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PRESENTING SPONSOR OF MOUNTAINFILM IN TELLURIDE Don’t miss the screening of Ben Stookesberry’s latest ﬁlm Walled In, which captures the epic ﬁrst descent of the Marble Fork gorge in Sequoia National Park.

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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 EDDIE 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 SET 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 Also invaluable is what we can learn considers charlatans. from the many remarkable seniors in . These wise ones are joined by the Telluride this Memorial Day weekend, GO Great Old Broads for Wilderness, who who also include Linda Halpern, a civil thoughtfully suggested our 2014 Moving rights activist from the 1964 Freedom Mountains Symposium theme of Summer; author Jared Diamond (age 77); wilderness. The Broads, who have worked and the seemingly ageless Peter Yarrow PRESENTING SPONSOR OF tirelessly and passionately on this issue, (age 75) who will perform a musical MOUNTAINFILM IN TELLURIDE felt, quite correctly, that it was the right tribute to the late Nelson Mandela and Don’t miss the screening of Ben Stookesberry’s latest way for us to honor the golden anniversary Pete Seeger (p.71). Their indomitable ﬁlm Walled In, which captures the epic ﬁrst descent of of the Wilderness Act. Enacted in 1964, spirit, wisdom and eternal passion are the Marble Fork gorge in Sequoia National Park. the Wilderness Act is a relative spring embodied by something Norman Vaughan chicken at the age of 50, but the forward- often said, “Dream big and dare to fail.” eddiebauer.com thinking law ensures that vast tracts of A lesson for all of us, young and old. American wilderness will be kept pristine forever, an invaluable legacy. —David Holbrooke, festival director

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How to Mountainfilm FINAL BETA THE Q SYSTEM Find the online clearinghouse for all TBA When lines start to form, theater staff will announcements, program changes and issue Q tickets. If you see these numbered cancellations at www.mountainfilm.org/ slips of paper being handed out, get one. final-beta. 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 LOW IMPACT We continue efforts to decrease our staff know your place in line to prevent carbon footprint and thank you for others from cutting in front of you. If you bringing your own coffee mug, dishes and do not enter the theater when your number tableware to festival-sponsored events. If is called, you will wait until the entire line you are in need of reusable items, go to has been let into the theater. the Mountainfilm Store at BootDoctors & Paragon Outdoors (info below). INDIVIDUAL TICKETS Individual program tickets ($25) go on sale after all pass holders have been admitted to THE MOUNTAINFILM STORE Official Mountainfilm apparel the theater. is available at BootDoctors & Paragon Outdoors at 213 West Colorado GETTING AROUND Avenue or at their Oak Street location THE GONDOLA AND THE GOOSE across from the Camel’s Garden. All theaters are reachable by foot, bicycle or gondola – which runs between Telluride THEATER LINES and Mountain Village from 7:00 a.m. to All theaters have two lines: 1) pass 12:00 a.m. On Saturday during the festival, holders and ticket holders and 2) ticket gondola hours will be extended until 1:00 buyers. Pass and ticket holders are a.m. Telluride’s shuttle bus, the Galloping admitted first; additional tickets are sold Goose, runs a loop through Telluride every for $25 if seats are still available. Queue 10 minutes. In Mountain Village, dial early, especially at the smaller theaters: 970.728.8888 during Gondola hours for Sheridan (230 seats), Nugget (186), Dial-A-Ride services within town limits. Masons (120) and The Library (65). The All of these options are free of charge. back of your pass lists any restrictions. AIRPORT SHUTTLE Telluride Express provides ground transportation between Telluride and area airports: 888.212.TAXI.

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14.C George Knowles (FRIDAY, 6:15 P.M., SOH; ALIVE INSIDE: SATURDAY, 3:30 P.M., HC) A STORY OF MUSIC IN PERSON: George Knowles, & MEMORY Michael Rossato- Connie Lightner 64 MPH & Kai Lightner Bennett Brett Shreckengost Climbers all have a story (FRIDAY, 7:15 P.M., HC; (SATURDAY, 8:45 P.M., BC; SATURDAY, 8:30 P.M., HC) about how they got started, SUNDAY, 6:30 P.M., SOH; and 14-year-old Kai Lighter’s MONDAY, 11:00 A.M., PALM) When filmmaker Michael introduction is particularly IN PERSON: George Hope Rossato-Bennett learned that striking – and not only because WORLD PREMIERE a clip of his work-in-progress filmAlive Inside had leaked and he’s a brilliant climber. Much The San Joaquin Couloir – a gone viral on the Internet, he like Tiger Woods in golf or the narrow chute that plunges was – surprisingly – thrilled. Williams sisters in tennis, he gracefully down the face of He’d spent the previous three could change the demographics San Joaquin Peak – is one years following social worker of climbing. This film, directed of Telluride’s most iconic Dan Cohen, a man who by Telluride’s George Knowles, backcountry lines. Greg Hope devotes his life to rehabilitating isn’t about race, however, it’s – a home-grown skier who has Alzheimer’s patients through about family. His single mother shredded the San Juan Mountains music. The viral leak had an has become his regular belay to pieces – is one of the town’s immediate and palpable effect partner, one who also makes sure best-known rippers. In 64 mph, on Cohen’s work, increasing that he maintains straight A’s in the two meet for one slough- awareness, raising funds and school. It’s clear that she wants dodging, high-velocity descent. what’s best for her son, and if –KK opening doors that had been closed previously. For Cohen that means spending hours with (USA, 2014, 3 minutes) her hands on a belay device and – whose mission is to bring her neck craned upward, so be it. personalized music to as many –DH senior citizens as possible – the (USA, 2014, 9 minutes) 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 (USA, 2014, 73 minutes)

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BORN TO FLY Catherine Gund THE APOTHECARY (SATURDAY, 5:45 P.M., SOH; Helen Hood Scheer SUNDAY, 6:30 P.M., SOH) A BEAUTIFUL (SATURDAY, 9:00 P.M., MAS; IN PERSON: Hope Clark SUNDAY, 6:00 P.M., MAS) WASTE & Elizabeth Streb Jon Kasbe IN PERSON: Don Colcord Elizabeth Streb believes (SATURDAY, 8:15 P.M., SOH; humans can walk on walls, Nucla, Colorado, just an SUNDAY, 8:30 P.M., MAS) hour’s drive from Telluride, hover in space and fly. And IN PERSON: Steve Duncan has seen hard times ever since she proves it. Streb is a & Jon Kasbe choreographer who defines the U.S. uranium industry We last saw Steve Duncan collapsed in the late 1970s. It’s herself as a wildly extreme in Telluride in 2011 with his action architect. The heart and a hardscrabble town, where the award-winning film Undercity, folks who haven’t fled barely soul of Streb’s dance is closer where he explored way below to the philosophy of climbers eke out a living. One oasis of and way above New York activity is The Apothecary and BASE jumpers than you City. In A Beautiful Waste, he might imagine. What these Shoppe, the sole pharmacy journeys down to the core of within 4,000 square miles. The disciplines have in common is the Big Apple to wander its a theory of movement based on owner, Don Colcord, gamely sewers. Of course this exploit occupies multiple roles as the inspiration to defy gravity. offers its share of nastiness, Born to Fly asks: Can adrenaline druggist, surrogate doctor, but there’s also something – as life counselor and community be a form of medicine? When the title implies – beautiful in does movement become art? benefactor. Colcord’s sanguine these adventures. public persona, however, belies What does it take for humans to –DH fly? Profiling Streb and several a long-suffered private pain for (USA, 2012, 6 minutes) which there is no drug, no cure of the dancers in her Extreme and no relief. Action Company, filmmaker –PK Catherine Gund shows a group (USA, 2013, 18 minutes) of individuals who do not accept limitations in what the human body can do. –EL (USA, 2014, 83 minutes)

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CATCH IT Sarah Menzies (FRIDAY, 8:45 P.M., BC; SATURDAY, 6:00 P.M., HC) IN PERSON: Sarah Menzies 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 COLD ROLLED and mountains rise straight up Aaron Peterson from the sea. Finding simplicity (FRIDAY, 8:45 P.M., BC; and an appealing balance SATURDAY, 6:00 P.M., HC) CASTLES IN between nature and humanity, IN PERSON: Aaron Peterson she parks her van for awhile THE SKY In recent years, Telluride has to connect with the landscape. Ben Moon seen a spate of fat bike riders. Fishing, climbing and surfing in (SATURDAY, 12:30 P.M., MAS; Strike that. In recent years, SUNDAY, 9:30 A.M., NUG) a thick wetsuit, even while the Telluride has seen a spate of snow falls around her, Brassy IN PERSON: Ben Moon bicyclists who ride bikes with reminds us that living simply is As climber Sonnie Trotter super fat tires, some as wide living fully. establishes a stunning 5.14 as 4.5 inches. These bikes –KK route on Castle Mountain in navigate winter trails that have (USA/Norway, 2013, 10 the Canadian Rockies, this long been the sole province minutes) short film digs deeper into his of skiers and snowshoers. motivations, which flow from Cold Rolled captures this a place of creativity and all- sport with footage from near consuming passion. Lake Superior, where the long –KK winters make for great (USA, 2013, 5 minutes) fat biking. –DH (USA, 2013, 20 minutes)

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CREATIVE COMING HOME COMPULSIVE Aly Nicklas DISORDER Stormy Pyeatte (FRIDAY, 8:45 P.M., BC; COMMON GROUND SATURDAY, 6:00 P.M., HC) Alexandria Bombach (SUNDAY, 4:15 P.M., SOH) IN PERSON: Aly Nicklas (SATURDAY, 11:45 A.M., HC; IN PERSON: Stormy Pyeatte Aly Nicklas grew up in Alaska, SUNDAY, 8:45 P.M., SOH) A fatal hiking accident in Ouray, two blocks from the lifts of IN PERSON: Alexandria Colorado, cut Zina Lahr’s Alyeska. She quit high school Bombach artistic life short. Shot as a video and moved to the mountains WORLD PREMIERE for her portfolio, this short film of Colorado to pursue her The fight to preserve wilderness now serves as a fitting tribute lifelong dream of competitive is not waged by just wooly- to a creative who will continue snowboarding. But by 2004, at headed radicals and bleeding- to touch people with her the age of 21, she had suffered heart intellectuals. It’s an issue effervescent nature and work. at least 10 concussions. The with advocates on all sides, –DH symptoms were stacking up: including hard-working, down- (USA, 2014, 6 minutes) memory problems, seizures, to-earth farmers, ranchers and depression and trouble guides in Montana, where speaking. So she put her board the controversial Heritage away. Eight years later, she Act – designed to identify new strapped on a board and helmet wilderness and manage non- and returned to the slopes. This wilderness lands – has pitted short film explores what it felt neighbor against neighbor. like to return to her first love. –PK –KK (USA, 2014, 16 minutes) (USA, 2014, 3 minutes)

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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 DEAR GOVERNOR When Floyd Dominy, the HICKENLOOPER longtime commissioner of the Stash Wislocki Bureau of Reclamation, died (SATURDAY, 9:15 A.M., PALM; in 2010, The Washington Post SUNDAY, 6:00 P.M., MAS) referred to him as a “Big Dam IN PERSON: Shane Davis, Builder and Public Servant.” Stash Wislocki & DESERT ICE After watching DamNation, Allison Wolff Keith Ladzinski the first assessment is clear, WORLD PREMIERE (FRIDAY, 6:15 P.M., SOH; but the second is questionable. Inspired by the 2013 SATURDAY, 3:30 P.M., HC) Dominy is the clearest villain Mountainfilm selection IN PERSON: Keith in this tale that explains how so Dear Governor Cuomo, this Ladzinski many of America’s free-flowing compiling by Colorado creatives With its towering sandstone rivers were dammed. Luckily, follows Shane Davis (a.k.a. walls, scurrying lizards and the story has many heroes as The Fractivist) as he guides us desert sun, Zion National Park well, including Mikal Jakubal, through a series of vignettes. isn’t a famed ice climbing who stealthily painted massive These stories were collected destination. But during winter’s cracks on dams. His bold acts from the state’s filmmakers, coldest days, if the conditions of “artivism” helped kickstart a farmers, skiers, activists and are right, ice can form inside national movement to end the concerned citizens and use its deep, shadowy slot canyons, bottling up of rivers. The film both science and emotional creating frozen pitches amid captures this narrative, along appeal to explain why fracking incredible red rock formations. with astonishing footage from its is problematic in Colorado. In Desert Ice, climbers Scott intrepid co-director, Telluride’s This confident and brash Adamson and Jesse Huey Ben Knight (Red Gold and film incorporates work from set out in search of Zion ice. Eastern Rises, Mountainfilm 2008 some previous Mountainfilm What they discover is a rowdy and 2010), who camouflaged contributors, including Suzan adventure of bushwhacking himself to get extremely close Beraza (Bag It and Uranium and runouts, ice runnels and – the law would definitely say Drive-In, Mountainfilm 2009 sandstone, snowfall and too close – in order to film the and 2013), Alexandria Bombach chimneys and, in the end, explosive demolition of Condit (“MoveShake” series and glorious ice. Dam in Washington state. Common Ground, page 19), –KK Getting up close is what the best Pete McBride (Chasing (USA, 2014, 6 minutes) documentaries do, and Knight and Water and The Water Tower, his team took that risk – and many Mountainfilm 2011 and 2013), others – to make this dazzling Jeff Orlowski (Chasing Ice, documentary. Mountainfilm 2012) and Scott –DH Upshur (The Local’s Bite, A 2011 Mountainfilm Mountainfilm 2012). Commitment Grant recipient –EL (USA, 2014, 85 minutes) (USA, 2014, 65 minutes)

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DUBAI – A SKIER’S JOURNEY Daniel Irvine & Jordan Manley (FRIDAY, 8:45 P.M., BC; SATURDAY, 6:00 P.M., HC) DUKE AND THE A desert oasis beckons. Is it BUFFALO a mirage, or is that really a Alfredo Alcántara chairlift? Talented filmmakers & Josh Chertoff (SATURDAY, 3:30 P.M., NUG; EMPTYING THE Jordan Manley and Daniel SUNDAY, 6:00 P.M., NUG) SKIES Irvine has been following IN PERSON: Duke Phillips Douglas Kass skiers around the globe for & Alfredo Alcántara & Roger Kass years for their series “A Skier’s Duke is a cowboy. The (SATURDAY, 8:30 P.M., NUG; Journey,” but in this episode, buffalo are part of the largest SUNDAY, 11:45 A.M., PALM) they’ve stumbled across a conservation herd of bison in the IN PERSON: Roger Kass & strange location for rippers. United States. Every year, Duke Andrea Rutigliano Ski Dubai is a small hill with a organizes a roundup of theses Just as The Cove (Mountainfilm 200-foot vertical rise that’s built buffalo to inspect the health of 2009) exposed the tragic into a luxury shopping mall in the herd and yield income to slaughtering of the dolphins of the largest sand desert on the sustain the Nature Conservancy- Taiji, Emptying the Skies serves planet. Massive air-conditioning owned ranch where the buffalo European migratory songbirds fans whir to cool the single roam. It turns out that bison with a similar purpose. Fighting slope, while temperatures aren’t as easily herded as cattle, the good fight against the outside soar above 100 degrees. and a lot of cowboy mettle gets poachers who slaughter the But the benefits entice: a tested every year. Taken right birds to sell to chefs are fearless collection of quirky regulars, into the action by filmmaker activists and the novelist year-round turns and predictable Alfredo Alcantara, we can all Jonathan Franzen, a devoted conditions. be thankful that we’re mounted amateur ornithologist whose –EL atop nothing friskier than a story in The New Yorker inspired (Canada, 2013, 10 minutes) theater seat when the thunder of this documentary by brothers the stampede turns our way. Douglas and Roger Kass. –DH –PK (USA, 2014, 78 minutes) (USA, 2013, 16 minutes)

