Festivals

Now accepting film entries for 2016 Telluride Mountainfilm. To submit your film for festival consideration, please read the information provided on this page and click the link at the bottom to enter your film. If you have questions about the process, check out the Frequently Asked Questions...

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...

Dr. Haley Perlus continues with tips about ways to empower “Your Inner Athlete.” This week, Haley offers another mental toughness tactic, associative attention, a concentration skill that is a sure-fire way to up your game: effort, performance, concentration. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rj1nfNsV4G8 About Dr. Haley Perlus: The event wears its name like a glove: “WOW.”  The...

Telluride Film Fest’s “Sunday at the Palm” presents A HALLOWEEN CELEBRATION FOR CHILDREN. Sunday, October 25, 4 p.m. FREE! Children in their Halloween costumes, treats for everyone, and a whimsical line-up of children’s short films based on Halloween and Autumn…what could be better? Kids and kids-at-heart are...

There should be lots of room to talk about “Room,” a big crowd favorite at the 42nd annual Telluride Film Festival. In the face of its imminent theatrical release, however, its distributors are trying to shake one of those descriptions: ”harrowing.” For our review of “Room” (and...

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...

Aches and pains? A hangover? A knee-jerk response is all too often to reach for a bottle of an NSAID drug such as ibuprofen or naproxen. Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs or NSAIDs are a class of medications commonly used to treat analgesic and anti-inflammatory conditions. And there are lots of them out on the...

The 6th annual Telluride Horror Show includes premieres and special screening of Tim Burton's "The Nightmare Before Christmas" with director Q&A. John Carroll Lynch, indie filmmakers Mickey Keating, Joe Begos added to lineup. "Bone Tomahawk" closes festival with Colorado Premiere. Three-day passes are only $94 and...

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...