June 7, 2010: We never in a million years thought we'd win an audience award, but the awesome city of Duluth, MN and the Sound Unseen Film and Music festival just gave it to us. Thanks to Adam, Steve, Jim and the rest of the gang for having us show our film, and an extra special thanks to the city of Duluth. You folks rule.

May 20, 2010: October Country is going to be available on Netflix starting in October of this year. Add us to your queue by clicking here. By adding us, you're letting Netflix know you want them to carry the film!

April 28, 2010: We are honored to have won the Maysles Documentary competition at the 10th annual Belfast International Film Festival. Thanks to Cian Smyth and all of the members of the jury for this unexpected prize, which is, quite literally, a Belfast Sink. You can find out more about the announcement here.

April 9, 2010: October Country opens today in Washington, D.C. More information on tickets and showtimes at The Avalon Theater.

April 2, 2010: October Country opens today in Portland, Oregon! You can purchase advance tickets to the screenings at the Regal Fox Tower here.

Feb 12, 2010: October Country opens today in New York! Buy your tickets here!

Feb 4, 2010: October Country is kicking off its U.S. Theatrical release with its premiere at the IFC Center downtown on February 12 through Feb 18th. The 7pm Friday night screening on the 12th will feature the Mosher family in attendance, a special honor for us. We'll also be there to answer questions at all of the 7pm screenings from Friday through Sunday. Tickets are available online at IFC. Please let your friends know and hope to see you there!

Jan 16, 2010: October Country just picked up two awards at the 3rd annual Cinema Eye Honors last night. The film won Best Debut Feature and Best Musical Score. We are very grateful to the Cinema Eye team, the juries and the extended community for voting for us. It's a huge honor. Lovely - and terrifying - photos of the event courtesy of the inimitable Ingrid Kopp at Shooting People.

Jan 8, 2010: Wow, this is awesome. We ended up on a year end top 10 list that included Avatar, Up, District 9 and Star Trek. And WTF! We ended up higher on the list than some of them! Thanks Utku for selecting us as your fav doc of the year. We have no idea who you are, but we're glad you saw our film!

Jan 7, 2010: Cynthia Fuchs from Pop Matters included our film as one of her favorites of 2009. We're honored to be included in such weighty company. Her full review of our film is here.

Jan 1, 2010: Happy New Year everyone. We're pleased to announce that October Country has teamed up with Wendy Lidell from International Film Circuit for the theatrical release of our film around the country. We'll be posting updates and screening details as soon as we find out where the film is showing.

Dec 27, 2009: October Country ended up on a lot of Best of 2009 year-end lists. James McNally from Toronto listed us as one of his favorite docs of the year, as did Cindy Fuchs from the Philadelphia City Paper, Doug Jones from LAFF, Brit Withey from Denver International, and Cameron Yates from Newfest New York. We also got a really nice nod from Brian Brooks, Basil Tsiokas, and Bryan Stamp over at Indiewire. Thanks y'all. You're on our top ten list for life.

Dec 15, 2009: David Courier and Caroline Libresco rock. So does AJ Schnack, whose interview with the two documentary programmers at Sundance on his blog Edendale is a must read. They discuss the difficulties of programming and NOT programming films into their selection, and they gave a special nod to October Country. Thanks guys!

Dec 11, 2009: October Country was included in New York's annual critic's survey of best undistributed films of 2009, courtesy of Indiewire.

Dec 5, 2009: October Country has just been awarded the grand jury prize for best documentary at Festival EntreVues. We want to thank Cecile Cadoux for asking us to share our film with them in Belfort, France.

Dec 1, 2009: WOW, someone spiked the punch in L.A.! October Country just got nominated for Best Documentary at this year's Independent Spirit Awards!

Nov 21, 2009: Hey! We made it into LIFE Magazine! Well, at least our photos did. Red Carpet at the Gothams.

Nov 22, 2009: Two awards, two cities, one evening! Mike just won Best Editing for the film at the Montreal RIDM, where it was also the closing night film. And in Denver we got a Special Jury Prize at the Starz Denver Film Festival.

Nov 6, 2009: We are stunned. October Country just got nominated for five Cinema Eye Awards.

Nov 1, 2009: Mike's been taking a lot of photos while on the festival circuit, and Donal's been clicking away as well. Check them out in the new PHOTOS sidebar.

Oct 29, 2009: October Country's headed to Toronto as a part of DocSoup. Thanks Sean and Karina!

Oct 28, 2009: We've been invited to be the closing night film at the Montreal RIDM this year. It's a great lineup, and a wonderful honor.

Oct 27, 2009: October Country is heading into competition at the 32nd annual Starz Denver Film Festival this year. The festival runs Nov 12-22.

