Produced by:
Jennifer Roth
Scott McGehee
Davd Siegel

Starring:
Haley Lu Richardson (Unpregnant, Columbus, Five Feet Apart)
Owen Teague (The Stand, Mrs. Fletcher)
Gilbert Owuor (Reprisal)
Kimberly Guerrero (The Glorias)
Eugene Brave Rock (Wonder Woman)
Asivak Koostachin (Red Snow)

“Montana Story evokes a grandiose style of American frontier filmmaking, somewhere between John Ford and Kelly Reichardt... See it on the largest screen you can find.” 
– CHANDLER LEVACK, The Globe and Mail

"Intimate pain on an epic canvas."

"Led by performances of heart-searing sensitivity from Haley Lu Richardson and Owen Teague."

"McGehee and Siegel's ability to fill those vast distances with intimate drama that never loosens its hold yields a film whose visual artistry is matched by its depth of feeling." 
– DAVID ROONEY, The Hollywood Reporter

 

DIRECTORS' STATEMENT
"Montana Story was written over three or four weeks last July, by the far the shortest incubation
we’ve ever experienced for a feature script. It emerged from a period of anxiety, sadness,
and frustration that will always be unforgettable, and in some ways precious.

Until our first location scout in mid September, we had never set foot in the state of Montana.
Like many, we spent the early days of the COVID lockdown escaping into fantasies of
American cinema past: resplendent, fevered studio movies like Hud and Home from the Hill.
We’d always wanted to make a western, and the Montana of our movie is its own kind of
American fantasy, cooked up in isolation—and catalyzed by the sobering truths of our own time.

Despite the many restrictions placed on the production, we were able to make this movie with a close family of collaborators, including our longtime friend and director of photography,
Giles Nuttgens, and our (literal and figurative) sister, Kelly McGehee, who did the production design.
It was only fitting for a movie so steeped in the lore of family. For us, this film is about courage,
and responsibility. And trust. The question of what we owe each other— what we can possibly expect of the people we love—and how to take account when those contracts are broken, whether between two people or between people and the land itself.

In our imaginations, as we wrote, Montana was a kind of vision or myth, one of the most beautiful
places we’d never been. And the reality of the place never let us down. We hope you find something equally stirring reflected back to you from our story."

— David and Scott