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MOUNTAINFILM IN TELLURIDE
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WELCOME
Welcome to the
36th edition of
Mountainfilm
in Telluride
When I first came to Mountainfilm, I
had the honor of meeting the late, great
twentieth century explorer Norman
Vaughan who wheeled around Telluride
full of vim and vigor. I think Vaughan –
who died in 2005 and would have been
109 this year – would be pleased to see
how many fellow totally rad oldsters we
have in town for the festival this year.
The wondrous Katie Lee (age 94) returns
once again to Mountainfilm and is featured
not in one but two films (DamNation and
Wrenched) about her undying opposition to
the Glen Canyon Dam. Mending the Line
tells the tale of Frank Moore (age 91), a
World War II veteran who returns to fish
a river in France where he battled Nazis
more than 70 years ago. Magician James
“the Amazing” Randi (age 86), who is the
title character in An Honest Liar, has spent
his career doing something unusual for a
prestidigitator – exposing the truth about
the mentalists, psychics and others he
considers charlatans.
These wise ones are joined by the
Great Old Broads for Wilderness, who
thoughtfully suggested our 2014 Moving
Mountains Symposium theme of
wilderness. The Broads, who have worked
tirelessly and passionately on this issue,
felt, quite correctly, that it was the right
way for us to honor the golden anniversary
of the Wilderness Act. Enacted in 1964,
the Wilderness Act is a relative spring
chicken at the age of 50, but the forwardthinking law ensures that vast tracts of
American wilderness will be kept pristine
forever, an invaluable legacy.
Also invaluable is what we can learn
from the many remarkable seniors in
Telluride this Memorial Day weekend,
who also include Linda Halpern, a civil
rights activist from the 1964 Freedom
Summer; author Jared Diamond (age 77);
and the seemingly ageless Peter Yarrow
(age 75) who will perform a musical
tribute to the late Nelson Mandela and
Pete Seeger (p.71). Their indomitable
spirit, wisdom and eternal passion are
embodied by something Norman Vaughan
often said, “Dream big and dare to fail.”
A lesson for all of us, young and old.
—David Holbrooke, festival director
JUDGES & AWARDS / BOARD & DONORS / STAFF / VOLUNTEERS / IN MEMORIAM / INDEX / MAP
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WELCOME / SPONSORS / TOC / FESTIVAL TIPS / OUR MISSION / FILMS / GRID / PRESENTATIONS / EVENTS
P H OTO BY N ORI LUP F E R
CONTENTS
3 WELCOME
9 HOW TO MOUNTAINFILM
12 WHAT WE DO
15 FILMS
16
42
44
48
57
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THE FILMS
ADRENALINE
KIDZ KINO
SCHEDULE
BASE CAMP
PRESENTATIONS
SYMPOSIUM
60 MOVING MOUNTAINS 64
72
75
76
80
85
87
SPEAKERS
LIBRARY
EVENTS
GALLERY WALK
TOWN TALKS
READING FRENZY
SPECIAL EVENTS
89 AWARDS & JUDGES
92 BOARDS & DONORS
93 STAFF
95 VOLUNTEERS
96 IN MEMORIAM
97 INDEX
99 MAP
POSTER AND COVER ARTWORK
BY MAGGIE TAYLOR
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P H OTO ME L I S S A P L AN TZ
FESTIVAL TIPS
NEW THIS YEAR
OUTDOOR PROGRAMS
Last year, we expanded our popular
Coffee Talks into happy hour with
Booze & Banter. With the 2014 theme
of wilderness, we want to get people
outdoors. Check out page 84 for
information about the new Wilderness
Walks & Talks program.
QUEUE BUSKERS
We’ve gathered a cadre of musicians,
entertainers and jokesters to rove and
entertain people in theater lines.
FEWER TURN-AWAYS
In 2013, we decreased the number of turnaways from all theaters by approximately
15 percent. Getting people into the theaters
of their choice continues to be our numberone priority.
SMARTPHONE APP
We’ve got a slick new way to check
whether Q’s are still available at
theaters: an app that reports real-time
seat availability. Search for “Telluride
Mountainfilm” in your mobile app
store to download it, or go to
www.mountainfilm.org. This app will
also display descriptions of films and
presentations, the festival schedule, events
and other program information.
HOSPITALITY &
COMMUNICATIONS LOCATION
Pick up your pass and build a strategy
for how to navigate the festival at the
new Hospitality located at the Sheridan
Opera House.
Check the map (page 99) for locations.
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WELCOME / SPONSORS / TOC / FESTIVAL TIPS / OUR MISSION / FILMS / GRID / PRESENTATIONS / EVENTS
FESTIVAL TIPS
How to
Mountainfilm
FINAL BETA
Find the online clearinghouse for all TBA
announcements, program changes and
cancellations at www.mountainfilm.org/
final-beta.
LOW IMPACT
We continue efforts to decrease our
carbon footprint and thank you for
bringing your own coffee mug, dishes and
tableware to festival-sponsored events. If
you are in need of reusable items, go to
the Mountainfilm Store at BootDoctors &
Paragon Outdoors (info below).
THE MOUNTAINFILM STORE
Official Mountainfilm apparel
is available at BootDoctors &
Paragon Outdoors at 213 West Colorado
Avenue or at their Oak Street location
across from the Camel’s Garden.
THEATER LINES
All theaters have two lines: 1) pass
holders and ticket holders and 2) ticket
buyers. Pass and ticket holders are
admitted first; additional tickets are sold
for $25 if seats are still available. Queue
early, especially at the smaller theaters:
Sheridan (230 seats), Nugget (186),
Masons (120) and The Library (65). The
back of your pass lists any restrictions.
THE Q SYSTEM
When lines start to form, theater staff will
issue Q tickets. If you see these numbered
slips of paper being handed out, get one.
The lower the number, the more likely it
is that you’ll get into the theater, but Q’s
do not guarantee a seat; they merely let the
staff know your place in line to prevent
others from cutting in front of you. If you
do not enter the theater when your number
is called, you will wait until the entire line
has been let into the theater.
INDIVIDUAL TICKETS
Individual program tickets ($25) go on sale
after all pass holders have been admitted to
the theater.
GETTING AROUND
THE GONDOLA AND THE GOOSE
All theaters are reachable by foot, bicycle
or gondola – which runs between Telluride
and Mountain Village from 7:00 a.m. to
12:00 a.m. On Saturday during the festival,
gondola hours will be extended until 1:00
a.m. Telluride’s shuttle bus, the Galloping
Goose, runs a loop through Telluride every
10 minutes. In Mountain Village, dial
970.728.8888 during Gondola hours for
Dial-A-Ride services within town limits.
All of these options are free of charge.
AIRPORT SHUTTLE
Telluride Express provides ground
transportation between Telluride and area
airports: 888.212.TAXI.
Go to Events (page 75) for parties and other special gatherings.
JUDGES & AWARDS / BOARD & DONORS / STAFF / VOLUNTEERS / IN MEMORIAM / INDEX / MAP
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P H OTO BY N ORI LUP F E R
WHAT WE DO
OUR MISSION
MOUNTAINFILM ON TV
MOUNTAINFILM ON TOUR
MOUNTAINFILM ONLINE
MOUNTAINFILM
COMMITMENT GRANT
GREEN SCREEN
MOVIES THAT MATTER:
MOUNTAINFILM IN THE CLASSROOM
NEXT STEP
Mountainfilm 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.
Throughout the year, we take films from the
festival around the world, sharing singleevent and multi-day shows. Hosted by a
wide variety of organizations, we reach
nearly 40,000 people annually in over 100
locations on five continents.
This program awards up to five $5,000
grants annually – along with a MacBook
Pro – to filmmakers, photographers,
artists and adventurers whose projects
are intended to move audiences to action
on important issues.
We believe that children are the most
important audience that we can reach,
and we do this by collaborating with
our Mountainfilm on Tour hosts in
K-12 schools across the country, where
we offer free screenings of festival
films that are supported by customized
educational materials.
Mountainfilm has a prime-time television
show on the Outside Television cable
network. If Outside Television serves your
community, don’t miss it. If you don’t have
access, go to www.outsidetelevision.com to
request Mountainfilm in your home.
Thanks to the team at VentureWeb,
we’ve built a dynamic site that offers
films, updates on our remarkable guests
and timely blogs about noteworthy
subjects. Visit www.mountainfilm.org
and follow us on Facebook and Twitter
for other daily updates.
We continue to refine and sharpen our
tradition of reducing the festival’s impact to
as near zero waste as possible. Please help
us: Bring your own reusable plates, bowls,
cups, mugs and utensils to festival events,
and please don’t use single-purpose plastic
bags, bottles or containers.
Next Step connects our audiences with
many of the humanitarian, environmental,
social and cultural causes espoused by our
filmmakers and presenters. The goal is to
promote action toward positive change.
Take the “next step” by meeting with
representatives from nonprofit and missionbased organizations at our Ice Cream Social,
Reading Frenzy and Closing Picnic.
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Mountainfilm 2014
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FILMS
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FILMS
ADRENALINE
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SCHEDULE & BASE CAMP
P HOTO ME L ISSA PL ANTZ
KIDZ KINO
THE FILMS
14.C
George Knowles
(FRIDAY, 6:15 P.M., SOH;
SATURDAY, 3:30 P.M., HC)
IN PERSON: George Knowles,
Connie Lightner
& Kai Lightner
Climbers all have a story
about how they got started,
and 14-year-old Kai Lighter’s
introduction is particularly
striking – and not only because
he’s a brilliant climber. Much
like Tiger Woods in golf or the
Williams sisters in tennis, he
could change the demographics
of climbing. This film, directed
by Telluride’s George Knowles,
isn’t about race, however, it’s
about family. His single mother
has become his regular belay
partner, one who also makes sure
that he maintains straight A’s in
school. It’s clear that she wants
what’s best for her son, and if
that means spending hours with
her hands on a belay device and
her neck craned upward, so be it.
–DH
(USA, 2014, 9 minutes)
64 MPH
Brett Shreckengost
(SATURDAY, 8:45 P.M., BC;
SUNDAY, 6:30 P.M., SOH;
MONDAY, 11:00 A.M., PALM)
IN PERSON: George Hope
WORLD PREMIERE
The San Joaquin Couloir – a
narrow chute that plunges
gracefully down the face of
San Joaquin Peak – is one
of Telluride’s most iconic
backcountry lines. Greg Hope
– a home-grown skier who has
shredded the San Juan Mountains
to pieces – is one of the town’s
best-known rippers. In 64 mph,
the two meet for one sloughdodging, high-velocity descent.
–KK
ALIVE INSIDE:
A STORY OF MUSIC
& MEMORY
Michael RossatoBennett
(FRIDAY, 7:15 P.M., HC;
When filmmaker Michael
Rossato-Bennett learned that
a clip of his work-in-progress
film Alive Inside had leaked and
gone viral on the Internet, he
was – surprisingly – thrilled.
He’d spent the previous three
years following social worker
Dan Cohen, a man who
devotes his life to rehabilitating
Alzheimer’s patients through
music. The viral leak had an
immediate and palpable effect
on Cohen’s work, increasing
awareness, raising funds and
opening doors that had been
closed previously. For Cohen
– whose mission is to bring
personalized music to as many
senior citizens as possible – the
obstacles are large, but not
insurmountable, thanks in part
to this film, which won the
Audience Choice Award for
Best Documentary at Sundance
in 2014 and will lift your heart
to the ceiling.
–EL
THE FILMS
BORN TO FLY
Catherine Gund
THE APOTHECARY
Helen Hood Scheer
(SATURDAY, 9:00 P.M., MAS;
SUNDAY, 6:00 P.M., MAS)
IN PERSON: Don Colcord
Nucla, Colorado, just an
hour’s drive from Telluride,
has seen hard times ever since
the U.S. uranium industry
collapsed in the late 1970s. It’s
a hardscrabble town, where the
folks who haven’t fled barely
eke out a living. One oasis of
activity is The Apothecary
Shoppe, the sole pharmacy
within 4,000 square miles. The
owner, Don Colcord, gamely
occupies multiple roles as
druggist, surrogate doctor,
life counselor and community
benefactor. Colcord’s sanguine
public persona, however, belies
a long-suffered private pain for
which there is no drug, no cure
and no relief.
–PK
A BEAUTIFUL
WASTE
Jon Kasbe
(SATURDAY, 8:15 P.M., SOH;
IN PERSON: Steve Duncan
& Jon Kasbe
We last saw Steve Duncan
in Telluride in 2011 with his
award-winning film Undercity,
where he explored way below
and way above New York
City. In A Beautiful Waste, he
journeys down to the core of
the Big Apple to wander its
sewers. Of course this exploit
offers its share of nastiness,
but there’s also something – as
the title implies – beautiful in
these adventures.
–DH
SUNDAY, 6:30 P.M., SOH)
IN PERSON: Hope Clark
& Elizabeth Streb
Elizabeth Streb believes
humans can walk on walls,
hover in space and fly. And
she proves it. Streb is a
choreographer who defines
herself as a wildly extreme
action architect. The heart and
soul of Streb’s dance is closer
to the philosophy of climbers
and BASE jumpers than you
might imagine. What these
disciplines have in common is
a theory of movement based on
the inspiration to defy gravity.
Born to Fly asks: Can adrenaline
be a form of medicine? When
does movement become art?
What does it take for humans to
fly? Profiling Streb and several
of the dancers in her Extreme
Action Company, filmmaker
Catherine Gund shows a group
of individuals who do not accept
limitations in what the human
body can do.
–EL
JUDGES & AWARDS / BOARD & DONORS / STAFF / VOLUNTEERS / IN MEMORIAM / INDEX / MAP 17
THE FILMS
CATCH IT
Sarah Menzies
(FRIDAY, 8:45 P.M., BC;
IN PERSON: Sarah Menzies
CASTLES IN
THE SKY
Ben Moon
SUNDAY, 9:30 A.M., NUG)
IN PERSON: Ben Moon
As climber Sonnie Trotter
establishes a stunning 5.14
route on Castle Mountain in
the Canadian Rockies, this
short film digs deeper into his
motivations, which flow from
a place of creativity and allconsuming passion.
–KK
Though she grew up chasing surf
in the warm waters of southern
France, Lea Brassy’s nomadic
lifestyle has led her to Northern
Norway, where frigid waves
crash into a rugged coastline
and mountains rise straight up
from the sea. Finding simplicity
and an appealing balance
between nature and humanity,
she parks her van for awhile
to connect with the landscape.
Fishing, climbing and surfing in
a thick wetsuit, even while the
snow falls around her, Brassy
reminds us that living simply is
living fully.
–KK
(USA/Norway, 2013, 10
minutes)
COLD ROLLED
Aaron Peterson
IN PERSON: Aaron Peterson
In recent years, Telluride has
seen a spate of fat bike riders.
Strike that. In recent years,
Telluride has seen a spate of
bicyclists who ride bikes with
super fat tires, some as wide
as 4.5 inches. These bikes
navigate winter trails that have
long been the sole province
of skiers and snowshoers.
Cold Rolled captures this
sport with footage from near
Lake Superior, where the long
winters make for great
fat biking.
–DH
THE FILMS
COMING HOME
Aly Nicklas
IN PERSON: Aly Nicklas
Aly Nicklas grew up in Alaska,
two blocks from the lifts of
Alyeska. She quit high school
and moved to the mountains
of Colorado to pursue her
lifelong dream of competitive
snowboarding. But by 2004, at
the age of 21, she had suffered
at least 10 concussions. The
symptoms were stacking up:
memory problems, seizures,
depression and trouble
speaking. So she put her board
away. Eight years later, she
strapped on a board and helmet
and returned to the slopes. This
short film explores what it felt
like to return to her first love.
–KK
COMMON GROUND
Alexandria Bombach
(SATURDAY, 11:45 A.M., HC;
IN PERSON: Alexandria
Bombach
WORLD PREMIERE
The fight to preserve wilderness
is not waged by just woolyheaded radicals and bleedingheart intellectuals. It’s an issue
with advocates on all sides,
including hard-working, downto-earth farmers, ranchers and
guides in Montana, where
the controversial Heritage
Act – designed to identify new
wilderness and manage nonwilderness lands – has pitted
neighbor against neighbor.
–PK
CREATIVE
COMPULSIVE
DISORDER
Stormy Pyeatte
(SUNDAY, 4:15 P.M., SOH)
IN PERSON: Stormy Pyeatte
A fatal hiking accident in Ouray,
Colorado, cut Zina Lahr’s
artistic life short. Shot as a video
for her portfolio, this short film
now serves as a fitting tribute
to a creative who will continue
to touch people with her
effervescent nature and work.
–DH
THE FILMS
DAMNATION
Ben Knight &
Travis Rummel
(FRIDAY, 6:30 P.M., PALM;
SUNDAY, 8:45 P.M., BC)
IN PERSON: Ben Knight,
Mikal Jakubal, Katie Lee,
Travis Rummel
& Matt Stoecker
When Floyd Dominy, the
longtime commissioner of the
Bureau of Reclamation, died
in 2010, The Washington Post
referred to him as a “Big Dam
Builder and Public Servant.”
After watching DamNation,
the first assessment is clear,
but the second is questionable.
Dominy is the clearest villain
in this tale that explains how so
many of America’s free-flowing
rivers were dammed. Luckily,
the story has many heroes as
well, including Mikal Jakubal,
who stealthily painted massive
cracks on dams. His bold acts
of “artivism” helped kickstart a
national movement to end the
bottling up of rivers. The film
captures this narrative, along
with astonishing footage from its
intrepid co-director, Telluride’s
Ben Knight (Red Gold and
Eastern Rises, Mountainfilm 2008
and 2010), who camouflaged
himself to get extremely close
– the law would definitely say
too close – in order to film the
explosive demolition of Condit
Dam in Washington state.
Getting up close is what the best
documentaries do, and Knight and
his team took that risk – and many
others – to make this dazzling
documentary.
–DH
A 2011 Mountainfilm
Commitment Grant recipient
DEAR GOVERNOR
HICKENLOOPER
Stash Wislocki
(SATURDAY, 9:15 A.M., PALM;
IN PERSON: Shane Davis,
Stash Wislocki &
Allison Wolff
WORLD PREMIERE
Inspired by the 2013
Mountainfilm selection
Dear Governor Cuomo, this
compiling by Colorado creatives
follows Shane Davis (a.k.a.
