International Wildlife Film Festival

The International Wildlife Film Festival is a film festival held annually at the Roxy Theater in Missoula, Montana.

The International Wildlife Film Festival was "the first regular ongoing festival devoted solely to wildlife films" and this "signaled that wildlife films had arrived as a motion picture genre distinct from others".^[1] It is a juried event that lasts eight days and "involves the world's top wildlife filmmakers, producers, scientists and conservation leaders", and up to 12,000 people attend.^[2] The festival, which was "founded by internationally known bear biologist Dr. Charles Jonkel in 1977, recognizes scientific accuracy, artistic appeal, and technical excellence".^[3] Jonkel was described in 1989 as "an appropriately grizzled wildlife biologist acclaimed for his work with bears." He teaches at the University of Montana and "also heads up the Rocky Mountain Film Institute, a project of the non-profit Institute of the Rockies."^[4]

Board of directors

Occupation	Name
President	Janice Givler[5]
Vice President	Jerry Fetz
Secretary/Treasurer	Roy O'Connor
Board Member	Cooper Burchenal
Board Member	Chris Palmer
Board Member	Dan Pletscher
Board Member	Jim McKay

Staff

• Executive Director/ Festival Director- Mike Steinberg
• Director of Marketing- Chris Sand
• Director of Operations and Development- Ingrid Lovitt

References

1. Bousé, Derek (2000). Wildlife films. University of Pennsylvania Press. p. 38. ISBN 978-0-8122-1728-5.
2. Editors of Chase's Calendar of Events (2010). Chase's Calendar of Events, 2011 Edition. McGraw-Hill. pp. 261–262. ISBN 978-0-07-174026-5. {{cite book}}: |last= has generic name (help)
3. Peterson, Eric (2010). Frommer's Montana & Wyoming. Frommer's. p. 93. ISBN 978-0-470-59150-5.
4. "Film Festival Founder: Just The Right Guy". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. May 5, 1989. Retrieved May 13, 2011.
5. "About Us" Archived 2011-07-28 at the Wayback Machine. Wildlife Film Festival.

External links

• International Wildlife Film Festival official website.