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THE FORTUNE WILD Ben Gulliver FREEDOM SUMMER (SATURDAY, 11:45 A.M., HC; Stanley Nelson SUNDAY, 8:45 P.M., SOH) (SATURDAY, 9:45 A.M., MAS; E-TEAM If Wes Anderson were inspired SUNDAY, 11:45 A.M., MAS) Katy Chevigny to make a surf film, it might IN PERSON: Linda Halpern & Ross Kauffman look like The Fortune Wild. & Cyndee Readdean (FRIDAY, 6:30 P.M., NUG; SUNDAY, 4:00 P.M., HC) Borrowing from Anderson’s In the summer of 1964, the signature style, director Ben Civil Rights Movement was IN PERSON: Ross Kauffman Gulliver creates a witty and active in Mississippi, where Human rights crises can erupt light-hearted film about a hundreds of activists were so suddenly that they catch beautiful wild area – Haida trying to register black voters people off-guard. That’s where Gwaii, a chain of wave-swept, across the state. Freedom the Emergencies Team – or lushly forested islands off the Summer – a sequel of sorts to E-Team – of Human Rights British Columbia mainland. Freedom Riders (Mountainfilm Watch comes in. They are tasked Surfing, camping and foraging 2010), which was also directed with uncovering evidence that for food on the unspoiled by Stanley Nelson – tells will show the rest of the world beaches, three surfers step away the story of that tumultuous what actually takes place in from the modern world and summer, looking closely at such hotspots as Libya or, most into a quieter – and quirkier the brave men and women – recently, Syria. In this trenchant – existence that is both more including Linda Halpern – who documentary, filmmakers attuned and self-sufficient. risked or lost their lives in the Katy Chevigny and Ross –EL effort to make a fundamental Kauffman (Born into Brothels, (Canada, 2014, 22 minutes) change. This documentary also Mountainfilm 2005) follow four explains the larger national members of this squad of human situation as President Johnson, rights investigators into one hell pressured by the summer’s hole after another to expose the events, addressed the systemic searing truth. In the process, we racism prevalent in both learn that there are staggeringly political parties. brave men and women who go –DH to the front lines to preserve the (USA, 2013, 113 minutes) human rights of countless people they never meet. –DH (USA, 2014, 88 minutes)

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THE GRAND RESCUE William A. Kerig, Meredith Lavitt & Jenny Wilson (FRIDAY, 8:45 P.M., SOH; SUNDAY, 12:00 P.M., HC) THE GUARDIANS IN PERSON: Meredith Lavitt Andy Maser & Jenny Wilson & Jenny Nichols HARVEST OF Mountain rescue is always (SATURDAY, 11:45 A.M., HC; SHADOWS a risky proposition, so those SUNDAY, 8:45 P.M., SOH) Matt Black who are attracted to the job IN PERSON: Jenny Nichols & (FRIDAY, 6:30 P.M., NUG; tend to be strapping, young Jeffrey Parrish SUNDAY, 12:00 P.M., NUG) and full of verve – and nerve. WORLD PREMIERE IN PERSON: Matt Black This was definitely the case in Fighting threats of poaching, In the lush and fertile farmland 1967, when a group of seven habitat destruction and the of California, thousands of national park rangers in the instability of new national undocumented laborers find Grand Tetons risked their lives independence, a community themselves between a rock and to save an injured climber. On in Namibia must protect the a hard place, working illegally August 22, Gaylord Campbell exceptional local wildlife with forged paperwork and was climbing the north face and surrounding natural earning an average of only of the Grand Teton with a environment. Sustainable $12,000 per year. A poignant friend when a boulder broke wildlife tourism is essential to snapshot of what it means to live free and showered them with their survival, but frustrated as a migrant worker, Harvest rocks, leaving Campbell with farmers often shoot a lion that of Shadows gives a face to the compound fractures. During the kills livestock. Residents take nameless. rescue attempt, which took three conservation efforts into their –EM days, Campbell was critical own hands, assuming personal (USA, 2013, 8 minutes) of the methods and decisions responsibility to protect the free- made by his saviors every turn roaming lions and other wildlife. of the way. The Grand Rescue –EM tells this legendary story for the (USA/Namibia, 2014, 6 minutes) first time in film. Several park rangers from the rescue will speak after the screening. –EL (USA, 2013, 53 minutes)

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HIGH TENSION Zachary Barr, Peter Mortimer, Josh Lowell & Nick Rosen (SUNDAY, 9:45 A.M., HC) AN HONEST LIAR IN PERSON: Conrad Anker, Tyler Measom Aaron Huey, Zachary Barr, Nick Rosen & Norbu Tenzing & Justin Weinstein ISLE DE JEAN In the spring of 2013, “The Swiss (SATURDAY, 3:45 P.M., MAS; CHARLES SUNDAY, 9:15 A.M., PALM) Emmanuel Machine” Ueli Steck set out to IN PERSON: Tyler Measom & Vaughan-Lee climb Mount Everest and then James “The Amazing” Randi (FRIDAY, 6:30 P.M., PALM; neighboring Lhotse without James “The Amazing” Randi SUNDAY, 8:45 P.M., BC) oxygen. But he and climbing became a world-famous magician IN PERSON: Adam Loften & partner Simone Moro ended up and escape artist by studying Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee in an ugly confrontation with the art of illusion employed WORLD PREMIERE some Sherpas who were fixing by Harry Houdini and other In the next two years, the Isle lines on the route. The fight master magicians. When Randi de Jean Charles is expected to spilled into Camp 2, culminating saw these techniques used by flood and be lost to sea, in a group of Sherpas attacking spoon benders, faith healers but the resilient inhabitants the two European climbers with and mentalists to extract money on this tiny southern Louisiana rocks. In High Tension, Sender from innocent people, he was island would tell you Films, which was embedded outraged and appeared regularly otherwise. In this short film, with Steck, digs into the Everest on television programs to debunk the last dauntless residents clash, an incident with an added what he considered phonies of this community contemplate dimension after an avalanche of the lowest kind. Truth and their heritage and permanence killed 16 Sherpa guides on April deception – hallmarks of Randi’s as their kingdom quietly 18, 2014. After the screening, there life – take on a new meaning, slips away. will be a conversation about the however, when he has to fight a –EM complicated relationship between different battle, one that involves (USA, 2014, 10 minutes) the Sherpa people and the climbing the law and his partner. community with alpinist Conrad –DH Anker; photographer Aaron (USA, 2014, 84 minutes) 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 (USA, 2013, 36 minutes)

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A LIFE WELL LIVED | JIM WHITTAKER & 50 YEARS OF EVEREST Eric Becker (FRIDAY, 8:45 P.M., SOH; THE KARSTS OF SUNDAY, 12:00 P.M., HC) THE LAST SEASON CHINA For Jim Whittaker, the first Sara Dosa Keith Ladzinski American to stand atop Mt. (SATURDAY, 12:30 P.M., MAS; (FRIDAY, 6:15 P.M., SOH; SUNDAY, 9:30 A.M., NUG) Everest, a life well lived SATURDAY, 3:30 P.M., HC) IN PERSON: Sara Dosa & means stepping outside of his IN PERSON: Keith Ladzinski Josh Penn comfort zone regularly. “Trials, & Cedar Wright Mushrooms are a strange and tribulations and a few scars,” WORLD PREMIERE mysterious species, whose he says, are all parts of learning Sprinkled across the vast infinitesimal filament roots can the real meaning of life. And country of China are pockets of go dormant for many seasons what taking risks didn’t teach, geologic wonder: surreal forests until growing conditions he learned from the natural of limestone fins, monumental become just right. No less odd world – from the awe and arches and slender towers and unfathomable are humans, humility it inspired. This short that reach into the sky. In The whose emotional lives can revive film is long on wise words from Karsts of China, climbers Cedar after unimaginable affliction a great American hero who has Wright, Emily Harrington when a nourishing environment participated in Mountainfilm and Matt Segal and National presents itself. This film, twice (2009 and 2013). Geographic photographer awarded a 2013 Mountainfilm –PK Carsten Peter spend a month Commitment Grant, explores the (USA, 2013, 4 minutes) roaming the country, seeking touching relationship between otherworldly formations two mushroom hunters: one and unclimbed routes in a Vietnam vet approaching an exploration of wild and his final days, the other a incredible landscapes. Cambodian exile conscripted as –KK a child into slave labor for the (USA, 2014, 7 minutes) Khmer Rouge. –PK A 2013 Mountainfilm Commitment Grant recipient (USA, 2014, 81 minutes)

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LIVING WILD Eric Valli (SATURDAY, 9:30 A.M., SOH) LOVE IN THE THE LION’S IN PERSON: Lynx Vilden TETONS MOUTH OPENS Amy Marquis Lucy Walker Lynx Vilden’s goal before she turns 50 is unusual: She (THURSDAY, 8:45 P.M., BC; (FRIDAY, 7:15 P.M., HC; SATURDAY, 11:45 A.M., HC, SATURDAY, 8:30 P.M., HC) wants to take a community of SUNDAY, 8:45 P.M., SOH) In 2010, filmmaker Lucy Walker individuals into the wilderness IN PERSON: Amy Marquis, brought to Mountainfilm the for one year to live as our Juan Martinez unforgettable story of Vik Muniz, ancestors did thousands of years & Vanessa Martinez the Brazilian artist in Wasteland. ago – metal, plastic and glass Juan Martinez grew up in In 2011, she captured the personal to be replaced by leather, wood urban Los Angeles, but when impact of the tsunami in Japan and stone. Forget Paleo. The he stepped off a bus in Grand (The Tsunami and the Cherry challenges of that diet pale in Teton National Park in 1999 Blossom). And last year, she comparison to Vilden’s vision. and saw the stars for the first screened The Crash Reel, which Living Wild tells the story time, he knew his life would be shows the uphill struggle of of one season of her project, in the outdoors. He became an snowboarder Kevin Pearce as documenting a small group of emerging explorer for National he recovers from a traumatic students learning how to live Geographic and in 2012, met brain injury. This year, Walker together in the wilderness. This Vanessa Torres, a Grand Teton is back with her lens trained on is no sensational project for park ranger from a family of Marianna Palka, an appealing the Discovery Channel or even Mexican-American migrant young woman on the verge of National Geographic, both of workers. This short film tells finding out whether or not she has whom she turned down for the the story of their love for the Huntington’s disease, which has rights to film her work. Vilden’s park and growing romance with symptoms much like a brutal mix project is filled with heart and each other. of Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s. passion that cannot be distilled –EL Walker’s access and sensitivity to into soundbites or reality (USA, 2014, 10 minutes) her subject is remarkable – as is television. With a focus on the resulting film. community building and a deep –DH respect for the gifts of the world (USA, 2014, 16 minutes) that are all around us, Vilden embodies wild. –EL (USA/France, 2011, 52 minutes)

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MENDING THE LINE MARMATO Steve Engman Mark Grieco & John Waller (SATURDAY, 6:30 P.M., MAS; MARSHLAND (SATURDAY, 3:15 P.M., SOH; SUNDAY, 12:00 P.M., NUG) DREAMS MONDAY, 9:15 A.M., PALM) IN PERSON: Mark Grieco & John Antonelli IN PERSON: Steve Engman, Stuart Reid & Will Parrinello Frank Moore, Jeanne Moore & John Waller The small town of Marmato (SATURDAY, 12:00 P.M., perches precariously on the PALM; SUNDAY, 12:15 P.M., WORLD PREMIERE slope of a mountain in Columbia SOH) In 1944, 20-year-old Frank riddled with primitive gold IN PERSON: Azzam Alwash Moore landed on the beaches mines. For 500 years, the Once the largest ecosystem in of Normandy. Crossing community has sustained the Middle East, and the rich through the occupied French its economy by drilling and homeland of Sumerians for countryside, the young soldier dynamiting the mountain’s millennia, the Mesopotamian daydreamed about coming back rich veins, barely denting the Marshes were destroyed in peacetime to fish the bucolic estimated $20 billion of reserves. systematically by Saddam streams. After the war, he Over the past several years, a Hussein so that they couldn’t returned to the States, married, Canadian corporation has bought shelter rebel forces. Drained had a family and built a life out nearly all of the local mining and burned, the vital wetland centered around fly fishing. But interests and promoted a plan to habitat seemed lost forever. he never made it back to those level the mountain – and town Iraqi exile Azzam Alwash, streams in France. Until 2014. of Marmato – with an enormous who spoke about his work at Now 90 years old, but with open-pit mine. Filming with Mountainfilm in 2004 and 2008, the energy of a man 20 years unusual care and access over never accepted that this magical younger, Moore completes the six years, 2012 Mountainfilm place of his childhood could dream with his wife and son Commitment Grant recipient simply cease to exist. For the by his side. This extraordinary Mark Grieco delivers a past 10 years, he has wheedled, story of a dream deferred, and powerful elegy for a traditional cajoled, encouraged and coerced ultimately fulfilled, proves community besieged by forces his countrymen to help restore that the scars of the past can that spin inexorably beyond the marshes sustainably. Alwash be healed. its control. will provide an update on his –EL –PK progress after the film screens. A 2013 Mountainfilm A 2012 Mountainfilm –PK Commitment Grant recipient Commitment Grant Recipient (USA, 2013, 5 minutes) (USA, 2014, 48 minutes) (USA, 2013, 87 minutes)

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THE NOTORIOUS MR. BOUT NORTH SLOPE, Tony Gerber & Maxim ALASKA Pozdorovkin Christopher Hanson (FRIDAY, 9:15 P.M., NUG; SUNDAY, 7:00 P.M., HC) (FRIDAY, 8:45 P.M., BC; SATURDAY, 6:00 P.M., HC) IN PERSON: Maxim IN PERSON: Christopher Pozdorovkin Hanson Before being arrested by WORLD PREMIERE the FBI in a sting operation Daily life on the Alaskan North in Thailand in 2008, Viktor Bout claimed to be a Russian

PHOTO COURTESY OF SYLVIA EARLE & HOPE SPOTS COMPANY EARLE & HOPE SPOTS OF SYLVIA COURTESY PHOTO Slope is about the mundane reality of moving oil through entrepreneur and family man with interests in global MISSION BLUE hundreds of miles of a pipeline’s Robert Nixon & Fisher stiff steel sleeve. At night, cultures and filmmaking. Stevens though, when the aurora borealis U.S. prosecutors believed his interests were of a different (SATURDAY, 12:00 P.M., glimmers and scintillates in PALM; SUNDAY, 3:30 P.M., the sky, life sheds the cloak nature, namely weapons MAS) of mundanity and assumes trafficking. They portrayed him IN PERSON: Sylvia Earle a brilliant mantle of magic. as a super villain, leading to a & Fisher Stevens Director Hanson’s images can be Hollywood film based on his Sylvia Earle has been to seen at the Steaming Bean. life, Lord of War that starred Mountainfilm many times, –PK Nicolas Cage. The world was most recently in 2008 for the (USA, 2014, 2 minutes) thought to be a safer place after symposium that explored the his apprehension, but this story theme of water. She returns in of Bout – who loved to film this feature documentary about his adventures and provided her life and accomplishments as much of the footage used in “Her Deepness,” the moniker the film – shows a man who bestowed upon her for the saw an opportunity and seized tireless work she’s done in and it. The facile Hollywood plot for the oceans. Director Fisher wants us to stare into the face Stevens, who produced The of Bout and see pure evil; the Cove (Mountainfilm 2010), documentary version illustrates follows Earle after she gets the that this man’s story consists of TED prize, which allows her many subtle shades of grey. to pursue her dream to create –EL a global network of protected (USA/Russia, 2014, 94 marine sanctuaries. minutes) –DH (USA, 2014, 95 minutes)