The Fractivist) as he guides us
through a series of vignettes.
These stories were collected
from the state’s filmmakers,
farmers, skiers, activists and
concerned citizens and use
both science and emotional
appeal to explain why fracking
is problematic in Colorado.
This confident and brash
film incorporates work from
some previous Mountainfilm
contributors, including Suzan
Beraza (Bag It and Uranium
Drive-In, Mountainfilm 2009
and 2013), Alexandria Bombach
(“MoveShake” series and
Common Ground, page 19),
Pete McBride (Chasing
Water and The Water Tower,
Mountainfilm 2011 and 2013),
Jeff Orlowski (Chasing Ice,
Mountainfilm 2012) and Scott
Upshur (The Local’s Bite,
Mountainfilm 2012).
–EL
DESERT ICE
Keith Ladzinski
IN PERSON: Keith
Ladzinski
With its towering sandstone
walls, scurrying lizards and
desert sun, Zion National Park
isn’t a famed ice climbing
destination. But during winter’s
coldest days, if the conditions
are right, ice can form inside
its deep, shadowy slot canyons,
creating frozen pitches amid
incredible red rock formations.
In Desert Ice, climbers Scott
Adamson and Jesse Huey
set out in search of Zion ice.
What they discover is a rowdy
adventure of bushwhacking
and runouts, ice runnels and
sandstone, snowfall and
chimneys and, in the end,
glorious ice.
–KK
THE FILMS
DUBAI – A SKIER’S
JOURNEY
Daniel Irvine
& Jordan Manley
A desert oasis beckons. Is it
a mirage, or is that really a
chairlift? Talented filmmakers
Jordan Manley and Daniel
Irvine has been following
skiers around the globe for
years for their series “A Skier’s
Journey,” but in this episode,
they’ve stumbled across a
strange location for rippers.
Ski Dubai is a small hill with a
200-foot vertical rise that’s built
into a luxury shopping mall in
the largest sand desert on the
planet. Massive air-conditioning
fans whir to cool the single
slope, while temperatures
outside soar above 100 degrees.
But the benefits entice: a
collection of quirky regulars,
year-round turns and predictable
conditions.
–EL
(Canada, 2013, 10 minutes)
DUKE AND THE
BUFFALO
Alfredo Alcántara
& Josh Chertoff
(SATURDAY, 3:30 P.M., NUG;
SUNDAY, 6:00 P.M., NUG)
IN PERSON: Duke Phillips
& Alfredo Alcántara
Duke is a cowboy. The
buffalo are part of the largest
conservation herd of bison in the
United States. Every year, Duke
organizes a roundup of theses
buffalo to inspect the health of
the herd and yield income to
sustain the Nature Conservancyowned ranch where the buffalo
roam. It turns out that bison
aren’t as easily herded as cattle,
and a lot of cowboy mettle gets
tested every year. Taken right
into the action by filmmaker
Alfredo Alcantara, we can all
be thankful that we’re mounted
atop nothing friskier than a
theater seat when the thunder of
the stampede turns our way.
–PK
EMPTYING THE
SKIES
Douglas Kass
& Roger Kass
SUNDAY, 11:45 A.M., PALM)
IN PERSON: Roger Kass &
Andrea Rutigliano
Just as The Cove (Mountainfilm
2009) exposed the tragic
slaughtering of the dolphins of
Taiji, Emptying the Skies serves
European migratory songbirds
with a similar purpose. Fighting
the good fight against the
poachers who slaughter the
birds to sell to chefs are fearless
activists and the novelist
Jonathan Franzen, a devoted
amateur ornithologist whose
story in The New Yorker inspired
this documentary by brothers
Douglas and Roger Kass.
–DH
THE FILMS
THE FORTUNE WILD
Ben Gulliver
E-TEAM
Katy Chevigny
& Ross Kauffman
(FRIDAY, 6:30 P.M., NUG;
SUNDAY, 4:00 P.M., HC)
IN PERSON: Ross Kauffman
Human rights crises can erupt
so suddenly that they catch
people off-guard. That’s where
the Emergencies Team – or
E-Team – of Human Rights
Watch comes in. They are tasked
with uncovering evidence that
will show the rest of the world
what actually takes place in
such hotspots as Libya or, most
recently, Syria. In this trenchant
documentary, filmmakers
Katy Chevigny and Ross
Kauffman (Born into Brothels,
Mountainfilm 2005) follow four
members of this squad of human
rights investigators into one hell
hole after another to expose the
searing truth. In the process, we
learn that there are staggeringly
brave men and women who go
to the front lines to preserve the
human rights of countless people
they never meet.
–DH
If Wes Anderson were inspired
to make a surf film, it might
look like The Fortune Wild.
Borrowing from Anderson’s
signature style, director Ben
Gulliver creates a witty and
light-hearted film about a
beautiful wild area – Haida
Gwaii, a chain of wave-swept,
lushly forested islands off the
British Columbia mainland.
Surfing, camping and foraging
for food on the unspoiled
beaches, three surfers step away
from the modern world and
into a quieter – and quirkier
– existence that is both more
attuned and self-sufficient.
–EL
FREEDOM SUMMER
Stanley Nelson
(SATURDAY, 9:45 A.M., MAS;
SUNDAY, 11:45 A.M., MAS)
IN PERSON: Linda Halpern
& Cyndee Readdean
In the summer of 1964, the
Civil Rights Movement was
active in Mississippi, where
hundreds of activists were
trying to register black voters
across the state. Freedom
Summer – a sequel of sorts to
Freedom Riders (Mountainfilm
2010), which was also directed
by Stanley Nelson – tells
the story of that tumultuous
summer, looking closely at
the brave men and women –
including Linda Halpern – who
risked or lost their lives in the
effort to make a fundamental
change. This documentary also
explains the larger national
situation as President Johnson,
pressured by the summer’s
events, addressed the systemic
racism prevalent in both
political parties.
–DH
THE FILMS
THE GRAND
RESCUE
William A. Kerig,
Meredith Lavitt &
Jenny Wilson
IN PERSON: Meredith Lavitt
& Jenny Wilson
Mountain rescue is always
a risky proposition, so those
who are attracted to the job
tend to be strapping, young
and full of verve – and nerve.
This was definitely the case in
1967, when a group of seven
national park rangers in the
Grand Tetons risked their lives
to save an injured climber. On
August 22, Gaylord Campbell
was climbing the north face
of the Grand Teton with a
friend when a boulder broke
free and showered them with
rocks, leaving Campbell with
compound fractures. During the
rescue attempt, which took three
days, Campbell was critical
of the methods and decisions
made by his saviors every turn
of the way. The Grand Rescue
tells this legendary story for the
first time in film. Several park
rangers from the rescue will
speak after the screening.
–EL
THE GUARDIANS
Andy Maser
& Jenny Nichols
IN PERSON: Jenny Nichols &
Jeffrey Parrish
WORLD PREMIERE
Fighting threats of poaching,
habitat destruction and the
instability of new national
independence, a community
in Namibia must protect the
exceptional local wildlife
and surrounding natural
environment. Sustainable
wildlife tourism is essential to
their survival, but frustrated
farmers often shoot a lion that
kills livestock. Residents take
conservation efforts into their
own hands, assuming personal
responsibility to protect the freeroaming lions and other wildlife.
–EM
(USA/Namibia, 2014, 6 minutes)
HARVEST OF
SHADOWS
Matt Black
IN PERSON: Matt Black
In the lush and fertile farmland
of California, thousands of
undocumented laborers find
themselves between a rock and
a hard place, working illegally
with forged paperwork and
earning an average of only
$12,000 per year. A poignant
snapshot of what it means to live
as a migrant worker, Harvest
of Shadows gives a face to the
nameless.
–EM
THE FILMS
HIGH TENSION
Zachary Barr, Peter
Mortimer, Josh Lowell
& Nick Rosen
(SUNDAY, 9:45 A.M., HC)
IN PERSON: Conrad Anker,
Aaron Huey, Zachary Barr,
Nick Rosen & Norbu Tenzing
In the spring of 2013, “The Swiss
Machine” Ueli Steck set out to
climb Mount Everest and then
neighboring Lhotse without
oxygen. But he and climbing
partner Simone Moro ended up
in an ugly confrontation with
some Sherpas who were fixing
lines on the route. The fight
spilled into Camp 2, culminating
in a group of Sherpas attacking
the two European climbers with
rocks. In High Tension, Sender
Films, which was embedded
with Steck, digs into the Everest
clash, an incident with an added
dimension after an avalanche
killed 16 Sherpa guides on April
18, 2014. After the screening, there
will be a conversation about the
complicated relationship between
the Sherpa people and the climbing
community with alpinist Conrad
Anker; photographer Aaron
Huey, who is working on a story
about the Sherpas for National
Geographic magazine; Sender
Films principal Nick Rosen; and
Norbu Tenzing, the vice president
at the American Himalayan
Foundation and son of Tenzing
Norgay, who summited Everest
with Sir Edmund Hillary in 1953.
–KK
AN HONEST LIAR
Tyler Measom
& Justin Weinstein
IN PERSON: Tyler Measom &
James “The Amazing” Randi
James “The Amazing” Randi
became a world-famous magician
and escape artist by studying
the art of illusion employed
by Harry Houdini and other
master magicians. When Randi
saw these techniques used by
spoon benders, faith healers
and mentalists to extract money
from innocent people, he was
outraged and appeared regularly
on television programs to debunk
what he considered phonies
of the lowest kind. Truth and
deception – hallmarks of Randi’s
life – take on a new meaning,
however, when he has to fight a
different battle, one that involves
the law and his partner.
–DH
ISLE DE JEAN
CHARLES
Emmanuel
Vaughan-Lee
(FRIDAY, 6:30 P.M., PALM;
SUNDAY, 8:45 P.M., BC)
IN PERSON: Adam Loften &
Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee
WORLD PREMIERE
In the next two years, the Isle
de Jean Charles is expected to
flood and be lost to sea,
but the resilient inhabitants
on this tiny southern Louisiana
island would tell you
otherwise. In this short film,
the last dauntless residents
of this community contemplate
their heritage and permanence
as their kingdom quietly
slips away.
–EM
THE FILMS
A LIFE WELL LIVED
| JIM WHITTAKER
& 50 YEARS OF
EVEREST
Eric Becker
THE KARSTS OF
CHINA
Keith Ladzinski
IN PERSON: Keith Ladzinski
& Cedar Wright
WORLD PREMIERE
Sprinkled across the vast
country of China are pockets of
geologic wonder: surreal forests
of limestone fins, monumental
arches and slender towers
that reach into the sky. In The
Karsts of China, climbers Cedar
Wright, Emily Harrington
and Matt Segal and National
Geographic photographer
Carsten Peter spend a month
roaming the country, seeking
otherworldly formations
and unclimbed routes in
an exploration of wild and
incredible landscapes.
–KK
THE LAST SEASON
Sara Dosa
SUNDAY, 9:30 A.M., NUG)
IN PERSON: Sara Dosa &
Josh Penn
Mushrooms are a strange and
mysterious species, whose
infinitesimal filament roots can
go dormant for many seasons
until growing conditions
become just right. No less odd
and unfathomable are humans,
whose emotional lives can revive
after unimaginable affliction
when a nourishing environment
presents itself. This film,
awarded a 2013 Mountainfilm
Commitment Grant, explores the
touching relationship between
two mushroom hunters: one
a Vietnam vet approaching
his final days, the other a
Cambodian exile conscripted as
a child into slave labor for the
Khmer Rouge.
–PK
A 2013 Mountainfilm
For Jim Whittaker, the first
American to stand atop Mt.
Everest, a life well lived
means stepping outside of his
comfort zone regularly. “Trials,
tribulations and a few scars,”
he says, are all parts of learning
the real meaning of life. And
what taking risks didn’t teach,
he learned from the natural
world – from the awe and
humility it inspired. This short
film is long on wise words from
a great American hero who has
participated in Mountainfilm
twice (2009 and 2013).
–PK
PH OTO BY DA NA RO MA NO F F
THE FILMS
LIVING WILD
Eric Valli
THE LION’S
MOUTH OPENS
Lucy Walker
In 2010, filmmaker Lucy Walker
brought to Mountainfilm the
unforgettable story of Vik Muniz,
the Brazilian artist in Wasteland.
In 2011, she captured the personal
impact of the tsunami in Japan
(The Tsunami and the Cherry
Blossom). And last year, she
screened The Crash Reel, which
shows the uphill struggle of
snowboarder Kevin Pearce as
he recovers from a traumatic
brain injury. This year, Walker
is back with her lens trained on
Marianna Palka, an appealing
young woman on the verge of
finding out whether or not she has
Huntington’s disease, which has
symptoms much like a brutal mix
of Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s.
Walker’s access and sensitivity to
her subject is remarkable – as is
the resulting film.
–DH
(SATURDAY, 9:30 A.M., SOH)
IN PERSON: Lynx Vilden
Lynx Vilden’s goal before
she turns 50 is unusual: She
wants to take a community of
individuals into the wilderness
for one year to live as our
ancestors did thousands of years
ago – metal, plastic and glass
to be replaced by leather, wood
and stone. Forget Paleo. The
challenges of that diet pale in
comparison to Vilden’s vision.
Living Wild tells the story
of one season of her project,
documenting a small group of
students learning how to live
together in the wilderness. This
is no sensational project for
the Discovery Channel or even
National Geographic, both of
whom she turned down for the
rights to film her work. Vilden’s
project is filled with heart and
passion that cannot be distilled
into soundbites or reality
television. With a focus on
community building and a deep
respect for the gifts of the world
that are all around us, Vilden
embodies wild.
–EL
(USA/France, 2011, 52 minutes)
LOVE IN THE
TETONS
Amy Marquis
(THURSDAY, 8:45 P.M., BC;
SATURDAY, 11:45 A.M., HC,
IN PERSON: Amy Marquis,
Juan Martinez
& Vanessa Martinez
Juan Martinez grew up in
urban Los Angeles, but when
he stepped off a bus in Grand
Teton National Park in 1999
and saw the stars for the first
time, he knew his life would be
in the outdoors. He became an
emerging explorer for National
Geographic and in 2012, met
Vanessa Torres, a Grand Teton
park ranger from a family of
Mexican-American migrant
workers. This short film tells
the story of their love for the
park and growing romance with
each other.
–EL
THE FILMS
MARMATO
Mark Grieco
IN PERSON: Mark Grieco &
Stuart Reid
The small town of Marmato
perches precariously on the
slope of a mountain in Columbia
riddled with primitive gold
mines. For 500 years, the
community has sustained
its economy by drilling and
dynamiting the mountain’s
rich veins, barely denting the
estimated $20 billion of reserves.
Over the past several years, a
Canadian corporation has bought
out nearly all of the local mining
interests and promoted a plan to
level the mountain – and town
of Marmato – with an enormous
open-pit mine. Filming with
unusual care and access over
six years, 2012 Mountainfilm
Mark Grieco delivers a
powerful elegy for a traditional
community besieged by forces
that spin inexorably beyond
its control.
–PK
A 2012 Mountainfilm
Commitment Grant Recipient
MARSHLAND
DREAMS
John Antonelli
& Will Parrinello
(SATURDAY, 12:00 P.M.,
PALM; SUNDAY, 12:15 P.M.,
SOH)
IN PERSON: Azzam Alwash
Once the largest ecosystem in
the Middle East, and the rich
homeland of Sumerians for
millennia, the Mesopotamian
Marshes were destroyed
systematically by Saddam
Hussein so that they couldn’t
shelter rebel forces. Drained
and burned, the vital wetland
habitat seemed lost forever.
Iraqi exile Azzam Alwash,
who spoke about his work at
Mountainfilm in 2004 and 2008,
never accepted that this magical
place of his childhood could
simply cease to exist. For the
past 10 years, he has wheedled,
cajoled, encouraged and coerced
his countrymen to help restore
the marshes sustainably. Alwash
will provide an update on his
progress after the film screens.
–PK
MENDING THE LINE
Steve Engman
& John Waller
MONDAY, 9:15 A.M., PALM)
IN PERSON: Steve Engman,
Frank Moore, Jeanne Moore
& John Waller
WORLD PREMIERE
In 1944, 20-year-old Frank
Moore landed on the beaches
of Normandy. Crossing
through the occupied French
countryside, the young soldier
daydreamed about coming back
in peacetime to fish the bucolic
streams. After the war, he
returned to the States, married,
had a family and built a life
centered around fly fishing. But
he never made it back to those
streams in France. Until 2014.
Now 90 years old, but with
the energy of a man 20 years
younger, Moore completes the
dream with his wife and son
by his side. This extraordinary
story of a dream deferred, and
ultimately fulfilled, proves
that the scars of the past can
be healed.
–EL
A 2013 Mountainfilm
P H OTO COURT E SY OF SYLVI A E ARL E & H OP E S P OTS COMPAN Y
THE FILMS
MISSION BLUE
Robert Nixon & Fisher
Stevens
(SATURDAY, 12:00 P.M.,
PALM; SUNDAY, 3:30 P.M.,
MAS)
IN PERSON: Sylvia Earle
& Fisher Stevens
Sylvia Earle has been to
Mountainfilm many times,
most recently in 2008 for the
symposium that explored the
theme of water. She returns in
this feature documentary about
her life and accomplishments as
“Her Deepness,” the moniker
bestowed upon her for the
tireless work she’s done in and
for the oceans. Director Fisher
Stevens, who produced The
Cove (Mountainfilm 2010),
follows Earle after she gets the
TED prize, which allows her
to pursue her dream to create
a global network of protected
marine sanctuaries.
–DH
NORTH SLOPE,
ALASKA
Christopher Hanson
IN PERSON: Christopher
Hanson
WORLD PREMIERE
Daily life on the Alaskan North
Slope is about the mundane
reality of moving oil through
hundreds of miles of a pipeline’s
stiff steel sleeve. At night,
though, when the aurora borealis
glimmers and scintillates in
the sky, life sheds the cloak
of mundanity and assumes
a brilliant mantle of magic.
Director Hanson’s images can be
seen at the Steaming Bean.
–PK
THE NOTORIOUS
MR. BOUT
Tony Gerber & Maxim
Pozdorovkin
IN PERSON: Maxim
Pozdorovkin
Before being arrested by
the FBI in a sting operation
in Thailand in 2008, Viktor
Bout claimed to be a Russian
entrepreneur and family
man with interests in global
cultures and filmmaking.
