Episode Nineteen - Ivan and Ivy MacDonald

The State of Montana

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Episode Nineteen - Ivan and Ivy MacDonald

Documentary Filmmakers

Russell Rowland

Apr 30, 2024

Transcript

Ivan and Ivy MacDonald are a brother and sister filmmaking team that spent most of their childhood on the Blackfeet reservation. Their first production, Blackfeet Boxing, aired on ESPN and won each of them an Emmy Award. Since then, they’ve produced Murder in Bighorn for Showtime, and Bring Them Home, a documentary about the return of the buffalo to the Blackfeet reservation, narrated by Lily Gladstone. But their biggest project, When They Were Here, a documentary about Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women that they started in grad school, will be wrapping up within the next year, and they already have a contract to air this nationally on PBS.

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The State of Montana

Montana has a long history of very complicated politics, often influenced by major corporations, as with the Copper Kings in our early history, or oil money. But we also have a strong track record of very progressive milestones, the most significant of which was the election of the first woman to ever serve in Congress, Jeanette Rankin. We also have what most constitutional historians consider one of the strongest state constitutions in the country. We have always boasted a very significant balance of power as well, but recently that has changed, and I want to understand why, and what can be done about it. So I'm going to interview some of our more high-profile citizens, not necessarily politicians, to explore this issue. My first guest will be Dorothy Bradley, who was the first woman to run for governor of the state. Dorothy just barely lost to Marc Racicot in 1992.

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