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Mountainfilm after-the-fest: 2 outdoor screenings!

August 21st: "The King of Telluride" "The Last Frontier" "Asiemut"
August 22nd: "Presence: 40 Days in Greenland" "Shikashika" "Red Gold"

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Telluride Mountain Village Owners Assoc. presents FREE Mountainfilm Screenings. Starting at nightfall (approximately 8:30pm) at the top of Lift 1 where the summer concert series is held. Each show will last approximately 90 minutes.

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In the News

Afghans and Pakistanis "Squeezing" Taliban and al qaeda
(posted 4/22/08)
"Al Qaeda and Taliban militants on the Afghan-Pakistani border are increasingly facing pressure on two fronts and they can be squeezed with more coordination between the neighbors, a U.S. official said on Monday. The Taliban have been battling U.S. and other foreign troops in Afghanistan since 2001. Pakistani forces have also been fighting the militants, based in semi-autonomous tribal regions along the border, who have unleashed an unprecedented wave of violence in Pakistan since the middle of last year...Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden is believed to be hiding out somewhere along the mountainous border." Read the entire article by Robert Birsel at www.reuters.com
*Afghanistan and Pakistan will be featured countries at Mountainfilm 2008 "Hot Spots Around the World: A Foreign Policy Roundtable"

Green is the new black is the new...
(posted 4/9/08)
"It's been thrown around recklessly for a while now, casting a long shadow over local and national lexicons. Sustainability is the new green and green is the new black, which was the new gray...The tiny town of Ashton Hayes is quietly leading a revolution in green thinking: it aims to go carbon neutral, starting with different lights and even a wind turbine and solar panels on its school...The Mountainfilm and New Community Coalition offices got to thinking: Why can't we do something like that?" Taking inspiration from the small British town, Mountainfilm hopes to lead the charge for greening Telluride at the upcoming Memorial Day Weekend Festival with a FREE presentation on Ashton Hayes where locals will be asked to pledge thier eco-friendly practices for 2009. "'I'm hoping to have some change. I'm not looking for a revolution...,' [Festival Director] Holbrooke said." Read the entire article by Matt Beaudin at telluridenews.com

Canada foils UN water plan: Advocates devastated at failure of resolution to recognize water as a basic human right
(posted 4/3/08)
"Canada emerged as the pivotal nation behind recent maneuvers to block the United Nations Human Rights Council from recognizing water as a basic human right, according to international observers. The Geneva-based body wrapped up an intense three-week session late Friday without passing a German-Spanish resolution intended to enshrine its importance in a world where more than 2 billion people live in water-stressed regions...'It was a benchmark for the concept water is a right, not a commodity,' said Maude Barlow." Read the entire article at www.thestar.com

Cohen: Imaginary snipers, real challenges
(posted 3/28/08)
We know who Obama's former pastor is, we know Mccain's navy serial number, we know when Hillary Clinton hasn't been shot at, but do we know where these presidential hopefuls really stand on international policy? As the American election campaign heats up, New York Times foreign affairs columnist Roger Cohen writes about the importance - and lack - of foreign policy debate. "Foreign policy debate in this election campaign has been paltry. I'd like to hear something about GWOT - the "Global War on Terror" - the heart of U.S. national security strategy. It amounts to war without end because "terror" is a tactic and tactics don't surrender. GWOT should be abondoned: It's externallly divisive and internally treacherous. Al Qaeda can be beaten sans GWOT. I'd like some discussion of what NATO might do to help spread the Iraqi burden and ease a gradual extrication of most U.S. troops from Iraq..." Read the entire editorial by Roger Cohen at www.iht.com
*Roger Cohen is part of the distinguished panel slated to discuss "Hot Spots Around the World" during this year's Mountainfilm Festival

World Water Day 2008
(posted 3/21/08)
Although still relatively unknown, World Water Day has been celebrated annually since it's U.N. inception in 1993. Meant to draw attention to the critical lack of clean, safe drinking water worldwide, a different theme is chosen each year. For 2008, the theme is sanitation. "The world water crisis is one of the largest public health issues of our time. Nearly 1.1 billion people (roughly 20% of the world's population) lack access to safe drinking water. The lack of clean, safe drinking water is estimated to kill almost 4,500 children per day...The problem isn't confined to a particular region of the world. A third of the Earth's population lives in 'water stressed' countries and that number is expected to rise dramatically over the next two decades...The world water crisis is created by a confluence of factors including climate and geography, lack of water systems and infastructure, and inadequate sanitation..." more at worldwaterday.net
*Mountainfilm 2008's Moving Mountains Symposium will focus on Water
*We will also be hosting a special corollary to the Symposium Drilling Down: Water and the Southwest

