Festivals

Mountainfilm began as a gathering for climbers and mountaineers in 1979, and last year to honor our outdoor roots we created programs to get guests outside the theaters and into Telluride’s beautiful surroundings. We call these Free Range Programs because these events not only offer...

"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...

“This is an opportunity to get together and party around the joy of reading. It is a celebration of that good ole fashioned past-time,” said Between the Covers Bookstore co-owner Daiva Chesonis, one of the original conspirators behind Telluride’s newest shoulder-season happening: Telluride Literary Arts Festival (LitFest), Thursday, May 14-17. A long-...

2015 judge and documentary filmmaker Lucy Walker on the power of documentary film as a medium [caption id="attachment_50356" align="aligncenter" width="266"] Lucy Walker[/caption] "Beautiful but not showy...

Climbing features, environmental docs, quirky shorts, and more will fill Memorial Day weekend festival. Passes/tickets here. From May 22-25, Telluride Mountainfilm will fill big screens all over town with heart-thumping climbing adventures, provocative environmental features, thoughtful cultural portraits, and stories of inspiration, larger-than-life personalities and indomitable...

FESTIVAL PASSES Have you purchased your pass to the festival? Passes are selling quickly - get yours today. HOSPITALITY CENTER Our festival hospitality center is located at the historic Sheridan Opera House. It's the place to pick up your pass and get the latest information about the festival....

Telluride Mountain kicks off the region’s summer festival season. Mountainfilm is all about transforming words and ideas into action. Below is a letter from Mountainfilm’s partner in Nepal, DZI Foundation, seeking help after the disaster. They are on the ground and working to make a...

Eddie Roberts' West Coast Sounds featuring Jennifer Hartswick, Rosie Ledet & The Zydeco Playboys, Nosotros and more to play Telluride Jazz Festival July 31st - August 2nd, 2015. Tickets/passes here now. Famed jazz and funk guitarist Eddie Roberts of the UK funk powerhouse The New Mastersounds...

Jeremy Jones, Dan Buettner, Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner, Tommy Caldwell among lineup. Passes/tickets here. Telluride Mountainfilm has a long tradition of bringing influential, inspirational and otherwise incredible individuals to present at its annual festival. With a speaker lineup that includes iconic snowboarder Jeremy Jones, acclaimed photographer Carsten Peter,...

Buy passes here for world-class event, Mountainfilm, kick-off of Telluride’s summer festival season. Starts at High Camp, Friday, May 22, MpvTelluride Conference Center, Mountain Village, with Moving Mountains Symposium on Afghanistan. It’s been said that Mountainfilm is much more than a film festival — it’s a community...