
Directing
Mike Scholtz
Mike Scholtz is a documentary filmmaker based in northern Minnesota. His first film, Wild Bill's Run, circled the globe on the Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour. His second film, Wicker Kittens, premiered at SXSW. His most recent film, Lost Conquest, debuted at IFFBoston. He also helped establish the world's first film-festival-in-a-barn, the Free Range Film Festival, near Duluth, Minnesota.
Acting credits
A knife-wileding maniac chases a frightened man from his house.
The Chase
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In the 1920s, Angela Murray Gibson chose an unusual location to embark on a career in silent filmmaking: her tiny hometown of Casselton, North Dakota. She had previously helped Mary Pickford as an advisor and assistant director on The Pride of the Clan (1917), which Mary Pickford produced and starred in. She opened North Dakota's first movie studio, and she had the audacity to be a woman in an industry dominated by men.
The Angela Murray Gibson Experience
1998
Behind the camera
NRLong before Columbus, Viking explorers claimed the state of Minnesota. And the nice folks who live there have the ancient artifacts to prove it. LOST CONQUEST is a deconstructionist documentary about why we believe the things we believe. With swords.
Lost Conquest
2015
NRLong before Columbus, Viking explorers claimed the state of Minnesota. And the nice folks who live there have the ancient artifacts to prove it. LOST CONQUEST is a deconstructionist documentary about why we believe the things we believe. With swords.
Lost Conquest
2015
NRA group of friends meets once a year to draft celebrities they think might die. But while playing the game of death, they learn the value of life.
Riplist
2020
A mild-mannered Midwesterner leads a double life as a baby-eating professional wrestler in Japan.
Kinderchomper
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NRIn celebration of the Theatre’s centennial, we take a look back at the first hundred years of movies, pipe organs, concerts, festivals, popcorn, architecture, smoking lounges, and, very briefly, farm animals.
Fargo Theatre: The First 100 Years
2026
NREvery January, the country's largest jigsaw puzzle contest is held in St. Paul, Minnesota. Choose your favorite team and watch them try to put the pieces back together.
Wicker Kittens
2014
NRIgnatius Donnelly is Minnesota's most famous forgotten man. Even though he was a bestselling author, a U.S. Congressperson and the leader of a populist farmer's movement, few people remember his accomplishments today. Duluth-based filmmaker Mike Scholtz’s short story begins near the tiny town of Donnelly, Minnesota and takes viewers on a wild ride, beginning with a tragic death and ending in the lost city of Atlantis.
The Secret History of Donnelly
2021
NRThis is the strange but true story of Wild Bill Cooper. Part Arctic adventure and part crime caper, WILD BILL’S RUN is an unforgettable ride with a true American folk hero. In the winter of 1972, Wild Bill Cooper led a ragtag crew of mechanics, ranchers and photographers on a grueling expedition across the polar ice. During some of the darkest days of the Cold War, their goal was to snowmobile 5,000 miles from Minnesota to Moscow.
Wild Bill's Run
2012
In the 1920s, Angela Murray Gibson chose an unusual location to embark on a career in silent filmmaking: her tiny hometown of Casselton, North Dakota. She had previously helped Mary Pickford as an advisor and assistant director on The Pride of the Clan (1917), which Mary Pickford produced and starred in. She opened North Dakota's first movie studio, and she had the audacity to be a woman in an industry dominated by men.
The Angela Murray Gibson Experience
1998