Has the Last Dirty U.S. Coal Plant Been Built?
(posted 3/12/08)
"Democrats in the House have introduced a bill that would outlaw new coal-fired power plants, unless they are built to capture and store carbon dioxide emissions that would otherwise fuel global warming. Under the bill, new plants would have to meet a heretofore unthinkable standard: keeping 85% of carbon pollution out of the sky. United Nations scientists have endorsed the goal of reducing carbon emissions by about 80% to stave off the worst consequences of global warming." more at thedailygreen.com

Un Forum aims to end Human trafficking
(posted 2/28/08)
2008 marks the 60th anniversary since the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, proclaiming all people are born with equal dignity and with equal rights. Despite this international effort to protect people, contemporary slavery is prospering. It's booming not just in India, China, or the Phillipines - but right in our own backyard, where the major problem is that few criminals are convicted and the majority of victims never receive help. Over 28 million people are currently enslaved world-wide, 80% of whom are women and children. At a recent 3-day forum (sponsored by UN.GIFT), over 1,000 delegates from over 100 countries, including celebrities such as Emma Thompson and Ricky Martin, gathered to draw attention to the international issue. "UN officials say human trafficking is the hidden crime of globalisation and nothing short of modern day slavery...human trafficking has become a 'booming organised crime' with annual profits of up to $32 Billion on a global scale." Read the entire article from the BBC at ungift.org
*Contemporary Slavery will be a featured program at Mountainfilm 2008.

Maude Barlow: The Growing Battle for the Right to Water
(posted 2/18/08)
In an interview with AlterNet, Maude Barlow - featured panelist at Mountainfilm's 2008 Moving Mountains Symposium on Water, national chairperson of the Council of Canadians, co-founder of Blue Planet Project, author of Blue Covenant: The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water and Blue Gold: The Fight to Stop Corporate Theft of the World's Water, and recipient of the Right Livelihood Award (the "Alternative Nobel") - discusses how humans have interrupted the hydrologic cycle, what governments are (not) doing about it, and the realities of running out of water. "This is not a cyclical drought. We are actually creating hot stains, as I and some scientists call them, around the world. These are parts of the world that are running out of water and will be, or are, in crisis. Which means that millions more people will be without water. I argue that this is one of the causes of global warming. We usually hear water being a result of climate change, and it is, particularly with the melting of the glaciers. But our abuse, mismanagement and treatment of water is actually one of the causes, and we have not placed that analysis at the center of our thinking about climate change and environmental destruction, and until we do, we are only addressing half the question." Read the entire interview at AlterNet.org

The time has come to kill all the plastic bags
MF to give away free recyclyed-cotton tote bags
(posted 2/11/08)
Although we're more likely to hear about Britney's latest stint in rehab than any environmental crises, it is time for definitive action to reduce the amount of plastic bags we all use. Countries such as China, Australia, Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Ireland, South Africa, and major cities in India, Bangladesh and the UK are all taking action, so should we. It really only does take one person leading the charge, Rebecca Hosking has done it for a small town in Devon, UK. "Many assume that such rapid and widespread shifts in environmental policies around the world can only be the product of an international treaty or, at the very least, the outcome of a highly organized international campaign by leading environmental organizations. But, in the case of plastic bags, the movement appears to be largely local and largely ad hoc." To that end, Mountainfilm would like to encourage everyone to quit plastic, and during the week of March 9-15, 2008 we will be GIVING AWAY free recycled-cotton tote bags to all customers of Clark's in Telluride, Colorado (while supplies last!). Read more from this post about plastic bags at theglobeandmail.com

Human-caused Climate Change at Root of Diminishing Water Flow in Western US, Scientists Find
(posted 2/1/08)
The recent snowstorms and torrential rains may have lulled us all in to thinking that maybe global warming was a myth after all, but we must continue to look at the big picture. "The Rocky Mountains have warmed by 2 degrees Farenheit. The snowpack in the Sierras has dwindled by 20 percent and the temperatures there have heated up by 1.7 degrees Farenheit...Scientists have noted that water flow in the West has decreased for the last 20 to 30 years, but had never explained why it was happening. Until now..." Temperature increases mean earlier snowmelt, leading to flooding and a decrease of available water in the later summer months. "We are headed for a water crisis in the Western United States that has already started..." Read more at Sciencedaily.com

