Banff Mountain Film Festival returns to the Panida
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Since 1995, the Panida Theater has been the local home of the Banff Mountain Film Festival, which last year expanded for the first time to …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Since 1995, the Panida Theater has been the local home of the Banff Mountain Film Festival, which last year expanded for the first time to …
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey
Reader Staff
In one of the trailers for Emelie Mahdavian’s 2021 documentary Bitterbrush, Hollyn Patterson works with a colt as her fellow range rider, Colie Moline, …
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
There are some films you probably don’t want to watch before embarking on a long airplane trip. Downfall: The Case Against Boeing should be right …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
From the grassroots organization that brought Idahoans the successful ballot initiative to expand Medicaid in the state comes a documentary film about that 2018 effort, …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Digging through the Reader morgue, I found the obituary of sorts we wrote for Kurt Vonnegut in the April 12, 2007 edition — one day …
By Jim Healey
Reader Contributor
On Friday, Oct. 4, the documentary film RBG about the extraordinary U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is coming to the Panida Theater. The …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
Few things empower a person like being given the tools and confidence to tell their story.
The Johnson-O’Malley film program strives to do just that …
By Cameron Rasmusson
Reader Staff
It doesn’t matter the country or culture: Human and sex trafficking exists everywhere, and it leaves human suffering in its wake.
That’s the message of …
By Cameron Rasmusson
Reader Staff
In 2010, Anita Hill received a strange voice mail.
It was from Virginia Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, whom Hill had accused …
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