[caption id="attachment_30450" align="alignright" width="300"] Houses drift downhill in a slow-motion landslide. Santiago Mitlatongo, Mexico.[/caption] To call Mountainfilm in Telluride a film festival is less a misnomer than an understatement. Now celebrating 35 years, Mountainfilm includes, but is not limited to, films about mountain living and adventure,...
[caption id="attachment_30850" align="alignright" width="300"] Key players on "Uranium Drive-In" team: Ben Knight, Suzan Beraza and Casey Ney on location at Nucla elementary school.[/caption] Telluride talent Suzan Beraza has never let any grass grow under her feet. She is the real thing – rather the Reel Thing...
[caption id="attachment_30628" align="alignright" width="300"] ioby co-founders Brandon Whitney, Cassie Flynn and Erin Barnes. Photo Credit: Devin Mathis, 2013.[/caption] The name is always written in lower-case letters: ioby. But the core ideas the organization embodies are all CAPS. (Oh, and ioby is pronounced eye-OH-be to rhyme with Nairobi.) The nonprofit...
Roger Ross Williams’ forceful polemic succeeds to a startling degree, rightly decrying the use of the gospel to incite homophobia, and allowing the most fervent interviewees to damn themselves with their own proselytizing words. It’s strong, head-shaking stuff… ," raved Variety about "God Loves Uganda." In...
“A filmmaker of artistic and political consequence," raved The New York Times [caption id="attachment_30368" align="alignleft" width="300"] Sorting it out on the "white board," in "Manhunt"[/caption] The man behind the breakfast-cereal smile was the special representative in Iraq for Kofi Annan, then the United Nations secretary general. His...
[caption id="attachment_30619" align="alignright" width="300"] Jordan Campbell, director, with photographer Ace Kvale[/caption] These "Lost Boys" never visited NeverNeverland. Their biggest concerns were not pirates and Indians. These "Lost Boys" had way bigger challenges to overcome. They were victims of a war-torn country, who had to survive starvation,...
“If we act on the side of justice, we have the power to turn tides," Desmond Tutu [caption id="attachment_30576" align="alignright" width="300"] Kathleen Dean Moore, a river runs through her mind[/caption] A moral imperative is the basic experience of encountering the right and compels a person to act. Ask...
In March 2007, the FDA recalled more than 60 million cans of cat and dog food after the death of 14 pets. Later that year, Chinese-made toys were recalled: Mattel took several of its Barbie and Polly Pocket products off the shelves because of concerns...
An anti-fracking concert and protest film Powder on mountain slopes. Rivers running steady and strong. Alpine meadows filled with summer flowers. Crowds of happy people, in town for the festivals, fill every bed and restaurant. And opposition to fracking or any other carbon-based energy source,...
"Tiny," gestation to pay dirt: A writer and multimedia project manager based in Boulder, Colorado, Merete Mueller is laser-focused on environmental sustainability. She has worked as managing editor of "Elephant Journal," as a project manager at a slow food travel organization, and at a mobile app...