Telluride's Valley Floor Question Still Unanswered
(posted 1/22/08)
"Lawyers for Telluride and the owners of the Valley Floor faced off this morning before the seven justices of the Colorado Supreme Court, arguing to determine the fate of the land at Telluride's doorstep. Justices grilled attorneys for both sides during the hour-long oral arguments, which began at 9 a.m. In their questions, they tested the eminent-domain powers of local governments, probed for blank spots in the Colorado Constitution, and searched for fatal flaws in each side's case." Read the entire article by Pat Healy in The Daily Planet.

Climber Edmund Hillary, Everest Pioneer, Dies at 88
(posted 1/14/08)
"The first man to summit Mount Everest, Sir Edmund Hillary, has died. He was 88. In 1953, Hillary - a beekeeper by trade - and his team reached the mountain's south peak. But, exhausted by the altitude, most team members could go no farther. Only Hillary and a native Nepalese climber, Tenzing Norgay, continued on." David Breashears, a former member of the Mountainfilm Board of Directors, a filmmaker, and a fellow climber, talks with Robert Siegel about the life of his friend, Sir Edmund Hillary. Breashears says Hillary initially gained fame for the climb, but afterward, he dedicated much of his life to supporting the Sherpas in the Himalayas. Listen to NPR's All Things Considered in honor of this mountaineering legend. (Photo of Sir Edmund Hilllary with Charlie Fowler at Mountainfilm 1991.)

Climate change causing species disappearance in mountain areas: Fresh Water, animal and Plant species Threatened
(posted 1/8/08)
To commemorate International Mountain Day, December 11, the FAO Newsroom released a report detailing the effects of climate change on mountain ecosystems. "As glaciers disappear and snowlines move upwards, river flows are likely to change and lack of water may lead to conflict ... The services that mountain ecosystems provide often extend well beyond their geographic areas and include water balance, climate regulation, and maintenance of different species of plants and animals." Just one more example of why we should cherish and protect the Mountains. Read the entire story at fao.com

A Very Inconvenient Truth
(posted 12/19/07)
In the news again recently because of a fantastic article in The New Yorker, longtime friend of Mountainfilm Captain Paul Watson has something to say about the meat industry that we need to hear, "a vegan driving a hummer would be contributing less greenhouse gas carbon emissions than a meat eater riding a bicycle." With all the talk of greenhouse emissions you think (hope) that this wouldn't be news to anyone, and for those who joined us for Mountainfilm 2007 and were lucky enough to hear Paul speak you've been enlightened, but I imagine to most this will be the first you've heard of the meat industry's impact on climate change, marine life, and the lifeblood of our planet - water. Fair warning, these words are not for the squeamish. Read the entire essay here.
*For an update on the Japanese whaling situation, go to Livenews.com (posted 2/1/08)

Canadian pension funds linked to controversial project in patagonia
(posted 12/10/07)
"Tompkin's dream of conserving Patagonia's prodigious resources may soon be crushed. A Chilean utility, HQI Transelec Chile S.A., owned by a consortium led by Canada's Brookfield Asset Management Inc. (which includes major Canadian pension fund managers), is hoping to receive Chilean government approval next year to industrialize Patagonia for the first time." The company plans to open up the unique and pristine wilderness of Patagonia by building a superhighway through it, along with the world's longest high-tension power line and a series of dams. Yvon Chouinard, a world leader in sustainable business practices, one of the original minds behind Mountainfilm and our Guest of Honor in 1981, who first visited Patagonia with his good friend Tompkins in 1968 says, "Chile, more than any other country on the planet, is in a position to capitalize on the advancing technologies of solar, wind, geothermal, and wave power. These technologies are just being developed, so it would be shortsighted for the Chileans to destroy Patagonia." Read the entire story at straight.com

