In the 1920s, Angela Murray Gibson chose an unusual location to embark on a career in silent filmmaking: her tiny hometown of Casselton, North Dakota. She had previously helped Mary Pickford as an advisor and assistant director on The Pride of the Clan (1917), which Mary Pickford produced and starred in. She opened North Dakota's first movie studio, and she had the audacity to be a woman in an industry dominated by men.
Mike Scholtz is a documentary filmmaker based in northern Minnesota. His first film, Wild Bill's Run, circled the globe on the Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour. His second film, Wicker Kittens, premiered at SXSW. His most recent film, Lost Conquest, debuted at IFFBoston. He also helped establish the world's first film-festival-in-a-barn, the Free Range Film Festival, near Duluth, Minnesota.
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