As we close out the 2016-17 Mountainfilm on Tour season, we’re filled with overwhelming gratitude for the filmmakers and guests who made this year’s efforts unforgettable. It was a record-setting year for the tour, reaching over 70,000 people worldwide, including 20,000 students. The tour serves an essential part of Mountainfilm’s mission to inspire audiences to create a better world, and we couldn’t do it without all the filmmakers who share their films on tour.

Mountainfilm is thrilled to present a new look in 2017. The organization has grown tremendously over the last several years, and we felt it was time to evolve the brand into something striking and mem

They have researched orangutans in the canopies of Borneo, kiteboarded across Greenland to run uncharted rivers, reported on the wars of Yugoslavia and kayaked the Grand Canyon blind. And they are coming to Telluride Mountainfilm.

In 2017, Mountainfilm’s symposium will address climate change with the theme The New Normal. Unlike typical years, however, this theme will go beyond the day-long symposium. The New Normal is a broad initiative that will suffuse the festival, alter Mountainfilm’s in-house operations and challenge us to effect positive change in our own community.

Each year, Mountainfilm selects a timely and compelling topic for the theme of its Moving Mountains Symposium, which opens the festival with a series of presentations, panel discussions and break-out sessions around that theme.