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Sharks! in Montana? Sharktana is coming.
In what can only be described as cinema bravely asking “why not?”, a local award-winning filmmaker is unleashing Sharktana, a Bitterroot-based movie where a cozy ski town’s cheerful holiday festival is rudely interrupted by sharks exploding out of snowy mountain slopes. Filming will swarm the Lost Horse Lodge area starting mid-February, assuming the sharks hit their marks and the snow cooperates. The project is still in pre-production, roles are being cast, and no release date exists yet—because greatness, like airborne sharks, cannot be rushed.
The wonderfully unhinged idea comes from Connor local Robert Shippy, who drew inspiration from 14 years working at Lost Trail Ski Resort and from watching Sharknado and thinking, “This, but colder.” Wanting to honor ski patrollers—the true unsung heroes armed only with sleds and patience—Shippy imagined a film where they battle nature’s most misplaced predator. What began as a GoPro dream snowballed into a full production after the Montana film office connected him with producer Christian Ackerman and fellow filmmaker Kyle Weingart. The result: a heartfelt tribute to ski patrol, community filmmaking, and the timeless cinematic question, what if sharks… but snow?
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