduction in order to find her.

Production Co./Producers: Mollye Asher, Kim Parker and Wladyka.…...

In the 1950s, independent film was just as keen to stick its nose in the atomic blender as the Hollywood big boys. Of course, budget restrictions frequently left most of the monsters wanting, be they big or small. But sometimes a shot of quirk was enough to stand apart from the Tinseltown terrors. I give you Fiend Without a Face (1958), a low budget romp content with showing less until it has to show it all, with giddy results.

Produced by British company Amalgamated Productions and distributed by MGM (in the States), Fiend was sent out on a double bill with The Haunted Strangler, a Boris Karloff vehicle. With a combined budget of 130,000 pounds, the double feature brought in domestic and international receipts of over $ 650,000 dollars, filmic diplomacy at its finest.

Filmed in Britain but taking place in Winthrop (?), Manitoba, Canada (never heard of the town, and if I haven’t drank in it,...

By Fred Burdsall

Fiend Without a Face first started out as a story that appeared in Weird Tales (possibly the best fantasy/horror fiction magazine ever) back in 1930 as “The Thought Monster” by Amelia Reynolds Long. The film’s director, Arthur Crabtree, also gave us Horrors of the Black Museum in 1959.

A lone sentry on patrol hears a crunching, slurping sound in the woods and goes to investigate. A farmer out checking on his cows in the early morning is attacked and the sentry arrives seconds later to find a dead man and no sign of the killer. Official cause of death: Heart Failure. The Air Force wants to do an autopsy but his daughter, Barbara (Kim Parker), won’t allow it and hands the body over to the local authorities.

The Adams farm comes under attack and the old couple die as horribly as Farmer Griselle did. The Air...