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Mountainfilm Guest Directors

Each year, a renowned filmmaker, artist, athlete, or cultural figure joins Mountainfilm as Guest Director, bringing leading programming ideas and influential speakers to shape the festival’s vision and expand our mission to inspire audiences to create a better world. Since 2018, Guest Directors have been a celebrated tradition at Mountainfilm. Here’s the list of previous Guest Directors: 
 

2025

Sophia Bush
Sophia Bush is an acclaimed actress, producer, activist, and entrepreneur.
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2024

Wade Davis
Wade Davis is an explorer, Canadian cultural anthropologist, ethnobotanist, photographer, scholar, filmmaker and best-selling author.
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2023

Bill McKibben
Bill McKibben is an author, activist and visionary climate change thought leader.
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2022

Jeff Orlowski-Yang
Jeff Orlowski-Yang is a filmmaker and the founder and creative director of Exposure Labs, a film and impact production studio that uses stories to change the world.
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2021

Hilaree Nelson
Hilaree Nelson was a longtime festival friend, elite American ski mountaineer, and celebrated Telluride local.
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2020

Louie Psihoyos
Louis Psihoyos is an Academy Award–winning filmmaker and former National Geographic photographer.
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2019

Cheryl Strayed
Cheryl Strayed is the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Wild and Tiny Beautiful Things.
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2018

Conrad Anker
Conrad Anker is a legendary alpinist and author known for bold first ascents, finding George Mallory on Everest, and Meru’s “Shark’s Fin”.
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