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Superstorm Sandy: The Week After

Posted by Mountainfilm on Nov 9, 2012 - 12:49pm / Full Article »

Mountainfilm in Telluride festival director David Holbrooke splits his time between Telluride, Colorado and Brooklyn, New York. What follows is his post Sandy dispatch from Brooklyn.

It’s been a little more than a week since Superstorm Sandy walloped the New York, New Jersey and Connecticut tri-state area, and it’s now snowing outside as I write. Suffering from cabin fever, I headed out earlier this evening into our neighborhood. It feels like February and walking past still-closed subway stations, a mid-winter sensation of cold air hit my face, reminding me of ski season.

Mountainfilm in New York City: An Unlikely Locale?

Posted by Mountainfilm on Oct 16, 2012 - 9:34am / Full Article »
Since David Holbrooke started working as the festival director at Mountainfilm in 2007, he’s split his time between New York City and Telluride, Colorado. This weekend, his two different worlds will collide when Mountainfilm on Tour visits New York’s Lincoln Center for three days of films and guest speakers on October 19-21. Below, he describes what New Yorkers will appreciate in Mountainfilm’s upcoming programming.

Mountainfilm travels all over the world — Brazil, Chile, China and Norway in just the last month — but New York City is, at first glance, an unlikely locale for the festival. Aside from the obvious physical landscape, there are also profound cultural differences. As someone who has lived in both places, however, I know that there are more common interests than one might think.

Lineup Announced for Mountainfilm in New York

Posted by Mountainfilm on Sep 28, 2012 - 1:22pm / Full Article »

New York, NY (September, 2012) – The Film Society of Lincoln Center announced today the lineup for the 2012 Mountainfilm series, which runs from October 19-21. For the third year, Mountainfilm in Telluride comes to New York, bringing with it the energy of the outdoors and the power of movies that matter, plus live appearances, conversations and special performances. The series kicks off with award-winning Chasing Ice, where photographer James Balog documents the disappearance of glaciers in extraordinary time-lapse images, while battling faulty equipment, a bad knee and existential questions about our own uncertain future. Tickets are now on sale!

Film Society of Lincoln Center in New York City Gets Renovation

Posted by Mountainfilm on May 18, 2011 - 3:34pm / Full Article »

The Film Society of Lincoln Center is instrumental in making our New York City event in October happen, and we're excited that its new $41 million film center will be officially open on June 17.

From The New York Times:

More than 160 in-ground orange lights at the entrance will “create a kind of welcome mat,” said the architect David Rockwell, who designed the project. “We wanted people to easily find us. The facade leads you in.”