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In an effort to give promising filmmakers a much-needed leg-up early in their careers, Telluride’s Mountainfilm has launched an Emerging Filmmaker Fellowship. The initiative, which will provide a filmmaker with a yearlong mentorship, festival networking and development assistance, begins in 2018 with Texas-based filmmaker Matthew...

Mountainfilm has hired Suzan Beraza to take the reins of the 40-year-old organization as its Festival Director. The organization also announced that pioneering alpinist Conrad Anker will serve as Guest Director in 2018. Telluride-based documentary filmmaker Suzan Beraza is no stranger to Mountainfilm having worked,...

“As fall begins to settle in, I’m excited to share some Mountainfilm news. I would like to formally welcome Suzan Beraza as Mountainfilm’s interim festival director. With 20 years of Mountainfilm experience in various roles (videographer, festival judge, screening committee member, commitment grant judge and board member), Beraza has a long history with...

Climate action and social justice triumph at 2017 Festival. Mountainfilm’s 2017 documentaries told of iconic seabirds, nonagenarian climbers, change-making labor activists, extraordinary Nepalese rites, and bold missions into interstellar space. But at the end of the day, it was stories of determined underwater photographers and citizen...