Mining Issues Hit Home - operation could destroy community's vision of its future
(posted 11/29/07)
Sometimes it takes a global issue coming to a head in your own community to make it real. The last month has been a time of uncertainty and fear for residents of the small town of Rico (population 250, 35 miles south of Telluride) since we first heard plans for developing North America's largest molybdenum mine in our own backyard. "On October 15th Bolero Resources...a Canadian mineral acquisition and exploration company, announced they were pleased to be under agreement with Rico Renaissance to purchase all of Rico Renaissance's holdings in and around Rico...where what is thought to be 'one of the largest and certainly the richest grade [molybdenum] deposit possibly in North America...'" Perhaps most shocking about this proposition is the fact that Rico is still a Superfund clean-up site from the mining operations that ended there not so long ago. In fact, our summers are filled with the sounds of trucks and tractors replacing the top 12 inches of soil dangerously contaminated with lead. Now we're looking at a proposal to seat an enormous mining operation right on top of our town drinking water source. Read more in the Rico Bugle

Flostsam Found
(posted 11/16/07)
A cargo ship in 1992 loses 29,000 plastic ducks, frogs, beavers and turtles. Years later beach-combers are still tracking where the toys wash up! Scientists have used the plastic spill to enable them to study ocean surface currents. They uncovered the North Pacific Gyre, where they believe about 28,000 of those plastic floaties are still trapped, helping to create what we call "The Great Garbage Patch". These pictures of trash-buried beaches will change your perspective on the cute little toys. Did you know EVERY sea-bird and sea-turtle has plastic in its stomach? Watch the Wired Science video to learn more

Lake Mead goes dry
(posted 11/07/07)
A scary photo borrowed from our National Media Sponsor, National Geographic, brings to life the fact that "You Can lead them away from water, but you can't make them not drink! ...at North America's largest artificial resevoir, Lake Mead, where the combination of a seven-year drought and explosive population growth have sent water levels plummeting by a hundred feet - their lowest levels since the 1960's." More at NationalGeographic.com

Himalaya Ice-Melt Threat Monitored in Nepal
(posted 10/29/07)
"The Khumbu Glacier on Mount Everest has retreated more than three miles (five kilometers) from the time when Edmund Hillary and Tensing Norgay famously set out to conquer the world's highest peak in 1953. Scientists have documented a similar trend in glaciers throughout the Himalaya, the mountain range that houses Mount Everest. The range, which spans several Asian nations, is known as the Water Tower of Asia, since billions of people depend on its life-bringing flows...In India the Gangotri Glacier, the source of the Ganges (or Ganga) River, is retreating at a rate of 75 feet annually... " Read the entire article by James Owen at National Geographic News

Rule to Expand Mountaintop Coal Mining
(posted 10/19/07)
For those of you inducted into the horrifying knowlege of Mountaintop Coal Mining at this past festival by films such as A Land Out of Time and Kilowatt Ours, an article in The New York Times updates us on the situation. Obviously our voices have not been heard as Washington "enshrines" the destructive coal mining process. Read the entire article in The New York Times

The Plastic Sea
(posted 10/8/07)
A long-time supporter of, and speaker at, Mountainfilm, Captain Paul Watson writes a compelling essay on plastic. "On the beach on San Juan Island, Washington, Allison Lance walks her dogs every morning. She carries a plastic bag in her hand to carry the bits and pieces of plastic debris she picks up. Each morning she fills the bag, but by the next morning there is always another bag to be filled. Joey Racano does the same in Huntington Beach further south in California. The harvest of plastic waste is never-ending..." Read the entire essay here.

DR Congo gorillas are under threat, only 700 remain in the wild!
(posted 9/26/07)
"A young mountain gorilla has been found killed in the Democratic Republic of Congo and park rangers have arrested two men they suspect are part of a gan that traffic the rare animals for $8,000 each. At least 9 of the endangered primates have now been killed this year in the Virunga national park, a designated World Heritage Site." Read the rest of this story at Aljazeera.net

Watch Yvonne Ndege's report online.

Supplying the World's Energy Needs with Light and Water
(posted 9/20/07)
An honored guest at 2007's Moving Mountains Symposium on Energy, MIT's professor of chemistry Dr. Daniel Nocera proposes photosynthesis as a clean solution to our energy crisis. He states "basic research into the chemical processes of photosynthesis could lead to a society powered by water and sunlight". In an article by Kevin Bullis in Technology Review Nocera says "[Photosynthesis] does three things. it captures sunlight, and [second,] it converts it into a wireless current--leaves are buzzing with electricity. And third, it does storage. It stores the converted light energy in chemical energy...It turns out [that] photosynthesis is one of the most efficient machines in the world for energy conversion." Read the entire article.

