David Holbrooke is widely known and highly regarded locally as director of one of Telluride’s signature festivals, Mountainfilm, whose impact he has deepened and broadened through deft programming and force of personality. But David was a filmmaker whose docs often premiered at Mountainfilm years before he became...
Grant winners will receive $5,000, Apple laptop, and GoPro. [caption id="attachment_54628" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Local filmmakers David Byars and Suzan Beraza of “No Soy Puta!” Documentary won 2015 Mountainfilm Commitment Grant.[/caption] Telluride Mountainfilm has announced its 2015 Commitment Grant recipients, whose projects tackle everything from a remarkable archaeological discovery...
Telluride Mountainfilm’s Moving Mountains Symposium will coincide with centennial celebration. National Parks are home to graceful arches of sandstone and otherworldly badlands, of alligator-infested mangrove forests and bison-studded plains. Immense river canyons where time stretches beyond imagination, massive caves draped with stalactites, historic battle sites, the country’s...
Telluride Mountainfilm Presents free screening of "Frame by Frame" on Sunday, October 4, 6 p.m. Director Alexandria Bombach is special guest for fall program. [caption id="attachment_54103" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Arazo, 19 (from right), Tabasum, 20, and Shamayal, 25, who fled from abusive family members, stand for a picture in...
Mountainfilm named one of MovieMaker’s 25 Coolest Film Festivals. Prestigious list decided by panel of festival experts. Earlier this wee, MovieMaker magazine confirmed what staff and fans of Telluride Mountainfilm have known for decades — that it’s one of the coolest festivals on the planet. Mountainfilm was included on...
On August 26, Telluride Mountainfilm will screen "The Diplomat,” a film by Mountainfilm festival director David Holbrooke. Two screenings at Nugget Theatre, 6 p.m.p.m. & 8:30 p.m. (Tickets, $15 for adults and $10 for children, go on sale 30 minutes prior to the show.) Telluride Mountainfilm will present two special late-summer...
Telluride Mountainfilm, town work together for one-of-a-kind program. Typically, the only souls who can be found roaming Telluride’s streets at 3 a.m. are bears and the occasional insomniacs. But on May 24, during Telluride Mountainfilm, roughly 80 people — photographers, astronomy fans and festival attendees among them —...
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The stunning new documentary feature film UNBRANDED – from director/veteran cinematographer Phillip Baribeau and a team including executive producer Cindy Meehl, the director of the acclaimed Oscar-shortlisted documentary BUCK – has its U.S. premiere at Telluride Mountainfilm in Telluride, Colorado Saturday, May 23, and Sunday,...
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...
