PAN UP TO THE FLATHEAD: Partners eye state-of-the-art media center

They’re an unlikely bunch – the Army general and the Hollywood mogul and the physicist-turned-developer – this trio that hopes to bring the big screen to the Big Sky.

But if they succeed, well, “my vision is to create something that’s exciting, new, something with a little verve to it.”

So says Andy Miller, that physicist-turned-developer, one of three principals behind Osprey Media. For now, Osprey remains Miller’s dream – some say pipe dream – existing for the most part on paper and in conceptual drawings.
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But he imagines a day not too distant when his shadows take substance – nearly 90,000 square feet of high-tech construction, graphics, animation, television, radio, a full-blown movie studio, right here in Kalispell.

Already, the Flathead is home to several in the industry, and producers are excited about Miller’s vision.

“This is happening,” Miller said. “You can relocate this kind of technology. It’s not like moving a steel mill out of Pittsburgh.”

By MICHAEL JAMISON of the Missoulian

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Facility would have statewide implications

By JAMIE KELLY of the Missoulian

Adam Pitman is just the kind of guy Osprey Media is looking for.

Young, driven, intelligent, born and educated in the Flathead, serious about the craft of filmmaking – and now living in North Hollywood, trying to scratch out a living making what are, for now anyway, the lowest of low-budget films.

“I definitely started out wanting to get into acting,” said Pitman, who’s returned to his hometown of Whitefish to begin shooting his second movie, “Paper Dolls,” which he calls “a Sasquatch thriller.” “I kind of fell into this just to make an opportunity for myself. Who was it? – I think it was Milton Berle – who said, ‘If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.’ That’s what I’m doing. I’m building a door.”
Pitman, 26, is an export, a Montana kid who went elsewhere after graduation, first to the University of Idaho, and then to Southern California. In the eyes of Osprey Media, he’s a lost opportunity, at least for now.

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