U.S. prosecutors believed his
interests were of a different
nature, namely weapons
trafficking. They portrayed him
as a super villain, leading to a
Hollywood film based on his
life, Lord of War that starred
Nicolas Cage. The world was
thought to be a safer place after
his apprehension, but this story
of Bout – who loved to film
his adventures and provided
much of the footage used in
the film – shows a man who
saw an opportunity and seized
it. The facile Hollywood plot
wants us to stare into the face
of Bout and see pure evil; the
documentary version illustrates
that this man’s story consists of
many subtle shades of grey.
–EL
(USA/Russia, 2014, 94
minutes)
THE FILMS
ONCE UPON A
FOREST
Luc Jacquet
(THURSDAY, 8:45 P.M., BC;
SATURDAY, 9:30 A.M., HC)
OFF-WIDTH
OUTLAW
Celin Serbo
IN PERSON: Celin Serbo
In a sport that is not for the
weak or easily discouraged,
Pamela Shanti Pack excels.
One of the most accomplished
off-width climbers in the
world, male or female, Pack
seeks out North America’s
most challenging inverted
and vertical cracks with what
she describes as “masochistic
fervor.” Off-Width Outlaw
follows her quest to establish
new routes in the desert
climbing mecca of Indian Creek
in southeastern Utah.
–EL
Francis Hallé is a French
botanist who has spent his
life exploring, studying and
marveling at the great tropical
forests of the world. He laments
the destruction and loss of the
forests and, in this richly crafted
film, narrates his vision of what
will happen when the forests
reverse the effects of man’s
onslaught. Bringing to bear
Halle’s deep knowledge, insight
and feeling, filmmaker Luc
Jacquet (March of the Penguins)
suffuses the botanist’s vision
with arresting images – both
real and imagined – of nature’s
irrepressible force and ceaseless
interconnectivity.
–PK
(France, 2013, 75 minutes)
THE OPPOSITION
Ezra Edelman &
Jeff Plunkett
IN PERSON: Ezra Edelman
The Opposition shows the
overthrow of democratically
elected Chilean President
Salvador Allende from a new
perspective. This time, the
eyes looking at this horror of
history belong to the men of the
1974 Chilean national soccer
team, who, as public figures,
had to walk a careful line of
private outrage at the coup
and subsequent crackdown by
General Augustine Pinochet.
This short documentary explains
the political situation efficiently
with the impact of outside
involvement from the U.S., but
the focus is on the men who
simply wanted to play futbol for
their country and were instead
made pawns in a much bigger
game of geopolitics.
–DH
(Chile, 2014, 22 minutes)
THE FILMS
PARKING LOT
CULTURE
Sam Giffin
THE OVERNIGHTERS
Jesse Moss
SUNDAY, 4:30 P.M., PALM)
IN PERSON: Jesse Moss
At first, this thoughtfully made
documentary seems to be about
fracking because it takes place
in Williston, North Dakota,
which is essentially ground
zero for natural gas extraction
in the U.S. But this film is
actually about what happens
when many desperate men – and
they are mostly men – come
to Williston for work that is
plentily available in the fracking
fields and find that rents are
more expensive than Manhattan.
Some of these men are taken
in temporarily by Jay Reinke,
an energetic and ebullient
pastor who lets them sleep at
Concordia Lutheran Church,
but his Christian hospitality
rankles some parishioners, and
soon this compelling story heads
in a surprising direction. The
Overnighters exposes so many
complicated levels of the human
condition that you’ll exit the
theater wrestling with issues that
extend far beyond fracking.
–DH
IN PERSON: Sam Giffin
This short introduces the
people who want first tracks so
badly that they sleep in vans
and camper vehicles parked at
the base of the ski area. This
subculture includes families
and couples, but it’s comprised
mainly of dudes who are happy
to deal with the cold showers
(or in some cases, no showers)
and cold breakfasts in trade for
the cold smoke of untracked
powder turns.
–DH
POINT AND SHOOT
Marshall Curry
SATURDAY, 10:15 P.M., SOH)
After seeing a TV show about
an Australian adventurer,
27-year-old Matthew Van
Dyke decides to take a “crash
course in manhood.” He buys
a motorcycle and a video
camera and spends four years
rambling around the world and
filming everything he sees.
Much like Van Dyke himself,
his adventures are peculiar,
yet undeniably interesting –
particularly when he arrives
in Middle East war zones,
befriends soldiers and films
their collective escapades.
His footage is sometimes
goofy, but it takes a dramatic
turn when he lands in Libya.
There, his friends are Libyans
immersed in the rebellion
against Muammar Quaddafi,
and Van Dyke decides to join
forces with them. Suddenly,
he’s signed on for an upperlevel class in manhood when
he gets captured by Quaddafi’s
forces. Sharply directed by
Marshall Curry (If a Tree Falls,
Mountainfilm 2011), Point and
Shoot won the grand prize for
documentaries at the Tribeca
Film Festival.
–DH
P H OTO BY K E VI N ZI ECH MAN N
THE FILMS
IN PERSON: Sean O’Neill
& Timmy O’Neill
WORLD PREMIERE
In his youth, Sean O’Neill
suffered an injury that left him
paralyzed. However confined
the accident rendered his body,
he retained a vigorous spirit
that pushes him to fight against
self-pity and surrender. This
past winter, that spirit lured
O’Neill to attempt a daunting
achievement: an ice ascent of
Bridal Veil Falls, right here in
Telluride and considered by
many to be the most difficult
waterfall ice climb in North
America. Directed by O’Neill’s
brother – Timmy O’Neill,
one of the world’s premiere
climbers and a perennial
Mountainfilm guest – Prevail
is beautifully shot and
touchingly told.
–PK
QUEENS &
COWBOYS: A
STRAIGHT YEAR ON
THE GAY RODEO
Matthew Livadary
P H OTO BY K ALUM KO
PREVAIL
Timmy O’Neill
(FRIDAY, 9:00 P.M., MAS;
SUNDAY 6:00 P.M., NUG)
IN PERSON: Char Duran, Erin
Krozek & Matthew Livadary
At his first – and last –
college rodeo practice,
Chris Sherman’s collegiate
roping team discovered his
sexual orientation. After that,
he couldn’t find a roping
partner, lost his scholarship
and dropped out of school.
Sherman’s story is just one
of many. Some gay cowboys
have endured intolerance that
has led to suicide attempts. At
the International Gay Rodeo
Association, however, the old
West meets the new, providing
everyone an opportunity to
compete in the challenging
sport and do so in a supportive,
courageous community. Queens
and Cowboys: A Straight Year
on the Gay Rodeo follows a
year in the lives of extraordinary
cowboys and cowgirls as they
follow their dreams, no matter
how wild or daunting.
–EM
THE QUESTIONS
WE ASK
Kalum Ko
A poetic meditation on the
nature of adventure, The
Questions We Ask features
Canadian Bruce Kirby, who
crossed the Georgia Straight
from Vancouver to Victoria on
a stand up paddleboard in the
spring of 2013.
–EL
(USA/Canada, 2014, 4 minutes)
THE FILMS
SEEDS OF TIME
Sandy McLeod
IN PERSON: Cary Fowler &
Sandy McLeod
THE RECORD
BREAKER
Brian McGinn
(WEDNESDAY, 8:45 P.M., BC;
FRIDAY, 6:45 P.M., MAS)
IN PERSON: Ashrita Furman
Ashrita Furman is the greatest
record breaker of all time.
Underwater bicycling, upsidedown juggling, splitting apples
with a samurai sword – you name
it. Ashrita has done it. And set
a record in the process. It’s not
a path he followed for fame and
glory, but rather to honor his
guru, which seems as if it must
be some kind of record in itself.
Nearly 400 world records later,
he is nowhere near finished.
This is a delightful film about a
delightful character who, among
his seemingly limitless other
talents, also has the ability to
coax a smile.
–PK
Far in the frozen north, on a
remote island near the North
Pole, lies a magical and beautiful
place that houses treasures
beyond imagination. The
Svalbard Global Seed Vault was
built to store duplicates of seeds
from collections around the
globe to ensure the continuation
of crop diversity in the future.
All comparisons to cryogenics
aside – a critique that’s been
lobbed at the seed vault – Seeds
of Time lays a convincing
argument for the importance
and urgency to create a
physical database of the genetic
material of South American
potatoes, Thai rice varietals and
Midwestern American corn – to
name just three of the millions
of seeds destined to be stored in
Svalbard. Told through the eyes
of one man, Cary Fowler, whose
mission is to protect the future
of our food and who is facing
his own mortality, Seeds of Time
takes a subject as esoteric, small
and removed as global seed
storage and gives it a persuasive
human face.
–EL
SELF-STORAGE
David Byars
IN PERSON: David Byars
Quirky and clever, Self-Storage
is a narrative short directed by
Telluride’s David Byars that
tells the story of a lovable loser
who works at a particularly
American institution, a facility
that stores stuff. He comes
up with a grand plan to make
money and leave his troubles
behind, but his scheme goes
wonderfully, comically awry.
–DH
THE FILMS
SEVEN DEADLY
SINS: GLUTTONY
Morgan Spurlock
IN PERSON: Morgan
Spurlock
Ten years after Morgan
Spurlock made his mark with
Super Size Me, he returns to the
subject of food with Gluttony,
one episode in a highly stylized
Showtime series he hosts
called “Seven Deadly Sins.” Be
forewarned, Spurlock’s latest
take on food is a disturbing tale
as he tours the dark side of food
in America, which includes
a restaurant that celebrates
shockingly massive servings, a
coffin company that’s building
caskets sized for the obese and
a 600-pound woman whose
140-pound boyfriend is aroused
by feeding her. (Please do not
bring children to this screening.)
–DH
SONG OF THE
CICADAS
Richard Robinson
(SATURDAY, 9:30 A.M., SOH;
SOUND OF THE VOID
Martin Persiel
IN PERSON: Richard
Robinson & David
Rothenberg
This artful and evocative short
film juxtaposes the solitude,
loneliness and transformation
of a prisoner with the cicada,
an insect who spends 17 years
of life isolated underground.
Through interviews with
American political prisoner
Timothy Blunk, and inspired
by the bug music of composer
David Rothenberg, director
Richard Knox Robinson finds
beauty and poetry in isolation
and emergence.
–EM
IN PERSON: Joachim
Hellinger
When he was young,
Sébastien de Sainte Marie
saw a picture of Sylvain Saudan,
“Skier of the Impossible,”
and knew what he wanted to
do with his life. Today, the
Swiss skier picks extreme lines
that few dare to try. In a sport
where one slip or misjudged
turn could mean death, de Sainte
Marie is cool and collected.
Sound of the Void follows him
as he attempts a first descent
of the 55-degree north face of
Gspaltenhorn in the Bernese
Alps and artfully captures his
almost Zen-like calm.
–EL
(Germany, 2013, 14 minutes)
THE FILMS
STICKY
Jilli Rose
STARS ABOVE
LOFOTEN
Jørn Ranum
SUN, 10:00 A.M., SOH)
A group of Norwegian students
on a star-gazing field trip
learn about astronomy and
astrophysics and also get
philosophical about their place
in the universe.
–EL
(Norway, 2013, 3 minutes)
Long thought to be extinct,
the Lord Howe Island stick
insect was rediscovered under
a bush on a desolate craggy
island peak far off the coast of
Australia. This lushly animated
documentary tells the story
about a remarkable creature –
the Dryococelus australis is so
large that it was nicknamed the
“tree lobster” – thought to have
gone the way of the dodo nearly
a hundred years ago. Sticky
highlights a group of intrepid
and passionate scientists who
went on a climbing adventure
in an almost prehistoric place,
resulting in a wonderful
conservation success story.
–EL
(Australia, 2013, 20 minutes)
STUMPED
Robin Berghaus
“The situation is so horrible,
one way to grapple with it is
by laughing at it,” says Will
Lautzenheiser, a filmmaker
who found himself infected
mysteriously by a deadly
bacteria. He survived with
his life, but not his limbs.
Now a quadrilateral amputee,
Lautzenheiser lightens his
situation by performing
stand-up comedy. Filmmaker
Robin Berghaus plans
to build Stumped into a
feature-length documentary,
following Lautzenheiser as
he attempts ground-breaking
arm transplants, but in the
meantime, this short offers
insights about a man who is
determined to keep living life.
–EL
THE FILMS
SUMMER LIGHT
Max Lowe
SUFFERFEST
Cedar Wright
IN PERSON: Alex Honnold &
Cedar Wright
With breathtaking free solo
feats, blistering speed records
and ascents of rock faces around
the planet, Alex Honnold and
Cedar Wright are at the top
of their game in the world of
professional climbing. But
when they decide to link all
of California’s 14,000-foot
peaks via an ambitious humanpowered bike tour, they find
themselves out of their element.
New to the sport of biking,
and having underestimated
the scope of the challenge,
Honnold and Wright grapple
with sunburned thighs, sore
asses, 80-mile slogs on dirt
roads, sketchy ridge traverses
and, somewhere in the mix,
fun. Welcome to Sufferfest,
a lighthearted short film by
Wright that follows the mishaps
and triumphs of the pair’s epic
adventure and proves that there
are some types of fun that can
only be achieved with a grand
dose of suffering.
–KK
IN PERSON: Max Lowe
WORLD PREMIERE
Skipping stones and plunging
into the river from a bridge.
The laughter of a pretty girl.
Songbirds and the thick gold
light of a summer evening and
moments unbound. This short
film is both an ode to summer
and a reminder to hold on to
the magical and sun-drenched
memories of youth.
–KK
WINTER LIGHT
Max Lowe
IN PERSON: Max Lowe
WORLD PREMIERE
Dawn patrol on an inky
winter morning leads to a
contemplative climb through a
snowbound world, a cold and
starkly beautiful place imbued
with solitude and the purity of
winter light. When daylight turns
and the summit is achieved, the
only place to go is down.
–KK
SUPER SIZE ME
Morgan Spurlock
(SATURDAY, 9:15 A.M., NUG)
IN PERSON: Morgan
Spurlock
In 2004, the food movement
was still gathering momentum
when Morgan Spurlock’s
groundbreaking documentary
Super Size Me arrived in
theaters. For the film, Spurlock
ate only at McDonald’s for
one month to see what would
happen. He experienced a
precipitous decline in health and
generated an exposé about fast
food chains and the American
way of eating. Ten years after
the its premiere, Spurlock shares
the film at Mountainfilm and
will discuss what’s changed
during the intervening decade.
–DH
THE FILMS
TASHI AND
THE MONK
Johnny Burke &
Andrew Hinton
SUPERMOM
Mike Douglas
IN PERSON: Mike Douglas &
Wendy Fisher
With a graceful style and
aggressive lines, Wendy Fisher
ruled the women’s big mountain
freeskiing scene from 1996
to 2004. She skied Alaskan
spines, hucked cliffs, starred
in movie segments, won many
championships, kept up with
male cohorts and inspired a new
generation of female badasses.
Then she had kids and traded in
the life of a professional skier
for being a mom to two redheaded boys. This Solomon film
checks in with Fisher, who gets
the opportunity to see if she’s
still got it on the steeps of B.C.
and Chile.
–KK
TAKE AWAY
FILM: UGANDA
Invisible Children
& La Blogotheque
(SATURDAY 12:00 P.M., SOH
IN PERSON: Kenny
Laubbacher
WORLD PREMIERE
This long-form music video
features talent from three
continents: Africa, Europe
and North America. Swedish,
Texan, Ugandan, Malawaian and
British musicians collaborated
with American and French
filmmakers, including the French
music gurus La Blogotheque,
to create this celebratory crosscultural mosaic. Take Away
Film: Uganda was also a crowdfunded side project of Invisible
Children’s former director
of artist relations, Kenny
Laubbacher.
–EL
(USA/France, 2014, 35 minutes)
SATURDAY, 4:00 P.M.,
PALM)
IN PERSON: Andrew Hinton
In a remote community in the
foothills of the Himalaya, a
former monk struggles under
the weight of his calling.
Once a spiritual teacher in
the U.S., Lobsang returned to
India to create a community
for orphaned and neglected
children. Tashi – the newest
arrival and youngest child
with a troubled past and
alcoholic father – acts out and
challenges her elders every
step of the way. But there is a
spark in her that Lobsang sees
clearly: a person inside the
hurt, abandoned child with the
potential to blossom and grow.
His patience and compassion
for Tashi comes from a deeper
place than mere sympathy;
he was a wild and troubled
orphan himself. This portrait of
Lobsang and his family of 84
children is a short and lovely
reminder that while there is a
lot of darkness in the world,
there are also beautiful shining
points of light.
–EL
(India, 2014, 40 minutes)
THE FILMS
VIRUNGA
Orlando von Einsiedel
(FRIDAY, 9:15 P.M., PALM,
SATURDAY, 6:15 P.M., PALM)
TRAIL RIDERS OF
THE WILDERNESS
K.D. Swan
(SATURDAY, 11:45 A.M., HC
SYMPOSIUM)
IN PERSON: Molly Morrison
In the 1920s, nature
photographer K.D. Swan
worked for the U.S. Forest
Service in and around what
is now the Bob Marshall
Wilderness, one of the largest
designated wilderness areas
in the Lower 48. The primary
goal for the native Montanan
was to educate and inspire his
audience about the value of
nature and wilderness. He did
that through still photography
and moving images – a new
medium at the time. Swan
created the silent Trail Riders
of the Wilderness in 1929 to
entice Easterners to come
West and discover Montana.
It was recently rediscovered
and remastered by Forest
Service staffer Libby Langston
and will be accompanied by
Molly Morrison on the piano,
who wrote a new score for the
classic film.
–EL
VESSEL
Diana Whitten
IN PERSON: Diana Whitten
Warship blockades and furious
protests often await Rebecca
Gomperts and her Women on
Waves team when they sail
their ship to foreign ports and
offer women access to the
abortion pill. In many of the
countries they visit – such as
Morocco, Ireland, Ecuador and
Tanzania – abortion is illegal
and controversial, but Gomperts’
approach is to transport
women 12 miles offshore into
international waters. There on
the open seas, the laws of her
ship take jurisdiction, and she
can provide services to women
in need legally. She also takes
it one step further by teaching
women – via email – how
to take the pill on their own.
It’s a struggle for the women
involved, but as Vessel shows,
it’s one to which they are all
fully dedicated.
