[MCN] IWFF - An Evening with Doug Peacock

[Chuck Irestone]

Join the International Wildlife Film Festival and grizzly bear advocates, Tuesday, April 16, for an evening with grizzly bear expert and Vietnam veteran Doug Peacock.

Doors open at 5:30, starts at 6:00pm, at the UC Theater on the third floor of the University Center, 32 Campus Dr., University of Montana. Admission is FREE

The evening begins with a screening of Grizzly Country an award winning short documentary highlighting the life of Doug Peacock. Author Rick Bass will be on hand to introduce the venerable Doug Peacock. Peacock will give a talk and answer questions on the recent status of grizzly bears and his latest projects with Save the Yellowstone Grizzly. The evening will end with the 1987 feature length film Peacock's War, a documentary on grizzlies, Peacock, and Vietnam. Peacock will be available to sign books afterwards.

Author, naturalist, and grizzly bear expert Doug Peacock is the founder and board chair of Save the Yellowstone Grizzly. Peacock, a disabled Vietnam veteran and Green Beret medic, was the real-life model for Edward Abbey’s George Washington Hayduke. He has published widely on wilderness issues ranging from grizzly bears to buffalo, from the Sonoran desert to the fjords of British Columbia, from the tigers of Siberia to the blue sheep of Nepal. His books include Grizzly Years: In Search of the American Wilderness, ¡Baja!, Walking It Off: A Veteran’s Chronicle of War and Wilderness, and The Essential Grizzly: The Mingled Fates of Men and Bears (co-authored with Andrea Peacock).


"To the know the bear, to know the unknown. Make a friend of that kind of fear. It does expand that tolerance toward all other kinds other beings. It's outside yourself. It approaches that quality of wildness that lives in all of us. What it's aimed to do is to save habitat. That's the most satisfying expression of joy I know." - Doug Peacock, Grizzly Country

The 42nd annual International Wildlife Film Festival draws industry, filmmakers, scientists, conservationists, and audiences to the heart of the Rockies for this long-standing Missoula tradition. The 2019 program includes over 70 films originating from 36 countries. The 42nd International Wildlife Film Festival takes place April 13-19, 2019.

The complete festival schedule and more details about special events and guests will be released soon. For more information visit: wildlifefilms.org<http://wildlifefilms.org/>

Contact:
Carrie Richer
Carrie at wildlifefilms.org
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