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...
The 19th Annual Telluride Blues & Brews Festival proudly announces its initial 2012 lineup today Phil Lesh & Friends, Gov’t Mule, and the B-52s headline the September Festival weekend, (September 14 – September 19). Other festival guests include Chris Robinson Brotherhood, March Fourth Marching Band, Tab...
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...
Editor's Note: It's off season in Telluride now. Not a creature is stirring. But with May only weeks away, thoughts turn to the summer season. The kick off is Mountainfilm in Telluride. In the roll-up to the event, we continue to post timely blogs by...
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...
Just two months until Mountainfilm in Telluride’s 34th annual festival. Consider yourself duly notified. 10 Simple Steps for the Best Memorial Day Weekend…Ever: • Get Psyched: Visit www.mountainfilm.org. Check out the growing list of festival guests, the symposium and return to the site regularly for updates, including the...
Mountainfilm in Telluride will launch its 34th annual festival on Friday, May 25, with a close look at the complicated subject of population. Over a dozen speakers, each focusing on a different area of expertise, will address the subject during the daylong Moving Mountains Symposium. “This theme synthesizes many...
And that's the good news. The bad news is he was recently placed in solitary confinement in the first place. But I am jumping ahead of myself. Tim De Christopher is no stranger to fans and followers of Mountainfilm in Telluride. He is an impassioned member...