–DH
IN PERSON: TBA – in person
or Skype – Orlando von
Einsiedel
This stunning documentary is
so well crafted that it feels like
fiction. Virunga National Park in
the Democratic Republic of the
Congo is Africa’s oldest national
park, a UNESCO world heritage
site and the last intact habitat for
the critically endangered mountain
gorilla. Virunga follows the
story of an almost unimaginable
storm of corruption and war that
threatens the park’s survival. An
oil reserve is discovered, and a
young French female journalist
goes undercover to reveal
unethical and bigoted oil officials.
Rebels attempt to overthrow
the Congolese government. A
Belgian prince – the director
of the park – stands with his
rangers as the headquarters are
threatened by artillery shelling. A
Congolese veterinarian risks his
life to stay by the side of orphaned
baby gorillas. With incredible
access and extraordinary
cinematography, filmmaker
Orlando von Einsedel (Skateistan,
Mountainfilm 2011) has created
a documentary with bottomless
heart and steel knuckles.
–EL
(UK, 2014, 93 minutes)
THE FILMS
VULTURES OF TIBET
Russell O. Bush
THE WEIGHT OF
MOUNTAINS
Temujin Doran
SUNDAY, 9:45 A.M., HC)
IN PERSON: Annie Bush &
Russell O. Bush
On the Tibetan Plateau in
Western China, the material
culture of a rapidly modernizing
society clashes with the customs
and practices of a rich spiritual
tradition. The differences
between Chinese secularity
and the deep faith of Buddhist
Tibetans are pronounced. In
this film about sky burial – a
sacred ritual where the bodies
of the Tibetan dead are fed to
wild griffon vultures – these
differences are starkly portrayed.
–PK
WALLED IN
Ben Stookesberry
SUNDAY, 10:00 A.M., SOH)
IN PERSON: Ben
Stookesberry
Ostensibly, Walled In is the story
of a first descent of the rowdy
Marble Fork of the Kaweah
River in Sequoia National Park
by kayakers Ben Stookesbury
and Chris Korbulic, but this
film poses bigger questions than
whether the pair can send a river
that flows from above 12,000
feet in elevation to near sea level
in less than 30 miles. It asks why
they choose to engage in a sport
that carries the threat of death,
which they witnessed when
their partner Hendri Coetzee
was eaten by a crocodile in
the Congo in 2010 (Kadoma,
Mountainfilm 2011).
–DH
We should never take
mountains lightly. Because,
as this short film makes
beautifully clear, the processes
that combine to create, sustain
and, ultimately, destroy
the world’s mountains are
elemental, powerful and deep
with meaning – meaning that
may exceed our capacity to
measure. One line from the
narration captures the essence
of mountains perfectly: “All
the good and evil things that
happen in the world are of no
consequence to the magnitude
of their scale.”
–PK
THE FILMS
WHEN DOGS FLY
Dean Potter
IN PERSON: Dean Potter
& Whisper
Dean Potter has pushed the
boundaries of what can be done
in the climbing world for years.
He has repeatedly set the speed
record for climbing The Nose
in Yosemite, and he caused
great controversy in 2006 by
climbing Delicate Arch in Utah.
Recently, he’s funneled much
of his considerable energy into
being in air instead of on rock.
When Dogs Fly is Potter’s
latest venture into uncharted
territory as it follows his efforts
to wingsuit BASE jump off the
North Face of the Eiger with his
dog – Whisper, a mini cattledog
– on his back. Yes, his dog.
Potter will attempt another first
for the sport when he jumps out
of a plane and flies over the town
of Telluride in a wingsuit, which
is scheduled to happen – weather
and wind permitting – during
Saturday’s Ice Cream Social.
–DH
WRENCHED
Mary Louise Lincoln
WHO OWNS WATER
David Hanson, Michael
Hanson & Andrew
Kornylak
IN PERSON: David Hanson &
Michael Hanson
Water wars have always
been heated in the American
southwest desert, where water is
scarce and droughts are frequent,
but the same quarrels were once
unthinkable in lusher areas of
the country. That’s changing as
Georgia, Alabama and Florida
are locked in a battle over water
from their once-bountiful rivers.
Two young brothers decide to
paddle the three rivers in the
Appalachiacola–Chattahoochee–
Flint River Basin to tell the
story of a system that still flows,
though it’s threatened from all
sides. Who Owns Water received
a Mountainfilm Commitment
Grant in 2013.
–EL
A 2013 Mountainfilm
(SATURDAY, 8:45 P.M., PALM;
SUNDAY, 9:15 A.M., MAS)
IN PERSON: Tim
DeChristopher, Dave
Foreman, Katie Lee &
Mary Louise Lincoln
Edward Abbey’s life is explored
in this entertaining ramble
through the environmental
history of the Southwest. His
life was the stuff of legend, but
his legacy is the myriad of ecoactivists he inspired – from the
inimitable Katie Lee, who threw
herself into the fight against Glen
Canyon, to Tim DeChristopher
of Bidder 70 (Mountainfilm
2012). Both of these activists
will be in attendance, as well as
another featured character in the
film, Dave Foreman, the founder
of EarthFirst.
–DH
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Free and open to the public. Films are listed in screening order.
64 MPH
Brett Schreckengost
The San Joaquin Couloir is one of Telluride’s
most iconic backcountry lines. Greg Hope is
one of the town’s best-known rippers. In 64
mph, the two meet for one slough-dodging,
high-velocity descent. –KK
KELLY MCGARRY RAMPAGE
Kelly McGarry
Professional mountain biker Kelly McGarry
recorded his run at the 2013 Red Bull
Rampage with a helmet-mounted GoPro
camera. The simple, unedited footage took
the Internet by storm, garnering a mindblowing 18 million views. –BK
BLINK OF AN EYE
Andreas Braaten and
Niels Windfeldt
Television-broadcasted downhill ski races
do not reflect the actual speeds or crushing
forces that alpine racers endure. This
remarkable short film by Antimedia attempts
to expose the raw mental pressure inherent in
the sport by capturing the incredible skill and
focus of Aksel Lund Svindal. –BK
(Spain, 2013, 4 minutes)
TYLER HOWELL
Jack Boston
Downhill skateboarder Tyler Howell
embraces his surf style in the hills of
Santa Barbara, California, stylishly
descending at vomit-inducing speeds
– wearing nothing more than a pair of
shorts and a t-shirt. –BK
BRYAN AND KAIA
Jonathan Kang
Mountain biker Bryan Gregory attempts
to keep up with his dog, Kaia, on a piece
of Pacific Northwest single track. This
film might not appeal to cat people, but if
you’re a dog person, your little heart may
just burst with joy. –BK
COMING UP FOR AIR
Mickey Smith
This visually crushing short film by
legendary cold-water surf photographer
Mickey Smith might be classified more
appropriately as a poem. Disturbingly
heavy waves, documented at high frame
rates, are rendered in icy tones and
narrated with sparse, humble words.
–BK (Ireland, 2014, 5 minutes)
ADRENALINE
EL SENDERO LUMINOSO
Renan Ozturk
World-renowned free solo climber Alex
Honnold went to Mexico in January with
the talented Camp4 film crew in hopes of
capturing what many regard as the most
difficult ropeless climb ever attempted in
history. –BK (USA, 2014, 7 minutes)
BEGIN AGAIN
John John Florence & Blake
Vincent Kueny
Surfer John John Florence continues
to reinvent surfing with his extremely
powerful, almost inhuman ability to push
the boundaries on a wave. –BK
MOMENT’S NOTICE
Jeff Thomas
Japan’s endlessly deep powder gives itself
over to willing participants who drop
everything to fly over for the trip of a life
time. –SW (USA, 2014, 5 minutes)
DREAM
Skip Armstrong
If you dare give acclaimed director Skip
Armstrong full creative control over a
short kayak film, you’ll get a sneak peak
into the depths of his mind. We may never
know what a panda with super powers
has to do with the dreams of an amateur
kayaker, but at least we’ll all have a better
understanding of Armstrong. –BK
THE BALLOON HIGHLINE
Sébastien Montaz-Rosset
Slacklining no longer seems to need
the expanse of trees, crevasses or other
earthbound objects – only some kind
helium and a cool buzz. –SW
SPICE GIRL
Josh Lowell, Peter Mortimer
& Nick Rosen
The U.K. climbing scene is notorious both
for its strict traditional ethics and its high
caliber of danger. And, unsurprisingly, it’s
a pretty macho scene. But one woman –
the petite blonde Hazel Findlay – is putting
the lads to shame. –KK
WEDGE
Brecht Vanthof
There’s a highly anticipated beast of a
winter wave in Newport Beach, California,
that rolls in heavy and attracts hordes of
brave souls who attempt to drop into its
steep face. –BK (USA, 2013, 4 minutes)
INTO THE MIND –
BELLA COOLA GNAR
JP Auclair, Eric Crosland
& Dave Mossop
Perhaps the best seven minutes ever in
a ski film: Sherpas Cinema spares no
expense to film some of the most amazing
ski footage on the planet.
–SW (USA, 2014, 6 minutes)
LIKEBOMB SKIING
Johan Jonsson
Lacking snow, but clearly not courage and
poise, Johan Jonsson skis lines that any
sane person would avoid. –SW
NU D E S CE N E F R OM VA L HA L L A
NUDE SCENE FROM
VALHALLA
Nick Waggoner and
Ben Sturgulewski
It’s time to clear the kids out of the park if
you’re uncomfortable with nudity. Taken
from Sweetgrass Production of Valhalla,
this clip is outrageous and brilliant at the
same time. –SW (USA, 2013, 3 minutes)
KIDZ KINO
KIDZ KINO
MONDAY, MAY 27, 11:00 A.M.,
PALM THEATER
The show is free to all passholders and
children under 12. $10 tickets are available
for the general public. The films were
programmed by a Kidz Kino committee,
who also wrote these synopses.
11-YEAR-OLD GIRL SHATTERS
CLIMBING RECORDS
Danny Stolzman
This girl climbs, and she’s really
really good. –Clark Hopgood, age 6
64 MPH
Brett Schreckengost
Greg Hope skis fast.
–Wiley Holbrooke, age 12
ABITA
Shoko Hara and Paul Brenner
Amazing animation, but slightly odd.
–Kitty Holbrooke, age 14
DAMNED
Richard Phelan
A beaver dreams about
building a huge dam, but doesn’t
think of the consequences.
–Raven Hopgood, age 12
FEAR OF FLYING
Conor Finnegan
A bird has bad dreams about flying
and tries to get over it.
–Maia Coe, age 9
(Ireland, 2012, 9 minutes)
PREVAIL
Timmy O’Neill
Bridal Veil has never been
climbed like this.
LIGHT GOES ON
Darren Pearson
Movies are good. Yeah.
–Zoe Cooper, age 2
KIDZ KINO
WI ND
DA M N E D
LIVING IN A
FOOD DESERT
Students in Wide Angle
Youth Media’s Baltimore
Speaks Out! Program
Students in Baltimore talk
about food deserts.
MAPLE SYRUP
Yoshino Aoki
A girl makes maple syrup.
–Clark Hopgood, age 6
MY HAPPY END
Milen Vitanov
A dog makes friends with his tail.
THE WHALE STORY
Tess Martin
The story of a whale portrayed in a mural.
–Kitty Holbrooke, age 14
WIND
Robert Löbel
What life would be like with
extreme wind.
–Raven Hopgood, age 12
BROWNIES TO BROCCOLI
PRESENTATION
Students from the Telluride Middle
School will talk about the work they are
doing at the Telluride Grow Dome.
SNIFFLES
David Cowles & Jeremy Galante
A comic dog. –Maia Coe, age 9
A TOY TRAIN IN SPACE
Ron Fugelseth
A father sends his son’s favorite toy train
to space and films and tracks its journey.
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Virunga (p. 37)
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Q&a
Isle de Jean Charles
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DamNation (p. 20)
6:30 - 8:45 p.m.
Point and Shoot
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9:45 - 11:45 p.m.
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Alive Inside (p. 16)
7:15 - 9:15 p.m.
The Lion’s Mouth Opens
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Q&a
A Life Well Lived
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Walled In (p. 38)
The Grand Rescue
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Prevail (p. 31)
Karsts of China (p. 25)
Off-Width
Outlaw (p. 29)
Desert Ice (p. 20)
When Dogs Fly (p. 39)
Sufferfest (p. 35)
14.c (p. 16)
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Stars Above Lofoten
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The Record Breaker
(p. 32)
Tashi and the Monk
(p. 36)
Summer Light (p. 35)
Queens & Cowboys
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Harvest of Shadows
(p. 23)
E-Team (p. 22)
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Living Wild (p. 26)
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Q&a
12:30 - 2:30 p.m.
Castles in the Sky
(p. 18)
The Last Season
(p. 25)
Q&a
Freedom Summer
(p. 22)
9:45 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
colorado avenue (p. 87)
12:15 - 2:30 p.m.
The overnighters
(p. 30)
Q&a
9:15 - 11:30 a.m.
Super Size Me (p. 35)
(p. 80 – 82)
capacity [120]
iCE CrEam soCial 2:00 – 3:30 P.m.
Q&a
sHorts
Marshland Dreams
The Opposition (p. 29)
The Weight of Mountains
(p. 27)
nevaDa WieR
(p. 38)
Mission Blue (p. 28) Common Ground (p. 19)
(p. 65)
Take away Film:
Q&a
Trail Riders of the
Wilderness (p. 37)
uganda (p. 36)
12:00 - 2:15 p.m.
Q&a
Reza (p. 64)
Dear Governor
Hickenlooper (p. 20)
9:15 - 11:30 a.m.
capacity [500]
capacity [650]
sheridan
opera house
CoFFEE & ConvErsation 8:00 – 9:00 a.m.
high camp
palm
library
1:00 - 2:30 p.m.
MounTainFiLM
on TouR
(p. 72)
HoW To Make an
aDvenTuRe FiLM
(p. 72)
11:15 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
WoRkS in
PRoGReSS
(p. 72)
9:30 - 10:45 a.m.
capacity [66)
SCHEDULE SATURDAY
3:45
4:00 pM
4:15
4:30
4:45
5:00 pM
5:15
5:30
5:45
6:00 pM
6:15
6:30
6:45
7:00 pM
7:15
7:30
7:45
8:00 pM
8:15
8:30
8:45
9:00 pM
9:15
9:30
9:45
10:00 pM
10:15
10:30
10:45
11:00 pM
11:15
11:30
11:45
12:00 AM
Q&a
Wrenched (p. 39)
8:45 - 10:45 p.m.
Q&a
virunga (p. 37)
6:15 - 8:15 p.m.
STeve WinTeR
(p. 67)
Q&a
Tashi and the Monk
(p. 36)
4:00 - 5:45 p.m.
Q&a
The Lion’s Mouth
Opens (p. 26)
alive inside (p. 16)
8:30 - 10:45 p.m.
Q&a
Coming Home (p. 19)
Sound of the Void (p. 33)
SuperMom (p. 36)
Winter Light (p. 35)
Catch It (p. 18)
Cold Rolled (p. 18)
Parking Lot Culture (p. 30)
Dubai (p. 21)
North Slope (p. 28)
ColD sHorts
6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Prevail (p. 31)
Karsts of China (p. 25)
Off-Width Outlaw (p. 29)
Desert Ice (p. 20)
14.c (p. 16)
When Dogs Fly (p. 39)
Sufferfest (p. 35)
3:30 - 5:30 p.m.
ClimBinG sHorts
Q&a
3:30 - 5:15 p.m.
(p. 83)
Q&a
3:45 - 5:45 p.m.
Duke and the Buffalo The Questions We Ask
(p. 21)
(p. 31)
Who owns Water
an Honest Liar
(p. 39)
(p. 24)
Point and Shoot
(p. 30)
10:15 - 11:45 p.m.
Q&a
Stumped (p. 34)
A Beautiful Waste (p. 17)
Seven Deadly Sins (p. 33)
Self-Storage (p. 32)
8:15 - 9:45 p.m.
oFFBEat sHorts
Q&a
Born to Fly (p. 17)
5:45 - 7:45 p.m.
Q&a
6:30 - 8:30 p.m.
Marmato (p. 27)
Q&a
Q&a
5:15 - 6:45 p.m.
aRTiST TaLk:
LanG, TayLoR
& ueLSMann
(p. 72)
WHaT iS
WiLDeRneSS
(p. 72)
3:30 - 4:45 p.m.
EvEnts
PrEsEntations
Films
Vultures of the Tibet
(p. 38)
9:00 - 11:15 p.m.
emptying the Skies The Apothecary (p. 17)
(p. 21)
Seeds of Time (p. 32)
8:30 - 10:45 p.m.
Q&a
6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
vessel (p. 37)
BooZE & BantEr 5:30 – 6:30 P.m.
Q&a
3:15 - 5:15 p.m.
DexTeR FiLkinS
(p. 66)
Mending the Line
(p. 27)
SCHEDULE SATURDAY
52
8:00 AM
8:15
8:30
8:45
9:00 AM
9:15
9:30
9:45
10:00 AM
10:15
10:30
10:45
11:00 AM
11:15
11:30
11:45
12:00 pM
12:15
12:30
12:45
1:00 pM
1:15
1:30
1:45
2:00 pM
2:15
2:30
2:45
3:00 pM
3:15
3:30
Q&a
Emptying the Skies
(p. 21)
11:45 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Q&a
9:15 - 11:15 a.m.
The Questions We Ask
(p. 31)
An Honest Liar
(p. 24)
capacity [500]
capacity [650]
capacity [230]
sheridan
opera house
12:00 - 2:00 p.m.
A Life Well Lived
(p. 25)
The Grand Rescue
(p. 23)
COnRAd AnkER And
WAdE dAviS (p. 70)
masons
9:15 - 11:15 a.m.
Q&a
Freedom Summer
(p. 22)
11:45 a.m. - 2:15 p.m.
Q&a
Wrenched (p. 39)
hotel madeline ball room (p. 86)
Q&a
12:00 - 2:00 p.m.
Harvest of Shadows
(p. 23)
Marmato (p. 27)
Q&a
Castles in the Sky
(p. 18)
The Last Season
(p. 25)
9:30 - 11:30 a.m.
(p. 80 – 82)
capacity [120]
rEaDing FrEnZy 2:00 – 4:00 P.m.
