Images
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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...
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...
Posted: 12/15/11
Tagged: images, mountainfilm 2012, moving mountains, population
Mountain Lodge Telluride is running a terrific photo competition based on the theme of Mountainfilm's 2012 Moving Mountains Symposium: "Population". Enter the photo contest for a chance to win great prizes, including lodging and passes for Mountainfilm 2012! World renowned photographer Robert Glenn...
Words
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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...
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...
Posted: 12/08/11
Tagged: moving mountains, population, symposium, words
With the total population on the planet exceeding 7 Billion there have been a lot of articles on the issue, which works out well for us at Mountainfilm in Telluride since we are focusing our 2012 Moving Mountains Symposium on the subject. The NY Times produced a terrific reader-generated photo...
Action
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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...
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...
Posted: 01/10/12
Tagged: films, mountainfilm 2012
Submit your film by February 3 to be considered for Mountainfilm in Telluride’s 34th annual festival. Our Call for Entries is open only through our web site at this link for the upcoming 2012 festival, held May 25-28.
Started in 1979, Mountainfilm now receives an average of 500 submissions each...
Posted: 01/03/12
Tagged: action, Activism vs Skepticism, Awareness Into Action, Lexi, Nepal, Volunteer
The Awareness into Action series of blog posts originated in 2011 as a way to document ordinary folks attempting to get out there and do good. We began by following a pair of MF staffers through the setbacks and triumphs of their endeavor to take the inspiration of Mountainfilm and turn it into...