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ONCE UPON A FOREST Luc Jacquet (THURSDAY, 8:45 P.M., BC; SATURDAY, 9:30 A.M., HC) 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 THE OPPOSITION forests and, in this richly crafted Ezra Edelman & film, narrates his vision of what Jeff Plunkett will happen when the forests (SATURDAY, 12:00 P.M., SOH; OFF-WIDTH reverse the effects of man’s SUNDAY, 4:00 P.M., HC) OUTLAW onslaught. Bringing to bear Celin Serbo IN PERSON: Ezra Edelman Halle’s deep knowledge, insight The Opposition shows the (FRIDAY, 6:15 P.M., SOH; SATURDAY, 3:30 P.M., HC) and feeling, filmmaker Luc overthrow of democratically Jacquet (March of the Penguins) IN PERSON: Celin Serbo elected Chilean President suffuses the botanist’s vision In a sport that is not for the Salvador Allende from a new with arresting images – both weak or easily discouraged, perspective. This time, the real and imagined – of nature’s Pamela Shanti Pack excels. eyes looking at this horror of irrepressible force and ceaseless One of the most accomplished history belong to the men of the interconnectivity. off-width climbers in the 1974 Chilean national soccer –PK world, male or female, Pack team, who, as public figures, (France, 2013, 75 minutes) seeks out North America’s had to walk a careful line of most challenging inverted private outrage at the coup and vertical cracks with what and subsequent crackdown by she describes as “masochistic General Augustine Pinochet. fervor.” Off-Width Outlaw This short documentary explains follows her quest to establish the political situation efficiently new routes in the desert with the impact of outside climbing mecca of Indian Creek involvement from the U.S., but in southeastern Utah. the focus is on the men who –EL simply wanted to play futbol for (USA, 2013, 6 minutes) their country and were instead made pawns in a much bigger game of geopolitics. –DH (Chile, 2014, 22 minutes)

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POINT AND SHOOT PARKING LOT Marshall Curry CULTURE (FRIDAY, 9:45 P.M., HC; Sam Giffin SATURDAY, 10:15 P.M., SOH) (FRIDAY, 8:45 P.M., BC; After seeing a TV show about THE OVERNIGHTERS SATURDAY, 6:00 P.M., HC) Jesse Moss an Australian adventurer, IN PERSON: Sam Giffin (SATURDAY, 12:15 P.M., NUG; 27-year-old Matthew Van SUNDAY, 4:30 P.M., PALM) This short introduces the Dyke decides to take a “crash IN PERSON: Jesse Moss people who want first tracks so course in manhood.” He buys At first, this thoughtfully made badly that they sleep in vans a motorcycle and a video documentary seems to be about and camper vehicles parked at camera and spends four years fracking because it takes place the base of the ski area. This rambling around the world and in Williston, North Dakota, subculture includes families filming everything he sees. which is essentially ground and couples, but it’s comprised Much like Van Dyke himself, zero for natural gas extraction mainly of dudes who are happy his adventures are peculiar, in the U.S. But this film is to deal with the cold showers yet undeniably interesting – actually about what happens (or in some cases, no showers) particularly when he arrives when many desperate men – and and cold breakfasts in trade for in Middle East war zones, they are mostly men – come the cold smoke of untracked befriends soldiers and films to Williston for work that is powder turns. their collective escapades. plentily available in the fracking –DH His footage is sometimes fields and find that rents are (USA, 2014, 7 minutes) goofy, but it takes a dramatic more expensive than Manhattan. turn when he lands in Libya. Some of these men are taken There, his friends are Libyans in temporarily by Jay Reinke, immersed in the rebellion an energetic and ebullient against Muammar Quaddafi, pastor who lets them sleep at and Van Dyke decides to join Concordia Lutheran Church, forces with them. Suddenly, but his Christian hospitality he’s signed on for an upper- rankles some parishioners, and level class in manhood when soon this compelling story heads he gets captured by Quaddafi’s in a surprising direction. The forces. Sharply directed by Overnighters exposes so many Marshall Curry (If a Tree Falls, complicated levels of the human Mountainfilm 2011), Point and condition that you’ll exit the Shoot won the grand prize for theater wrestling with issues that documentaries at the Tribeca extend far beyond fracking. Film Festival. –DH –DH (USA, 2014, 100 minutes) (USA, 2014, 82 minutes)

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IN PERSON: Char Duran, Erin KO KALUM BY PHOTO In his youth, Sean O’Neill Krozek & Matthew Livadary suffered an injury that left him At his first – and last – THE QUESTIONS paralyzed. However confined college rodeo practice, WE ASK the accident rendered his body, Chris Sherman’s collegiate Kalum Ko he retained a vigorous spirit roping team discovered his (SATURDAY, 3:45 P.M., MAS; that pushes him to fight against sexual orientation. After that, SUNDAY, 9:15 A.M., PALM) self-pity and surrender. This he couldn’t find a roping A poetic meditation on the past winter, that spirit lured partner, lost his scholarship nature of adventure, The O’Neill to attempt a daunting and dropped out of school. Questions We Ask features achievement: an ice ascent of Sherman’s story is just one Canadian Bruce Kirby, who Bridal Veil Falls, right here in of many. Some gay cowboys crossed the Georgia Straight Telluride and considered by have endured intolerance that from Vancouver to Victoria on many to be the most difficult has led to suicide attempts. At a stand up paddleboard in the waterfall ice climb in North the International Gay Rodeo spring of 2013. America. Directed by O’Neill’s Association, however, the old –EL brother – Timmy O’Neill, West meets the new, providing (USA/Canada, 2014, 4 minutes) one of the world’s premiere everyone an opportunity to climbers and a perennial compete in the challenging Mountainfilm guest –Prevail sport and do so in a supportive, is beautifully shot and courageous community. Queens touchingly told. and Cowboys: A Straight Year –PK on the Gay Rodeo follows a (USA, 2014, 6 minutes) year in the lives of extraordinary cowboys and cowgirls as they follow their dreams, no matter how wild or daunting. –EM (USA, 2014, 93 minutes)

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SEEDS OF TIME Sandy McLeod (SATURDAY, 9:00 P.M., MAS; SUNDAY, 3:45 P.M., NUG) IN PERSON: Cary Fowler & Sandy McLeod Far in the frozen north, on a THE RECORD remote island near the North BREAKER Brian McGinn Pole, lies a magical and beautiful place that houses treasures SELF-STORAGE (WEDNESDAY, 8:45 P.M., BC; FRIDAY, 6:45 P.M., MAS) beyond imagination. The David Byars (SATURDAY, 8:15 P.M., SOH; IN PERSON: Ashrita Furman Svalbard Global Seed Vault was built to store duplicates of seeds SUNDAY, 8:30 P.M., MAS) Ashrita Furman is the greatest from collections around the IN PERSON: David Byars record breaker of all time. globe to ensure the continuation Quirky and clever, Self-Storage Underwater bicycling, upside- of crop diversity in the future. is a narrative short directed by down juggling, splitting apples All comparisons to cryogenics Telluride’s David Byars that with a samurai sword – you name aside – a critique that’s been tells the story of a lovable loser it. Ashrita has done it. And set lobbed at the seed vault – Seeds who works at a particularly a record in the process. It’s not of Time lays a convincing American institution, a facility a path he followed for fame and argument for the importance that stores stuff. He comes glory, but rather to honor his and urgency to create a up with a grand plan to make guru, which seems as if it must physical database of the genetic money and leave his troubles be some kind of record in itself. material of South American behind, but his scheme goes Nearly 400 world records later, potatoes, Thai rice varietals and wonderfully, comically awry. he is nowhere near finished. Midwestern American corn – to –DH This is a delightful film about a name just three of the millions (USA, 2014, 12 minutes) delightful character who, among of seeds destined to be stored in his seemingly limitless other Svalbard. Told through the eyes talents, also has the ability to of one man, Cary Fowler, whose coax a smile. mission is to protect the future –PK of our food and who is facing (USA, 2013, 25 minutes) 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 (USA, 2014, 77 minutes)

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SEVEN DEADLY SINS: GLUTTONY Morgan Spurlock (SATURDAY, 8:15 P.M., SOH; SUNDAY, 8:30 P.M., MAS) 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 SONG OF THE CICADAS take on food is a disturbing tale Richard Robinson as he tours the dark side of food (SATURDAY, 9:30 A.M., SOH; SOUND OF THE VOID in America, which includes SUNDAY, 4:15 P.M., SOH) Martin Persiel a restaurant that celebrates IN PERSON: Richard (FRIDAY, 8:45 P.M., BC; shockingly massive servings, a Robinson & David SATURDAY, 6:00 P.M., HC) coffin company that’s building Rothenberg IN PERSON: Joachim caskets sized for the obese and This artful and evocative short Hellinger a 600-pound woman whose film juxtaposes the solitude, When he was young, 140-pound boyfriend is aroused loneliness and transformation Sébastien de Sainte Marie by feeding her. (Please do not of a prisoner with the cicada, saw a picture of Sylvain Saudan, bring children to this screening.) an insect who spends 17 years “Skier of the Impossible,” –DH of life isolated underground. and knew what he wanted to (USA, 2014, 26 minutes) Through interviews with do with his life. Today, the American political prisoner Swiss skier picks extreme lines Timothy Blunk, and inspired that few dare to try. In a sport by the bug music of composer where one slip or misjudged David Rothenberg, director turn could mean death, de Sainte Richard Knox Robinson finds Marie is cool and collected. beauty and poetry in isolation Sound of the Void follows him and emergence. as he attempts a first descent –EM of the 55-degree north face of (USA, 2013, 30 minutes) Gspaltenhorn in the Bernese Alps and artfully captures his almost Zen-like calm. –EL (Germany, 2013, 14 minutes)

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STICKY Jilli Rose (SATURDAY, 11:45 A.M., HC; STUMPED SUNDAY, 8:45 P.M., SOH) Robin Berghaus STARS ABOVE Long thought to be extinct, (SATURDAY, 8:15 P.M., SOH; LOFOTEN the Lord Howe Island stick SUNDAY, 8:30 P.M., MAS) Jørn Ranum insect was rediscovered under “The situation is so horrible, (FRIDAY, 6:45 P.M., MAS; one way to grapple with it is SUN, 10:00 A.M., SOH) a bush on a desolate craggy island peak far off the coast of by laughing at it,” says Will A group of Norwegian students Lautzenheiser, a filmmaker on a star-gazing field trip Australia. This lushly animated documentary tells the story who found himself infected learn about astronomy and mysteriously by a deadly astrophysics and also get about a remarkable creature – the Dryococelus australis is so bacteria. He survived with philosophical about their place his life, but not his limbs. in the universe. large that it was nicknamed the “tree lobster” – thought to have Now a quadrilateral amputee, –EL Lautzenheiser lightens his (Norway, 2013, 3 minutes) gone the way of the dodo nearly a hundred years ago. Sticky situation by performing highlights a group of intrepid stand-up comedy. Filmmaker and passionate scientists who Robin Berghaus plans went on a climbing adventure to build Stumped into a in an almost prehistoric place, feature-length documentary, resulting in a wonderful following Lautzenheiser as conservation success story. he attempts ground-breaking –EL arm transplants, but in the (Australia, 2013, 20 minutes) meantime, this short offers insights about a man who is determined to keep living life. –EL (USA, 2013, 10 minutes)

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SUMMER LIGHT Max Lowe (FRIDAY, 9:00 P.M., MAS; SUFFERFEST SUNDAY, 3:45 P.M., NUG) SUPER SIZE ME Cedar Wright IN PERSON: Max Lowe Morgan Spurlock (FRIDAY, 6:15 P.M., SOH; WORLD PREMIERE (SATURDAY, 9:15 A.M., NUG) SATURDAY, 3:30 P.M., HC) Skipping stones and plunging IN PERSON: Morgan IN PERSON: Alex Honnold & into the river from a bridge. Spurlock Cedar Wright The laughter of a pretty girl. In 2004, the food movement With breathtaking free solo Songbirds and the thick gold was still gathering momentum feats, blistering speed records light of a summer evening and when Morgan Spurlock’s and ascents of rock faces around moments unbound. This short groundbreaking documentary the planet, Alex Honnold and film is both an ode to summer Super Size Me arrived in Cedar Wright are at the top and a reminder to hold on to theaters. For the film, Spurlock of their game in the world of the magical and sun-drenched ate only at McDonald’s for professional climbing. But memories of youth. one month to see what would when they decide to link all –KK happen. He experienced a of California’s 14,000-foot (USA, 2014, 4 minutes) precipitous decline in health and peaks via an ambitious human- generated an exposé about fast powered bike tour, they find food chains and the American themselves out of their element. WINTER LIGHT way of eating. Ten years after New to the sport of biking, Max Lowe the its premiere, Spurlock shares and having underestimated (FRIDAY, 8:45 P.M., BC; the film at Mountainfilm and the scope of the challenge, SATURDAY, 6:00 P.M., HC) will discuss what’s changed Honnold and Wright grapple IN PERSON: Max Lowe during the intervening decade. with sunburned thighs, sore WORLD PREMIERE –DH asses, 80-mile slogs on dirt Dawn patrol on an inky (USA, 2004, 100 minutes) roads, sketchy ridge traverses winter morning leads to a and, somewhere in the mix, contemplative climb through a fun. Welcome to Sufferfest, snowbound world, a cold and a lighthearted short film by starkly beautiful place imbued Wright that follows the mishaps with solitude and the purity of and triumphs of the pair’s epic winter light. When daylight turns adventure and proves that there and the summit is achieved, the are some types of fun that can only place to go is down. only be achieved with a grand –KK dose of suffering. (USA, 2014, 4 minutes) –KK (USA, 2013, 18 minutes)

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TASHI AND THE MONK Johnny Burke & SUPERMOM Andrew Hinton Mike Douglas (FRIDAY, 6:45 P.M., MAS; SATURDAY, 4:00 P.M., (FRIDAY, 8:45 P.M., BC; PALM) SATURDAY, 6:00 P.M., HC) TAKE AWAY FILM: UGANDA IN PERSON: Andrew Hinton IN PERSON: Mike Douglas & Invisible Children Wendy Fisher In a remote community in the & La Blogotheque foothills of the Himalaya, a With a graceful style and (SATURDAY 12:00 P.M., SOH former monk struggles under aggressive lines, Wendy Fisher SUNDAY, 4:15 P.M., SOH) the weight of his calling. ruled the women’s big mountain IN PERSON: Kenny Once a spiritual teacher in freeskiing scene from 1996 Laubbacher the U.S., Lobsang returned to to 2004. She skied Alaskan WORLD PREMIERE India to create a community spines, hucked cliffs, starred This long-form music video for orphaned and neglected in movie segments, won many features talent from three children. Tashi – the newest championships, kept up with continents: Africa, Europe arrival and youngest child male cohorts and inspired a new and North America. Swedish, with a troubled past and generation of female badasses. Texan, Ugandan, Malawaian and alcoholic father – acts out and Then she had kids and traded in British musicians collaborated challenges her elders every the life of a professional skier with American and French step of the way. But there is a for being a mom to two red- filmmakers, including the French spark in her that Lobsang sees headed boys. This Solomon film music gurus La Blogotheque, clearly: a person inside the checks in with Fisher, who gets to create this celebratory cross- hurt, abandoned child with the the opportunity to see if she’s cultural mosaic. Take Away potential to blossom and grow. still got it on the steeps of B.C. Film: Uganda was also a crowd- His patience and compassion and Chile. funded side project of Invisible for Tashi comes from a deeper –KK Children’s former director place than mere sympathy; (Canada, 2013, 10 minutes) of artist relations, Kenny he was a wild and troubled Laubbacher. orphan himself. This portrait of –EL Lobsang and his family of 84 (USA/France, 2014, 35 minutes) 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)