Oct 25, 2009: Last night we were honored with a Best First Feature Documentary award at DocLisboa. It's an incredible honor and a wonderful way to leave a truly lovely festival. Thanks to Joanna, Cinta, Juri, Anna and the rest of the team who have made our time in Lisbon so memorable. Check out some photos Mike took here!

Oct 19, 2009: We just got nominated for a Gotham Award! It's for the category "Best Film Not Playing in a Theater Near You." Our fingers are crossed.

Sept 4, 2009: Lots of festival action for Fall, 2009! The film has been invited to show in documentary competition at the Camden Documentary Film Festival and the Woodstock Internation Film Festival in early October. It has also been asked to play at the Stranger Than Fiction film series at the IFC, curated by Thom Powers of the Toronto Film Festival. In Europe it has been invited to Amfest and Flahertiana in Russia, and documentary competition at Leipzig DokFest in Germany and Sheffield Doc fest in the UK. More information in the Screenings section.

September 1, 2009: Lots of positive reviews from Europe in the Press section. There are wonderful pieces from La Liberacion in France, Il Messaggero in Italy, and the Italian Rock magazine 'Rumore'. Also a great piece in Bitch Magazine by Lisa Latham and a shout-out from Chronogram Magazine, which names October Country "the best of the Woodstock Film Festival Docs."

July 27, 2009: Donal will be reading from his essay on the making of October Country at McNally Jackson books in NYC on August 3rd @ 52 Prince St, 7pm. For more information check out Donal's constantly evolving photo and essay blog.

July 15, 2009: October Country will be getting its international premiere at the illustrious 62nd Locarno Film Festival, an incredible honor. The film has been selected to screen in the Filmmakers of the Present competition, and we have the distinction of being the only fully American production selected into either of the two international competitions at the festival. The film will be screening between August 5-15. Come join us for a party in the Southern Swiss Alps!!! Details to follow. More information about the lineup here.

June 20, 2009: We are stunned and thrilled to find out that October Country has won the US Sterling Feature Award for best American Documentary at this year's Silverdocs Documentary Film Festival. Thanks to jurors Margaret Brown, David Kwok and Cian Smyth for selecting our work from such an astounding group of films, and to Sky Sitney and everyone at Silverdocs as well for this incredible honor. We are totally blown away. Info and a full list of the awards at Indiewire and Variety.

May 20, 2009: October Country will have its East Coast Premiere in the Sterling Features competition at Silverdocs. This looks like a great lineup. Thanks to Sky and the rest of the Silverdocs team for having us along for the ride. The film screens on Saturday, June 20th and again on Sunday, June 21. Hope to see you all there.

May 5, 2009: It's now official. October Country is world premiering in documentary competition at the Los Angeles Film Festival. We are honored to be a part of this special program. The film screens on Friday, June 19th at 7:30pm and again on June 25th at 7:30pm. If you're in town, please come and support the film! More festival dates will be announced very soon.

March 5, 2009: We're fresh back from a few sneak previews of the film at the True False Film Festival. People told us this was going to be a great festival, but we had no idea what a memorable experience it was going to be. The response to the film was incredible, and we have great news about upcoming screenings as a result of showing this film here, so please stay tuned! Thanks to David and Paul and the entire team in Columbia, MO for making the experience so memorable for us.

Feb 8, 2009: The full lineup for the True False Film Festival is complete. With so many incredible films in one place, we are honored and humbled to be included in this group. The festival takes place from February 28th to March 2nd and our film screens on opening and closing night. Thanks David and Paul!

Feb 2, 2009: A beautiful set of limited edition screenprint posters for the film has just rolled off the presses, courtesy of oue gifted friends Miles and Fiona from Idiot or Genius in Portland, OR. Thanks you two!

January 23, 2009: We've just finished the final sound mix for October Country, a collaboration with the uniquely talented and incredibly patient sound designer David C. Hughes. This one was a long time coming, and David's tireless and meticulous work on the film has taken it to a new level.

January 9, 2009: We're kicking the year off right with some great news. The kind people at the True False Film Festival in Columbia, MO have asked us to sneak preview October Country. The festival is at the end of February. Dates forthcoming.

November 5, 2008: Wishbone films is the proud recipient of a Cinereach Discretionary grant for post production!

September 19, 2008: We just finished a test screening of our film at Rooftop Films in New York. It could not have been a more magical night, the response to the film was was fantastic. Donal wrote a little bit about it on our blog. Check it out.

November 10, 2007: Wishbone films is the proud recipient of a Pacific Pioneer Fund grant for much needed production funds!

October 31, 2007: After one year, principal photography is complete. Happy Halloween!

October 27, 2006: Principal photography begins!