Q&a
Marshland Dream
(p. 27)
AzzAM ALWASH
(p. 69)
Who Owns Water
(p. 39)
12:15 - 2:15 p.m.
Q&a
10:00 - 11:45 a.m.
Vultures of Tibet
(p. 38)
Stars Above Lofoten
(p. 34)
High Tension (p. 24)
Walled in (p. 38)
extended Q&a
nATiOnAL
GEOGRApHiC YOunG
ExpLORERS (p. 68)
9:45 - 11:30 a.m.
Q&a
nugget
capacity [186]
high camp
palm
library
12:45 - 2:15 p.m.
HOW TO START A
nOn-pROFiT (p. 73)
ARTiST TALk:
BLOOMFiELd &
OAkES (p. 73)
11:15 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
FiLMinG in A
FOREiGn LAnd
(p. 73)
9:30 - 10:45 a.m.
capacity [66)
SCHEDULE SUNDAY
3:45
4:00 pM
4:15
4:30
4:45
5:00 pM
5:15
5:30
5:45
6:00 pM
6:15
6:30
6:45
7:00 pM
7:15
7:30
7:45
8:00 pM
8:15
8:30
8:45
9:00 pM
9:15
9:30
9:45
10:00 pM
10:15
10:30
10:45
11:00 pM
11:15
11:30
11:45
12:00 AM
TBA
9:15 - 11:15 p.m.
TBA
7:00 - 8:45 p.m.
Q&a
The Overnighters
(p. 30)
4:30 - 6:30 p.m.
TBA
9:30 - 11:30 p.m.
Q&a
7:00 - 9:00 p.m.
The notorious
Mr. Bout (p. 28)
Q&a
The Weight of Mountains
(p. 38)
Common Ground (p. 19)
Sticky (p. 34)
Love in the Tetons (p. 26)
The Guardians (p. 23)
Fortune Wild (p. 22)
WilDErnEss
shorts
8:45 - 10:45 p.m.
Q&a
64 mph (p. 16)
Born to Fly (p. 17)
6:30 - 8:15 p.m.
Q&a
4:15 - 6:00 p.m.
The Opposition (p. 29)
Creative Compulsive
E-Team (p. 22)
Disorder (p. 19)
Q&a
Take Away Film:
uganda (p. 36)
Song of the Cicadas
(p. 33)
A MuSiCAL TRiBuTE
(p. 71)
4:00 - 6:30 p.m.
3:30 - 5:30 p.m.
Q&a
vessel (p. 37)
8:45 - 10:30 p.m.
Q&a
6:00 - 8:15 p.m.
Q&a
TBA
9:15 - 11:15 p.m.
TBA
7:15 - 8:45 p.m.
5:45 - 6:45 p.m.
MOviES THAT
MATTER (p. 73)
EvEnts
PrEsEntations
Films
Stumped (p. 34)
A Beautiful Waste (p. 17)
Seven Deadly Sins (p. 33)
Self-Storage (p. 32)
oFFbEat shorts
8:30 - 10:00 p.m.
Q&a
6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Duke and the Buffalo The Apothecary (p. 17)
(p. 21)
dear Governor
Queens and Cowboys Hickenlooper (p. 20)
(p. 31)
booZE & bantEr
5:30 – 6:30 P.m. (p. 83)
Q&a
3:45 - 5:30 p.m.
Summer Light (p. 35) Mission Blue (p. 28)
Seeds of Time (p. 32)
Q&a
SCHEDULE SUNDAY
54
8:00 AM
8:15
8:30
8:45
9:00 AM
9:15
9:30
9:45
10:00 AM
10:15
10:30
10:45
11:00 AM
11:15
11:30
11:45
12:00 pM
12:15
12:30
12:45
1:00 pM
1:15
1:30
1:45
2:00 pM
2:15
2:30
2:45
3:00 pM
3:15
3:30
KIDZ KINO (p. 44)
11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
free and open to the public
Q&a
9:15 - 10:30 a.m.
Mending the Line
(p. 27)
capacity [500]
capacity [650]
capacity [230]
sheridan
opera house
nugget
capacity [186]
masons
TBA
TBA
9:15 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
TBA
9:15 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
telluride town park (p. 87)
TBA
9:15 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Closing awards PiCniC 1:00 – 4:00 P.m.
9:15 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
(p. 80 – 82)
capacity [120]
high camp
palm
library
EvEnts
PrEsEntations
Films
TBA
9:15 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
capacity [66)
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THURSDAY
FRIDAY
SATURDAY
SUNDAY
p hoto by gu s g usc i ora
a special presentation
of the classic documentary
about David Brower from
the Mountainfilm archives
8:45 - 10:30 p.m.
The Record Breaker
(p. 32)
Monumental
8:45 - 10:45 p.m.
Love in the Tetons
(p. 26)
Once Upon a Forest
(p. 29)
SuperMom (p. 36)
Winter Light (p. 35)
Catch It (p. 18)
Cold Rolled (p. 19)
Parking Lot Culture (p. 30)
Dubai (p. 21)
North Slope (p. 28)
8:45 - 10:45 p.m.
8:45 - 11:00 p.m.
ADRENALINE (p. 42) Isle de Jean Charles
Coming Home (p. 19)
(p. 24)
Sound of the Void (p. 33)
DamNation (p. 20)
8:45 - 10:45 p.m.
COLD SHORTS
8:45 - 11:00 p.m.
TBA
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SPEAKERS
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SYMPOSIUM
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HIGH CAMP IN MOUNTAIN
VILLAGE (TELLURIDE
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Friday, May 23, 9:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Lunch: 12:15 to 1:30 p.m.
The Symposium is open to all
Wilson, Ama Dablam and Patron
passholders and includes lunch.
n 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson
signed into law the Wilderness Act,
establishing American wilderness as
“an area where the earth and its community
of life are untrammeled by man, where man
himself is a visitor who does not remain.”
The Wilderness Act created a legal
definition of wilderness, but its poetic
text is unique and groundbreaking for
legislation. Drawing on centuries of
American philosophy, literature and
experience, the Wilderness Act was
the first of its kind in the world. It
underscores the wilderness as a pristine
landscape, inspirational and redemptive
– and separate from man. Towering
American voices tell us: “In wildness is
the preservation of the world” (Henry
David Thoreau); and “Wilderness is not
a luxury but a necessity of the human
spirit” (Edward Abbey); but also “All
conservation of wildness is self-defeating,
for to cherish we must see and fondle,
and when enough have seen and fondled,
there is no wilderness left to cherish”
(Aldo Leopold).
It’s not as simple as setting aside vast
wilderness tracts. Fifty years after the
Wilderness Act, the world population
has more than doubled. The dichotomy
constructed between wilderness – viewed
as harsh, inhospitable and dangerous as
often as spiritual and beautiful – and man
no longer serves the cause of preservation
fully. For wilderness to survive anywhere,
people and nature must be on the same side
in the fight for conservation.
The Mountainfilm Moving Mountains
Symposium on wilderness brings together
a diverse mix of artists, activists and
academics to present a vision inspired by
the giants of the past but informed by a new
global understanding.
TRAIL LEADER
Guiding us through the day is our emcee,
M SANJAYAN, executive vice president
and senior scientist at Conservation
International. After recently returning
from a two-year quest to witness the
state of wild places for a new PBS and
National Geographic TV series called
“Earth: The New Wild,” Sanjayan poses
this provocative statement: “What I found
is that the wild can thrive, but only if we
bring people into the picture.”
“To establish a National
Wilderness Preservation System
for the permanent good of the
whole people…”
SYMPOSIUM
MORNING SESSION
9:00 a.m. to 12:15 p.m.
The Foundation of
American Wilderness
Historian DOUGLAS BRINKLEY testified
before Congress on drilling in the Arctic
National Wildlife Refuge and has written
extensively about American wilderness
conservation: from Teddy Roosevelt to
the era of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring
– when the Wilderness Act was ratified –
to the present.
The Arctic: A Last Refuge of Wild
Born in Germany, FLORIAN SCHULZ
is a professional nature and wildlife
photographer and the youngest founding
member of the International League of
Conservation Photographers (iLCP).
PANEL: Does Wilderness Exist?
Emcee SANJAYAN challenges four great
advocates of wilderness to not only define
wilderness, but prove that it exists:
Oceanographer, author and lecturer
SYLVIA EARLE’s extraordinary
accomplishments have earned her the
moniker “Her Deepness.” Through an
act of civil disobedience that resulted
in two years in federal prison, TIM
DECHRISTOPHER saved thousands of
acres of federal land threatened by oil
and gas extraction. DAVE FOREMAN is
a leading environmentalist and activist
who founded the group Earth First! and
the Rewilding Institute “to combat the
extinction crisis.” Wildlife photographer
is the vice president for
research, conservation and exploration at
the National Geographic Society.
JOHN FRANCIS
Inspiration to Create
is the curator of
art at the National Museum of Wildlife
Art in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. He is
the author of Wildlife in American Art:
Masterworks from the National Museum of
Wildlife Art.
ADAM DUNCAN HARRIS
Inspiration to Preserve
Artist and professor DEBRA BLOOMFIELD’s
large-scale color photographs encompass
the breathtaking landscapes of the
American continent. Her newest work is a
multimedia piece titled “Wilderness.”
“A wilderness…is an area where
the earth and its community of life
are untrammeled by man, where man
himself is a visitor who does
not remain.”
A Word for “Wilderness”
Does Not Exist Here
JARED DIAMOND is a professor of
geography at UCLA and author of five
bestselling books about human societies
and human evolution, including the
Pulitzer Prize-winning Guns, Germs
and Steel.
LUNCH
12:15 to 1:30 p.m.
P H OTO BY G US G I S CI ORA
SYMPOSIUM
AFTERNOON SESSION
1:30 to 3:30 p.m.
The Forest Sings
Author and musician DAVID
ROTHENBERG has examined the
relationship between humanity and nature
for many years and bridges the gap
between species by creating music with
birds, whales and cicadas.
Living Wild
Founder of the Living Wild School,
which is dedicated to developing
wilderness living skills, LYNX VILDEN
has traveled, explored and researched the
nature and traditional cultures of arctic,
mountain and desert regions from Hudson
Bay to the Red Sea.
Áreas Silvestres Para Todos
National Geographic Emerging Explorer
and environmentalist JUAN MARTINEZ
is a national spokesman for getting youth
into the outdoors, especially those from
disadvantaged backgrounds.
PANEL: Now What
These panelists, who have been working
actively to preserve wilderness from
international, national, regional and
local perspectives, will discuss how
to turn inspiration into action: HILARY
COOPER is the director of Sheep Mountain
Alliance, an organization dedicated to
preserving the natural environment in
the Telluride region. VANCE MARTIN
joined The Wild Foundation, dedicated
to protecting wilderness and wild nature
around the world, as president in 1984.
SHELLEY SILBERT, executive director
of Great Old Broads for Wilderness, has
more than 20 years experience in the
fields of conservation and sustainability.
JAMIE WILLIAMS is the president of The
Wilderness Society, the conservation
organization leading American efforts to
protect our nation’s shared wildlands.
Wilding
With no experience or training, CHERYL
STRAYED hiked more than 1,000 miles
of the Pacific Crest Trail from the Mojave
Desert through California and Oregon
to Washington State – alone. Her New
York Times bestseller Wild chronicles the
story of her impulsive and, ultimately,
healing adventure.
AFTER THE SYMPOSIUM
3:30 to 4:30 p.m.
Wilderness Walk & Talk
A new program called Wilderness Walks
& Talks kicks off after the symposium. For
those inspired to get outside, join festival
guest CONRAD ANKER (page 70) on a
guided hike up the Ridge Trail to Gondola
Station St. Sophia. See page 85 for full
information about the program.
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SPEAKERS
REZA
(SATURDAY, 9:15 A.M., PALM)
Reza grew up in Iran and studied to
be an architect, but he was outraged by
the human rights injustices of the Shah’s
regime. At the age of 16, he protested by
photographing the abuses and posting the
pictures in public places. Eventually, he
was caught by the Shah’s secret police,
imprisoned and tortured for five months.
He believes that the Iranian government
viewed photographs as actual weapons to
contain and suppress.
The troubles in his homeland forced him
into exile, which prompted him to tell the
stories of others who’ve found themselves
trapped by history. He explains, “Within
you remains the memory of your lost
country, and you may feel disappointment
in the land where you are now living,
the country you thought would be your
promised land. And beyond the joy of
being free, there remains, too, a feeling
of mourning for your native land. … For
the exile, the joys of the present are full of
memories of the past.”
This unflagging world traveler has
worked along the front lines of war,
particularly in Afghanistan, spending
significant time with Ahmed Shah
Massoud, the revered leader of the
Northern Alliance. Massoud and his men
battled the Russian occupation and then
the Taliban before he was assassinated
by Al Qaeda in 2001, two days before the
events of 9/11. Reza is also the founder of
Aina, which uses photography and other
means of communication to educate and
empower women and children by helping
them develop these storytelling skills.
SPEAKERS
Nevada Wier
(SATURDAY, 12:00 P.M., SOH)
“I photograph people,” says Nevada
Wier. “I really like people – occasionally
a tree or two – but mostly people.” She
also likes to travel and has combined
these two affections into one pursuit:
“I realized, forget trying to go to places
where there are no people – and there are
people everywhere. And I fell in love with
indigenous cultures.”
She last spoke at Mountainfilm in 1996
about the Kirghiz nomads of Western
China and returns this year to discuss her
newest technique: infrared photography,
which she says, “adds a different
dimension to the photography.” These
photographs are part of an exhibition
called “Invisible Light: The World in
Infrared” that can be seen at Mélange
(page 79).
SPEAKERS
Dexter Filkins
(SATURDAY, 3:15 P.M., SOH)
“The doors swung open. I was still
running and wrenching my head to see
when a bunch of men piled out with guns
and rocket-propelled grenades. Suddenly
I saw them: black eyes, pale skin and
baggy gray suits with ammo belts. I
thought they had us, they thought they
had us.”
This excerpt reads like a war novel, but
it’s nonfiction from The Forever War by
New York writer Dexter Filkins, who
covered the Afghanistan and Iraq wars for
The New York Times during the bellicose
first decade of the new millennium. The
book, winner of numerous nonfiction
awards, is a remarkable account of life
during wartime with all of the impossible
circumstances such madness creates.
Filkins writes about being invited to
Kabul’s soccer stadium as a special guest
of the Taliban in 1998. He’s brought to
the equivalent of the 50-yard line when
“... A white Toyota Hi-Lux drove onto
the field and four men wearing green
hoods climbed out of the back. There
was a fifth man, a prisoner, no hood,
sitting in the bed of the truck. The
hooded men laid their man in the grass
just off midfield, flat on his back, and
crouched around him.” The prisoner
was accused of being a pickpocket,
and the assembled crowd witnessed his
punishment: “The green hoods appeared
busy, and one of them stood up. He
held the man’s severed right hand in the
air, displaying it for the crowd.”
His latest Letter from Iraq in The New
Yorker reports on how the sectarian
violence across the country has returned
“with terrifying intensity.” He will speak
with Mountainfilm Festival Director
David Holbrooke about the unstable
Middle East and how America can play a
role in finding the fulcrum of peace.
SPEAKERS
Steve Winter
(SATURDAY, 4:00 P.M., PALM)
The tiger is one of the most elusive
animals on the planet, but National
Geographic photographer Steve Winter
has captured these remarkable animals
with his camera many times, in addition
to taking award-winning photographs of
cougars, jaguars and snow leopards.
Those images were exhibited at
Mountainfilm 2010, but Winter was not
able to attend.
This year, Winter finally comes to
Telluride to talk about tigers, a species
under great stress. These massive animals
need large areas to roam, yet they are
being forced into smaller ranges. Their
prey is similarly limited, so tigers
(un)naturally head closer to civilization
and kill livestock or humans. It’s then
their turn to be hunted. A century ago,
there were 100,000 tigers; today, fewer
than 3,200 remain in the wild.
Winter is determined to tell the
tiger’s story to the world through his
photographs, hoping that his work
will give people a reason to care. His
optimism may stem from growing up in
rural Indiana and dreaming of becoming
a photographer for National Geographic.
Not many people realize their dreams,
but Winter did and is now trying to
achieve another: ending the dismal
trajectory of the tiger and many other
big cats.
SPEAKERS
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC
YOUNG EXPLORERS
(SUNDAY, 10:00 A.M., SOH)
If you’re between the ages of 18 and
25, you can apply for a Young Explorers
Grant from National Geographic Society.
The monetary support maxes out at
$5,000, but the stamp of approval from
the Society is priceless. Many great and
famous explorers received their first
support from National Geographic.
ANNIE AGNONE is a photographer who
converted her car into a camper and drove
over 20,000 miles through 36 states to
document nocturnal culture in the United
States. Along the way, she met all sorts of
night owls, including Bigfoot enthusiasts
who call themselves “Squatchers.”
grew up in the Santa
Monica Mountains, just north of Los
Angeles. Living in mountains so close
to a large urban environment helped him
understand the complicated relationship
between the two different areas. He’s now
DEVLIN GANDY
studying anthropology at the University
of California, Berkeley. For his Young
Explorers Grant project, he photographed
Chumash rock art in stunning and hardto-reach corners of California.
JEFFREY KERBY is a photographer and
Ph.D. student at Penn State. His photos
of the remarkable interactions between
the highly social gelada monkeys and
Ethiopian wolves on the remote Guassa
Plateau have been published in numerous
academic journals, popular magazines
and books.
is a physician assistant
who undertook a documentary expedition
on one of the world’s least-known free
flowing rivers, the Amur, where she
documented sections from the remote
Mongolian headwaters to a massive delta
in Russia.
AMBER VALENTI
SPEAKERS
Azzam Alwash
In the mid-1990s, after the invasion of
Kuwait, Saddam Hussein was battling
uprisings by the Shiite Arabs. Many
of the rebels hid in the marshlands of
Mesopotamia, located between the
Tigris and Euphrates rivers and widely
considered the birthplace of civilization.
These wetlands were also a lush home for
water buffalos, lions, aquatic wildlife and
an essential migratory stop for birds.
Hussein was furious with the Sumerian
people who lived there and the refuge
they provided to his enemy, so he
burned, drained and poisoned this fragile
ecosystem in retaliation, turning the
Garden of Eden into a dust bowl.
