Mountainfilm in Telluride

"Lady B's First Winter"  is scheduled to screen at 12:30 p.m. on Saturday May 26th at High Camp and Monday May 28th at the Michael D. Palm Theater as part of the Kidz Kino beginning at 11a.m. Locals and visitors alike love Telluride MountainFilm Festival because it allows...

Editor's Note: Documentary's theme, population explosion, the subject of a Mountainfilm Moving Mountains Symposium, Friday, May 25 We like to put “mental” back in “environmental": John B. Calhoun Mountainfilm in Telluride 2012 opens with a bang. That would be the sound of the population bomb exploding. Among the...

World Premieres, Free Shows, Art and Workshops Audiences from around the world come to Mountainfilm, but it’s still a homegrown event that inspires the Telluride community. As evidenced by the number of local premieres each year, regional filmmakers look forward to screening at Mountainfilm, and the festival,...

Three years ago, Telluride Mountainfilm director David Holbrooke decided that Mountainfilm could do more. He created the Commitment Grant, a program that ensures important stories are not only told, but also heard. Since its inception, the grant has offered $5000 and a new Mac Book Pro...

Mountainfilm in Telluride holds its 34th annual festival over Memorial Day Weekend, May 25-28. The program is full of inspiring films and special guests. Among the 75 films slated to screen, at least 10 will be world premieres. Special guests are drawn from the leading...

Editor's Note: In several installments of their weekly Earth Matters column, Billy Mason and Anna Zivian have explored the subject of climate change from several different perspectives. This past Saturday, Billy wrote about the earth’s energy balance and the relationship between the greenhouse effect and...

Filmmaker Tips and Secrets to Come It requires some serious planning to deliver four days of artists, art, activists, documentaries, shorts, filmmakers, panel discussions, scientists, books, authors, slide presentations, environmentalists, extreme athletes and other socially important elements. With the festival less than two months away, it’s crunch...

Those who’ve attended Mountainfilm know that we like to start most programs with a short trailer, a compilation of footage that’s accompanied by music. In the office, we simply call these “intros.” Clips are pulled from footage featured at the festival, but the music is hard...