Author: Peter Kenworthy

 FULL LINEUP OF FESTIVAL FILMS   We're excited to announce this year's outstanding lineup of festival films! See the entire list of films here and special guests here. [caption id="attachment_40857" align="aligncenter" width="425"] Still from “Queens & Cowboys,” a featured film at Mountainfilm 2014, about the gay rodeo and...

Updated List Includes Leading Names in Conservation, Adventure, and Advocacy Mountainfilm in Telluride just released the latest in an expanding roster of festival guest speakers, including new additions to the line-up for the Moving Mountains Symposium, which will focus on the theme of “wilderness.” In addition to the Symposium...

[caption id="attachment_37280" align="alignright" width="300"] Huge colonies of Little Auk are found in the fjords of Svalbard. They are nesting in little cavities in the steep rocky cliffs. West coast of Svalbard, European Arctic, image by Florian Schultz[/caption] “In wilderness is the preservation of the world," Henry...

Mountainfilm is pleased to present a special screening of one of this year's best feature documentaries, "The Armstrong Lie." The film, produced by Frank Marshall and directed by Alex Gibney, is on the Oscar shortlist for Best Documentary for 2013. "The Armstrong Lie" is currently screening...

Mountainfilm in Telluride is dedicated to educating, inspiring and motivating audiences about issues that matter, cultures worth exploring, environments worth preserving, adventures worth pursuing and conversations worth sustaining Mountainfilm is now accepting film entries for its 36th annual festival, May 23-26, 2014. Submit your film to be...

The San Miguel Resource Center celebrates our 20th Anniversary this year. As your local non-profit working to end domestic violence and sexual assault, we have come a long way since 1993, when a small group of concerned community members created Tomboy House. In its first year...

Mountainfilm in Telluride’s 35th annual festival celebrations will be boosted by what festival director David Holbrooke describes as an extraordinarily diverse and high quality line up. "Our films are really strong this year across the board,” he said. “Whether they are climbing, environmental or just general interest...

Conrad Anker to moderate discussion with Tom Hornbein and Jim Whittaker following world premiere of “High and Hallowed” In the spring of 1963, an expedition of American climbers attempted a bold ascent of Mount Everest. Fifty years later, two of the men who reached the...

As with all things, there are ups and downs in the documentary film festival world. According to Mountainfilm in Telluride festival Director David Holbrooke however, this year marks something of a zenith. “This is one of the strongest years for documentaries that we've ever seen,” he said. “From...

Pioneering Artists, Adventurers and Scientists to Present at 35th Annual Festival In addition to screening leading independent documentary films, Mountainfilm in Telluride is distinguished each year by the scope of its non-film presentations. World-renowned journalists, photographers and explorers, along with experts in such distinct fields as foreign...