2010 Mountainfilm Festival: Jury

Moving Mountains Judges
Dr. Rick Hodes Dr. Rick Hodes, the subject of the film Making the Crooked Straight, was the recipient of the 2009 Moving Mountains Prize for his work in Ethiopia. He has lived there for two years, where he treats children with heart disease, cancer and spinal tuberculosis.
Rabbi Irwin Kula Irwin Kula is a rabbi who heads the Jewish think tank at the The National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership and a is regular contributor to “The Today Show.” Author of Yearnings: Embracing the Messiness of Life, he is also the subject of the documentary Time for a New God.
Nancy Schafer Nancy Schafer is the executive director of the Tribeca Film Festival and a creator of the SXSW Film Festival. As a former Telluride resident (1991-92), she worked with the Hanson brothers on Scrapple.
Anna DeAvere Smith Anna Deavere Smith is an acclaimed playwright, but if you look closely at her plays (Fires in the Mirror, Twilight Los Angeles, Let Me Down Easy), you realize she has created a hybrid of brilliant theater and first-rate journalism that digs into such issues as race, poverty and injustice in a completely original way.
Charlie Fowler Judges
Sarah Garlick Sarah Garlick is a New Hampshire-based climber and the author of Flakes, Jugs, and Splitters: A Rock Climber’s Guide to Geology. As a geologist, she’s also the founder of the Geoscience Outreach Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to increased public understanding of geoscience.
Kasha Rigby Kasha Rigby is a ski mountaineer wtih first ski descents of mountains on several different continents, including the Five Holy Peaks in Mongolia. She was an accomplished telemark racer and excelled in extreme skiing competitions.
David Roberts David Roberts is an accomplished mountaineer who has written numerous books on climbing and adventure. He is currently writing a book about the mystery of Everett Ruess, the adventurer who disappeared into the Utah desert in 1934.
Abe Streep Abe Streep is the media and travel editor of Outside magazine. Before he journeyed the globe writing stories for such publications as Mother Jones and The New York Times, he was a circus musician.