7 Billion and Counting: Where Will We Top Out?
Mountainfilm in Telluride examines population as the theme of our 2012 Moving Mountains Symposium.
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Tim Hetherington
British-American photojournalist Tim Hetherington was known for capturing the interior world of soldiers and mixing it with the exterior violence of their everyday lives. Between 2007 and 2008, he...
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Phil Borges: The Landscape of the Human Face
Posted: 04/13/12
Tagged: art, images, mountainfilm 2012, tibet
By photographing people in indigenous and Tribal cultures, Phil Borges aims to heighten awareness of the issues faced by those in the developing world. He has a particularly close and long-standing relationship with Tibet, and his latest book, Tibet: Culture on the Edge, reflects his respect for...
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Behind the Scenes Before Mountainfilm: Filmmaker Tips and Secrets to Come
Posted: 04/10/12
Tagged: film festival, filmmaker, images, mountainfilm 2012
It requires some serious planning to deliver four days of artists, art, activists, documentaries, shorts, filmmakers, panel discussions, scientists, books, authors, slide presentations, environmentalists, extreme athletes and other socially important elements.
With the festival less than two months...
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DamNation Update: The Momentum of River Restoration
Posted: 03/29/12
Tagged: activism, damnation, Felt Soul Media, images, Mountainfilm Commitment Grant, water
The Mountainfilm Commitment Grant was created to help ensure that important stories are not only told, but also heard. What follows is an update from Ben Knight, one of the recipients of a 2011 grant.
Ninety-nine years after Olympic National Park’s Elwha River was illegally dammed, wild Chinook...
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Mountainfilm Commitment Grant: Helping Fund Documentary about Grande Dame of the Himalaya
Posted: 03/13/12
Tagged: images, mountaineering, Mountainfilm Commitment Grant
The Mountainfilm Commitment Grant was created to help ensure that important stories are not only told, but also heard. Allision Otto and Carole Snow were recipients of one of the 2011 grants for their documentary project, titled Keeper of the Mountains, which is about the Grande Dame of the...
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The Warmest March: Why Does Public Opinion Still Lag?
According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), March 2012 set temperature records that dominated the eastern two-thirds of the nation and contributed to the warmest March on...
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Greg Mortenson: Investigative Report Released
Posted: 04/06/12
Tagged: Greg Mortenson, words
Yesterday concluded a yearlong investigation into Greg Mortenson, the executive director of The Central Asia Institute (CAI) and author of Three Cups of Tea. The attorney general of Montana’s report simultaneously praised Mortenson for “the efforts of a complicated person who has worked tirelessly...
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Cows, Conflict, dZi: Update from Nepal
Posted: 03/30/12
Tagged: Activism vs Skepticism, Awareness Into Action, Nepal, words
The Awareness into Action series of blog posts originated in 2011 as a way to document ordinary folks attempting to get out there and do good. We began by following a pair of Mountainfilm in Telluride staffers through the setbacks and triumphs of their endeavor to take the inspiration of...
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Throwing Away Gorillas: Food Waste
Posted: 03/23/12
Tagged: environment, food, trash, words
We screened the premiere of Bag It in 2009, and artist Chris Jordan has appeared with his “Running the Numbers” series at the festival, so Mountainfilm in Telluride audiences are no stranger to the concept of waste in its many forms, but it’s a topic worth revisiting periodically, especially with...
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Conrad Anker: From One Summit to the Next
Posted: 03/15/12
Tagged: climbing, mountaineering, mountainfilm 2012, words
Mountainfilm in Telluride invited Conrad Anker to town in mid-March, and he spoke to a packed room about his recent summit of Meru, a highly technical peak in India that has eluded many top-notch climbers for decades. Anker had been "obsessed" with the peak for 20 years, and his last unsuccessful...
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Examining Energy: How Does a Community Decide?
Mountainfilm in Telluride is committed to help creative individuals tell stories that represent the spirit of the festival. Mountainfilm Commitment Grants go to filmmakers, photographers, artists and...
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A Request for the Music Aficionados: Please Share a Song
Posted: 04/05/12
Tagged: action
Those who’ve attended Mountainfilm know that we like to start most programs with a short trailer, a compilation of footage that’s accompanied by music. They look something like this:
Mountainfilm 2011 Intro - Wake-Up from Mountainfilm in Telluride on Vimeo.
or this:
Mountain Film 2011 - Intro from...
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Official Notification: Prepare to Mountainfilm
Posted: 03/28/12
Tagged: action, mountainfilm 2012
There are two months until Mountainfilm in Telluride’s 34th annual festival. Consider yourself duly notified.
Ten Simple Steps for the Best Memorial Day Weekend…Ever
Get Psyched: Visit www.mountainfilm.org. Check out the growing list of festival guests, the symposium and return to the site...
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The Nat Geo People’s 2012 Adventurers: Jon Turk and Erik Boomer Don’t Scare the Wind
Posted: 03/20/12
Tagged: action, adventure, kayaking, mountaineering, mountainfilm 2012
Nearly 72,000 people voted for National Geographic Adventure's People's Choice Adventurer of The Year for 2012. The winners are Sano Babu Sunuwar and Lakpa Tsheri Sherpa, who with second-hand equipment, a tiny budget and no corporate sponsors, climbed Everest, descended with paragliders and paddled...
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Moving Mountains Prize: The Wampanoag Language
Posted: 03/16/12
Tagged: action, moving mountains
The 2011 Moving Mountains Prize at Mountainfilmin Telluride was awarded to a film by Anne Makepeace, called We Still Live Here, which is about Jessie Little Doe and her community’s effort to bring back what was, essentially, the lost language of her tribe, the Wampanoag. This important work was...
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