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VIRUNGA Orlando von Einsiedel (FRIDAY, 9:15 P.M., PALM, SATURDAY, 6:15 P.M., PALM) TRAIL RIDERS OF IN PERSON: TBA – in person or Skype – Orlando von THE WILDERNESS Einsiedel K.D. Swan VESSEL This stunning documentary is (SATURDAY, 11:45 A.M., HC Diana Whitten so well crafted that it feels like SYMPOSIUM) (SATURDAY, 6:00 P.M., NUG; fiction. Virunga National Park in IN PERSON: Molly Morrison SUNDAY, 8:45 P.M., NUG) the Democratic Republic of the In the 1920s, nature IN PERSON: Diana Whitten Congo is Africa’s oldest national photographer K.D. Swan Warship blockades and furious park, a UNESCO world heritage worked for the U.S. Forest protests often await Rebecca site and the last intact habitat for Service in and around what Gomperts and her Women on the critically endangered mountain is now the Bob Marshall Waves team when they sail gorilla. Virunga follows the Wilderness, one of the largest their ship to foreign ports and story of an almost unimaginable designated wilderness areas offer women access to the storm of corruption and war that in the Lower 48. The primary abortion pill. In many of the threatens the park’s survival. An goal for the native Montanan countries they visit – such as oil reserve is discovered, and a was to educate and inspire his Morocco, Ireland, Ecuador and young French female journalist audience about the value of Tanzania – abortion is illegal goes undercover to reveal nature and wilderness. He did and controversial, but Gomperts’ unethical and bigoted oil officials. that through still photography approach is to transport Rebels attempt to overthrow and moving images – a new women 12 miles offshore into the Congolese government. A medium at the time. Swan international waters. There on Belgian prince – the director created the silent Trail Riders the open seas, the laws of her of the park – stands with his of the Wilderness in 1929 to ship take jurisdiction, and she rangers as the headquarters are entice Easterners to come can provide services to women threatened by artillery shelling. A West and discover Montana. in need legally. She also takes Congolese veterinarian risks his It was recently rediscovered it one step further by teaching life to stay by the side of orphaned and remastered by Forest women – via email – how baby gorillas. With incredible Service staffer Libby Langston to take the pill on their own. access and extraordinary and will be accompanied by It’s a struggle for the women cinematography, filmmaker Molly Morrison on the piano, involved, but as Vessel shows, Orlando von Einsedel (Skateistan, who wrote a new score for the it’s one to which they are all Mountainfilm 2011) has created classic film. fully dedicated. a documentary with bottomless –EL –DH heart and steel knuckles. (USA, 1929, 10 minutes) (USA, 2014, 88 minutes) –EL (UK, 2014, 93 minutes)

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VULTURES OF TIBET Russell O. Bush (SATURDAY, 8:30 P.M., NUG; THE WEIGHT OF SUNDAY, 9:45 A.M., HC) MOUNTAINS IN PERSON: Annie Bush & Temujin Doran Russell O. Bush (SATURDAY, 11:45 A.M., HC; SUNDAY, 8:45 P.M., SOH) On the Tibetan Plateau in We should never take Western China, the material mountains lightly. Because, culture of a rapidly modernizing as this short film makes society clashes with the customs WALLED IN beautifully clear, the processes and practices of a rich spiritual Ben Stookesberry that combine to create, sustain tradition. The differences (FRIDAY, 8:45 P.M., SOH; SUNDAY, 10:00 A.M., SOH) and, ultimately, destroy between Chinese secularity IN PERSON: Ben the world’s mountains are and the deep faith of Buddhist Stookesberry elemental, powerful and deep Tibetans are pronounced. In Ostensibly, Walled In is the story with meaning – meaning that this film about sky burial – a of a first descent of the rowdy may exceed our capacity to sacred ritual where the bodies Marble Fork of the Kaweah measure. One line from the of the Tibetan dead are fed to River in Sequoia National Park narration captures the essence wild griffon vultures – these by kayakers Ben Stookesbury of mountains perfectly: “All differences are starkly portrayed. and Chris Korbulic, but this the good and evil things that –PK film poses bigger questions than happen in the world are of no (USA, 2013, 21 minutes) whether the pair can send a river consequence to the magnitude that flows from above 12,000 of their scale.” feet in elevation to near sea level –PK in less than 30 miles. It asks why (UK, 2014, 12 minutes) 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 (USA, 2013, 35 minutes)

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WHEN DOGS FLY Dean Potter (FRIDAY, 6:15 P.M., SOH; SATURDAY, 3:30 P.M., HC) WRENCHED IN PERSON: Dean Potter Mary Louise Lincoln & Whisper (SATURDAY, 8:45 P.M., PALM; Dean Potter has pushed the WHO OWNS WATER SUNDAY, 9:15 A.M., MAS) boundaries of what can be done David Hanson, Michael Hanson & Andrew IN PERSON: Tim in the climbing world for years. DeChristopher, Dave He has repeatedly set the speed Kornylak Foreman, Katie Lee & record for climbing The Nose (SATURDAY, 3:30 P.M., NUG; Mary Louise Lincoln SUNDAY, 12:15 P.M., SOH) in Yosemite, and he caused Edward Abbey’s life is explored IN PERSON: David Hanson & great controversy in 2006 by in this entertaining ramble Michael Hanson climbing Delicate Arch in Utah. through the environmental Water wars have always Recently, he’s funneled much history of the Southwest. His been heated in the American of his considerable energy into life was the stuff of legend, but southwest desert, where water is being in air instead of on rock. his legacy is the myriad of eco- scarce and droughts are frequent, When Dogs Fly is Potter’s activists he inspired – from the but the same quarrels were once latest venture into uncharted inimitable Katie Lee, who threw unthinkable in lusher areas of territory as it follows his efforts herself into the fight against Glen the country. That’s changing as to wingsuit BASE jump off the Canyon, to Tim DeChristopher Georgia, Alabama and Florida North Face of the Eiger with his of Bidder 70 (Mountainfilm are locked in a battle over water dog – Whisper, a mini cattledog 2012). Both of these activists from their once-bountiful rivers. – on his back. Yes, his dog. will be in attendance, as well as Two young brothers decide to Potter will attempt another first another featured character in the paddle the three rivers in the for the sport when he jumps out film, Dave Foreman, the founder Appalachiacola–Chattahoochee– of a plane and flies over the town of EarthFirst. Flint River Basin to tell the of Telluride in a wingsuit, which –DH story of a system that still flows, is scheduled to happen – weather (USA, 2013, 94 minutes) and wind permitting – during though it’s threatened from all Saturday’s Ice Cream Social. sides. Who Owns Water received –DH a Mountainfilm Commitment (USA, 2014, 22 minutes) Grant in 2013. –EL A 2013 Mountainfilm Commitment Grant recipient (USA, 2014, 48 minutes)

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MOMENT’S NOTICE

ADRENALINE SATURDAY, MAY 24, 8:45 P.M. BASE CAMP OUTDOOR THEATRE IN TELLURIDE TOWN PARK Free and open to the public. Films are listed in screening order.

64 MPH TYLER HOWELL Brett Schreckengost Jack Boston The San Joaquin Couloir is one of Telluride’s Downhill skateboarder Tyler Howell most iconic backcountry lines. Greg Hope is embraces his surf style in the hills of one of the town’s best-known rippers. In 64 Santa Barbara, California, stylishly mph, the two meet for one slough-dodging, descending at vomit-inducing speeds high-velocity descent. –KK – wearing nothing more than a pair of (USA, 2014, 3 minutes) shorts and a t-shirt. –BK (USA, 2014, 4 minutes) KELLY MCGARRY RAMPAGE Kelly McGarry BRYAN AND KAIA Professional mountain biker Kelly McGarry Jonathan Kang recorded his run at the 2013 Red Bull Mountain biker Bryan Gregory attempts Rampage with a helmet-mounted GoPro to keep up with his dog, Kaia, on a piece camera. The simple, unedited footage took of Pacific Northwest single track. This the Internet by storm, garnering a mind- film might not appeal to cat people, but if blowing 18 million views. –BK you’re a dog person, your little heart may (USA, 2013, 3 minutes) just burst with joy. –BK (Canada, 2014, 3 minutes) BLINK OF AN EYE Andreas Braaten and COMING UP FOR AIR Niels Windfeldt Mickey Smith Television-broadcasted downhill ski races This visually crushing short film by do not reflect the actual speeds or crushing legendary cold-water surf photographer forces that alpine racers endure. This Mickey Smith might be classified more remarkable short film by Antimedia attempts appropriately as a poem. Disturbingly to expose the raw mental pressure inherent in heavy waves, documented at high frame the sport by capturing the incredible skill and rates, are rendered in icy tones and focus of Aksel Lund Svindal. –BK narrated with sparse, humble words. (Spain, 2013, 4 minutes) –BK (Ireland, 2014, 5 minutes)

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EL SENDERO LUMINOSO BEGIN AGAIN Renan Ozturk John John Florence & Blake World-renowned free solo climber Alex Vincent Kueny Honnold went to Mexico in January with Surfer John John Florence continues the talented Camp4 film crew in hopes of to reinvent surfing with his extremely capturing what many regard as the most powerful, almost inhuman ability to push difficult ropeless climb ever attempted in the boundaries on a wave. –BK history. –BK (USA, 2014, 7 minutes) (USA, 2013, 5 minutes)

MOMENT’S NOTICE DREAM Jeff Thomas Skip Armstrong Japan’s endlessly deep powder gives itself If you dare give acclaimed director Skip over to willing participants who drop Armstrong full creative control over a everything to fly over for the trip of a life short kayak film, you’ll get a sneak peak time. –SW (USA, 2014, 5 minutes) into the depths of his mind. We may never know what a panda with super powers THE BALLOON HIGHLINE has to do with the dreams of an amateur Sébastien Montaz-Rosset kayaker, but at least we’ll all have a better Slacklining no longer seems to need understanding of Armstrong. –BK the expanse of trees, crevasses or other (USA, 2014, 5 minutes) earthbound objects – only some kind helium and a cool buzz. –SW LIKEBOMB SKIING (France, 2014, 5 minutes) Johan Jonsson Lacking snow, but clearly not courage and SPICE GIRL poise, Johan Jonsson skis lines that any Josh Lowell, Peter Mortimer sane person would avoid. –SW & Nick Rosen (France, 2013, 5 minutes) 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 (USA, 2013, 25 minutes)

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) NUDE SCENE FROM VALHALLA

INTO THE MIND – NUDE SCENE FROM BELLA COOLA GNAR VALHALLA JP Auclair, Eric Crosland Nick Waggoner and & Dave Mossop Ben Sturgulewski Perhaps the best seven minutes ever in It’s time to clear the kids out of the park if a ski film: Sherpas Cinema spares no you’re uncomfortable with nudity. Taken expense to film some of the most amazing from Sweetgrass Production of Valhalla, ski footage on the planet. this clip is outrageous and brilliant at the –SW (USA, 2014, 6 minutes) same time. –SW (USA, 2013, 3 minutes)

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WIND 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 (USA, 2013, 9 minutes) FEAR OF FLYING Conor Finnegan 64 MPH A bird has bad dreams about flying Brett Schreckengost and tries to get over it. Greg Hope skis fast. –Maia Coe, age 9 –Wiley Holbrooke, age 12 (Ireland, 2012, 9 minutes) (USA, 2014, 3 minutes) PREVAIL ABITA Timmy O’Neill Shoko Hara and Paul Brenner Bridal Veil has never been Amazing animation, but slightly odd. climbed like this. –Kitty Holbrooke, age 14 –Wiley Holbrooke, age 12 (Germany, 2012, 4 minutes) (USA, 2014, 6 minutes)

DAMNED LIGHT GOES ON Richard Phelan Darren Pearson A beaver dreams about Movies are good. Yeah. building a huge dam, but doesn’t –Zoe Cooper, age 2 think of the consequences. (USA, 2013, 2 minutes) –Raven Hopgood, age 12 (UK, 2011, 9 minutes)

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WIND DAMNED

LIVING IN A THE WHALE STORY FOOD DESERT Tess Martin Students in Wide Angle The story of a whale portrayed in a mural. Youth Media’s Baltimore –Kitty Holbrooke, age 14 Speaks Out! Program (USA, 2012, 4 minutes) Students in Baltimore talk about food deserts. WIND –Wiley Holbrooke, age 12 Robert Löbel (USA, 2014, 5 minutes) What life would be like with extreme wind. MAPLE SYRUP –Raven Hopgood, age 12 Yoshino Aoki (Germany, 2012, 4 minutes) A girl makes maple syrup. –Clark Hopgood, age 6 BROWNIES TO BROCCOLI (Canada, 2013, 2 minutes) PRESENTATION Students from the Telluride Middle School will talk about the work they are MY HAPPY END Milen Vitanov doing at the Telluride Grow Dome. A dog makes friends with his tail. –Wiley Holbrooke, age 12 (Germany, 2013, 6 minutes)

SNIFFLES David Cowles & Jeremy Galante A comic dog. –Maia Coe, age 9 (USA, 2013, 2 minutes)

A TOY TRAIN IN SPACE Ron Fugelseth A father sends his son’s favorite toy train to space and films and tracks its journey. –Wiley Holbrooke, age 12 (USA, 2012, 3 minutes)

THE WHALE STORY

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Q& a Q& a (p. 23) nugget capacity [186] capacity 9:15 - 11:15 p.m. 6:30 - 8:45 p.m. The Notorious E-Team (p. 22) E-Team Mr. Bout (p. 28) Mr. Harvest of Shadows of Harvest PosiUm (p. – 81) 78 G in G orts Q& a Q& a high camp (p. camp 60 - 62) high (p. 25) (p. 23) Off-Width Off-Width 14.c (p. 16) lim B sH Prevail (p. 31) Prevail Outlaw (p. 29) C sheridan capacity [230] capacity wildErnEss 6:15 - 8:15 p.m. Sufferfest (p. 35) Sufferfest Desert Ice (p. 20) 8:45 - 10:45 p.m. A Life Well Lived Well A Life Walled In (p. 38) Walled opera house When Dogs Fly (p. 39) Karsts of China (p. 25) of Karsts The Grand Rescue The Grand 3:30 – 6:30 P.m. walk GallEry Q& a (p. 26) (p. 30) capacity [500] capacity 7:15 - 9:15 p.m. 7:15 high camp high camp 9:45 - 11:45 p.m. Point and Shoot Alive Inside (p. 16) Alive The Lion’s Mouth Opens The Lion’s movinG moUntains sym moUntains movinG ECKER to Q& a (p. 24) palm capacity [650] capacity 9:15 - 11:15 p.m. 6:30 - 8:45 p.m. Virunga (p. 37) DamNation (p. 20) photo by MAtt S MAtt by photo Isle de Jean Charles

48 8:00 AM 8:15 8:30 8:45 8:00 p M 8:15 8:30 8:45 5:00 p M 5:15 5:30 5:45 3:00 p M 3:15 3:30 3:45 2:00 p M 2:15 2:30 2:45 9:00 AM 9:00 9:15 9:30 9:45 9:00 p M 9:15 9:30 9:45 6:00 p M 6:15 6:30 6:45 7:00 p M 7:00 7:15 7:30 7:45 4:00 p M 4:15 4:30 4:45 10:00 AM 10:00 10:15 10:30 10:45 AM 11:00 11:15 11:30 11:45 p M 12:00 12:15 12:30 12:45 1:00 p M 1:15 1:30 1:45 10:00 p M 10:00 10:15 10:30 10:45 p M 11:00 11:15 11:30 11:45 AM 12:00 SCHEDULE FRIDAY library capacity [66) capacity ntations nts Ev E Pr EsE Films Q& a Q& a (p. 31) (p. 34) (p. 32) (p. 36) masons capacity [120] capacity 6:45 - 8:30 p.m. 9:00 - 11:15 p.m. The Record Breaker Breaker The Record Queens & Cowboys Queens & Cowboys Stars Above Lofoten Above Stars Tashi and the Monk Tashi Summer Light (p. 35) 9:00 a.m. - 3:30 P.m.

