Director: No substitute for shooting James Lee Burke story in Montana

Julian Higgins couldn’t imagine shooting his 30-minute film "Winter Light" anywhere but its place of origin.

"It was really a pleasure working in Missoula," Higgins said. "Coming from a small town myself, I really love the feeling of a community getting together to support an artistic project, and Missoula is really an artistic town."

"James Lee Burke http://www.jamesleeburke.com/ lives in the Missoula area. The story is clearly written for the Missoula area. I didn’t see any reason to look anywhere else," he said in a telephone interview.

Higgins, a young Hollywood director, adapted Burke’s short story about a college professor named Roger who confronts two trespassers who want to cross his land to hunt in the national forest.

By Cory Walsh

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