Understanding Wildlife Cinema
7:00 PM     Missoula Public Library

Understanding Wildlife Cinema

            Do you watch nature shows? Learn how to identify and critique the techniques used in creating wildlife films when Missoula Public Library hosts “Understanding Wildlife Cinema” with Walter Metz of the Department of Media and Theatre Arts at Montana State University in Bozeman. The free program is Thursday, May 8, at 7 p.m.

Metz teaches wildlife filmmakers how and why to reinvent the wildlife film, many of which are filmed in Montana and the intermountain West. His talk will include analyses of a variety of wildlife programs from the films of “Shark Week” to “Alien Planet.” Metz’s talk is part of the Humanities Montana Speakers Bureau and is sponsored by Humanities Montana, with partial funding provided by a legislative grant from Montana’s Cultural Trust and from NEH’s “We the People” program.

If anyone attending these programs needs special assistance, please provide advance notice by calling 721-BOOK (2665). The Missoula Public Library is located at 301 East Main Street. For more information on future library programs, call the library or visit www.missoulapubliclibrary.org.