2011 Mountainfilm Festival
THURSDAY, 21 APRIL 2011
Submitted By: Mariangela Silvestre
Currently in its 33rd year, the Mountainfilm Festival is a four-day, six-senses experience of art, adventure, culture and the
environment. It attracts filmmakers, photographers, conservationists, mountaineers and explorers from around the world.
Audiencescome from around the world to gather in theaters that range from historical to state-of-the-art in the box canyon of
Telluride, Colorado and the gondola-linked town of Mountain Village.
The Festival Weekend
The festival begins each year with its Moving Mountains Symposium. This full-day event has a different topical theme each year
that is explored, discussed and debated by a panel of world class experts drawn from many and varied disciplines. In 2009 the
festival featured Food, in 2010 featured The Extinction Crisis and this year will focus on AWARENESS INTO ACTION where
Mountainfilm will work on shortening the distance between awareness and action by providing its audience with a way to
actively change the world around them.
Special Events throughout the weekend provide a chance to mingle with other festival guests, bask in the beauty of Telluride,
and stimulate all 6 senses. The Gallery Walk following the Symposium affords a chance to meet and greet while strolling from
one Telluride art gallery to the next to view original paintings, sculpture, photography and multi-media works of wonder.
Films begin Friday evening and run through mid-Monday.
Throughout the weekend attendees will also be treated to Q&A's with their favorite filmmakers, and presentations by Special
Guests who round out the Mountainfilm experience with colorful tales of adventures and eye-opening talks of current events.
Breakfast Talks each morning offer a bite to eat while listening to casual presentations from the Minds of Mountainfilm.
Saturday afternoon attendees shall gather on Main Street to celebrate the mountains with the annual Ice Cream Social, where
the frozen treats are free!
Sunday gets a little crazy with The Reading Frenzy, an opportunity to talk with authors and get signed copies of their books.
The Closing Picnic on Monday rounds out the weekend. Set in Telluride’s Town Park, surrounded by the soaring drama of San
Juan peaks, the picnic serves as the Awards Ceremony and offers a last chance for free beer and great food, and to catch up
with old friends and make some new ones.
For more information on the 2011 Telluride MountainFilm Festival, visit www.mountainfilm.org.
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