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 Telluride Historical Museum offers two field trips exploring the four corners region. Though the pulse of town remains slow during off-season, backyard adventures abound. This May and June the Telluride Historical Museum offers two field trips that connect history and archaeology enthusiasts with private tours...
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...
On March 22, the Telluride Historical Museum announced it had hired a new executive director. Like Jodi Pounds, the (relatively) new executive director of the Ah Haa School for the Arts, the book on Erica Kinias includes adjectives such as "smart," " highly skilled" and...
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...
Editor's note: This in from our friend and sometimes contributor Elisabeth Gick. Happy spring to you all! Just before you head off into off-season I would like to let you know that our friend Jangchub Chophel will return to Telluride in mid-May to teach "Buddhism 101." We first...
