The second annual Lone Peak Film Festival hits the Waypoint Theater in Big Sky, Montana, September 17–20, 2026 — and this year it’s four days instead of three, with 20 films and a teepee in the park.
Outlaw Beat sits down with Emmy-winning filmmaker and festival director Daniel Glick and Dr. Shane Doyle — Apsáalooke scholar, educator, singer, and new LPFF board member.
Daniel explains why Lone Peak flies out a filmmaker for every single film and refuses to stop. He gets into Bring Them Home, his Lily Gladstone–narrated documentary about returning wild buffalo to Blackfeet land, and the seven-years-in-progress feature he’s making with his wife about whether cultures built on care instead of domination are actually possible.
Dr. Doyle talks about growing up in Crow Agency with two generations of boarding schools between him and his own history — and the moment at MSU when he found out Native American Studies existed at all. He explains why Big Sky was a thoroughfare rather than a settlement, unpacks the Hidatsa roots of the name Sacagawea, and walks through the Anzick child: a 12,600-year-old burial discovered by accident near Bozeman in 1968, and what its DNA did and didn’t settle.
Then we play No Spoilers — Daniel has to sell four films from this year’s slate without giving too much away.
Watch the full interview: ExploreBigSky.com/episodes/lpff26
Tickets and full lineup: LonePeakFilmFestival.com
And enjoy the Vintner Series August 28 at One & Only Moonlight Basin’s Wildwood Restaurant: oneandonlyresorts.com/moonlight-basin/dining/wildwood