During that time, Azzam Alwash was
living in asylum in the United States,
enjoying a successful career as a civil
engineer. Growing up in Iraq, however,
he’d spent many days in the marshes with
his father, who was head of the irrigation
department. He watched the destruction
from afar – heartbroken.
When Hussein lost power, Alwash
returned to his childhood home and
realized that he wanted to restore the
marshes. He started the nonprofit Nature
Iraq and went to work.
Alwash first told his story at
Mountainfilm 2004 and talked about
how bringing nature back to life was
not nearly as hard as staying alive in
Iraq’s post-war sectarian violence. He
returned in 2008 with tales of success and
significant restoration of the marshlands.
This year, after winning a 2013
Goldman Environmental Prize, he will
update us on his latest achievements and
challenges, which include an extensive
series of dams along the volatile TurkeySyria border that would choke the water
into Iraq and the marshlands.
SPEAKERS
The 90th Anniversary
of George Mallory’s
Attempt on Everest
Conrad Anker
&Wade Davis
(SUNDAY, 12:00 P.M., HC)
Few people have spent more time trying
to understand the mystery of George
Mallory and Mount Everest than Conrad
Anker and Wade Davis.
Anker was part of an expedition that
visited Everest to search for Mallory’s
body. After several weeks with no
success, Anker headed off on his own to
an area outside of the search zone and
discovered the famous corpse.
Davis wrote an award-winning
bestseller called Into the Great Silence
that examined Mallory and the global
circumstances that inspired him and his
generation of explorers. (Davis has also
authored many other books, including the
seminal The Serpent and the Rainbow
about his experiences as an ethnobotanist
in Haiti.)
Both men have been to Mountainfilm
many times. Both have spoken about
Mallory extensively. But this marks the
first time Anker and Davis will take the
stage together to discuss the man of their
obsession. Telluride alpinist Hilaree
O’Neill will moderate the discussion. She
summited Everest in 2012 as part of an
Anker-led expedition and then climbed
neighboring Lhotse, making her the first
woman to climb two 8,000-meter peaks
in 24 hours.
P H OTO BY BI L L CAMP BE L L
SPEAKERS
A Musical Tribute to Nelson
Mandela and Pete Seeger
Peter Yarrow
When Nelson Mandela and Pete
Seeger died this year, the social justice
movement lost two giants. Telluride’s
Peter Yarrow – a member of the ‘60s
musical group Peter, Paul and Mary –
knew them both well. He performed at
the Mandela memorial at the National
Cathedral in Washington D.C. and sang at
Seeger’s bedside during his final hours.
Yarrow will speak – and sing – about
his relationship with both men and what
we can learn from their achievements.
LIBRARY
The Library
This year, we’re expanding the scope of our focused programming at the Library
with a variety of special talks and presentations. New: All events at the Library are
free to the public after passholders are seated.
SATURDAY
9:30 - 10:45 A.M.
Two Works in Progress:
Metanoia and Frame by Frame
Two filmmakers and one legendary climber
explain the process, progress and ultimate
hopes for their labors. Jeff Lowe is one of
the great climbers of all time, yet his story
also has a human and tragic dimension,
which director Jim Aikman (High and
Hallowed, Mountainfilm 2013) is working
to capture in the eagerly awaited Metanoia.
Director Alexandria Bombach (Common
Ground, page 19) is co-directing a
documentary called Frame by Frame about
Afghan photographers. Both films expect to
premiere later in 2014.
11:15 A.M. - 12:30 P.M.
How to Make an Adventure Film
In many ways, making an adventure film
sounds like a dream job – being outside,
creating something memorable, pursuing
outdoor endeavors. Of course the reality
is a little different. Hear from Mike
Douglas of Switchback Films (Super
Mom, page 36), Joachim Hellinger of
HelliVentures (Sound of the Void, page
33) and Ben Stookesbury (Walled In,
page 38) about how they made a career in
adventure films.
3:30 - 4:45 P.M.
What Is Wilderness?
Meet two people whose experience
and understanding of wilderness is
different than most: Steve “Doom”
Fassbinder has been exploring the
wilderness of the Southwest with fat
tire bikes and packrafts, and Eugénie
Frerichs is a Mountainfilm 2014 artistin-residence engaged in a deep study
of wilderness.
5:15 - 6:45 P.M.
Artist Talk: Circles,
Words and Wonder
Gary Lang is a Mountainfilm 2014
artist-in-residence and will speak about
how his abstract paintings of words and
circles relate to nature. Maggie Taylor,
who created the art for this year’s
festival poster, will discuss life as an
artist with her husband, Jerry Uelsmann,
whose photographic images shattered
many of the traditional boundaries of
photography and were something simply
unheard of before the era of Photoshop.
GARY LANG
1:00 - 2:30 P.M.
Prospective Mountainfilm
On Tour Hosts
More than 40,000 people see
Mountainfilm on Tour each year in over
100 locations on five continents. If you
want to bring Mountainfilm to your
hometown, learn from Mountainfilm on
Tour Director Henry Lystad about what
it takes to put on a show and meet other
hosts from around the world.
LIBRARY
J E R RY UELSMAN N
SUNDAY
9:30 - 10:45 A.M.
Filming in a Foreign Land
Making a movie is hard enough, but when
the story requires shooting overseas, it
adds another degree of difficulty. Three
directors – Mark Grieco (Marmato, page
27), Maxim Pozdorovkin (The Notorious
Mr. Bout, page 28) and Diana Whitten
(Vessel, page 37) – will share their
experiences working in different cultures.
11:15 A.M. - 12:15 P.M.
Artist Talk: See, Hear, Feel
Artist Debra Bloomfield’s large-scale
color photographs (page 76) encompass
the breathtaking landscapes of the
American continent. She will speak
about the creative process behind
her newest work, a multimedia piece
titled “Wilderness,” which is her third
monograph and includes photographs,
essays and a CD soundscape. Lauren
Oakes, an ecologist who contributed a
historical text on the Wilderness Act, will
join the talk.
12:45 - 2:15 P.M.
How to Start a Nonprofit
Are you inspired to change the world, but
don’t know how to make it happen? If so,
take notes from these four people: George
Basch is the founder of the Himalayan
Stove Project; Kandee DeGraw started
the Telluride AIDS Benefit in 1994; Jim
Nowak created the dZi Foundation to
help poor, rural residents of the Himalaya
in Nepal and India; and Lisa Pike Sheehy,
Patagonia’s environmental programs
director, has shepherded numerous
nonprofits to success.
5:45 - 6:45 P.M.
Movies That Matter
Educational Program
This new – and free – initiative brings
compelling programming from the
festival into schools. Join Mountainfilm
Tour Director Henry Lystad to see how to
take advantage of this new – and free –
offering from Mountainfilm. (And did we
mention that it’s free?)
Make Waves
While we feel wilderness
is everywhere, inspiring
just about everything
we do, nothing beats the
real thing. Horny Toad
sponsors Mountainfilm
in Telluride and its goal
of stirring up minds and
hearts in the name of
wilderness protection.
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OPENING RECEPTION FRIDAY, MAY 24, 3:30 TO 6:30 P.M.
Artists will speak at their respective exhibition locations at 5:15 p.m. during the Gallery Walk
and again during the Ice Cream Social (2:00 to 3:30 p.m. on Saturday). Galleries are open
throughout the festival weekend, but if you can’t find anyone to help purchase an artwork, please
contact Drew Ludwig by emailing [email protected]. We are grateful to Telluride Arts for
collaborating with Mountainfilm on our growing artist-in-residence program.
DEBRA BLOOMFIELD
STEVE DUNCAN
Debra Bloomfield’s large color
photographs are subdued, minimal views
of wooded wilderness lands. Her project,
which suggests the way the wilderness
feels, rather than what it looks like, shows
subtle variations within motifs of water,
sky, birds, trees and mountains.
Sewers and underground waterways rarely
look beautiful, but through the eyes of
urban explorer Steve Duncan (A Beautiful
Waste, page 17), these photographs are
positively shimmering.
HIGH CAMP
CARTER BROOKS
SPRUCE STREET PARK IN FRONT
OF THE MASONS THEATER
Carter Brooks presents installations
that incorporate steel rigging and large
blocks of ice that transform in front
of your eyes. These pieces are worth
revisiting throughout the weekend to see
how they change as the ice melts, much
like our planet.
LA COCINA DE LUZ
EUGÉNIE FRERICHS
STRONG HOUSE
ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE
Eugénie Frerichs, a former Telluride
resident (and Mountainfilm employee),
integrates a deep study of wilderness into
her work. Part of this series, “Men in
Trees,” was shot in Telluride. In addition
to her exhibition, look for her on the
streets throughout the weekend in a roving
performance piece called “The Gospel
According to John Muir.”
GALLERY WALK
F LOR I A N S CHU L Z
CHRIS HANSON
GARY LANG
Filmmaker Chris Hanson (Scrapple and
North Slope, Alaska, page 28) was sent
to film on Alaska’s north slope for the
popular TV show “Ice Road Truckers.”
During his free time, he captured images of
the stunning northern lights.
Although a painter, words were always
in Gary Lang’s mind’s eye so he started
incorporating them into his work. As he
says, “Words are powerful. They make you
cry. They give you hope. I didn’t realize
they were the doors to worlds.” While
in Telluride, he has create new pieces
inspired by the alpine world that is so
different from his home in Ojai, California.
STEAMING BEAN
AARON HUEY
ARROYO
As part of his photo work documenting
Sherpa climbers for National Geographic
magazine, Aaron Huey collected pictures
from the Sherpas’ summits. Courtesy
of the climbers and their families, these
photos are often exhibited in places of
distinction in their homes to honor these
strong, skilled and courageous men.
BEN KNIGHT
TELLURIDE GALLERY OF FINE ART
Photographer and filmmaker Ben Knight,
with DamNation producer Matt Stoecker,
carved out some time to take photos of
the beautiful river environments they
encountered while filming (page 20).
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KATIE LEE
ARROYO
Katie Lee, one of the Southwest’s greatest
environmental advocates, spent countless
days tromping around Glen Canyon with
friends before it was dammed in 1966
and thereafter covered by Lake Powell.
These nude photographs of Lee, taken by
Martin D. Koehler (now deceased) during
October of 1957, show her in the sensual
environment of the canyon.
GALLERY WALK
TH OM ROS S
JENNI LOWE-ANKER
ARROYO
Jenni Lowe-Anker returns to the Gallery
Walk with paintings from the Himalaya.
Lowe-Anker’s repeated trips to the
region with her husband Conrad Anker
have produced a series that illustrates
the interaction between these forbidding
mountains and the indigenous wildlife that
thrives there.
HUNTER METCALFE
STRONGHOUSE
Hunter Metcalfe specializes in old-style
tintype photographs. Throughout the fourday weekend, he’ll photograph alpinists to
expand his exhibit. Please return again to
appreciate the growing collection.
KLAUS PICHLER
HIGH CAMP
Klaus Pichler was walking by a museum
in Vienna when he peered into a basement
window. What he saw there – an office
with a desk, computer, shelves and a
stuffed antelope – made him wonder what
museums were like behind the scenes and
inspired this funny and thoughtful photo
series titled “Skeletons in the Closet.”
NATIONAL
GEOGRAPHIC YOUNG
EXPLORERS
AH HAA WEST
View the work of several National
Geographic Young Explorers: Annie
Agnone, Devlin Gandy, Jeffrey Kerby and
Amber Valenti (see more about them on
page 68).
REZA
AH HAA EAST
Reza’s photographs from international
conflicts and human rights hotspots
around the world have appeared primarily
in National Geographic. He is not just
a photographer; his belief in the deep
and abiding power of photojournalism
led him to start photography classes
in troubled areas that need activist
storytelling. Reza will speak about his
work at the Palm on Saturday (page 64).
GALLERY WALK
NEVADA W EIR
© KAT I E L E E
THOM ROSS
JERRY UELSMANN
Thom Ross’s paintings take viewers back
to a time when alpinists summited in
hobnail boots and wool pants. His angular
paintings capture a remarkable age of
discovery and tell the story of men driven
to explore.
Jerry Uelsmann – whose work is in
the permanent collections of museums
around the world including MOMA
and the Metropolitan Museum of Art –
shattered the boundaries of photography
decades ago. Using multiple images,
his experiments in the darkroom have
created a body of fantastical work that is
remarkable in vision and scope.
ARROYO
FLORIAN SCHULZ
LA COCINA DE LUZ
Florian Schulz’s wildlife photography has
appeared in the Smithsonian and American
Museum of Natural History. He hopes
to inspire people to protect endangered
ecosystems and wilderness areas through
his strong conservation vision.
MAGGIE TAYLOR
Maggie Taylor, whose artwork is featured
on the 2014 Mountainfilm festival poster,
creates whimsical photomontages that
have been described as a contemporary
exploration of surrealism. Her works has
been featured at international exhibitions,
collected privately and are captured in
books published by Adobe Press and
Modernbook Editions.
NEVADA WIER
MÉLANGE
Nevada Wier has traveled the world,
capturing ethnographic photography
that has appeared in National Geographic
and Outside magazine. She returns
to Mountainfilm with a starkly different
series of color infrared images, which
give her subjects an otherworldly
feel and encourage viewers to see the
world differently.
TOWN TALKS
COFFEE & CONVERSATION
SATURDAY, SUNDAY AND MONDAY, 8:00 TO 9:00 A.M.
LOCATIONS
1 AH HAA WEST
2 AH HAA EAST
3 REBEKAH HALL
4 HOTEL TELLURIDE
5 HONGA’S LOTUS PETAL
6 THE PEAKS
7 HOTEL MADELINE
SATURDAY MAY 24
1 Wilderness and Radicalism
TIM DECHRISTOPHER, who starred in
Bidder 70 (Mountainfilm 2012) and spent
two years in federal prison for an act of ecocivil disobedience, believes that wilderness
inspires radicalism. DAVE FOREMAN,
founder of Earth First, and LYNX VILDEN,
founder of the Living Wild School, will join
DeChristopher to discuss the topic.
2 Nepal and the Money Train
The recent avalanche on Everest that killed
16 Sherpa guides has exposed major ethnic
and financial fissures at the top of the
world. Four experts will discuss the role
money plays in the mountains of Nepal:
BEN AYERS, Nepal country director for
dZi Foundation; WADE DAVIS, who wrote
Into the Silence about George Mallory;
photographer AARON HUEY, who is
documenting Sherpa guides for National
Geographic magazine; and NORBU
TENZING, vice-president of the American
Himalayan Foundation and the son of
Tenzing Norgay.
3 Climate Solution 2014: Outdoor
Companies and the Environment
Whether it’s funding films or supporting
nonprofit advocacy groups, some outdoor
companies are increasingly putting their
influence and money into environmental
causes. PETER KENWORTHY,
Mountainfilm’s executive director, will
discuss company strategies with JOY
HOWARD, vice president of marketing for
Patagonia; GARETH MARTINS, director
of marketing for Osprey; and PETER
METCALF, CEO of Black Diamond.
4 Ocean as Ecosystem
It’s no secret that the oceans are in deep
trouble, but what’s less known is the positive
developments that could create a sea change.
The great oceanographer SYLVIA EARLE
(Mission Blue, page 28); JOHN FRANCIS,
the National Geographic vice president for
research, conservation and exploration; and
acclaimed photographer FLORIAN SCHULZ
(page 61) will examine the state of the
oceans.
5 Cheryl Strayed
with Tom Shadyac
CHERYL STRAYED’s book Wild catapulted
to The New York Times best-seller list and
held the #1 spot for seven consecutive
weeks. She and director/producer TOM
SHADYAC will explore why the story
of her personal collapse and eventual
redemption in the wilderness resonated
with so many readers.
6 Untrammeled By Man?
In the landmark “Wilderness” Act of
1964, wilderness is defined as an area
“untrammeled by man,” but a growing
group of conservation experts in the
United States and abroad believe people
are an integral part of keeping wild
places intact. The conversation will
include SONO AIBE, a senior advisor at
Pathfinder International; M SANJAYAN,
executive vice president and senior
scientist at Conservation International;
and VANCE MARTIN, president of the
WILD Foundation.
TOWN TALKS
7 Where Are the Women?
Women are significantly under represented
in the adventure industry. Professional
skiers LYNSEY DYER and WENDY FISHER;
filmmaker SARAH MENZIES; along with
REBECCA MARTIN, executive director at
National Geographic Expeditions Council,
discuss how women can take Amelia
Earhart’s advice: “The most effective way
to do it, is to do it.”
SUNDAY MAY 25
1 Working in a War Zone
According to the Committee to Protect
Journalists, 70 reporters lost their lives
while working in 2013. Many of those
deaths occurred in war zones, dangerous
terrain that’s all too familiar to war
correspondent DEXTER FILKINS (page 66),
director ROSS KAUFFMAN (E-Team, page
22) and photographer REZA (page 64).
2 How to Get Your
Film on Television
There are ever-increasing platforms for
getting your film seen, yet television
remains a force. THOM BEERS, CEO of
FremantleMedia North America; SARA
BERNSTEIN, vice-president for HBO
Documentaries; and SIMON KILMURRY,
executive director of POV on PBS, survey
today’s media landscape.
3 Climate Solutions 2014
We know about many effects of climate
change: melting glaciers, forest fires, rising
seas. What are some of the impacts that
we don’t know? Casting an eye toward the
future are CARY FOWLER, a scientist at the
Seed Bank in Svalbard, Norway (Seeds
of Time, page 32); DAVID SASSOON,
founder of Inside Climate News; and
AUDEN SCHENDLER, vice president of
sustainability at Aspen Skiing Company.
4 Activists in Danger
Activists face a variety of challenges
in doing their work, which sometimes
include physical danger. AZZAM ALWASH,
a Goldman Environmental Prize winner;
MIKAL JAKUBAL, featured in DamNation
for painting massive cracks on federal
dams; and ANDREA RUTIGLIANO, who
works for the Committee Against Bird
Slaughter in Europe, talk about putting
their lives on the line for a cause.
5 Morgan Spurlock
with Tom Shadyac
MORGAN SPURLOCK first came to
our attention 10 years ago with his
groundbreaking film Super Size Me.
Since then, he’s surely the only person to
make films about Osama Bin Laden, the
Simpsons and the boy band One Direction.
At Mountainfilm with both a tenthanniversary screening of Super Size Me and
a showing of Gluttony, an episode from his
Showtime series “Seven Deadly Sins” (page
33), he discusses with director/producer
TOM SHADYAC where the food movement
has gone since Super Size Me (page 35).
