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Mountainfilm fulfills its long promise
By Seth Cagin at The Watch
"Ask any local to name her favorite Telluride festival and odds are that she will name Mountainfilm. Even if the response is quickly followed up by a confession that she hasn’t made it to the festival in a few years. The reason, I think, is that Mountainfilm has over the years established itself as a local brand that flatters us all. Mountainfilm is both appropriately scaled to our small town and it celebrates precisely our passions for mountaineering, environmental protection and social justice. In some definitive sense, Telluride, the community, is the source of Mountainfilm, the concept. The festival speaks to who we imagine ourselves to be..." More Here
Best of Mountainfilm
The Outside Blog
"MountainFilm in Telluride, a 32-year-old festival, is a little meeting of big minds in a beautiful place. Granted, I'm not being particularly objective. Outside sponsors the festival and a group of editors from the magazine and producers from our new television channel spoke on a panel Sunday. We brought cameras, too: Skier Lynsey Dyer hosted a show to appear later this summer on Outside TV, and photographer Jeff Lipsky shot a group of filmmakers for a story that will be published in our September issue...." More Here
Telluride Mountainfilm Festival to showcase activism and adventure
By Lisa Kennedy at the Denver Post
"Telluride has had a great film festival for more than three decades. Now the mountain town appears to have two vibrant and unique fests. And Mountainfilm couldn't be more different from the cinema extravaganza known as the Telluride Film Festival that unspools each Labor Day. A smartly programmed mix of adventure and socially conscious movies, Mountainfilm (May 28-31) kicks off Memorial Day weekend with its annual symposium of thinkers and doers....." More Here
Outside Television Partners with Mountainfilm in Telluride
"Outside Television, the active lifestyle network formed in partnership with Outside Magazine, announced today that it had signed an agreement with Mountainfilm in Telluride to become the National television partner of the festival. The channel will air films selected from the Mountainfilm festival as part of a new 16 episode series launching this fall." More Here
Legal Cost for Throwing a monkey Wrench
By Kirk Johnson
"Tim DeChristopher became convinced last year that global warming’s potential effects were so urgent and dire that direct action was needed. The niceties of debate and environmental lobbying were not getting the job done, he said...." More Here
Bill McKibben's Movement
By Nicholas Kristof
"When I arrived at college in the fall of 1978, I figured I was a good writer and would shine in the mandatory expository writing class. So I was mildly traumatized to discover that I was the second best writer in the class of a dozen students; the best was a gangly dynamo with an interest in the environment, a kid named Bill McKibben..." More Here
Filmmaker Ken Burns Raises Curtain on National Parks Series
By David Frey
"Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns has produced beloved PBS series on deeply American themes, from the Civil War to baseball to jazz. His next project, due out this fall is The National Parks: America’s Best Idea...." More Here
Mountainfilm on my Mind
By Tracy Ross
"I'm a total sucker for anything that officially celebrates the indomitable spirit, so it's no surprise that I would be completely floored, and elevated, by the Telluride Mountainfilm Festival. Now in its 31st year, MF, as it's known, was started by a bunch of mountain bums..." More Here
