Author: Katie Klingsporn

Telluride Mountainfilm’s Moving Mountains Symposium will explore climate change adaptations, innovations, and actions. [caption id="attachment_62873" align="aligncenter" width="600"] An image from Chasing Ice, a film about climate photographer James Balog, who will speak at Mountainfilm’s 2017 Moving Mountains Symposium. [Image courtesy of Chasing Ice/Mountainfilm][/caption]Telluride Mountainfilm will focus...

Thanks to Telluride Mountainfilm, 10 stellar projects nab cash and equipment to help get their stories out, since receiving 2016 Commitment Grants. [caption id="attachment_62066" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Images from Silent Forest, one of Mountainfilm’s 2016 Commitment Grant winners. [Photos courtesy of Mariah Wilson].[/caption]Nepali honey hunters practicing a dwindling and precipitous tradition;...

Tickets for Mountainfilm’s July 5 event are $15 for adults, $10 for children online at mountainfilm.org or $20/$15 at the door.  The staff at Telluride Mountainfilm knows it is impossible to catch every film during the jam-packed Memorial Day weekend. For that reason and more, Mountainfilm presents...

Artist talk, presentation times, cooking demo, and more at Telluride Mountainfilm 2016. [caption id="attachment_59183" align="aligncenter" width="600"] A standing ovation at Mountainfilm 2014 screening of DamNATION, Melissa Plantz for Telluride Mountainfilm.[/caption] Telluride Mountainfilm is counting down the hours to its 38th annual festival, which will feature a packed...

Mountainfilm has plenty of free programs on tap. [caption id="attachment_59125" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Mountainfilm offers free films beneath the stars at Base Camp Theatre in Telluride Town Park. [Photo courtesy of Mountainfilm][/caption]  The 38th annual Telluride Mountainfilm festival will fill the box canyon with events of all shapes...

Please scroll down to the bottom of this story to watch the time-lapse video of Telluride’s new mural, thanks to Mountainfilm and its artist-in-residence, Chip Thomas, a doctor, activist and street artist from Navajo reservation. Last week, the wall was a bare expanse of concrete on the...

Alpinists, photographers, writers and explorers on the roster for 2016 Telluride Mountainfilm. [caption id="attachment_57922" align="aligncenter" width="600"] A photo by National Geographic Young Explorer Alec Jacobsen, courtesy, Telluride Mountainfilm.[/caption] They have walked solo around the world, traveled to frigid landscapes to dive with leopard seals, scaled some of...

Two free screenings. 5:30 p.m. & 8 p.m., of 2015 Telluride Mountainfilm documentary “Les Voyageurs Sans Trace,” Wednesday, March 23 at Telluride's Wilkinson Public Library. Go here to listen to my interview with director Ian McCluskey. Scroll down to bottom of post to watch a trailer for...

Filmmaker and photographer James Marcus Haney will be in town for screening and workshop of “No Cameras Allowed." No ticket? No money? No problem. That’s the philosophy at the heart of "No Cameras Allowed," the excellent music documentary by James Marcus Haney about sneaking into festivals, refusing to...

Now accepting film entries for 2016 Telluride Mountainfilm. To submit your film for festival consideration, please read the information provided on this page and click the link at the bottom to enter your film. If you have questions about the process, check out the Frequently Asked Questions...