It requires some serious planning to deliver four days of artists, art, activists, documentaries, shorts, filmmakers, panel discussions, scientists, books, authors, slide presentations, environmentalists, extreme athletes and other socially important elements.
With the festival less than two months away, it’s crunch time. At this moment, the festival’s programming department — festival director David Holbrooke and program director Emily Long — are scrambling to finalize the 2012 schedule.
We caught up with the two of them and they shared a few tips for filmmakers and what it’s like to be in the Mountainfilm trenches right now.