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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...
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...
Posted: 12/27/11
Tagged: adrenaline, film, images, video
Thirty years ago, the rad/extreme/adrenaline film genre was just getting going, and of course Mountainfilm was all over it. We premiered the film Gravity Never Sleeps by Telluride local (and former Mountainfilm board member) Ken Bailey in 1982. It's pretty impressive both what they pulled off way...
Words
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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...
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...
Posted: 01/05/12
Tagged: Mountainfilm 2011, special guests, words
We meet so many inspirational characters through Mountainfilm, yet Aki Ra - the subject of A Perfect Soldier, Mountainfilm in Telluride 2011 - stands out. Now, he is featured in a piece in National Geographic by former Mountainfilm guest Mark Jenkins, along with the challenges and successes of de-...
Posted: 12/29/11
At Mountainfilm last May, two of our favorite people, activist Tim DeChristopher and author Terry Tempest Williams, sat down together in a hotel room in Telluride and talked for three hours. Orion Magazine has published the transcript of their engaging and thoughtful conversation.
From the moment...
Posted: 12/22/11
Tagged: moving mountains, population, words
Each year, the Fund for Peace publishes a list of "failing states" that they catalog according to "their vulnerability to violent conflict and societal deterioration." They use twelve social, economic and political indicators - ranked 0-10 - so a combined score of 120 would mean a state is failing...
Action
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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...
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...
Posted: 01/27/12
Josh Fox brought Oscar-nominated Gasland to Telluride in 2010, and Mountainfilm audiences learned about fracking in natural gas extraction and the negative impacts the process has on communities across the nation. His film was compared by the gas geologist for the Pennsylvania Department of...
Posted: 01/20/12
Tagged: action, Richard Holbrooke
A new book has been written about Ambassador Richard Holbrooke, a repeat guest at Mountainfilm, called An Unquiet American. The book is a compilation of pieces by the subject, mixed with other thoughtful essays by friends and experts, including several people who've come to Telluride for...
Posted: 01/12/12
Tagged: action, adrenaline, mountainfilm in telluride
At Mountainfilm in Telluride, we see a lot of action and adventure films that are plastered with Red Bull logos. It's clear that a lot of funding for expeditions and competitions might not happen were it not for Red Bull or other energy drinks. What's not clear is the health effects these caffeine...
