The lights go dark, the audience quiets down and each show begins at Mountainfilm with a trailer comprised of footage from the many films at that year’s festival. This quick hit of adrenaline, enchantment and humor provides a high-octane start to every program at the festival.

This year, we screened seven intros, and even if you attended the festival, it’s possible that you didn’t catch them all. So by popular demand, we’ve loaded the seven introductions from Mountainfilm 2013 to our website, and you can now watch them all in the comfort of your own home.

Please watch, share and enjoy.

Special thanks goes to those who made this year’s introductions:

Keith Hill
Casey Nay
David Byars
Justin Clifton
Scott Upshur
Stash Wislocki
Raven Hopgood

Every year, I find myself feeling a mixture of sadness and relief when I see the Mountainfilm banner taken down after the festival weekend is over. Our guests left town with sails full from the rousing reception they received and our filmmakers have headed to other festivals (and hopefully new projects that they’ll bring back to Telluride), but I wonder about our audience. I want to know what sort of impact the weekend had on them and how it will affect their lives.

This year was particularly compelling in regard to potential impact as we kicked off the festival with the Moving Mountains Symposium on climate solutions, the great challenge of future generations. Our speakers examined the problem, described some solutions and exhorted the audience to action, but the true test of whether it worked is what happens next. What will you, our audience, do as a result?