Author: Susan Viebrock

Ultimate opportunity for an up-and-coming or relatively unknown band to thrust themselves into the national spotlight on the stage of the 2015 Telluride Blues & Brews Festival alongside some of the biggest musical names in the country! Submissions through Friday, June 5. Telluride Blues & Brews Festival,...

Pedal power. Or how  bikes are changing the world one stroke at a time. That was one of a number of leitmotifs at Telluride Mountainfilm, where right out of the gate at Symposium, a young woman nearly stole the show with the teaser for her work-in-process, but soon-to-be feature-length documentary,...

Jacob and Isaac Seigel-Boettner’s “I Am Able” screens at Mountainfilm on Saturday, May 23, The Nugget, 5:45 p.m.; Sunday, May 24, twice: Telluride Library, 9:15 a.m., part of Mountainfilm on Tour and Mountainfilm for Students presentation and Masons Hall, 6:45 p.m. Full Mountainfilmschedule here. See notes below...

For a full schedule of Mountainfilm events, go here. “Frame by Frame” screens Friday, May 22, 9:15 p.m. at the Palm; Sunday, May 24, 6:45 p.m., The Palm.   Opening the Festival on Friday morning, Massoud Hossaini and Farzana Wahidy, photojournalists featured in the film, are scheduled to...

"Creative conservationist” and National Geographic Emerging Explorer Asher Jay at Mountainfilm 2015: Gallery Walk, East Gallery, Ah Haa, and panel discussion at the Telluride Library, Saturday, 12:45 - 2 p.m. Scroll down to bottom of story to find a podcast with Asher, whose work, conservation, is...

To kickstart Ian McCluskey’s documentary to completion, go here. Campaign ends May 31.  “Les Voyageurs Sans Trace” screens Friday, Masons, 6:45 p.m. – 8:45 p.m.; Saturday, High Camp, 8:45 p.m. – 11:15 p.m. [caption id="attachment_50649" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Original French trio of adventurers, “starring" in "Les Voyageurs Sans...

For a full schedule of Mountainfilm programs and events, go here. It is an old story that gets retold every time Congress debates immigration policy – or when a particularly gruesome account of violence against illegal border crossers provides grist for 24-hour news mills. Still, the sad...

In addition to two screenings of Scott Cohen’s “Red Knot”  – Saturday, Masons, 6:16 p.m. & Sunday, Sheridan Opera House, 9:15 p.m. – photographic images of Antarctica he shot while making the movie will be on display at the Telluride Gallery of Fine Art during Gallery...

Over Mountainfilm weekend, find Emilie at the Telluride Art District’s Stronghouse Studios & Gallery, where she will be for sure during Gallery Walk, Friday, May 22, Passes and tickets for Mountainfilm here. Full schedule for Gallery Walk here. [caption id="attachment_50692" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Emilie Lee, artist-in-residence, Telluride Mountainfilm[/caption] A group of...

"A simple journey, a complex problem and an epic journey" – straight from the horse’s mouth. Mountainfilm guest, photographer, author Ben Masters writes about his first movie, a doc about wild mustangs. “Unbranded” is also a book. Passes/tickets for Telluride Mountainfilm here. Unbranded started with cheap tequila, greasy enchiladas...