Green Door Gallery will host a special screening event featuring I Am Still Here on Thursday, February 13th. The documentary short film by Cynthia Matty Huber was named Best Documentary at the 2019 New York State International Film Festival. The screening event begins at 7pm.
For almost 92 years, John Hoiland has lived at ‘The Home Place,’ a modest house situated on over 900 acres of land in Montana. He’s watched the world change as he clung to the only way of life he knows. Fascinated by the rugged Montana landscape and the harsh lifestyle that ranching entails, Huber and her team spent a year documenting the elderly cattle rancher. His story is one rooted in a deep connection to the land, his family and a bygone era. I Am Still Here begins to tell John’s story.
“Hoiland is a living icon of a time when ranching thrived,” she says. “His story is one rooted in a deep connection to the land, his family and a bygone era.”
A native of New Hampshire, Huber discovered early on a love for photography and film. She particularly enjoyed human interest stories that laid bare the diversities of people’s experiences, and celebrated their triumphs in life. Not content just to admire, she wanted to make films. To that end, she obtained a BA in film and Photography and will finish her MFA in Film/Science Filmmaking from Montana State University this spring. In addition to her work on an aging ranger, she’s currently working on a film that documents a paleontologist who stares down critics in her hunt for dinosaur proteins and a film that follows a family of Maine lobstermen.
Green Door Gallery is located at 120 N Main. Learn more about the space by visiting www.wheatgrasssaloon.com. •