LM k: L SS in ann e FiLM i S neSS Ta ain Fi GR e LoR LoR , Tay RkS ST LSM o Make an (p. 72) (p. 72) (p. 72) (p. 72) (p. 72) library WHaT R on Tou capacity [66) capacity Wo PRo ntations W T W 5:15 - 6:45 p.m. 1:00 - 2:30 p.m. 3:30 - 4:45 p.m. aRT i WiLD eR & ue 9:30 - 10:45 a.m. Lan G Moun T nts TuR aDven Ho 11:15 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Ev E Pr EsE Films

(p. 83) Q& a Q& a Q& a Q& a Q& a (p. 31) (p. 18) (p. 24) (p. 22) (p. 25) masons (p. 80 – 82) capacity [120] capacity n Honest Liar 3:45 - 5:45 p.m. 6:30 - 8:30 p.m. 9:00 - 11:15 p.m. 12:30 - 2:30 p.m. a Marmato (p. 27) The Last SeasonThe Last Castles in the Sky Castles in the Sky Freedom Summer Freedom 9:45 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. The Apothecary (p. 17) The Questions We Ask The Questions We Seeds of Time (p. 32) Seeds of

colorado avenue (p. 87) avenue colorado Q& a Q& a Q& a Q& a Q& a wns Water (p. 21) vernighters vernighters (p. 21) (p. 38) (p. 39) (p. 30) nugget essel (p. 37) capacity [186] capacity 3:30 - 5:15 p.m. 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. 9:15 - 11:30 a.m. v 12:15 - 2:30 p.m. 8:30 - 10:45 p.m. mptying the Skies Who o The o Vultures of the Tibet of Vultures e Duke and the Buffalo Duke Super Size Me (p. 35) Super Size kin S sHorts a Wie R Fi L way Film: way D Q& a Q& a Q& a Q& a Q& a (p. 33) (p. 27) (p. 65) (p. 66) (p. 30) BooZE & BantEr 5:30 – 6:30 P.m. BooZE eva sheridan capacity [230] capacity ganda (p. 36) Stumped (p. 34) 3:15 - 5:15 p.m. 8:15 - 9:45 p.m. 5:45 - 7:45 p.m. 5:45 - 7:45 9:30 - 11:30 a.m. 12:00 - 2:15 p.m. n 10:15 - 11:45 p.m. u Self-Storage (p. 32) Self-Storage Point and Shoot Take a Take opera house iCE CrEam soCial 2:00 – 3:30 P.m. Dex TeR Born to Fly (p. 17) Mending the Line Living Wild (p. 26) A Beautiful Waste (p. 17) A Beautiful Waste Song of the CicadasSong of Seven Deadly Sins (p. 33) Seven oFFBE at The Opposition (p. 29)

ss orts CoFFEE & ConvErsation 8:00 – 9:00 a.m. CoFFEE & ConvErsation orts orts Q& a Q& a Q& a (p. 38) nside (p. 16) (p. 29) inG sH 14.c (p. 16) sH Dubai (p. 21) Sticky (p. 34) Sticky Prevail (p. 31) Prevail ilDErn E Catch It (p. 18) capacity [500] capacity Opens (p. 26) olD sH high camp high camp 3:30 - 5:30 p.m. Sufferfest (p. 35) Sufferfest Trail Riders of the of Riders Trail Desert Ice (p. 20) 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. 9:30 - 11:15 a.m. Cold Rolled (p. 18) Wilderness (p. 37) SuperMom (p. 36) 8:30 - 10:45 p.m. North Slope (p. 28) Winter Light (p. 35) live i live Fortune Wild (p. 22) Fortune W C The Lion’s Mouth The Lion’s Coming Home (p. 19) The Guardians (p. 23) The Guardians When Dogs Fly (p. 39) Karsts of China (p. 25) of Karsts 11:45 a.m. - 1:45 p.m. a lim B Common Ground (p. 19) Common Ground Once Upon a Forest Once Upon a Forest Off-Width Outlaw (p. 29) Off-Width Sound of the Void (p. 33) the Void Sound of The Weight of Mountains of The Weight Love in the Tetons (p. 26) in the Tetons Love Parking Lot Culture (p. 30) Parking Lot Culture C Q& a Q& a Q& a Q& a Q& a (p. 27) (p. 67) palm (p. 36) TeR eve Win TeR irunga (p. 37) capacity [650] capacity Reza (p. 64) Reza 6:15 - 8:15 p.m. 4:00 - 5:45 p.m. 9:15 - 11:30 a.m. 12:00 - 2:15 p.m. 8:45 - 10:45 p.m. Dear Governor Dear Governor v ST Wrenched (p. 39) Wrenched Marshland Dreams Marshland Tashi and the Monk Tashi Mission Blue (p. 28) Hickenlooper (p. 20) Hickenlooper

50 8:00 p M 8:15 8:30 8:45 8:00 AM 8:15 8:30 8:45 5:00 p M 5:15 5:30 5:45 3:45 3:00 p M 3:15 3:30 2:00 p M 2:15 2:30 2:45 9:00 p M 9:15 9:30 9:45 9:00 AM 9:00 9:15 9:30 9:45 6:00 p M 6:15 6:30 6:45 7:00 p M 7:00 7:15 7:30 7:45 4:00 p M 4:15 4:30 4:45 10:00 p M 10:00 10:15 10:30 10:45 p M 11:00 11:15 11:30 11:45 AM 12:00 10:00 AM 10:00 10:15 10:30 10:45 AM 11:00 11:15 11:30 11:45 p M 12:00 12:15 12:30 12:45 1:00 p M 1:15 1:30 1:45 sheridan 50 palm high camp opera house nugget masons library capacity [650] capacity [500] capacity [230] capacity [186] capacity [120] capacity [66)

8:00 AM 8:15 CoFFEE & ConvErsation 8:00 – 9:00 a.m. 8:30 (p. 80 – 82) 8:45 9:00 AM 9:15 9:15 - 11:30 a.m. 9:15 - 11:30 a.m. 9:30 Reza (p. 64) 9:30 - 11:15 a.m. 9:30 - 11:30 a.m. Super Size Me (p. 35) 9:30 - 10:45 a.m. 9:45 Dear Governor Once Upon a Forest Song of the Cicadas Q&a 9:45 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. WoRkS in Hickenlooper (p. 20) 10:00 AM (p. 29) (p. 33) Freedom Summer PRoGReSS (p. 72) 10:15 Q&a Living Wild (p. 26) (p. 22) 10:30 Q&a Q&a 10:45 11:00 AM 11:15 11:15 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. 11:30 HoW To Make an 11:45 11:45 a.m. - 1:45 p.m. aDvenTuRe FiLM (p. 72) 12:00 pM 12:00 - 2:15 p.m. WilDErnEss 12:00 - 2:15 p.m. 12:15 Marshland Dreams sHorts The Opposition (p. 29) 12:15 - 2:30 p.m. 12:30 (p. 27) The Weight of Mountains (p. 38) nevaDa WieR The overnighters 12:30 - 2:30 p.m. 12:45 Mission Blue (p. 28) Common Ground (p. 19) (p. 65) (p. 30) Castles in the Sky 1:00 pM Q&a Trail Riders of the Take away Film: (p. 18) Wilderness (p. 37) Q&a 1:00 - 2:30 p.m. 1:15 uganda (p. 36) The Last Season Sticky (p. 34) MounTainFiLM Q&a (p. 25) 1:30 Love in the Tetons (p. 26) on TouR 1:45 The Guardians (p. 23) Q&a (p. 72) 2:00 pM Fortune Wild (p. 22) 2:15 Q&a 2:30 iCE CrEam soCial 2:00 – 3:30 P.m. 2:45 colorado avenue (p. 87) 3:00 pM 3:15 3:30

3:45 3:30 - 5:30 p.m. 3:15 - 5:15 p.m. 3:30 - 5:15 p.m. 3:45 - 5:45 p.m. 3:30 - 4:45 p.m. 4:00 pM 4:00 - 5:45 p.m. ClimBinG sHorts DexTeR FiLkinS Duke and the Buffalo The Questions We Ask WHaT iS (p. 66) (p. 21) (p. 31) WiLDeRneSS 4:15 Tashi and the Monk Prevail (p. 31) 4:30 Karsts of China (p. 25) Mending the Line Who owns Water an Honest Liar (p. 72) (p. 36) Off-Width Outlaw (p. 29) (p. 27) (p. 39) (p. 24) 4:45 Desert Ice (p. 20) Q&a Q&a Q&a Q&a 5:00 pM 14.c (p. 16) STeve WinTeR When Dogs Fly (p. 39) 5:15 (p. 67) 5:15 - 6:45 p.m. Sufferfest (p. 35) 5:30 BooZE & BantEr 5:30 – 6:30 P.m. aRTiST TaLk: 5:45 5:45 - 7:45 p.m. (p. 83) LanG, TayLoR 6:00 pM 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. & ueLSMann 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. Born to Fly (p. 17) (p. 72) 6:15 6:15 - 8:15 p.m. ColD sHorts Q&a vessel (p. 37) 6:30 - 8:30 p.m. 6:30 virunga (p. 37) Coming Home (p. 19) Q&a Marmato (p. 27) 6:45 Sound of the Void (p. 33) Q&a SuperMom (p. 36) Q&a 7:00 pM Winter Light (p. 35) 7:15 Catch It (p. 18) 7:30 Cold Rolled (p. 18) 7:45 Parking Lot Culture (p. 30) Dubai (p. 21) 8:00 pM North Slope (p. 28) 8:15 8:15 - 9:45 p.m. SCHEDULE Q&a 8:30 oFFBEat sHorts 8:30 - 10:45 p.m. Stumped (p. 34) 8:45 8:45 - 10:45 p.m. 8:30 - 10:45 p.m. Vultures of the Tibet 9:00 pM A Beautiful Waste (p. 17) (p. 38) Wrenched (p. 39) The Lion’s Mouth Seven Deadly Sins (p. 33) 9:00 - 11:15 p.m. 9:15 Q&a Opens (p. 26) Self-Storage (p. 32) emptying the Skies The Apothecary (p. 17) 9:30 (p. 21) alive inside (p. 16) Q&a Seeds of Time (p. 32) Q&a 9:45 Q&a Q&a 10:00 pM SATURDAY 10:15 10:15 - 11:45 p.m. 10:30 Point and Shoot 10:45 (p. 30) 11:00 pM 11:15 EvEnts 11:30 PrEsE ntations 11:45 Films 12:00 AM sheridan 52 palm high camp opera house nugget masons library SCHEDULE capacity [650] capacity [500] capacity [230] capacity [186] capacity [120] capacity [66)

8:00 AM 8:15 8:30 CoFFEE & ConvErsation 8:00 – 9:00 a.m. 8:45 (p. 80 – 82) 9:00 AM

9:15 9:15 - 11:15 a.m. 9:15 - 11:15 a.m. SUNDAY 9:30 The Questions We Ask 9:30 - 11:30 a.m. Wrenched (p. 39) 9:30 - 10:45 a.m. 9:45 (p. 31) 9:45 - 11:30 a.m. Castles in the Sky Q&a FiLMinG in A 10:00 AM An Honest Liar Vultures of Tibet 10:00 - 11:45 a.m. (p. 18) FOREiGn LAnd 10:15 (p. 24) (p. 38) Stars Above Lofoten The Last Season (p. 73) 10:30 Q&a High Tension (p. 24) (p. 34) (p. 25) 10:45 extended Q&a Walled in (p. 38) Q&a 11:00 AM nATiOnAL GEOGRApHiC YOunG 11:15 ExpLORERS (p. 68) 11:15 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. 11:30 Q&a ARTiST TALk: 11:45 11:45 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. 11:45 a.m. - 2:15 p.m. BLOOMFiELd & OAkES (p. 73) 12:00 pM Emptying the Skies 12:00 - 2:00 p.m. 12:00 - 2:00 p.m. Freedom Summer 12:15 (p. 21) A Life Well Lived 12:15 - 2:15 p.m. Harvest of Shadows (p. 22) 12:30 Q&a (p. 25) Marshland Dream (p. 23) Q&a 12:45 The Grand Rescue (p. 27) Marmato (p. 27) (p. 23) 12:45 - 2:15 p.m. 1:00 pM AzzAM ALWASH Q&a (p. 69) HOW TO START A 1:15 COnRAd AnkER And nOn-pROFiT (p. 73) WAdE dAviS (p. 70) Who Owns Water 1:30 Q&a (p. 39) 1:45 Q&a 2:00 pM 2:15 2:30 2:45 3:00 pM 3:15 rEaDing FrEnZy 2:00 – 4:00 P.m. 3:30 hotel madeline ball room (p. 86)

3:45 3:45 - 5:30 p.m. 3:30 - 5:30 p.m. 4:00 pM 4:00 - 6:30 p.m. Summer Light (p. 35) Mission Blue (p. 28) 4:15 The Opposition (p. 29) 4:15 - 6:00 p.m. Seeds of Time (p. 32) Q&a 4:30 4:30 - 6:30 p.m. E-Team (p. 22) Creative Compulsive Q&a Disorder (p. 19) 4:45 The Overnighters Q&a 5:00 pM (p. 30) Take Away Film: uganda (p. 36) 5:15 Q&a Song of the Cicadas 5:30 (p. 33) 5:45 A MuSiCAL TRiBuTE booZE & bantEr 5:45 - 6:45 p.m. 6:00 pM (p. 71) 5:30 – 6:30 P.m. (p. 83) MOviES THAT 6:15 Q&a MATTER (p. 73) 6:30 6:30 - 8:15 p.m. 6:00 - 8:15 p.m. 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. 6:45 64 mph (p. 16) Duke and the Buffalo The Apothecary (p. 17) 7:00 pM 7:00 - 8:45 p.m. 7:00 - 9:00 p.m. Born to Fly (p. 17) (p. 21) dear Governor 7:15 TBA The notorious Q&a Queens and Cowboys Hickenlooper (p. 20) 7:15 - 8:45 p.m. 7:30 Mr. Bout (p. 28) (p. 31) Q&a TBA 7:45 Q&a Q&a 8:00 pM 8:15 8:30 8:30 - 10:00 p.m. 8:45 8:45 - 10:45 p.m. 8:45 - 10:30 p.m. oFFbEat shorts 9:00 pM WilDErnEss vessel (p. 37) Stumped (p. 34) A Beautiful Waste (p. 17) 9:15 9:15 - 11:15 p.m. shorts Q&a 9:15 - 11:15 p.m. 9:30 The Weight of Mountains Seven Deadly Sins (p. 33) TBA 9:30 - 11:30 p.m. (p. 38) Self-Storage (p. 32) TBA 9:45 TBA Common Ground (p. 19) Q&a 10:00 pM Sticky (p. 34) 10:15 Love in the Tetons (p. 26) 10:30 The Guardians (p. 23) Fortune Wild (p. 22) 10:45 Q&a 11:00 pM 11:15 EvEnts 11:30 PrEsE ntations 11:45 Films 12:00 AM sheridan palm high camp opera house nugget masons library capacity [650] capacity [500] capacity [230] capacity [186] capacity [120] capacity [66)

