Festivals

Telluride Mountainfilm, with support from the Telluride Ski & Golf Company, brings encore of "Racing Extinction,” Community screening is Tuesday, December 8, Telluride Conference Center, Mountain Village. Doors open at 5:30 p.m., and the show begins at 6:30 p.m. Tickets are $10.  [caption id="attachment_55502" align="aligncenter" width="600"] 2015 Film Images, Racing...

Found this story by Stefanie Spear about Louis Psihoyos’s latest, very buzzy documentary, “Racing Extinction.” The interview was posted on EcoWatch. Next Tuesday, December 8, Telluride Mountainfilm, with support from the Telluride Ski & Golf Club, will be screening the documentary, at once alarming and reassuring. The event takes...

Dr. Deepak Chopra was the keynote speaker at the Telluride First Foundation’s very first conference, a summit on Integrative Wellness held last September. Below, from LinkedIn Pulse, Deepak talks about how our beliefs shape our lives –  for better or for worse. [caption id="attachment_54950" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Deepak,...

An outer ring of a pale hue graduating to the increasingly darker hues in shades of burgundy with flashes of red, the shape of an undiscovered galaxy formed in an instant when our well-schooled waiter Danny tilted the elegant crystal glass of fine 1996 Colhetta port. Danny, (who looked like he...

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...