Port: A deep dive into how the sausage gets made in North Dakota

Port: A deep dive into how the sausage gets made in North Dakota

MINOT — I've written extensively about $740,000 in film grants that were directed to a Bismarck-based company, sometimes through a competitive process that seemed organized around a predetermined outcome, and sometimes with no process at all. Matt Fern, a Bismarck-based filmmaker, blew the whistle on the grants, along with dozens of his colleagues in that industry, and his efforts to shine a light on the situation were central to my reporting (F…