8:00 AM 8:15 8:30 CoFFEE & ConvErsation 8:00 – 9:00 a.m. 8:45 (p. 80 – 82) 9:00 AM 9:15 9:15 - 11:15 a.m. 9:15 - 11:15 a.m. 9:30 The Questions We Ask 9:30 - 11:30 a.m. Wrenched (p. 39) 9:30 - 10:45 a.m. 9:45 (p. 31) 9:45 - 11:30 a.m. Castles in the Sky Q&a FiLMinG in A 10:00 AM An Honest Liar Vultures of Tibet 10:00 - 11:45 a.m. (p. 18) FOREiGn LAnd 10:15 (p. 24) (p. 38) Stars Above Lofoten The Last Season (p. 73) 10:30 Q&a High Tension (p. 24) (p. 34) (p. 25) 10:45 extended Q&a Walled in (p. 38) Q&a 11:00 AM nATiOnAL GEOGRApHiC YOunG 11:15 ExpLORERS (p. 68) 11:15 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. 11:30 Q&a ARTiST TALk: 11:45 11:45 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. 11:45 a.m. - 2:15 p.m. BLOOMFiELd & OAkES (p. 73) 12:00 pM Emptying the Skies 12:00 - 2:00 p.m. 12:00 - 2:00 p.m. Freedom Summer 12:15 (p. 21) A Life Well Lived 12:15 - 2:15 p.m. Harvest of Shadows (p. 22) 12:30 Q&a (p. 25) Marshland Dream (p. 23) Q&a 12:45 The Grand Rescue (p. 27) Marmato (p. 27) (p. 23) 12:45 - 2:15 p.m. 1:00 pM AzzAM ALWASH Q&a (p. 69) HOW TO START A 1:15 COnRAd AnkER And nOn-pROFiT (p. 73) WAdE dAviS (p. 70) Who Owns Water 1:30 Q&a (p. 39) 1:45 Q&a 2:00 pM 2:15 2:30 2:45 3:00 pM 3:15 rEaDing FrEnZy 2:00 – 4:00 P.m. 3:30 hotel madeline ball room (p. 86)

8:30 - 10:00 p.m. SCHEDULE 8:45 8:45 - 10:45 p.m. 8:45 - 10:30 p.m. oFFbEat shorts 9:00 pM WilDErnEss vessel (p. 37) Stumped (p. 34) A Beautiful Waste (p. 17) 9:15 9:15 - 11:15 p.m. shorts Q&a 9:15 - 11:15 p.m. 9:30 The Weight of Mountains Seven Deadly Sins (p. 33) TBA 9:30 - 11:30 p.m. (p. 38) Self-Storage (p. 32) TBA 9:45 TBA Common Ground (p. 19) Q&a 10:00 pM Sticky (p. 34) Love in the Tetons (p. 26)

10:15 SUNDAY 10:30 The Guardians (p. 23) Fortune Wild (p. 22) 10:45 Q&a 11:00 pM 11:15 EvEnts 11:30 PrEsE ntations 11:45 Films 12:00 AM SCHEDULE MONDAY TBA library capacity [66) capacity ntations 9:15 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. nts Ev E Pr EsE Films TBA masons (p. 80 – 82) capacity [120] capacity 9:15 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. telluride town park (p. park 87) town telluride TBA nugget capacity [186] capacity 9:15 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. TBA sheridan capacity [230] capacity opera house 9:15 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Closing awards PiCniC 1:00 – 4:00 P.m. awards Closing CoFFEE & ConvErsation 8:00 – 9:00 a.m. CoFFEE & ConvErsation TBA capacity [500] capacity high camp high camp 9:15 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Q& a (p. 27) palm capacity [650] capacity 9:15 - 10:30 a.m. KIDZ KINO (p. 44) KIDZ Mending the Line 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. free and open to the public free

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HIGH CAMP IN MOUNTAIN It’s not as simple as setting aside vast VILLAGE (TELLURIDE wilderness tracts. Fifty years after the CONFERENCE CENTER) Wilderness Act, the world population has more than doubled. The dichotomy Friday, May 23, 9:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. constructed between wilderness – viewed Lunch: 12:15 to 1:30 p.m. as harsh, inhospitable and dangerous as The Symposium is open to all often as spiritual and beautiful – and man no longer serves the cause of preservation Wilson, Ama Dablam and Patron fully. For wilderness to survive anywhere, passholders and includes lunch. people and nature must be on the same side in the fight for conservation. n 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson The Mountainfilm Moving Mountains signed into law the Wilderness Act, Symposium on wilderness brings together establishing American wilderness as a diverse mix of artists, activists and “an area where the earth and its community academics to present a vision inspired by of life are untrammeled by man, where man the giants of the past but informed by a new himself is a visitor who does not remain.” global understanding. The Wilderness Act created a legal definition of wilderness, but its poetic text is unique and groundbreaking for TRAIL LEADER legislation. Drawing on centuries of Guiding us through the day is our emcee, American philosophy, literature and M SANJAYAN, executive vice president experience, the Wilderness Act was and senior scientist at Conservation the first of its kind in the world. It International. After recently returning underscores the wilderness as a pristine from a two-year quest to witness the landscape, inspirational and redemptive state of wild places for a new PBS and – and separate from man. Towering National Geographic TV series called American voices tell us: “In wildness is “Earth: The New Wild,” Sanjayan poses the preservation of the world” (Henry this provocative statement: “What I found David Thoreau); and “Wilderness is not is that the wild can thrive, but only if we a luxury but a necessity of the human bring people into the picture.” spirit” (Edward Abbey); but also “All conservation of wildness is self-defeating, “To establish a National for to cherish we must see and fondle, Wilderness Preservation System and when enough have seen and fondled, for the permanent good of the there is no wilderness left to cherish” whole people…” (Aldo Leopold).

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MORNING SESSION JOHN FRANCIS is the vice president for 9:00 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. research, conservation and exploration at the National Geographic Society. The Foundation of American Wilderness Inspiration to Create Historian testified DOUGLAS BRINKLEY ADAM DUNCAN HARRIS is the curator of before Congress on drilling in the Arctic art at the National Museum of Wildlife National Wildlife Refuge and has written Art in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. He is extensively about American wilderness the author of Wildlife in American Art: conservation: from Teddy Roosevelt to Masterworks from the National Museum of the era of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring Wildlife Art. – when the Wilderness Act was ratified – to the present. Inspiration to Preserve Artist and professor DEBRA BLOOMFIELD’s The Arctic: A Last Refuge of Wild large-scale color photographs encompass Born in Germany, FLORIAN SCHULZ the breathtaking landscapes of the is a professional nature and wildlife American continent. Her newest work is a photographer and the youngest founding multimedia piece titled “Wilderness.” member of the International League of Conservation Photographers (iLCP). “A wilderness…is an area where the earth and its community of life PANEL: Does Wilderness Exist? Emcee SANJAYAN challenges four great are untrammeled by man, where man advocates of wilderness to not only define himself is a visitor who does wilderness, but prove that it exists: not remain.” Oceanographer, author and lecturer SYLVIA EARLE’s extraordinary A Word for “Wilderness” accomplishments have earned her the Does Not Exist Here moniker “Her Deepness.” Through an JARED DIAMOND is a professor of act of civil disobedience that resulted geography at UCLA and author of five in two years in federal prison, TIM bestselling books about human societies DECHRISTOPHER saved thousands of and human evolution, including the acres of federal land threatened by oil Pulitzer Prize-winning Guns, Germs and gas extraction. DAVE FOREMAN is and Steel. a leading environmentalist and activist who founded the group Earth First! and LUNCH the Rewilding Institute “to combat the 12:15 to 1:30 p.m. extinction crisis.” Wildlife photographer

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AFTERNOON SESSION the Telluride region. VANCE MARTIN 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. joined The Wild Foundation, dedicated to protecting wilderness and wild nature The Forest Sings around the world, as president in 1984. Author and musician DAVID SHELLEY SILBERT, executive director ROTHENBERG has examined the of Great Old Broads for Wilderness, has relationship between humanity and nature more than 20 years experience in the for many years and bridges the gap fields of conservation and sustainability. between species by creating music with JAMIE WILLIAMS is the president of The birds, whales and cicadas. Wilderness Society, the conservation organization leading American efforts to Living Wild protect our nation’s shared wildlands. Founder of the Living Wild School, which is dedicated to developing Wilding wilderness living skills, LYNX VILDEN With no experience or training, CHERYL has traveled, explored and researched the STRAYED hiked more than 1,000 miles nature and traditional cultures of arctic, of the Pacific Crest Trail from the Mojave mountain and desert regions from Hudson Desert through California and Oregon Bay to the Red Sea. to Washington State – alone. Her New York Times bestseller Wild chronicles the Áreas Silvestres Para Todos story of her impulsive and, ultimately, National Geographic Emerging Explorer healing adventure. and environmentalist JUAN MARTINEZ is a national spokesman for getting youth AFTER THE SYMPOSIUM into the outdoors, especially those from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. disadvantaged backgrounds. Wilderness Walk & Talk PANEL: Now What A new program called Wilderness Walks These panelists, who have been working & Talks kicks off after the symposium. For actively to preserve wilderness from those inspired to get outside, join festival international, national, regional and guest CONRAD ANKER (page 70) on a local perspectives, will discuss how guided hike up the Ridge Trail to Gondola to turn inspiration into action: HILARY Station St. Sophia. See page 85 for full COOPER is the director of Sheep Mountain information about the program. Alliance, an organization dedicated to preserving the natural environment in

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REZA (SATURDAY, 9:15 A.M., PALM)

Reza grew up in Iran and studied to promised land. And beyond the joy of be an architect, but he was outraged by being free, there remains, too, a feeling the human rights injustices of the Shah’s of mourning for your native land. … For regime. At the age of 16, he protested by the exile, the joys of the present are full of photographing the abuses and posting the memories of the past.” pictures in public places. Eventually, he This unflagging world traveler has was caught by the Shah’s secret police, worked along the front lines of war, imprisoned and tortured for five months. particularly in Afghanistan, spending He believes that the Iranian government significant time with Ahmed Shah viewed photographs as actual weapons to Massoud, the revered leader of the contain and suppress. Northern Alliance. Massoud and his men The troubles in his homeland forced him battled the Russian occupation and then into exile, which prompted him to tell the the Taliban before he was assassinated stories of others who’ve found themselves by Al Qaeda in 2001, two days before the trapped by history. He explains, “Within events of 9/11. Reza is also the founder of you remains the memory of your lost Aina, which uses photography and other country, and you may feel disappointment means of communication to educate and in the land where you are now living, empower women and children by helping the country you thought would be your them develop these storytelling skills.

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Nevada Wier (SATURDAY, 12:00 P.M., SOH)

“I photograph people,” says Nevada about the Kirghiz nomads of Western Wier. “I really like people – occasionally China and returns this year to discuss her a tree or two – but mostly people.” She newest technique: infrared photography, also likes to travel and has combined which she says, “adds a different these two affections into one pursuit: dimension to the photography.” These “I realized, forget trying to go to places photographs are part of an exhibition where there are no people – and there are called “Invisible Light: The World in people everywhere. And I fell in love with Infrared” that can be seen at Mélange indigenous cultures.” (page 79). She last spoke at Mountainfilm in 1996

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Dexter Filkins (SATURDAY, 3:15 P.M., SOH)

“The doors swung open. I was still “... A white Toyota Hi-Lux drove onto running and wrenching my head to see the field and four men wearing green when a bunch of men piled out with guns hoods climbed out of the back. There and rocket-propelled grenades. Suddenly was a fifth man, a prisoner, no hood, I saw them: black eyes, pale skin and sitting in the bed of the truck. The baggy gray suits with ammo belts. I hooded men laid their man in the grass thought they had us, they thought they just off midfield, flat on his back, and had us.” crouched around him.” The prisoner This excerpt reads like a war novel, but was accused of being a pickpocket, it’s nonfiction fromThe Forever War by and the assembled crowd witnessed his New York writer Dexter Filkins, who punishment: “The green hoods appeared covered the Afghanistan and Iraq wars for busy, and one of them stood up. He The New York Times during the bellicose held the man’s severed right hand in the first decade of the new millennium. The air, displaying it for the crowd.” book, winner of numerous nonfiction His latest Letter from Iraq in The New awards, is a remarkable account of life Yorker reports on how the sectarian during wartime with all of the impossible violence across the country has returned circumstances such madness creates. “with terrifying intensity.” He will speak Filkins writes about being invited to with Mountainfilm Festival Director Kabul’s soccer stadium as a special guest David Holbrooke about the unstable of the Taliban in 1998. He’s brought to Middle East and how America can play a the equivalent of the 50-yard line when role in finding the fulcrum of peace.

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Steve Winter (SATURDAY, 4:00 P.M., PALM)

The tiger is one of the most elusive and kill livestock or humans. It’s then animals on the planet, but National their turn to be hunted. A century ago, Geographic photographer Steve Winter there were 100,000 tigers; today, fewer has captured these remarkable animals than 3,200 remain in the wild. with his camera many times, in addition Winter is determined to tell the to taking award-winning photographs of tiger’s story to the world through his cougars, jaguars and snow leopards. photographs, hoping that his work Those images were exhibited at will give people a reason to care. His Mountainfilm 2010, but Winter was not optimism may stem from growing up in able to attend. rural Indiana and dreaming of becoming This year, Winter finally comes to a photographer for National Geographic. Telluride to talk about tigers, a species Not many people realize their dreams, under great stress. These massive animals but Winter did and is now trying to need large areas to roam, yet they are achieve another: ending the dismal being forced into smaller ranges. Their trajectory of the tiger and many other prey is similarly limited, so tigers big cats. (un)naturally head closer to civilization

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NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC YOUNG EXPLORERS (SUNDAY, 10:00 A.M., SOH)

If you’re between the ages of 18 and studying anthropology at the University 25, you can apply for a Young Explorers of California, Berkeley. For his Young Grant from National Geographic Society. Explorers Grant project, he photographed The monetary support maxes out at Chumash rock art in stunning and hard- $5,000, but the stamp of approval from to-reach corners of California. the Society is priceless. Many great and famous explorers received their first JEFFREY KERBY is a photographer and support from National Geographic. Ph.D. student at Penn State. His photos of the remarkable interactions between ANNIE AGNONE is a photographer who the highly social gelada monkeys and converted her car into a camper and drove Ethiopian wolves on the remote Guassa over 20,000 miles through 36 states to Plateau have been published in numerous document nocturnal culture in the United academic journals, popular magazines States. Along the way, she met all sorts of and books. night owls, including Bigfoot enthusiasts who call themselves “Squatchers.” AMBER VALENTI is a physician assistant who undertook a documentary expedition DEVLIN GANDY grew up in the Santa on one of the world’s least-known free Monica Mountains, just north of Los flowing rivers, the Amur, where she Angeles. Living in mountains so close documented sections from the remote to a large urban environment helped him Mongolian headwaters to a massive delta understand the complicated relationship in Russia. between the two different areas. He’s now

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Azzam Alwash (SUNDAY, 12:15 P.M., SOH)

