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Proud history: Film’s director finds pride runs deep in "Butte, America"

To much of the rest of the world, Butte, Montana, is known as home to an enormous, toxic hole in the ground, an emptiness where once stood the richest hill on earth. But for most of her life, filmmaker Pam Roberts has understood that the beauty and richness of Butte is a living, breathing thing. It’s an indefinable yet undeniable fact of the place, a sense of community and character that one finds in few other locales.

"I had gone to Butte around age 12 and I still remember that impression so vividly; I fell in love with the people right off the bat and the place was so urban in relation to everything else to Montana, with many different cultures," said Roberts, whose company, Rattlesnake Productions, was founded in Missoula 27 years ago. "Growing up in Montana, we always knew if someone was from Butte right away – from their mannerisms, the way they talked; it was a place set apart. I wanted to know more of that, and what it is that made that place different."

So, just over a decade ago, Roberts decided to focus her lens on Montana’s most famous mining town.

By JOE NICKELL of the Missoulian

Full Story: http://missoulian.com/entertainment/movies/article_49446f8e-9e6e-11de-aa2c-001cc4c002e0.html

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