To call Mountainfilm in Telluride a film festival is less a misnomer than an understatement. Now celebrating 35 years, Mountainfilm includes, but is not limited to, films about mountain living and adventure, remarkable places, endangered peoples and ideas. The catchall celebration also features breakfast talks, panel discussions, and book-signings. Mountainfilm’s official kick-off is the Gallery…
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“URANIUM DRIVE-IN” PREMIERES AT MOUNTAIN FILM
Telluride talent Suzan Beraza has never let any grass grow under her feet. She is the real thing – rather the Reel Thing (the name of her film production company) – known to walk her talk. Once a diva on the local stage – in the early 1990s, she co-founded the Telluride Repertory Theatre, which…
ioby FEATURED AT MOVING MOUNTAINS SYMPOSIUM
The name is always written in lower-case letters: ioby. But the core ideas the organization embodies are all CAPS. (Oh, and ioby is pronounced eye-OH-be to rhyme with Nairobi.) The nonprofit is a case that makes a point the charismatic entrepreneur/author/environmentalist Paul Hawken made to an SRO crowd at Mountainfilm 2007 and in his book, “Blessed Unrest”:…
OSCAR-WINNER BRINGS “GOD LOVES UGANDA” TO MTNFILM
Roger Ross Williams’ forceful polemic succeeds to a startling degree, rightly decrying the use of the gospel to incite homophobia, and allowing the most fervent interviewees to damn themselves with their own proselytizing words. It’s strong, head-shaking stuff… ,” raved Variety about “God Loves Uganda.” In 2010, Roger Ross Williams introduced audiences at Mountainfilm in…
TELLURIDE MOUNTAIN FILM: GREG BARKER’S “MANHUNT”
“A filmmaker of artistic and political consequence,” raved The New York Times The man behind the breakfast-cereal smile was the special representative in Iraq for Kofi Annan, then the United Nations secretary general. His name: Sergio Veira de Mello. The 55-year-old Brazilian native was impossibly handsome, charismatic, smart, and effective, an ambassador descended from Mt….
TELLURIDE MOUNTAIN FILM: “DUK COUNTY” PREMIERE
These “Lost Boys” never visited NeverNeverland. Their biggest concerns were not pirates and Indians. These “Lost Boys” had way bigger challenges to overcome. They were victims of a war-torn country, who had to survive starvation, dehydration, bomb raids, hungry animals, genocidal murder, to survive and perhaps even find a brighter future. “The Lost Boys of…
MOVING MOUNTAINS TALK: KATHLEEN DEAN MOORE
“If we act on the side of justice, we have the power to turn tides,” Desmond Tutu A moral imperative is the basic experience of encountering the right and compels a person to act. Ask environmental philosopher Kathleen Dean Moore all about moral imperatives, particularly those related to Mother Nature and climate change. She gets…
2013 MOUNTAINFILM IN TELLURIDE: “XMAS WITHOUT CHINA”
In March 2007, the FDA recalled more than 60 million cans of cat and dog food after the death of 14 pets. Later that year, Chinese-made toys were recalled: Mattel took several of its Barbie and Polly Pocket products off the shelves because of concerns over toxic lead paint and hazardous magnet parts. In 2008,…
TELLURIDE MOUNTAIN FILM: “DEAR GOVERNOR CUOMO”
An anti-fracking concert and protest film Powder on mountain slopes. Rivers running steady and strong. Alpine meadows filled with summer flowers. Crowds of happy people, in town for the festivals, fill every bed and restaurant. And opposition to fracking or any other carbon-based energy source, instead of long-term viable climate solutions. In these parts, those…
“TINY: A STORY ABOUT LIVING SMALL,” AT MOUNTAINFILM 2013
“Tiny,” gestation to pay dirt: A writer and multimedia project manager based in Boulder, Colorado, Merete Mueller is laser-focused on environmental sustainability. She has worked as managing editor of “Elephant Journal,” as a project manager at a slow food travel organization, and at a mobile app software company. Originally from Washington DC, Chris Smith has…