Worldwatch's new Vital Signs 2006-7 seems more concerned with rising oil prices than with depleting water recources
(posted 9/14/07)
What are the most pressing issues facing humanity today? What can we do about them? Read one man's take as he comments on a new publication by the Worldwatch Institute. The report begins, "One always greets a new publication of Worldwatch with a mixture of excitement and disappointment. Excitement, because it tracks many global trends and produces telling facts and figures which are grist to the mill of any environmentalist. But there is also disappointment, because of the assumption in the very title of this Washington-based NGO: the claim that it represents the aspirations of the entire globe, where people's needs are so diverse."
The issue of water isn't even addressed. Communities around the world are now making decisions regarding water diversions, agricultural practices, water privatization, and sanitation that will affect each of us individually, yet the issue as a global one is being ignored as it compounds. "...the world's population doubled in the second half of the 20th century, while water consumption trebled. If irrigation accounts globally for 70% of the water, industry sucks up 20% and households the remaining 10%. This has put an enourmous load on all waterbodies -- surface as well as aquifers. Two rivers - the Amu Darya in central Asia and Colorado in the US - no longer flow perennially. The Dead Sea, true to its name, has dropped an alarming 25 metres in the last 40 years..." Read the report by Darryl D'Monte

Once hailed as the world's wettest place, Cherrapunji, India now must truck in its water!
(posted 9/6/07)
Cherrapunji is a mountain town situated at 4,872 feet in the Indian state of Meghalaya, it is credited as being one of the world's wettest places and holds the global record for annual rainfall, receiving 1,000 inches in 1861, and gets an average of 12 meters of rain annually! An area once famous for it's torrential rain, Cherrapunji is now forced to truck in water from neighboring regions. Increases in pollution (from a nearby cement plant) and deforestation (increasing at a rate proportional to population growth) are being blamed for the climate changes. Also at issue is the inability of the growing population to capture rainwater as it is quickly lost downhill due to a thin, loose layer of topsoil. Those of us who live in mountain regions are aware of the vulnerability and importance of our environment, mountains are the source of water for more than half of the world's population and all of the major rivers of the world have their headwaters in the Mountains. Cherrapunji illustrates the importance of learning to cope with the issues that face us all: population growth, resource management, and environmental protection. Learn more about the importance of Mountain waters at Mountain Partnership or by reading the blog by BBC correspondent Subir Bhaumik.

"Water will be more important than oil this century," says former UN Secretary General Boutros Boutros Ghali
(posted 8/27/07)
Boutros Boutros Ghali was recently interviewed on Talking Point, where he addressed questions regarding a resource that most of us take for granted. When we think of current global issues, the most common ones to come to mind are climate change, terrorism, HIV and AIDS, the energy crisis, and the war in Iraq. We should add to that list The Water Debate. Did you know:

• Two-fifths of the world's people already face serious water shortages
• Water-borne diseases fill half of the world's hospital beds
• More than 70 million people die every year due to water pollution

Keep current with The Water Debate, and watch the interview with Boutros Boutros Ghali, at BBC News online

Greg Mortenson honored for Excellence in Educating Mountain Communities
(posted 8/27/07)
A guest of Mountainfilm 2006, Greg Mortenson, founder of the Central Asia Institute and co-author of the New York Times bestseller Three Cups of Tea, is being recognized by The Mountain Institute at its Annual Awards Dinner in Washington DC this October. Greg's lifelong interest in mountaineering culminated in a 1993 climb of Pakistan's treacherous K2, an expedition that changed his life and turned his focus toward building schools in some of the most remote regions of Afghanistan and Pakistan. Read more....

Plastic Ocean - Our oceans are turning into plastic...are we?
(posted 8/23/07)
While discussing our potential 2008 Symposium topic "Water", the Mountainfilm staff were introduced to an article in BestLife that has the entire office buzzing. There is an area of the ocean, termed "The doldrums", 800 miles north of Hawaii in the Pacific Ocean, where a vortex of air and water trap the Earth's plastic waste into an island twice the size of Texas! Although this area known as the "Eastern Garbage Patch" was initially discovered by Captain Charles Moore 9 years ago, we had never heard of this phenomenon. To read this striking BestLife article click here.