6 Wild Saviors
What does it take to save wild places?
LESLIE DANOFF, a filmmaker and
board director at The Rainforest Trust;
ERIC MELSON, a program director at
the Selway-Bitterroot Frank Church
Foundation; JEFF PARRISH, managing
director at the World Wildlife Foundation;
and JAMIE WILLIAMS, president of The
Wilderness Society, have devoted their
careers to preserving wilderness.
7 Film Fatales
There’s a dearth of women in filmmaking,
but efforts are afoot to rectify the problem,
including a group called the Film Fatales.
This workshop-driven conversation
includes DANIELLE LURIE, who wrote
about this topic for Filmmaker Magazine;
NOAH COWAN, executive director of the
San Francisco Film Society; and MEREDITH
LAVITT, co-director of The Grand Rescue
(page 23), in conversation with EMILY
LONG, Mountainfilm’s program director.
P H OTO BY ME L I S S A P L ANTZ
TOWN TALKS
MONDAY MAY 26
1 Dear President Obama
Last year, Mountainfilm screened Dear
Governor Cuomo about New York state’s
bitter battle over lifting the moratorium
on fracking, which inspired this year’s
festival film Dear Governor Hickenlooper
(page 20) about fracking in Colorado.
Dear President Obama is in the works, so
SHANE DAVIS, a.k.a. The Fractivist; JESSE
MOSS, director of The Overnighters; and
DAVID SASSOON, founder and publisher of
Inside Climate News, gather to discuss this
fractious and complicated issue.
2 Want to Be a Photographer?
Using their words and no pictures, three
photographers talk about why they
entered their challenging profession
and where they see its future: COREY
ARNOLD, who exhibited his images of
the global commercial fishing industry
at Mountainfilm last year; ethnographic
photographer NEVADA WIER (page 65);
and STEVE WINTER (page 67), whose
images of big cats are hanging from
various trees in Telluride.
3 Making Music in the Morning
Had enough with all this talking? Join Peter
Yarrow and friends for a spirited singalong.
4 Born to Fly
Some people like to have their feet on
the ground; others prefer to be airborne.
Extreme slackliner DEAN POTTER (When
Dogs Fly, page 39) and ELIZABETH STREB,
founder of the Streb Extreme Action dance
company (Born to Fly, page 17), discuss the
art of flight.
5 James “The Amazing” Randi
with Tom Shadyac
JAMES RANDI started out in show
business in 1946 as “The Amazing
Randi,” a magician and escapologist. This
fascinating title character of An Honest
Liar (page 24) joins director/producer TOM
SHADYAC to talk about his singular career
and life.
6 American Rivers Running Free
After more than a century of damming
rivers in the U.S., a strong movement
has surfaced to let these waterways run
free. Speaking about the impact of this
encouraging trend are SINJIN EBERLE
with American Rivers; PETE MCBRIDE,
director of Chasing Water (Mountainfilm
2011) and MATT STOECKER, producer of
DamNation (page 20).
7 Wise Women
What do these wise women have to teach
us about fighting the good fight — and
winning? LINDA HALPERN is a civil rights
activist featured in the film Freedom
Summer (page 22); Katie Lee is, well, the
impassioned Katie Lee; and Shelly Silbert
is the executive director of Great Old
Broads for Wilderness.
P H OTO BY K I T T Y H OL B ROOK E
TOWN TALKS
BOOZE & BANTER
SATURDAY AND SUNDAY, 5:30 TO 6:30 P.M.
LOCATIONS
A ARROYO WINE BAR
B OAK RESTAURANT
SATURDAY
A Douglas Brinkley
Historian DOUGLAS BRINKLEY has
written extensively about wilderness and
American politics and has testified before
Congress about drilling in the Arctic
National Wildlife Refuge. Brinkley also
edited Jack Kerouac’s diaries, Hunter S.
Thompson’s letters and Theodore Dreiser’s
travelogue. Brinkley will talk about
wilderness and U.S. presidents.
B Dean Potter
No one in the climbing world is quite like
DEAN POTTER. Learn what inspires him to
go big. (Hosted by TIMMY O’NEILL.)
SUNDAY
A Wade Davis
The garrulous WADE DAVIS will speak
about Sherpas on Everest, the latest on the
Sacred Headwaters, what it’s like to be
back in his beloved British Columbia and
much more.
B The Joy of Suffering
Climbers ALEX HONNOLD and CEDAR
WRIGHT have embarked on a peculiar
quest, something they call “Sufferfest.”
Aside from the film of the same name
(page 35), they just finished a sequel
Sufferfest, this time in the Southwest.
Joining them will be alpinist CONRAD
ANKER who famously said, “I like to
suffer.” The three will share stories of —
you guessed it — suffering. (Hosted by
Timmy O’Neill.)
WILDERNESS WALKS & TALKS
E UG E NIE F RE R ICH S
WILDERNESS WALKS & TALKS
FRIDAY THROUGH MONDAY
Mountainfilm started as a gathering for climbers and mountaineers with climbing during
the day and movies in the evenings. The festival schedule is busier now than it was in 1979,
but we want to revisit our roots this year with a small offering of outdoor programs.
Passholders and the general public may sign up for the free Wilderness Walks & Talks at
Hospitality in the Gallery Room of the Sheridan Opera House beginning on Thursday, May
22. All programs are two hours or less and accessed by foot from the Town of Telluride
(no driving required). Walks & Talks have limited space, so sign up early. Rain or shine, be
prepared for the elements.
FRIDAY 3:30 P.M.
(AFTER THE MOVING
MOUNTAINS SYMPOSIUM)
Hike the Ridge Trail with
Conrad Anker
Feel the weight of a pack similar to what
the legendary Sherpa guides and climbers
of the Himalaya carry, and then join alpinist
CONRAD ANKER on a hike up the Ridge
Trail to Gondola Station St. Sophia.
Difficulty level: Intermediate
SUNDAY 5:00 P.M.
Puebloan History and the Story
of Trees with David Roberts
Join climber and author DAVID ROBERTS
for a brief visit to the Telluride Museum,
where he’ll tell the story of the Telluride
Blanket, a masterful Ancestral Puebloan
artifact on display. Afterward, follow him
onto the famed Jud Wiebe trail.
Difficulty level: Intermediate
(some steep terrain with loose rocks)
Meeting location: Mountain
Village Conference Center near the
bouldering rock
Meeting location: Elks Park (across the
street from the Sheridan Opera House)
SATURDAY 12:00 P.M.
Living Wild with Lynx Vilden
LYNX VILDEN, the founder of the
Living Wild School, will teach handson wilderness living skills on Bear
Creek Trail.
Wildlife Photography: Camera
Traps with Steve Winter
On the San Miguel River Trail, National
Geographic photojournalist STEVE
WINTER will demonstrate how to set
camera traps and capture incredible shots
of animals in the wild.
Difficulty level: Beginner
MONDAY 11:00 A.M.
Difficulty level: Beginner
Meeting location: Telluride Town Park (at
the bleachers for the baseball diamonds)
Meeting location: Oak restaurant
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SUNDAY, 2:00 P.M. TO 4:00 P.M.
HOTEL MADELINE BALL ROOM IN MOUNTAIN VILLAGE
Between the Covers bookstore moves to Hotel Madeline’s ballroom
for the afternoon to celebrate Mountainfilm authors who will sign and
sell their books. Look for these authors at The Reading Frenzy:
Florian Schulz
Tom Shadyac
Morgan Spurlock
Cheryl Strayed
Maggie Taylor
Jerry Uelsmann
Steve Winter
Peter Yarrow
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Debra Bloomfield
Douglas Brinkley
Anna Brones
Shushana Castle
Wade Davis
Jared Diamond
Sylvia Earle
Dexter Filkins
Dave Foreman
Cary Fowler
Adam Duncan Harris
Katie Lee
Vance Martin
Luke Mehall
James Randi
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David Roberts
David Rothenburg
David Sassoon
Auden Schendler
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SPECIAL EVENTS
In addition to regular theater programming and the events listed previously in this section,
Mountainfilm also hosts the following parties and special events during the festival. All are free to
the public, unless noted.
Ice Cream Social
SATURDAY, 2:00 TO 3:30 P.M.
COLORADO AVENUE (MAIN STREET)
BETWEEN ASPEN AND FIR STREETS
Aside from the free ice cream, there will
be an array of local and national nonprofits
and a farmer’s market with produce and
quick local lunch options (other quality togo food is available at places such as The
Brown Bag, The Butcher and the Baker,
Caravan and The Steaming Bean).
At 2:45 p.m. climber and aerialist Dean
Potter (When Dogs Fly, page 39) will
jump out of a plane and fly in a wingsuit
over Telluride. If the weather and wind
are too much, we’ll try to find another
time for this flight.
Late-Night Parties
FRIDAY, 9:00 P.M.
LAST DOLLAR SALOON
American Alpine Club party
SATURDAY, 9:00 P.M.
LAST DOLLAR SALOON
Timmy O’Neill and the Dust Storm
SMUGGLERS BREW PUB
An informal gathering to discuss your
favorite films over a locally brewed beer
SUNDAY, 9:00 P.M.
THE STEAMING BEAN
Closing night party
Closing Awards Picnic
Sponsored by Eddie Bauer &
Outside magazine
The picnic is free for Wilson, Ama Dablam
and Patron passholders; tickets are on sale
at Hospitality and at the picnic entrance
for $20.
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Debbie & David Cohen
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AWARDS
Film awards are announced at the Closing Picnic & Awards Ceremony, which takes place
in Telluride Town Park from 1 to 4 p.m. on Monday, May 26.
MOVING
MOUNTAINS PRIZE
This $3,000 prize goes to a nonprofit
featured in a film at the festival. Judges
examine the mission of each organization,
considering its scope, impact and need.
The quality of the film is not factored into
the decision.
CHARLIE
FOWLER AWARD
Charlie Fowler was a Telluride local and
world-class climber. We miss him and
find some comfort knowing that he’s
represented in spirit by this $1,000 juried
award that goes to a climbing film.
AUDIENCE AWARD
All passholders have ballots to select the
Audience Award. Ballots are collected at
Hospitality until Monday morning and also at
the Closing Picnic.
NORMAN VAUGHAN
INDOMITABLE
SPIRIT AWARD
The great polar explorer Norman Vaughan
was a friend to Mountainfilm. His motto was
“Dream big and dare to fail.” Founded by
his widow Carolyn Muegge-Vaughan, Rick
Silverman and Lindsey Walker, this award
is given to a film that epitomizes Vaughan’s
indomitable spirit.
FESTIVAL
DIRECTOR’S
AWARD
This award is chosen by Mountainfilm’s
festival director.
CINEMATOGRAPHY
AWARD
This juried prize goes to the film with the
most outstanding cinematography.
STUDENT AWARD
Students in the Movies That Matter festival
program, created in collaboration with
Telluride Academy, select the film that they
think will most inspire their generation.
JUDGES
MOVING MOUNTAINS PRIZE
SARA BERNSTEIN
HBO is a longtime force in the documentary world, and
network vice president Sara Bernstein is a key part of the team,
shepherding such films as The Crash Reel, Music by Prudence
and Burma VJ.
NOAH COWAN
As the newly named executive director of the San Francisco
Film Society, Noah Cowan’s responsibilities are to run the San
Francisco Film Festival and further the Society’s mission to
support independent filmmakers and bring world cinema to the
Bay Area.
SIMON KILMURRY
Simon Kilmurry runs “POV,” the PBS series that holds the
record as the longest running program for independent films
on television. It has screened many documentaries that also
played at Mountainfilm.
CHARLIE FOWLER AWARD
MARY ANN POTTS
When National Geographic Adventure magazine ceased to
publish in print in 2009, they kept one person on staff: Mary Ann
Potts. With her help, it now thrives with a strong online presence.
AUDEN SCHENDLER
Auden Schendler is the vice-president of sustainability at
Aspen Ski Company and spoke at 2013’s Moving Mountains
Symposium on climate solutions.
GREGG TRENISH
The founder of Adventurers and Scientists for Conservation,
Gregg Treinish was featured in the 2013 Mountainfilm entry,
Gregg Treinish, A MoveShake Story. He was also named a
National Geographic Explorer of the Year in 2008 for being the
first person to trek the Andes Mountain Range.
JUDGES
CINEMATOGRAPHY AWARD
BRENT BISHOP
As part of the team that made the Mountainfilm 2013
entry High and Hallowed, Brent Bishop is an alpinist and
photographer whose father, Barry Bishop, was a member of the
famous 1963 Americans on Everest expedition.
LYNSEY DYER
A typical day for Lynsey Dyer involves hucking herself off
a cliff for a ski photo shoot, empowering young girls to get
outdoors through her nonprofit She Jumps, and creating art.
MARY TURNER
After growing up in the South, Mary Turner moved to New
York and worked for Vanity Fair and The New Yorker before
escaping to Santa Fe, where she is the deputy editor for
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BOARD & DONORS
Mountainfilm in Telluride is as honored as it is fortunate to have a board of directors and an advisory
board composed of such dedicated and diverse talent. Here are the people that Mountainfilm relies
on for both inspiration and guidance.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Beth Gage / Board President
Lance Waring / Board Vice President
Mike Shimkonis / Board Treasurer
Brian Werner / Board Secretary
Ruth Bender
Jack Castle
Bonnie Cohen
Mallory Dimmitt
Cathe Dyer
Lindsay Hower
Rick Silverman
Allison Wolff
HONORARY BOARD OF TRUSTEES
Dick & Susan Saint James Ebersol
Tully & Elise Friedman
Ann & Rich Teerlink
ADVISORY BOARD
Conrad Anker
James Balog
Arlene Burns
Wade Davis
Lynn Hill
Aaron Huey
Pico Iyer
Chris Jordan
Ben Knight
Ace Kvale
Frans Lanting
Katie Lee
Maya Lin
Liz Manne
Rebecca Martin
Hilaree O’Neil
Doug Peacock
Louie Psihoyos
Chris Rainier
Mary Ramos
Beth Wald
Paul Watson
DONORS
EVEREST
Shushana & Jack Castle
Dalton Family Foundation
Dick & Susan Saint James Ebersol, Honorary Trustees
High Meadows Group
Tully & Elise Friedman, Honorary Trustees
Jeff & Debbie Resnick
Ann & Rich Teerlink, Honorary Trustees
K2 Thom & Leslie Beers • Stuart & Joanna Brown • Lisa Hogan
Joseph & Lynne • Horning • Jesse & Mary Johnson • Richard & Charlotte
Jorgensen • Jim & Kay Mabie • Audrey Marnoy • Aela & Don Morgan
AJAX Anonymous • Janet W. Barnhill • Corinna Clendenen
Beth & George Gage • Marla Meridith • Carolyn Muegge-Vaughan
Patagonia Footwear • Chris Paine • Penelope L. Peterson
Rick Silverman • Lindsey Walker
DENALI Ed & Frances Barlow • Chip & Cathe Dyer • Danna English
Judy & Steven Gluckstern • John Kirkendoll & Peiper Hastings
Paul & Sherry Lambert • Casey & Megan McManemin • Dinny Sherman
Anita & Prabha Sinha • The Spitzer Family • Missy & Mike Young
EIGER Josh Bernstein • Sharon Gantz Bloome
Bonnie & Louis Cohen William C. & Sally R. Estes • Suzanne LaFetra
John & Bridget Macaskill • Vincent & Anne Mai
Tristin & Martin Mannion • Dr. John McCall • Peter & Kathleen Metcalf
Anu & Michelle Parekh • Ronnie Planalp • Karen Ray • Susan Rockefeller
Ian Sanders • Wynnell Schrenk • Tom & Donna Stone
Terry & Susan Tice • Barrett Toan • Sheila Wald
EL CAPITAN Alan & Brenda Abramson • Anne & Mike
Armstrong • Ruth Bender • Angela & Roger Box • Nancy & Duncan
Burke • David & Nancy Cale • Steve & Kendall Cieciuch
Geoffrey E. Clark, M.D. & Martha Fuller Clark • Mallory Dimmitt
Vevie & Lawrence Dimmitt • Bruce & Bridgitt Evans • The Grace Trust
Garrett Gruener & Amy Slater Family Fund • Dr. Hill & Bettie Hastings
Litty Holbrooke & Andy Frey • David & Laurie Joslin
Paul Lehman & Ronna Stamm • Merle & Jerry Measer
Lou Mintz & Beverly Crilly • Lynn Nebus • Barbara Parish & Gary
Roberts • Kelli Petersen • Mr. & Mrs. John Hans Pryor • Barry & Barbara
Shaffer • Mike & Jennifer Shimkonis • Susan Ringo & Barry Sonnenfeld
Jim & Joanne Steinback • Chris and Judy Stjernholm • Max & Tamara
Strang • Zelda & Sheldon Tenenbaum • Dale Vrabec • Philip H. & Jean H.
Wagner Family Fund • Suzanne Dyer Wise • Bruce & Jodie Wright
Shannon & Kimberly Wynne • Dale Zulauf & Jonette Bronson
BELAYER Paul & Mary Anderson • Eileen Barrett & Sam MacBride
Joel & Betty Bechtel • Doug Beckwith, PhD • Mark Callaway
John & Georgiann Carroll • David & Deborah Cohen • Marcia & John
Mike Cohen • Marvin Cohen & Jane Richman in honor of Ronna Stamm
& Paul Lehman • Kevin & Ann Cooney • Nancy Craft & Rob Schultheis
Durfee Day • Phil & Cathie Evans • Charlotte Fox • Dave & Lael Fruen
David Gast & Elena Schmid • Gerber Construction, Inc. • Kathy Green
Judy Hall & Warner Paige • Marla & Dan Hodes • Lindsay K. Hower
Kit & Carolyn Jackson • Chase Lambert • Martha Lanning
John Leahey & Mary Uchida • Stephen & Kathy McComb
The Daniel M. Neidich & Brooke Garber Foundation
Lisa & Victor Nemeroff • Chris & Laura Pucillo
Dr. & Mrs. Sam Rehnborg • Bee & Frank Reichel • Mr. Andre Schwartz
& Ms. Virginia Egger • John Steel & Bunny Freidus • Strom and Matt
Thacker in honor of Chris Paine • Brian Werner • Marshall Whiting &
Richard Arnold • Peter & Gail Wilson • Allison Wolff
SHERPA
George & Jackie Antoine • Allison Branson • Judy & Paul Beckett
Jacob Brennan • Wendy Brooks • Frank & Jan Cicero • Dina Coates
Koebler Family • Amy Conger & Robert Herschler • Jon Davison
Mark & Amy Dobbins • Jessica Galbo • Erika Henschel
John & Carlotta Horn • Kathy Jepson • Travis & Jennifer Julia
Bob Justis • Joel Kaufman • Jim Kennon • Damon Knox
Ray & Harriet Levy • John Long • Joan May • Tim & Christine McGrady
William G. Naphin • Mariah Nimmons • Peak Performance Therapy, P.C.
