Images
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If we were to create a new nation, how might we begin? So asks Alex Hartley, a British artist who has started a public art project that is one of 12 pieces across the United Kingdom that will be part...
Posted: 02/01/12
There is nothing quite like Sundance Film Festival, which darkened its theaters Sunday after 10 days of movie madness. Two representatives from Mountainfilm in Telluride — programmers David Holbrooke and Emily Long — went to Park City in search of films for the festival Telluride in May.
Of course...
Posted: 01/26/12
Tagged: adrenaline, images, surf, video
For the adrenaline junkies, surfers or those who simply revel in beautiful ocean waves, filmmaker Chris Bryan recently released footage from The Biggest Teahupoo Ever (video below) from the namesake break in Tahiti, French Polynesia. Surfer Kelly Slater described the day as “a draining feeling...
Posted: 01/24/12
Tagged: 350.org, Bill McKibben, environment, images, oil dependence
Bill McKibben and his hardworking cohorts at 350.org have good reason to celebrate: President Obama rejected a permit for the Keystone pipeline (see McKibben’s reaction below). There are many arguments to be made about this particular pipeline in regard to the environment, but the overarching issue...
Posted: 01/17/12
Tagged: images, Mountainfilm 2011, pine ridge, video
Photographer Aaron Huey is a longtime guest at Mountainfilm in Telluride who was most recently at the festival with his powerful series on the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota. Huey spoke emotionally at the festival in 2011 about his impressions of life there (see a similar talk he did at TED...
Words
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Audiences at Mountainfilm in Telluride have known about Greg Mortenson and his book Three Cups of Tea for nearly a decade because he’s been a guest at several festivals. Ten months ago, reports by “...
Posted: 02/10/12
Tagged: mountainfilm 2012, moving mountains, population, words
The United Nations released an alarming report recently about population, a topic that will be the focus of Mountainfilm in Telluride's 2012 Moving Mountains Symposium. According to the report, nearly 3 billion people could end up impoverished by 2050. The U.N. argues that "The current global...
Posted: 02/09/12
Tagged: climbing, mountaineering, words
Even if you’re not a climber, this is a fascinating story. It’s got all the elements of a good tale — a strong cast of characters, a stunning setting, tragedy and many complicated plot twists.
Once upon a time, an Italian named Casare Maestri and an Austrian called Toni Egger climbed one of the...
Posted: 02/03/12
Our programming team — David Holbrooke and Emily Long — spent several days at the recent Sundance Film Festival, seeing documentaries to consider for Mountainfilm in Telluride. One pre-festival assessment of the overall programming by The New York Times stated, "If the Sundance Film Festival is a...
Posted: 01/19/12
Tagged: Bill McKibben, climate change, environment, Tim DeChristopher, words
Bill McKibben of 350.org finds inspiration in Tim DeChristopher’s message, which he summaries as “Do more. Dig deeper. Don’t be afraid.” McKibben’s Orion blog, “Dig Deeper,” discusses how the environmental movement had lost impact and needed new tactics. With climate change as the current challenge...
Action
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Have you ever noticed that catching a whiff of the ocean makes you feel differently? Wallace J. Nichols, a research assistant at the California Academy of Sciences and co-founder of Ocean Revolution...
Posted: 02/17/12
Tagged: action, adrenaline
Mountainfilm in Telluride screens numerous films with professional athletes — skiers, bikers and even climbers — who drop of a variety of altitude-inducing ledges, cliffs and kickers. Sometimes even the pros land badly and become grievously injured. High Fives Foundation is a relatively new...
Posted: 02/13/12
Tagged: action, education, environment
Education is a major component of Mountainfilm's mission so that’s why we care about the nascent Green Schools Initiative, which calls itself a "global network of schools guiding schools." Its goal is to encourage schools to make their operations more environmentally friendly and energy efficient...
Posted: 02/06/12
On February 11, 2012, thousands are people around the globe will watch the award-winning film Happy, which won the Audience award at Mountainfilm in Telluride in 2011. From filmmaker Roko Belic, a longtime Mountainfilm regular — who, along with his brother Adrian, is one of the filmmakers behind...
Posted: 01/30/12
Tagged: action
In 2001, Mountainfilm treated audiences to a memorable film called Berserk in the Antarctic, which followed the madcap adventures of a few inexperienced sailors who head for the stormy waters of Antarctica and somehow, despite bad weather and worse decisions, manage to bring back a rollicking good...
