As the skiing season concludes and the town thins out to mostly locals again, an underground swell of anticipation and excitement builds as Telluride looks forward to the upcoming Mountainfilm festival which officially kicks off festival season on Memorial Day weekend.
The festival has established an annual tradition of bringing together
filmmakers, environmentalists, educators, students, and mountaineers to
the breathtaking box canyon high in the San Juan mountains of southwest
Colorado. The Telluride Mountainfilm festival began in 1979 as an opportunity for climbers and mountaineers to enjoy the Telluride outdoors during
the day and watch films about mountains and mountain culture at night.
As one of America’s longest-running film festivals, Mountainfilm has evolved over the decades to embrace a much wider and
more diverse audience and the programming now stretches to the leading
edges of contemporary social, cultural, and environmental issues.
In addition to screening leading independent documentary films from around the world, this Telluride festival
starts with its traditional Moving Mountains Symposium, which focuses on a pressing contemporary issue such as
energy (2007), water (2008), food (2009) and the extinction crisis
(2010). This year's symposium theme is "Population."
In addition to the great line-up of symposiums that will be held, the festival will also show approximately 75 films, including the premiere of House of Cards, a climbing film that documents Conrad Anker, Jimmy Chin and Renan Ozturk's first ascent of the Shark Fin last October. Over several days, the diverse selection of films will take you on an
odyssey that could encompass music, the far reaches of Morocco's skiing, a
story of a family embracing zero-impact living, or dropping new lines
in big mountain—all within the same festival. Films
are laced with question and answer sessions and symposiums that provide
audiences deeper insight behind these stories and their cast of
characters—from historians, athletes, photographers to writers.
The festival also includes art
exhibits, book signings, student workshops, and a forum for other
non-profit organizations aligned with Mountainfilm’s mission and
programming.
For more information, please visit Mountainfilm.
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