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To see the full list of award winners from Mountainfilm 2019, please visit www.mountainfilm.org. [caption id="attachment_80389" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Suzan Beraza, Festival Director, Mountainfilm & director of "Massacre River." The lady nailed it for the 41st.[/caption] Winter halted its snowy assault just in time for the festival. The...

The line-up for the 41st annual gathering of the tribe known as Mountainfilm takes place in Telluride over Memorial Weekend and this year features guest director Cheryl Strayed with a very special guest, plus Sir Chris Bonington, Hilaree Nelson, Erin Parisi and top Obama aid...

Audiences at Mountainfilm’s 40th Anniversary Festival saw movies about incredible feats of climbing; remarkable young pinheads competing at the world’s premiere science fair; elite athletes fueled by a plant-based diet; a one-of-a-kind Supreme Court Justice and a delta teeming with wildlife in Botswana. "In all aspects,...

Mountainfilm 2018 features plethora of events that don’t require a pass. For more details or a full schedule, visit www.mountainfilm.org or download the festival’s app. Passes for this weekend’s 40th Anniversary Mountainfilm Festival are sold out, but for those who failed to score, two words: don’t...

Mountainfilm takes place in Telluride over Memorial Weekend, May 25 – May 28. Passes to the 2018 festival are on track to sell out. To get your passes or for more information about Mountainfilm, visit here. Telluride author Susan Dalton captures Mountainfilm's best memories in “Mountainfilm: 40 Years.”...

Join Mountainfilm for its annual fundraiser on Tuesday, December 26, at Telluride's historic Sheridan Opera House. The program features two screenings of  Dirtbag: The Legend of Fred Beckey and a pair of Wagner Custom Skis in a silent auction. Director, Telluride local and Mountainfilm Commitment...

In an effort to give promising filmmakers a much-needed leg-up early in their careers, Telluride's Mountainfilm has launched an Emerging Filmmaker Fellowship. The initiative, which will provide a filmmaker with a yearlong mentorship, festival networking and development assistance, begins in 2018 with Texas-based filmmaker Matthew...

In 2013, Telluride Theatre performed an original play, "Dinner with Dionysus," at Telluride's Ah Haa School. What unfurled on stage was a sly, seductive and captivating story about a dinner party thrown by the god of wine; liberation and ritual madness ensued. Now the one-of-a-kind...

Telluride has a tendency of doing holidays in ways that are distinctly its own. On the Fourth of July, the town explodes in Apple Pie Americana. On Halloween, a river of costumed children parades down Main Street. And on Thanksgiving, we like to ski. Christmastime...

The Telluride Arts’ Telluride Holiday Arts Bazaar is to the Christmas season what the robin is the the spring — it represents the official start to Telluride's holiday season. The weekend-long event allows shoppers to find unique, hand-crafted gifts and gifts made by regional artisans, all in...