In the mid-1990s, after the invasion of department. He watched the destruction Kuwait, Saddam Hussein was battling from afar – heartbroken. uprisings by the Shiite Arabs. Many When Hussein lost power, Alwash of the rebels hid in the marshlands of returned to his childhood home and Mesopotamia, located between the realized that he wanted to restore the Tigris and Euphrates rivers and widely marshes. He started the nonprofit Nature considered the birthplace of civilization. Iraq and went to work. These wetlands were also a lush home for Alwash first told his story at water buffalos, lions, aquatic wildlife and Mountainfilm 2004 and talked about an essential migratory stop for birds. how bringing nature back to life was Hussein was furious with the Sumerian not nearly as hard as staying alive in people who lived there and the refuge Iraq’s post-war sectarian violence. He they provided to his enemy, so he returned in 2008 with tales of success and burned, drained and poisoned this fragile significant restoration of the marshlands. ecosystem in retaliation, turning the This year, after winning a 2013 Garden of Eden into a dust bowl. Goldman Environmental Prize, he will During that time, Azzam Alwash was update us on his latest achievements and living in asylum in the United States, challenges, which include an extensive enjoying a successful career as a civil series of dams along the volatile Turkey- engineer. Growing up in Iraq, however, Syria border that would choke the water he’d spent many days in the marshes with into Iraq and the marshlands. his father, who was head of the irrigation

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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 seminal The Serpent and the Rainbow to understand the mystery of George about his experiences as an ethnobotanist Mallory and Mount Everest than Conrad in Haiti.) Anker and Wade Davis. Both men have been to Mountainfilm Anker was part of an expedition that many times. Both have spoken about visited Everest to search for Mallory’s Mallory extensively. But this marks the body. After several weeks with no first time Anker and Davis will take the success, Anker headed off on his own to stage together to discuss the man of their an area outside of the search zone and obsession. Telluride alpinist Hilaree discovered the famous corpse. O’Neill will moderate the discussion. She Davis wrote an award-winning summited Everest in 2012 as part of an bestseller called Into the Great Silence Anker-led expedition and then climbed that examined Mallory and the global neighboring Lhotse, making her the first circumstances that inspired him and his woman to climb two 8,000-meter peaks generation of explorers. (Davis has also in 24 hours. authored many other books, including the

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the Mandela memorial at the National When Nelson Mandela and Pete Cathedral in Washington D.C. and sang at Seeger died this year, the social justice Seeger’s bedside during his final hours. movement lost two giants. Telluride’s Yarrow will speak – and sing – about Peter Yarrow – a member of the ‘60s his relationship with both men and what musical group Peter, Paul and Mary – we can learn from their achievements. knew them both well. He performed at

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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 3:30 - 4:45 P.M. What Is Wilderness? 9:30 - 10:45 A.M. Meet two people whose experience Two Works in Progress: and understanding of wilderness is Metanoia and Frame by Frame different than most: Steve “Doom” Two filmmakers and one legendary climber Fassbinder has been exploring the explain the process, progress and ultimate wilderness of the Southwest with fat hopes for their labors. Jeff Lowe is one of tire bikes and packrafts, and Eugénie the great climbers of all time, yet his story Frerichs is a Mountainfilm 2014 artist- also has a human and tragic dimension, in-residence engaged in a deep study which director Jim Aikman (High and of wilderness. Hallowed, Mountainfilm 2013) is working to capture in the eagerly awaited Metanoia. 5:15 - 6:45 P.M. Director Alexandria Bombach (Common Artist Talk: Circles, Ground, page 19) is co-directing a Words and Wonder documentary called Frame by Frame about Gary Lang is a Mountainfilm 2014 Afghan photographers. Both films expect to artist-in-residence and will speak about premiere later in 2014. how his abstract paintings of words and circles relate to nature. Maggie Taylor, 11:15 A.M. - 12:30 P.M. who created the art for this year’s How to Make an Adventure Film festival poster, will discuss life as an In many ways, making an adventure film artist with her husband, Jerry Uelsmann, sounds like a dream job – being outside, whose photographic images shattered creating something memorable, pursuing many of the traditional boundaries of outdoor endeavors. Of course the reality photography and were something simply is a little different. Hear from Mike unheard of before the era of Photoshop. Douglas of Switchback Films (Super Mom, page 36), Joachim Hellinger of HelliVentures (Sound of the Void, page GARY LANG 33) and Ben Stookesbury (Walled In, page 38) about how they made a career in adventure films.

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.

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SUNDAY 12:45 - 2:15 P.M. How to Start a Nonprofit 9:30 - 10:45 A.M. Are you inspired to change the world, but Filming in a Foreign Land don’t know how to make it happen? If so, Making a movie is hard enough, but when take notes from these four people: George the story requires shooting overseas, it Basch is the founder of the Himalayan adds another degree of difficulty. Three Stove Project; Kandee DeGraw started directors – Mark Grieco (Marmato, page the Telluride AIDS Benefit in 1994; Jim 27), Maxim Pozdorovkin (The Notorious Nowak created the dZi Foundation to Mr. Bout, page 28) and Diana Whitten help poor, rural residents of the Himalaya (Vessel, page 37) – will share their in Nepal and India; and Lisa Pike Sheehy, experiences working in different cultures. Patagonia’s environmental programs 11:15 A.M. - 12:15 P.M. director, has shepherded numerous Artist Talk: See, Hear, Feel nonprofits to success. Artist Debra Bloomfield’s large-scale 5:45 - 6:45 P.M. color photographs (page 76) encompass Movies That Matter the breathtaking landscapes of the Educational Program American continent. She will speak This new – and free – initiative brings about the creative process behind compelling programming from the her newest work, a multimedia piece festival into schools. Join Mountainfilm titled “Wilderness,” which is her third Tour Director Henry Lystad to see how to monograph and includes photographs, take advantage of this new – and free – essays and a CD soundscape. Lauren offering from Mountainfilm. (And did we Oakes, an ecologist who contributed a mention that it’s free?) historical text on the Wilderness Act, will join the talk.

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GALLERYWALK 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 HIGH CAMP LA COCINA DE LUZ Debra Bloomfield’s large color Sewers and underground waterways rarely photographs are subdued, minimal views look beautiful, but through the eyes of of wooded wilderness lands. Her project, urban explorer Steve Duncan (A Beautiful which suggests the way the wilderness Waste, page 17), these photographs are feels, rather than what it looks like, shows positively shimmering. subtle variations within motifs of water, sky, birds, trees and mountains. EUGÉNIE FRERICHS STRONG HOUSE CARTER BROOKS ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE Eugénie Frerichs, a former Telluride SPRUCE STREET PARK IN FRONT OF THE MASONS THEATER resident (and Mountainfilm employee), Carter Brooks presents installations integrates a deep study of wilderness into that incorporate steel rigging and large her work. Part of this series, “Men in blocks of ice that transform in front Trees,” was shot in Telluride. In addition of your eyes. These pieces are worth to her exhibition, look for her on the revisiting throughout the weekend to see streets throughout the weekend in a roving how they change as the ice melts, much performance piece called “The Gospel like our planet. According to John Muir.”

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FLORIAN SCHULZ

CHRIS HANSON GARY LANG STEAMING BEAN 81435 ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE Filmmaker Chris Hanson (Scrapple and Although a painter, words were always North Slope, Alaska, page 28) was sent in Gary Lang’s mind’s eye so he started to film on Alaska’s north slope for the incorporating them into his work. As he popular TV show “Ice Road Truckers.” says, “Words are powerful. They make you During his free time, he captured images of cry. They give you hope. I didn’t realize the stunning northern lights. they were the doors to worlds.” While in Telluride, he has create new pieces AARON HUEY inspired by the alpine world that is so ARROYO different from his home in Ojai, California. As part of his photo work documenting Sherpa climbers for National Geographic KATIE LEE magazine, Aaron Huey collected pictures ARROYO from the Sherpas’ summits. Courtesy Katie Lee, one of the Southwest’s greatest of the climbers and their families, these environmental advocates, spent countless photos are often exhibited in places of days tromping around Glen Canyon with distinction in their homes to honor these friends before it was dammed in 1966 strong, skilled and courageous men. and thereafter covered by Lake Powell. These nude photographs of Lee, taken by BEN KNIGHT Martin D. Koehler (now deceased) during TELLURIDE GALLERY OF FINE ART October of 1957, show her in the sensual Photographer and filmmaker Ben Knight, environment of the canyon. 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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THOM ROSS

JENNI LOWE-ANKER NATIONAL ARROYO GEOGRAPHIC YOUNG Jenni Lowe-Anker returns to the Gallery EXPLORERS Walk with paintings from the Himalaya. AH HAA WEST Lowe-Anker’s repeated trips to the View the work of several National region with her husband Conrad Anker Geographic Young Explorers: Annie have produced a series that illustrates Agnone, Devlin Gandy, Jeffrey Kerby and the interaction between these forbidding Amber Valenti (see more about them on mountains and the indigenous wildlife that page 68). thrives there. REZA HUNTER METCALFE AH HAA EAST STRONGHOUSE Reza’s photographs from international Hunter Metcalfe specializes in old-style conflicts and human rights hotspots tintype photographs. Throughout the four- around the world have appeared primarily day weekend, he’ll photograph alpinists to in National Geographic. He is not just expand his exhibit. Please return again to a photographer; his belief in the deep appreciate the growing collection. and abiding power of photojournalism led him to start photography classes KLAUS PICHLER in troubled areas that need activist HIGH CAMP storytelling. Reza will speak about his Klaus Pichler was walking by a museum work at the Palm on Saturday (page 64). 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.”

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THOM ROSS JERRY UELSMANN ARROYO TELLURIDE GALLERY OF FINE ART Thom Ross’s paintings take viewers back Jerry Uelsmann – whose work is in to a time when alpinists summited in the permanent collections of museums hobnail boots and wool pants. His angular around the world including MOMA paintings capture a remarkable age of and the Metropolitan Museum of Art – discovery and tell the story of men driven shattered the boundaries of photography to explore. decades ago. Using multiple images, his experiments in the darkroom have FLORIAN SCHULZ created a body of fantastical work that is LA COCINA DE LUZ remarkable in vision and scope. Florian Schulz’s wildlife photography has appeared in the Smithsonian and American NEVADA WIER Museum of Natural History. He hopes MÉLANGE to inspire people to protect endangered Nevada Wier has traveled the world, ecosystems and wilderness areas through capturing ethnographic photography his strong conservation vision. that has appeared in National Geographic and Outside magazine. She returns MAGGIE TAYLOR to Mountainfilm with a starkly different TELLURIDE GALLERY OF FINE ART series of color infrared images, which Maggie Taylor, whose artwork is featured give her subjects an otherworldly on the 2014 Mountainfilm festival poster, feel and encourage viewers to see the creates whimsical photomontages that world differently. 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.

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COFFEE & CONVERSATION SATURDAY, SUNDAY AND MONDAY, 8:00 TO 9:00 A.M.

LOCATIONS HOWARD, vice president of marketing for Patagonia; GARETH MARTINS, director 1 AH HAA WEST of marketing for Osprey; and PETER 2 AH HAA EAST METCALF, CEO of Black Diamond. 3 REBEKAH HALL 4 Ocean as Ecosystem 4 HOTEL TELLURIDE It’s no secret that the oceans are in deep 5 HONGA’S LOTUS PETAL trouble, but what’s less known is the positive 6 THE PEAKS developments that could create a sea change. 7 HOTEL MADELINE The great oceanographer SYLVIA EARLE (Mission Blue, page 28); JOHN FRANCIS, SATURDAY MAY 24 the National Geographic vice president for research, conservation and exploration; and 1 Wilderness and Radicalism acclaimed photographer , who starred in FLORIAN SCHULZ TIM DECHRISTOPHER (page 61) will examine the state of the Bidder 70 (Mountainfilm 2012) and spent oceans. two years in federal prison for an act of eco- civil disobedience, believes that wilderness 5 Cheryl Strayed inspires radicalism. DAVE FOREMAN, with Tom Shadyac founder of Earth First, and LYNX VILDEN, CHERYL STRAYED’s book Wild catapulted founder of the Living Wild School, will join to The New York Times best-seller list and DeChristopher to discuss the topic. held the #1 spot for seven consecutive weeks. She and director/producer TOM 2 Nepal and the Money Train SHADYAC will explore why the story The recent avalanche on Everest that killed of her personal collapse and eventual 16 Sherpa guides has exposed major ethnic redemption in the wilderness resonated and financial fissures at the top of the with so many readers. world. Four experts will discuss the role money plays in the mountains of Nepal: 6 Untrammeled By Man? BEN AYERS, Nepal country director for In the landmark “Wilderness” Act of dZi Foundation; WADE DAVIS, who wrote 1964, wilderness is defined as an area Into the Silence about George Mallory; “untrammeled by man,” but a growing photographer AARON HUEY, who is group of conservation experts in the documenting Sherpa guides for National United States and abroad believe people Geographic magazine; and NORBU are an integral part of keeping wild TENZING, vice-president of the American places intact. The conversation will Himalayan Foundation and the son of include SONO AIBE, a senior advisor at Tenzing Norgay. Pathfinder International;M SANJAYAN, executive vice president and senior 3 Climate Solution 2014: Outdoor scientist at Conservation International; Companies and the Environment and , president of the Whether it’s funding films or supporting VANCE MARTIN WILD Foundation. 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

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7 Where Are the Women? 4 Activists in Danger Women are significantly under represented Activists face a variety of challenges in the adventure industry. Professional in doing their work, which sometimes skiers LYNSEY DYER and WENDY FISHER; include physical danger. AZZAM ALWASH, filmmakerSARAH MENZIES; along with a Goldman Environmental Prize winner; REBECCA MARTIN, executive director at MIKAL JAKUBAL, featured in DamNation National Geographic Expeditions Council, for painting massive cracks on federal discuss how women can take Amelia dams; and ANDREA RUTIGLIANO, who Earhart’s advice: “The most effective way works for the Committee Against Bird to do it, is to do it.” Slaughter in Europe, talk about putting their lives on the line for a cause. SUNDAY MAY 25 5 Morgan Spurlock 1 Working in a War Zone with Tom Shadyac According to the Committee to Protect MORGAN SPURLOCK first came to Journalists, 70 reporters lost their lives our attention 10 years ago with his while working in 2013. Many of those groundbreaking filmSuper Size Me. deaths occurred in war zones, dangerous Since then, he’s surely the only person to terrain that’s all too familiar to war make films about Osama Bin Laden, the correspondent DEXTER FILKINS (page 66), Simpsons and the boy band One Direction. director ROSS KAUFFMAN (E-Team, page At Mountainfilm with both a tenth- 22) and photographer REZA (page 64). anniversary screening of Super Size Me and 2 How to Get Your a showing of Gluttony, an episode from his Film on Television Showtime series “Seven Deadly Sins” (page There are ever-increasing platforms for 33), he discusses with director/producer getting your film seen, yet television TOM SHADYAC where the food movement remains a force. THOM BEERS, CEO of has gone since Super Size Me (page 35). FremantleMedia North America; SARA 6 Wild Saviors , vice-president for HBO BERNSTEIN What does it take to save wild places? Documentaries; and SIMON KILMURRY, LESLIE DANOFF, a filmmaker and executive director of POV on PBS, survey board director at The Rainforest Trust; today’s media landscape. ERIC MELSON, a program director at 3 Climate Solutions 2014 the Selway-Bitterroot Frank Church We know about many effects of climate Foundation; JEFF PARRISH, managing change: melting glaciers, forest fires, rising director at the World Wildlife Foundation; seas. What are some of the impacts that and JAMIE WILLIAMS, president of The we don’t know? Casting an eye toward the Wilderness Society, have devoted their future are CARY FOWLER, a scientist at the careers to preserving wilderness. Seed Bank in Svalbard, Norway (Seeds 7 Film Fatales of Time , , page 32); DAVID SASSOON There’s a dearth of women in filmmaking, founder of Inside Climate News; and but efforts are afoot to rectify the problem, , vice president of AUDEN SCHENDLER including a group called the Film Fatales. sustainability at Aspen Skiing Company. 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.

