Festivals

Mountainfilm recently announced 2024 Nature Connection pitch at Festival. $25,000 prize in the offing. Applications will be accepted through Feb. 5, 2024. Finalists will be notified by mid-March and will be invited to participate in the pitch event at the Mountainfilm Festival, May 23–26. Filmmakers must...

Based in Telluride, Mountainfilm recently announced a new partnership with nonprofit Subject Matter to provide funds and resources to documentary films that highlight urgent social issues and to nonprofits tackling the featured topics, while creating roadmaps for inspired audiences to take action. Go here to submit a...

Based in Telluride, Mountainfilm recently announced the Guest Director Wade Davis for the 2024 gathering of the tribe. Wade Davis is a  man for all seasons: cultural anthropologist and ethno-botanist, poet and scientist, filmmaker and licensed river guide. Over the years at Mountainfilm, Wade achieved rock-star status,...

Based in Telluride, Mountainfilm just announced $60,000 in Commitment Grants. Go here to donate to help Mountainfilm create a better world. Go here to submit a film. Go here for more about Mountainfilm (going back to 2009). Mountainfilm is excited to announce the 2023 Commitment Grant recipients. From hundreds of applicants,...

Based in Telluride, Mountainfilm* now accepting film submissions for 2024 festival. Go here for more about Mountainfilm (going back to 2009). Since 1979, Mountainfilm has used the power of film, art and ideas to inspire audiences to create a better world — and we couldn't do it without filmmakers like you.

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The following is a note from Mountainfilm's Executive Director Sage Martin. The good news is that beloved Festival Director Suzan Beraza will helm the 2024 event. The sad news: Suzan departs after festival weekend. Go here for more about Mountainfilm (going back to 2009). [caption id="attachment_105857" align="alignnone" width="1200"]...

The Telluride Horror Show has just announced the line-up for its 14th edition, October 13-15, 2023 in world-famous Telluride, Colorado. 14th edition features world premieres, highly anticipated horror titles, and venue addition. Since 2018, Telluride Horror Show has sold out in advance. Horror fans are encouraged to...

Telluride-based Original Thinkers (OT) is a media company that curates creative, fresh, thought-provoking programming to shine a spotlight on a host of major voices, artists, thinkers, storytellers and visionaries. For more information and to learn more about this year’s films and events, visit the schedule for OTT...

It is estimated that there are a million and a half species of fungi - with about 90 percent remaining undocumented. The number of mycophiles? Countless. One of those amanita hat-wearing, mold- and spore-worshipping mycelium fanatics is photographer Lisa Barlow, who shares the following wrap-up...