Suzanne Pfister • Allan & Rebecca Ranta • Bill Repolgle
Rebecca Rome Duff Simbeck • Sherrion Taylor • Telluride Gallery of
Fine Art • Lance Waring • Bill Wells • Janet Woods • Peter Yarrow
STAFF
THEATER STAFF
Theater Managers Lauren Baker • April Bindock
Sherry Brieske • Mark Davis • Kandee Degraw • Erin Hamilton
Geoff Hanson Rob Huber • John Kelly • Ben Kerr
Cat Lee-Covert • Peter Lundeen • Heather Lyne • Bruce MacIntire
Marissa Mattys Julie McNair • Lauren Metzger
Michelle Montigue • Kathleen Morgan • John Rosenberg
Amy Russell • G Douglas Seitsinger • Jeff Shannon
Projectionists Greg Babush • Nate Balding
Derrick Casto • Filip Celander • Charlie Gibbons
Barbara Grassia Peter Halter • Sergio Laureano • Patty Lecht
Karen Long Keith Madden • Scott Rahilly • Luci Reeve
Luke Reid-Grassia • Dave Riepe • Brad Spooner
Tom Wardaszka
STAFF
Peter Kenworthy / Executive Director
David Holbrooke / Festival Director
Stash Wislocki / Festival Producer
Emily Long / Program Director
Crystal Geise / Operations Director
Henry Lystad / Director, Mountainfilm on Tour
Jessica Galbo / Assistant Director, Mountainfilm on Tour
Pam Shifrin / Accounting and Bookkeeping
Lise Waring / Communications and Social Media
MEDIA
Theater Emcees Seth Berg • Karla Brown
Art Goodtimes • Natalie Jones • Henry Lystad
Mishky • Hilary Peddicord • Colin Sullivan • Sasha Sullivan
Karl Thompson • Rosemerry Wahthola-Trommer • Lance Waring
Barbara Kondracki / Program Design
Christine Wilson / Graphic Design
Cara Bunch / Poster Design
Tor Anderson / Map & TBA Design
VentureWeb / Web Design
Cultivator / Logo Design
ADDITIONAL FESTIVAL STAFF
FESTIVAL MANAGERS
Website and Program Writers
Anna Brones • David Holbrooke • Peter Kenworthy
Katie Klingsporn • Emily Long • Emily McAllister
Corinne Platt • Heather Sackett
Adrenaline Programmers
Ben Knight • Stash Wislocki
Kidz Kino Programmers Maia Coe, age 9
Zoe Cooper, age 2 • Joe Galbo, age 8 • Sam Galbo, age 13
Kitty Holbrooke, age 13 • Clark Hopgood, age 6
Raven Hopgood, age 12
Town Talk Emcees Laura Colbert • Nick Heil
Elizabeth Hightower • Sarah Holbrooke • Cara Pallone
Abe Streep
Festival Photographers Riley Arthur
Gus Gusciora • Kitty Holbrooke • Melissa Plantz
Nori Lupfer Pepe
Guest and Judge Wranglers Rory Cowie
Jen Knopp • Patrick Laguens • Angela Mallard
Fletcher Otwell • Emily Scott • Jess Sullivan
Mountainfilm House Band Douglas Chard
Heather Flaker • Patrick Hiester
Queue Buskers Ashley Boling • Eugénie Frerichs
Ethan Hale (composer) • Sean McNamara • Alex Paul
2014 Festival Awards Flair Robinson
2014 Festival Intro Editors David Byars
Keith Hill • Raven Hopgood (Kidz Kino) • Casey Nay
Ben Knight • Scott Upshur
Screening Committee Suzan Beraza
Cathe Dyer • Beth Gage • Jessica Galbo • Crystal Geise
Jane Julian • Peter Kenworthy • Ben Kerr • Marki Knopp
Judy Kohin • Lucy Lerner • Rick Mendel • Mark Plantz
Naani Sheva • Christopher Smith • Lexi Tuddenham
Naani Sheva / Programming Assistant
Patti Duax / Lodging and Travel Coordinator
Drew Ludwig / Gallery Coordinator
Pam Shifrin / Volunteer Coordinator
Amy Palamar / Passes Coordinator
Kathrine Warren / Hospitality Manager
Cara Bunch / Hospitality Assistant Manager
Jim Riley / Special Events Manager
Amanda Baltzley / Special Events Assistant
Tim “Stuntman” Territo / Production Manager
Jamie Intemann / Outdoor Programs Coordinator
Eric “Viking” Cooper / Festival Logistics
Scott Upshur / Intros Wrangler & Rigger
Meehan Fee / Transportation Coordinator
Ian Manson / Master Rigger
Mark Froehlich / Lighting Designer
Brady Richards / Communications Manager
Mary Molloy-Rios / Communications Assistant
Johnny “Rotten” Bulson / Intelligence Operative
Erika Henschel / Festival Accounting
Joanna MacDonald / Festival Accounting
Steve Johnson / General Counsel
TECHNICAL PRODUCTION
Curt Rousse / Video Tech Director
Greg Babush / Video Inspection
Barbara Grassia / Film Inspection
Marc Burrows / Video Technician
Mike Babb / Video Technician
DJ Babb / Video Technician
Dan Sima / Video Technician
Kelly Rogers / Video Technician
Karl “K2” Mehrer / K2 Imaging
Peggy Russell / Film Traffic Manager
Anton Franczyk / Film Traffic Assistant
Dean Rolley / Audio Manager
Gypsie Frank / Theater Sound Technician
Mountainfilm On Tour Presenters
Ashley Boling • Karla Brown • Justin Clifton • Laura Colbert
David Holbrooke • Sarah Holbrooke • Nick LeClaire
Emily Long • Drew Ludwig • Henry Lystad • Jim Pettegrew
Colin Sullivan (educational consultant) • Nathan Ward
Lance Waring • Brian Werner
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VOLUNTEERS
Charlene Acevedo • Pattie Adler • Robert ‘bobalouie’ Allen • Sarah Allison • Desir Anastasia • Emma Anderson • Nancy Andrew
Scott Andrews • George Antoine • Jackie Antoine • Renee Athay • Jonathan Augello • Ray Bailis • Brian Balconi • Heather Baltzley
Jeremy Barkoff • Judith Barringer • Alex Basaraba • Dawn Beard • Jim Berkowitz • Rebecca Claire Bombach • Ron Borrego
Jodi Boyd • David Brankley • Norman Brones • Karen Brown • Jon Brumbaugh • Carlos Brvo Angel • Megan Burke • Stephen Burns
Ticah Burrows • Hillary Bushing • Cristina Candido • Michael Capshaw-Taylor • Matthew Cartwright • Annemarie Carzoli
James Cates • Erin Chanel • Janet Chapman • Elaine Cheesman • Valerie Child • Gabe Ciafre • Jenna Cichanski • Sophia Cinnamon
Dina Coates Koebler • Abby Conroy • Maisy Cooper • Liza Corr • Sylvia Creswell • Molly Croke • Erin Cummings • Dj Curtis
Jennie Daley • Erin Dashner • Wade Davis • Liz Delehant • Andrew Dengate • Elissa Dickson • Brad Donaldson • Angela Dye
Sascha Estens • Leah Evans • Rube Felicelli • Cheryl Franchi • Bruce French • Jeremy Frey-Wedeen • Christine Gamage
Fabian Garcia • Cheney Gardner • Tom Gearheart Gearheart • Trey Gearheart • Hallie Geise • Dave Gray • Monica Green
Marcia Greene • Sarah Gregory Long • Beth Grimes • Tyler Grimes • Lindsay Grove • Debby Guarino • Liz Gumerman
Wolf Gumerman • Braden Gunem • Kent Gunnufson • Judy Haas • David Hallowell • Mo Hanna • Michael Hans
Ashley Hans-Barrientos • Kevin Hans-Barrientos • Andrea Harbin • Paige Hardman • Deborah Henry • Dave Hodges
Bridget Holvenstot • Kevin Horan • Keith Ives • Allison Jackson • Danielle Jenkins • Brentley Johnson • Kristine Johnson
Steve Johnson • Timothy Johnson • Donna Joywalker • Bob Justis • Davene Kaplan • Brendan Kelley • Mehmood Ali Khan
Marki Knopp • Rikki Koebler • Kevin Kulesza • David Kuntz • Jessica Kwasniewski • Erich Lange • Anita Langford • Bill Langford
Chris Lawrence • Bill Leenheer • Amy Levek • Kristen Levey • Bria Light • Jacob Lodin • Ann Mason • Robert Mather
Beth McCall • Rudy McEntire • Mackenzie McGrath • Katie McHugh • Kelly McNicholas • Gordon McPhee • Shea McWilliams
Brittany Miller • Megan Miller • Don Mitchell • Eric Moore • Virginia Moore • Trevor Moren • Shelley Mortvedt • Soren Mortvedt
Teija Mortvedt • Keith Nichols • Lisa Nielsen • Rogan O’Herlihy • Kelly O’Laughlin • Patricia. Overton • Cory Page • Clifford Pastor
Adam Penny • Patricia Pitts • Wyndham Pounds • Julia Prejs • Shirley Purdy • Shelley Pursell • Susan Rahmann • Veronica Raulin
Peggy Redford • Malia Reeves • Stephan Rich • Michael Roche • George Rohrs • Christine Roth • Rick Rotsch • Kaylie Rozen
Annie Ruiter • Kaiulani Schuler • Sarah Schwab • Dylan Schwindt • Claudia Segal • Pamela Shifrin • Matthew Simpson
Peggy Smelt-Day • Sandy Smith • Joanna Spindler • Matt Stjernholm • Michael Stjernholm • Katelyn Stokes • Annie Tadvick
Cassidy Tawse-Garcia • Sherrion Taylor • James Tewksbury • Susan Thiele • Stephanie Thomas • Kate Toan • Robert Toan
Caitlin Tongish • Karen Unternahrer • Bruce Van Buskirk • Asa Van Gelder • Robyn Van Gelder • Peter Vanicek • John Verbeck
Kate Wadley • Trudy Wagner • Jeffrey Walcott • Christopher Warren • Aisha Weinhold • Jeanne Weintraub • Michael White
Zachary White • Gregory Whitsell • Tucker Wilson • Estrella Woods • Laura Yale • Rachel Zervakos • Alicia Zimmel
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Sam Berns
Mark Buchsieb
Frick Burden
Karl Ebel
Leonard Knight
Peter Matthiessen
Jenn McKillop
Elliot Muckerman
James Nershi
Stewart Oksenhorn
Kongar-ol Ondar
Pete Seeger
Randy Udall
A memorial bench for Sharon Shuteran,
a beloved friend of Mountainfilm who died in 2012,
will be unveiled in front of the Sheridan Opera House
on Saturday, May 24, at 1:45 p.m.
INDEX
PEOPLE
Annie Agnone 68, 78
Jim Aikman 70, 72
Alfredo Alcántara 21
Azzam Alwash 26, 69
Conrad Anker 62, 70, 79, 83, 85
John Antonelli 26
Yoshino Aoki 45
Skip Armstrong 43
JP Auclair 43
Zachary Barr 24
George Basch 73
Andy Beaupre
Eric Becker 25
Thom Beers 81 - Coffee Talk
Michael Rossato-Bennett 16
Robin Berghaus 35
Sara Bernstein 90
Brent Bishop 91
Matt Black 23
Debra Bloomfield 61, 73, 76, 85
Alexandria Bombach 19, 72
Jack Boston 42
Paul-Emile Boucher 45
Andreas Braaten 42
Paul Brenner 44
Douglas Brinkley 61, 83
Anna Brones 85
Carter Brooks 76
Johnny Burke 36
Annie Bush 38
Russell O. Bush 38
David Byars 32
Shushana Castle 85
Josh Chertoff 21
Katy Chevigny 22
Hope Clark 17
Don Colcord 17
Hilary Cooper 62
Noah Cowan 90
David Cowels 45
Eric Crosland 43
Marshall Curry 30
Wade Davis 83, 85
Tim DeChristopher 39, 61
Kandee DeGraw 73
Jared Diamond 61, 85
Temujin Doran 38
Sara Dosa 25
Mike Douglas 36, 72
Steve Duncan 17, 76
Char Duran 31
Lynsey Dyer 91
Sylvia Earle 28, 61, 85
Ezra Edelman 29
Steve Engman 27
Steve “Doom” Fassbinder 72
Dexter Filkins 66, 85
Conor Finnegan 44
Wendy Fisher 36
John John Florence 43
Dave Foreman 39, 61, 85
Cary Fowler 32, 85
John Francis 61
Eugénie Frerichs 72, 76
Ron Fugelseth 45
Ashrtia Furman 32
Jeremy Galante 45
Devlin Gandy 68, 78
Tony Gerber 29
Sam Giffin 30
Mark Grieco 26, 73
Ben Gulliver 22
Catherine Gund 17
Linda Halpern 22
Christopher Hanson 28, 77
David Hanson 39
Michael Hanson 39
Shoko Hara 44
Adam Duncan Harris 61
Joachim Hellinger 33, 72
Andrew Hinton 36
Alex Honnold 35, 43,
Greg Hope 16, 42
Aaron Huey 77
Daniel Irvine 21
Mikal Jakubal 20
Luc Jaquet 29
Johan Jonsson 43
Jonathan Kang 42
Jon Kasbe 17
Douglas Kass 21
Roger Kass 21
Ross Kauffman 22
Jeffrey Kerby 68, 78
William A. Kerig 23
Simon Kilmurry 90
Ben Knight 20, 77
Andrew Kornylak 39
George Knowles 16
Kalum Ko 31
Erin Krozek 31
Vincent Kueny 43
Keith Ladzinski 20, 25
Gary Lang 72, 77
Libby Langston 37
Kenny Laubbacher 36
Meredith Lavitt 23
Katie Lee 20, 39, 77, 85
Kai Lightner 16
ML Lincoln 39
Matthew Livadary 31
Robert Lobel 45
Jeff Lowe 72
Josh Lowell 24, 43
Max Lowe 35
Jenni Lowe-Anker 78, 85
Henry Lystad 73
Jordan Manley 21
Amy Marquis 26
Tess Martin 45
Vance Martin 62, 85
Juan Martinez 26, 62
Vanessa Martinez 26
Andy Maser 23
Sandy McCleod 32
Kelly McGarry 42
Brian McGinn 32
Tyler Measom 24
Luke Mehall 85
Sarah Menzies 18
Hunter Metcalf 78
Sebastien Montaz-Rosset 43
Ben Moon 18
Frank Moore 27
Jeanne Moore 27
Molly Morrison 37
Peter Mortimer 24, 43
Jesse Moss 30
Dave Mossop 43
Stanley Nelson 22
Jenny Nichols 23
Aly Nicklas 19
Robert Nixon 28
Jim Nowak 73
Lauren Oakes 73
Sean O’Neill 31
Timmy O’Neill 31, 33, 83
Renan Ozturk 43
Will Parrinello 27
Jeffrey Parrish 23
Darren Pearson 44
Josh Penn 25
Martin Persiel 33
Aaron Peterson 18
Richard Phelan 44
Duke Phillips 21
Klaus Pichler 78
Jeff Plunkett 29
Dean Potter 39, 83
Mary Anne Potts 90
Maxim Pozdorovkin 29, 73
Stormy Pyeatte 19
James “The Amazing” Randi 24, 85
Jorn Ranum 34
Cyndee Readdean 22
Stuart Reid 26
Reza 50, 64, 78, 85
David Roberts 84, 85
Richard Robinson 33
Jilli Rose 34
Nick Rosen 43
Thom Ross 78
David Rothenberg 62, 85
Travis Rummel 20
Andrea Rutigliano 21
M Sanjayan 60
David Sassoon, 85
Helen Hood Scheer 17
Auden Schendler 90
Brett Schreckengost 16, 42, 44
Florian Schulz 61, 79, 85
Celin Serbo 29
Tom Shadyac 85
Lise Pike Sheehy 73
Shelley Silbert 62
Mickey Smith 42
Morgan Spurlock 33, 35
Fisher Stevens 28
Matt Stoecker 20
Ben Stookesberry 38, 72
Cheryl Strayed 62, 85
Elizabeth Streb 17
Ben Sturgulewski 43
Maggie Taylor 72, 79
Norbu Tenzing 24
Jeff Thomas 43
Mary Turner 91
Jerry Uelsmann 72, 79, 85
Amber Valenti 68, 78
Eric Valli 26
Brecht Vanthof 43
Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee 24
Lynx Vilden 26, 62, 84
Milen Vitanov 45
Orlando von Einsiedel 37
Nick Waggoner 43
Lucy Walker 26
John Waller 27
Justin Weinstein 24
Jim Whittaker 25
Diana Whitten 37, 73
Nevada Wier 65, 79
Jamie Williams 62
Jenny Wilson 23
Niels Windfeldt 42
Steve Winter 50, 67, 84, 85
Allison Wolff 20
Cedar Wright 25, 34, 83
Peter Yarrow 71
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A Beautiful Waste 16
Begin Again 43
Blink of an Eye 42
Born to Fly 16
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Castles In The Sky 18
Catch It 18
Cold Rolled 18
Coming Home 19
Coming Up for Air 42
Common Ground 19
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DamNation 20
Damned 44
Dear Governor Hickenlooper 20
Desert Ice 20
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Dubai A Skier’s Journey 21
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Harvest of Shadows 23
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Living in a Food Desert 44
Living Wild 26
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My Happy End 45
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Seeds of Time 32
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Sound Of The Void 33
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SuperMom 36
Take Away Film: Uganda 36
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Valhalla 43
Vessel 37
Virunga 37
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The Weight of Mountains 38
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Who Owns Water 39
Wind 45
Winter Light 35
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