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Mountainfilm 2009 awards

MONDAY, May 25 • 1-4pm
Closing Picnic & Awards Ceremony
Telluride Town Park
This is the final gathering of the weekend for festival presenters, guests, audience, staff and volunteers. Awards to celebrate the finest films of the festival will be announced, as selected by our esteemed jury. The outdoor setting warrants appropriate dress for an afternoon in the mountains.

The Charlie Fowler Climbing Film Award

Based on an idea by Charlie’s sister Ginny and her husband Maurie, Mountainfilm in Telluride is honored to announce the establishment of an annual Charlie Fowler Climbing Film Award. The cash award of $1,000 will be initiated at the 2007 Festival and will be announced by Charlie’s sister at the Closing Picnic & Awards Ceremony at Telluride Town Park on May 28, 2007. The goal is to make the award self-sustaining for as long as Mountainfilm projectors roll, supported wholly through accrued donations. The film selected to receive the award would express a love for documenting remote exploration and climbing, exhibit an adventurous flair for filmmaking, and would include but not be limited to either first ascent attempts or a strong cultural thread throughout the piece. The hope is that the award will afford the winning filmmaker the opportunity to continue making climbing films, a cinematic genre that Charlie was very much a part of, either as the main talent or simply as part of the crew.
 
This yearly tribute to a former member of the Mountainfilm Board of Directors and Advisory Board member until his death, a humanitarian, and one of the finest mountaineers in the world aligns with Mountainfilm’s idea that friends, adventure, passion,and powerful ideas are worth sustaining.

To contribute, send a check to:

The Charlie Fowler Climbing Film Award
c/o Mountainfilm in Telluride
PO Box 1088
Telluride CO 81435