‘Path of the Panther’

Rachel Hergett For The Chronicle

Maybe it is the logo and mascot of the Carolina Panthers football team based a couple states to the north, or maybe it’s how well the animal blends into the night. Either way, most people assume the Florida panther is a big black cat.

“When you discover that it’s golden or tawny, the surprise shows just how little people know about an animal that is right among them,” Bozeman-based filmmaker Eric Bendick said.

Bendick is the writer and director of “Path of the Panther,” an award-winning documentary that follows National Geographic Explorer and photographer Carlton Ward Jr. and a variety of biologists, ranchers and Indigenous people who are attempting to keep the Florida Everglades from ecological collapse and help expand the range of the Florida panther.

“Where else are you going to see a puma interacting with an alligator, interacting with a black bear and a bobcat and a sandhill crane?” Bendick asked. “There are all these crazy populations squeezed together.”

Bozeman Doc Series and Gallatin Valley Earth Day present “Path of the Panther,” at 7 p.m. on Thursday, April 20, at the Emerson Center’s Crawford Theater. The screening will be preceded at 6 p.m. by a reception in the Emerson ballroom with refreshments and an Earth

Day information fair. It will be followed by a panel of local crew from Bozeman-based Grizzly Creek Films who filmed, edited and produced the movie. Tickets are available at the door or online at www.bozemandocseries.org. The film will be released on Disney+ on April 28.

This will be the second time “Path of the Panther” is on the big screen in Montana. When the film showed at the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival on Feb. 18, Bendick was unsure of how the audience would connect with the setting — the Florida panther’s range in the Everglades, tropical wetlands that cover much of the southern tip of the state.

“I was really curious about what mountain people would think about that landscape, that wilderness,” Bendick said. “But a lot of the same issues that surface when the film screens in Florida surface here.”

If You Go

Bozeman doc Series and Gallatin Valley Earth day present “path of the panther,” the award-winning new documentary from Bozeman-based Grizzly Creek Films and director Eric Bendick, at 7 p.m. on Thursday, april 20, at the Emerson Center’s Crawford Theater.

The screening will be preceded at 6 p.m. by a reception in the Emerson ballroom with food and drink, Earth day information from Gallatin Valley Earth day, Gallatin Valley land Trust, Broken Ground permaculture and others, and the annual Bozeman doc Series silent auction. i t will be followed by a panel of local crew from Bozeman-based Grizzly Creek Films who filmed, edited and produced the movie. Tickets are available at the door or online at www.bozemandocseries.org.

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West Dakota Stutter @ 9pm

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Management: Planning for Local Water Ef�cient Growth” at an April 14 Fri‐day Forum. Bozeman, 128 Barnard Hall, Mon‐tana State University olli @montana.edu, 406-9946550

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Anderson School's Theatrical Production: Seussical™ @ 7pm / $10 Anderson School continues its tradition of exceptional perfor‐mances with the whimsical and heartwarming production of Seussical™. This full-length Broadway musical ignites the imagination of all ages Emerson's Crawford Theatre, 111 South Grand Avenue, Bozeman. slourie @andersonmt.org, 406-580-1309

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Holistic Healing Fair @ 10am

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Something Blue Bridal Event

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Montana Manouche @ 7pm

Django Jazz and vintage swing. Dancers welcome! No cover. Blend A Bozeman Winery, 31 South Willson Avenue, Bozeman. info@montanamanouche.com, 406-414-9693

Notorious BOZ with Gareth Reynolds

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Friends Used Book Sale

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A Used Book Sale raising money for the Bozeman Public Library Gallatin County Fairgrounds, Ex‐hibit Building 3, 901 North Black Avenue, Bozeman. friendsboze man@gmail com, 406-582-2433

Mantras for Emotional Healing Workshop

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Baroque Music Montana presents: Youthful Splendor - Vivaldi's Four Seasons @ 4pm

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Dylan Earl @ 7pm

Rialto Bozeman, 10 W Main St , Bozeman

Nick Shoulders @ 7pm Rialto, 10 W Main St, Bozeman

B2B Net‐working Luncheon

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Live Music @ Shred Monk: Maggie Hickman @ 6pm

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Ron Greene Music

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Lockhorn Cider House, 21 S Wal‐lace Ave, Bozeman

Bone Dry Comedy Hour

Open Mic @ 8pm

Bone Dry Comedy brings Open Mic night to Last Best Comedy

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Artist Reception at Echo Arts Gallery @ 5pm

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Sip and Sample @ 5:30pm / $40

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Contemporary Paintings by Carrie French featured at ERA Landmark in April @ 5:30pm

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Carrie French has contemporary oil paintings on display through‐out April at ERA Landmark. Gallery hours are Mon–Sat 10–5. Join us for the Reception Thurs, April 20, 5:30–7:30. ERA Land‐mark Downtown Visitor's Center, 8 East Main Street, Bozeman. becca@eralandmark.com, 406556-5001

Path of the Pantherpresented by the Bozeman Doc Series @ 6pm / $10

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2) “Poverty, By America” by Matthew Desmond, $28

3) “Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow” by Gabrielle Zevin, $28

4) “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn” by Betty Smith, $17

The Bozeman Doc Series is ex‐cited to present a special Earth Day event featuring the new docu‐mentary from National Geographic and local producers Grizzly Creek Films, Path of the Panther Emer‐son Center for the Arts & Culture, 111 South Grand Avenue, Boze‐man. jason@devolution�lms org

5) “The Marrow Thieves” by Cherie Dimaline, $16.95

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6) “Hello Beautiful” by Ann Napolitano, $28

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7) “Crazy Mountain” by Elise Atchison, $21.99

ORGONE @ 7pm

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8) “The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo” by Taylor Jenkins Reid, $17

9) “A Fever in the Heartland” by Timothy Egan, $30

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