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Tonight, at 6:30 p.m. at the Hays/Lodge Pole High School, there will be a screening of the award-winning film Looking Forward From Yesterday: Fighting for Our Culture produced by Harlem High School students with generous support from Harlem High School, Montana Gear Up, MAPS Media Institute, and the Greater Montana Foundation. The documentary film will […]

A number of Harlem High School students have come together in an extracurricular group, Milk River Productions, for the past couple of years making student films, most recently releasing the film “Looking Forward From Yesterday.” A documentary made by a group of Harlem High School students is on its way to two film festivals. “Looking

Ordinarily, news of a couple of Montana-made films’ acceptance to a Montana film festival might not be so newsworthy. But when the films were created by students of two different Indian reservations under the auspices of an award-winning media arts program, and when the festival is the largest of its kind in the American West

The film “A Day to Remember,” created by students in the Lake County MAPS Media Institute program, has been selected to screen at the eighth annual Flathead Lake International Cinemafest this week. MAPS is a free-of-charge media arts program that serves students in grades 8 to 12. Classes include graphic design, music production, new technologies

A chance for students to use state-of-the-art Apple iMacs and software and take classes in filmmaking and graphic design — all at no cost. Hard to believe — but it’s true. MAPS — Lewis & Clark County just opened the doors of its new media lab in the Holter Museum of Art, and it’s ready

They’re 140 miles apart and from two different areas of the creative spectrum, but Browning High School’s poetry club and the Art for Survival group at Helena’s Holter Museum of Art have a lot in common. Both groups serve high school students by helping them find creative expression. Both groups hosted the MAPS Media Institute

If a 16th birthday can be considered the threshold between adolescence and adulthood, between the formative years and emerging maturity, then the MAPS Media Institute, as it prepares for its 16th year of operation, is coming of age in a big way. The mission of MAPS is to empower, inspire and prepare Montana’s next generation

Representing the MAPS Media Institute out of Hamilton, “Browning Rising Voices” and “Art for Survival” tied in the Short Form Non-Fiction category, while Browning’s “Aisitsimsta/Imagination” earned the Short Form Fiction award, according to a press release. The Montana groups earned awards among a record number of entries in the High School Student Production competition from

RONAN — On Thursday, May 23, at 6 pm, the MAPS-Lake County Film Class will present a screening of their film A Day to Remember at the Boys & Girls Club of the Flathead Reservation and Lake County. A question and answer talkback with the student filmmakers will immediately follow the screening. Here’s the basic

Come see the premiere showing of the new short film made in East Helena by the fabulous teen filmmakers, working with MAPS Media Institute. It’s a great story–moving, sweet, with some gorgeous shots. Meet the filmmakers, hear a fun talkback. With live music by Blinded. Snacks & treats after. Bring the whole family! Proceeds from