UM professor’s new movie to air on Oprah Network

Growing up in Missoula, Tobin Addington always had an interest in creating his own movies, but he never imagined where that passion would take him.

When his childhood projects outgrew his family’s cumbersome video camera, he turned to Missoula Community Access Television to borrow their equipment and editing facilities. Now the University of Montana media arts adjunct professor regularly turns in screenplays for Christmas movies brought to life by the Oprah Winfrey Network.

“I would have been thrilled that I was getting to make things at all, coming from a place where, at the time, I didn’t know anybody who wrote movies,” said Addington, reflecting on his younger self. “I would have been surprised, for sure, that it was Christmas movies. I still am a little surprised that I’m making Christmas movies.”