Will Steger, Blazing trails across continents
(posted 8/22/07)
Will Steger, adventurer and environmentalist, a longtime friend of Mountainfilm and a special guest presenter at this year’s festival, was recently featured and interviewed on MSNBC’s Today Show. With over 40,000 miles of polar expeditions spanning forty years, Will is uniquely qualified to comment on the effects of global warming. A true activist, Will is now teaching the next generation how to rally support for improved environmental consciousness and to solve the problems of climate change. To view the Today Show piece, please click here.

MOUNTAINFILM IN THE PRESS

Mountainfilm Wants you! (to send in your winter photo)
By Matt Beaudin- The Daily Planet
"It came for us in a billion tiny peices on dark nights, sculpting a thick icing on branches and laying alabaster blankets over cars and rooftops. We moved it in heaps and we slept as it kept falling. We rejoiced in it. We took to the hills and to open fields to watch it explode around us into clouds of shattered diamonds..." More at telluridenews.com

Mountainfilm Broadens Scope
By Patrick Healy- The Daily Planet
"This year Mountainfilm fixes its gaze on a map, on the swaths of blue covering 70 percent of the Earth's surface, and on conflict-torn sectors of the glabe that burst occasionally into the news, then vanish into obscurity..." More at telluridenews.com

New Mountainfilm Director Holbrooke in Love with Telluride
By Christina Callicott- The Telluride Watch
"Holbrooke flew into Grand Junction in a snowstorm, hopped in a car bound for Telluride, and pulled into town at 3 a.m. on Christmas morning. It was his first time in the valley, but right away, he knew he was in love..." More at telluridewatch.com

Mountainfilm names Holbrooke as new Festival Director
By Pat Healy- The Daily Planet
"He was 26 and restless when he moved to Telluride, abondoning the Manhattan career orbit, the garbage piles, sulfur haze and stalled subways, swapping it all for a place where you spent your mornings on the mountain and your afternoons at the coffee cart..." More at telluridenews.com

Water Crisis the Focus of Mountainfilm's 2008 Moving Mountains Symposium
"This historic mountain town will be the site of a confluence of leading experts from around the world who will share insights and solutions to the global fresh water crisis as the Moving Mountains Symposium on Water kicks off the 30th Annual Telluride Mountainfilm next May." More at TellurideWatch.com

29th Annual Mountainfilm Festival brings top flicks to Telluride
By Jason Blevins- The Denver Post
"In its 29th year, Telluride's Mountainfilm has established itself as the cinematic and cultural cream atop the West's bounty of 100-plus annual film festivals. Combining some of the world's most accomplished mountain athletes and a stable of acclaimed activists and innovators with short, steal-your-breath action flicks and delving documentaries, Mountainfilm tickles and riles at the same time ... " More at denverpost.com

Locals offer perspective at Mountainfilm fest
By Marilyn Gleason- The Valley Journal
"Each year at the end of May, a tribe of people gather in Telluride, united by a certain bent of mind - sympathy for nature and other forms of life, and a yearning for adventure and for the exotic and unfamiliar... " More at The Valley Journal online

Mountainfilm: celebrating the Human Spirit
By Allen Best- The Aspen Times
"An exquisite setting unfolds. Ahead lies a pasture, verdant in spring and speckled with golden dandelions. Three miles beyond is Telluride, boxed in by canyon walls, draped by waterfalls named Ingram and Bridal Veil. Rimming the basin are white-capped 13,000-foot peaks. The setting is large yet intimate, boldly colorful and often inspiring. That description also applies to Mountainfilm..." More at AspenTimes.com

Mountainfilm's Picks
Plum: Telluride
"Films came from across the globe, but at the end of Mountainfilm weekend, the people's choice went to two flicks homegrown in Telluride..." More at Plum: Telluride

LIGHTS, cAMERA, Action: FAB FILM FESTS
Mountainfilm in Telluride rated in the top five of the festive West ...
"Forget edited-for-content airplane films or trying to descramble the Spectravision in your hotel room—real movie buffs hit the road for the West's 100-plus annual film festivals. Just pick your season and setting—snowcapped mountain towns, metropolitan movie palaces, even beachside venues—and settle into an aisle seat..." More

Do you have an inspiring story of what's new since you were here as a filmmaker or special guest for Mountainfilm 2007? Please email us the details at contact@mountainfilm.org