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4 Born to Fly Some people like to have their feet on MONDAY MAY 26 the ground; others prefer to be airborne. 1 Dear President Obama Extreme slackliner DEAN POTTER (When Last year, Mountainfilm screenedDear Dogs Fly, page 39) and ELIZABETH STREB, Governor Cuomo about New York state’s founder of the Streb Extreme Action dance bitter battle over lifting the moratorium company (Born to Fly, page 17), discuss the on fracking, which inspired this year’s art of flight. festival filmDear Governor Hickenlooper (page 20) about fracking in Colorado. 5 James “The Amazing” Randi Dear President Obama is in the works, so with Tom Shadyac started out in show , a.k.a. The Fractivist; JAMES RANDI SHANE DAVIS JESSE business in 1946 as “The Amazing , director of The Overnighters; and MOSS Randi,” a magician and escapologist. This , founder and publisher of DAVID SASSOON fascinating title character of An Honest Inside Climate News, gather to discuss this Liar (page 24) joins director/producer fractious and complicated issue. TOM SHADYAC to talk about his singular career 2 Want to Be a Photographer? and life. Using their words and no pictures, three photographers talk about why they 6 American Rivers Running Free After more than a century of damming entered their challenging profession rivers in the U.S., a strong movement and where they see its future: COREY has surfaced to let these waterways run , who exhibited his images of ARNOLD free. Speaking about the impact of this the global commercial fishing industry encouraging trend are at Mountainfilm last year; ethnographic SINJIN EBERLE with American Rivers; , photographer (page 65); PETE MCBRIDE NEVADA WIER director of Chasing Water (Mountainfilm and (page 67), whose STEVE WINTER 2011) and , producer of images of big cats are hanging from MATT STOECKER DamNation (page 20). various trees in Telluride. 7 Wise Women 3 Making Music in the Morning What do these wise women have to teach Had enough with all this talking? Join Peter us about fighting the good fight — and Yarrow and friends for a spirited singalong. winning? LINDA HALPERN is a civil rights activist featured in the filmFreedom Summer (page 22); Katie Lee is, well, the impassioned Katie Lee; and Shelly Silbert is the executive director of Great Old Broads for Wilderness.

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BOOZE & BANTER SATURDAY AND SUNDAY, 5:30 TO 6:30 P.M.

LOCATIONS SUNDAY A ARROYO WINE BAR A Wade Davis B OAK RESTAURANT The garrulous WADE DAVIS will speak about Sherpas on Everest, the latest on the Sacred Headwaters, what it’s like to be SATURDAY back in his beloved British Columbia and A Douglas Brinkley much more. Historian DOUGLAS BRINKLEY has written extensively about wilderness and B The Joy of Suffering American politics and has testified before Climbers ALEX HONNOLD and CEDAR Congress about drilling in the Arctic WRIGHT have embarked on a peculiar National Wildlife Refuge. Brinkley also quest, something they call “Sufferfest.” edited Jack Kerouac’s diaries, Hunter S. Aside from the film of the same name Thompson’s letters and Theodore Dreiser’s (page 35), they just finished a sequel travelogue. Brinkley will talk about Sufferfest, this time in the Southwest. wilderness and U.S. presidents. Joining them will be alpinist CONRAD ANKER who famously said, “I like to B Dean Potter suffer.” The three will share stories of — No one in the climbing world is quite like you guessed it — suffering. (Hosted by DEAN POTTER. Learn what inspires him to Timmy O’Neill.) go big. (Hosted by TIMMY O’NEILL.)

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EUGENIE FRERICHS 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. SUNDAY 5:00 P.M. (AFTER THE MOVING Puebloan History and the Story MOUNTAINS SYMPOSIUM) of Trees with David Roberts Hike the Ridge Trail with Join climber and author DAVID ROBERTS Conrad Anker for a brief visit to the Telluride Museum, Feel the weight of a pack similar to what where he’ll tell the story of the Telluride the legendary Sherpa guides and climbers Blanket, a masterful Ancestral Puebloan of the Himalaya carry, and then join alpinist artifact on display. Afterward, follow him CONRAD ANKER on a hike up the Ridge onto the famed Jud Wiebe trail. Trail to Gondola Station St. Sophia. Difficulty level: Intermediate Difficulty level: Intermediate (some steep terrain with loose rocks) Meeting location: Mountain Meeting location: Elks Park (across the Village Conference Center near the street from the Sheridan Opera House) bouldering rock MONDAY 11:00 A.M. SATURDAY 12:00 P.M. Living Wild with Lynx Vilden Wildlife Photography: Camera LYNX VILDEN, the founder of the Traps with Steve Winter Living Wild School, will teach hands- On the San Miguel River Trail, National on wilderness living skills on Bear Geographic photojournalist STEVE Creek Trail. WINTER will demonstrate how to set Difficulty level: Beginner camera traps and capture incredible shots Meeting location: Telluride Town Park (at of animals in the wild. the bleachers for the baseball diamonds) Difficulty level: Beginner Meeting location: Oak restaurant

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Conrad Anker Florian Schulz Maggie Taylor Debra Bloomfield Tom Shadyac Jerry Uelsmann Douglas Brinkley Morgan Spurlock Steve Winter Anna Brones Cheryl Strayed Peter Yarrow 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 Reza David Roberts David Rothenburg David Sassoon Auden Schendler MELISSA PLANTZ PHOTO

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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 Late-Night Parties SATURDAY, 2:00 TO 3:30 P.M. FRIDAY, 9:00 P.M. COLORADO AVENUE (MAIN STREET) LAST DOLLAR SALOON BETWEEN ASPEN AND FIR STREETS American Alpine Club party Aside from the free ice cream, there will be an array of local and national nonprofits SATURDAY, 9:00 P.M. and a farmer’s market with produce and LAST DOLLAR SALOON quick local lunch options (other quality to- Timmy O’Neill and the Dust Storm go food is available at places such as The SMUGGLERS BREW PUB Brown Bag, The Butcher and the Baker, An informal gathering to discuss your Caravan and The Steaming Bean). favorite films over a locally brewed beer At 2:45 p.m. climber and aerialist Dean Potter (When Dogs Fly, page 39) will SUNDAY, 9:00 P.M. jump out of a plane and fly in a wingsuit THE STEAMING BEAN over Telluride. If the weather and wind Closing night party are too much, we’ll try to find another time for this flight.

Closing Awards Picnic MONDAY, 1:00 TO 4:00 P.M. AWARDS CEREMONY STARTS AT 2:30 P.M. TELLURIDE TOWN PARK 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. PHOTO MELISSA PLANTZ PHOTO

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Thank you to our current Seat Sponsors: The Woehle Family Joyce & Ron Allred The Coon Family Stephanie and Michael Rosen The Minor Family Rich & Ann Teerlink Sandy and Roger Wickham Allen & Wendy Solomon The Barnhill Family The Fansler Family Owned and operated by the Sheridan Arts Debbie & David Cohen Jennie Franks & Jeffrey Price Foundation, a non-profit dedicated to Amy and John Miller The Redden Family preserving and restoring Telluride’s Ann and Matthew Cross Vaughn and Julie Starnes 100-year-old Crown Jewel and providing Jack & Beth Watson Mike & Sharon Talbert quality arts and entertainment to the Megan & Casey McManemin The Gleason Family community. Megan Mahoney & Nancy Erik & Josephine Fallenius Oliver Reed Lisa & Richard Baker Call 728-6363 ext. 1 or visit SheridanOperaHouse.com today to take your seat!

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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 NORMAN VAUGHAN MOUNTAINS PRIZE INDOMITABLE This $3,000 prize goes to a nonprofit featured in a film at the festival. Judges SPIRIT AWARD The great polar explorer Norman Vaughan examine the mission of each organization, was a friend to Mountainfilm. His motto was considering its scope, impact and need. “Dream big and dare to fail.” Founded by The quality of the film is not factored into his widow Carolyn Muegge-Vaughan, Rick the decision. Silverman and Lindsey Walker, this award is given to a film that epitomizes Vaughan’s CHARLIE indomitable spirit. FOWLER AWARD Charlie Fowler was a Telluride local and FESTIVAL world-class climber. We miss him and find some comfort knowing that he’s DIRECTOR’S represented in spirit by this $1,000 juried AWARD award that goes to a climbing film. This award is chosen by Mountainfilm’s festival director. AUDIENCE AWARD All passholders have ballots to select the CINEMATOGRAPHY Audience Award. Ballots are collected at AWARD Hospitality until Monday morning and also at This juried prize goes to the film with the the Closing Picnic. 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.

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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.

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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 Outside magazine.

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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 HONORARY BOARD OF TRUSTEES Beth Gage / Board President Dick & Susan Saint James Ebersol Lance Waring / Board Vice President Tully & Elise Friedman Mike Shimkonis / Board Treasurer Ann & Rich Teerlink Brian Werner / Board Secretary Ruth Bender ADVISORY BOARD Jack Castle Conrad Anker Ben Knight Doug Peacock Bonnie Cohen James Balog Ace Kvale Louie Psihoyos Mallory Dimmitt Arlene Burns Frans Lanting Chris Rainier Cathe Dyer Wade Davis Katie Lee Mary Ramos Lindsay Hower Lynn Hill Maya Lin Beth Wald Rick Silverman Aaron Huey Liz Manne Paul Watson Allison Wolff Pico Iyer Rebecca Martin Chris Jordan Hilaree O’Neil

DONORS EVEREST High Meadows Group Shushana & Jack Castle Tully & Elise Friedman, Honorary Trustees Dalton Family Foundation Jeff & Debbie Resnick Dick & Susan Saint James Ebersol, Honorary Trustees Ann & Rich Teerlink, Honorary Trustees

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PEOPLE Alex Honnold 35, 43, Jorn Ranum 34 Dear Governor Hickenlooper 20 Annie Agnone 68, 78 Greg Hope 16, 42 Cyndee Readdean 22 Desert Ice 20 Jim Aikman 70, 72 Aaron Huey 77 Stuart Reid 26 Dream 43 Alfredo Alcántara 21 Daniel Irvine 21 Reza 50, 64, 78, 85 Dubai A Skier’s Journey 21 Azzam Alwash 26, 69 Mikal Jakubal 20 David Roberts 84, 85 Duke and the Buffalo 21 Conrad Anker 62, 70, 79, 83, 85 Luc Jaquet 29 Richard Robinson 33 E-Team 22 John Antonelli 26 Johan Jonsson 43 Jilli Rose 34 El Sendero Luminoso 43 Yoshino Aoki 45 Jonathan Kang 42 Nick Rosen 43 Emptying the Skies 21 Skip Armstrong 43 Jon Kasbe 17 Thom Ross 78 Fear of Flying 44 JP Auclair 43 Douglas Kass 21 David Rothenberg 62, 85 The Fortune Wild 22 Zachary Barr 24 Roger Kass 21 Travis Rummel 20 Freedom Summer 22 George Basch 73 Ross Kauffman 22 Andrea Rutigliano 21 The Grand Rescue 23 Andy Beaupre Jeffrey Kerby 68, 78 M Sanjayan 60 The Guardians 23 Eric Becker 25 William A. Kerig 23 David Sassoon, 85 Harvest of Shadows 23 Thom Beers 81 - Coffee Talk Simon Kilmurry 90 Helen Hood Scheer 17 High Tension 24 Michael Rossato-Bennett 16 Ben Knight 20, 77 Auden Schendler 90 An Honest Liar 24 Robin Berghaus 35 Andrew Kornylak 39 Brett Schreckengost 16, 42, 44 Into the Mind – Bella Coola Sara Bernstein 90 George Knowles 16 Florian Schulz 61, 79, 85 Gnar 43 Brent Bishop 91 Kalum Ko 31 Celin Serbo 29 Isle de Jean Charles 24 Matt Black 23 Erin Krozek 31 Tom Shadyac 85 The Karsts of China 25 Debra Bloomfield 61, 73, 76, 85 Vincent Kueny 43 Lise Pike Sheehy 73 Kelly McGarry Rampage 42 Alexandria Bombach 19, 72 Keith Ladzinski 20, 25 Shelley Silbert 62 The Last Season 25 Jack Boston 42 Gary Lang 72, 77 Mickey Smith 42 A Life Well Lived | Jim Whittaker Paul-Emile Boucher 45 Libby Langston 37 Morgan Spurlock 33, 35 & 50 Years of Everest 25 Andreas Braaten 42 Kenny Laubbacher 36 Fisher Stevens 28 Light Goes On 44 Paul Brenner 44 Meredith Lavitt 23 Matt Stoecker 20 Likebomb Skiing 43 Douglas Brinkley 61, 83 Katie Lee 20, 39, 77, 85 Ben Stookesberry 38, 72 The Lion’s Mouth Opens 26 Anna Brones 85 Kai Lightner 16 Cheryl Strayed 62, 85 Living in a Food Desert 44 Carter Brooks 76 ML Lincoln 39 Elizabeth Streb 17 Living Wild 26 Johnny Burke 36 Matthew Livadary 31 Ben Sturgulewski 43 Love in the Tetons 26 Annie Bush 38 Robert Lobel 45 Maggie Taylor 72, 79 Maple Syrup 45 Russell O. Bush 38 Jeff Lowe 72 Norbu Tenzing 24 Marmato 27 David Byars 32 Josh Lowell 24, 43 Jeff Thomas 43 Marshland Dreams 27 Shushana Castle 85 Max Lowe 35 Mary Turner 91 Mending the Line 27 Josh Chertoff 21 Jenni Lowe-Anker 78, 85 Jerry Uelsmann 72, 79, 85 Mission Blue 28 Katy Chevigny 22 Henry Lystad 73 Amber Valenti 68, 78 Moment’s Notice 43 Hope Clark 17 Jordan Manley 21 Eric Valli 26 My Happy End 45 Don Colcord 17 Amy Marquis 26 Brecht Vanthof 43 North Slope, Alaska 28 Hilary Cooper 62 Tess Martin 45 Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee 24 The Notorious Mr. Bout 28 Noah Cowan 90 Vance Martin 62, 85 Lynx Vilden 26, 62, 84 Off-Width Outlaw 29 David Cowels 45 Juan Martinez 26, 62 Milen Vitanov 45 Once Upon a Forest 29 Eric Crosland 43 Vanessa Martinez 26 Orlando von Einsiedel 37 The Opposition 29 Marshall Curry 30 Andy Maser 23 Nick Waggoner 43 The Overnighters 30 Wade Davis 83, 85 Sandy McCleod 32 Lucy Walker 26 Parking Lot Culture 30 Tim DeChristopher 39, 61 Kelly McGarry 42 John Waller 27 Point and Shoot 30 Kandee DeGraw 73 Brian McGinn 32 Justin Weinstein 24 Preveil 31 Jared Diamond 61, 85 Tyler Measom 24 Jim Whittaker 25 Queens & Cowboys: A Straight Temujin Doran 38 Luke Mehall 85 Diana Whitten 37, 73 Year on the Gay Rodeo 31 Sara Dosa 25 Sarah Menzies 18 Nevada Wier 65, 79 The Questions We Ask 31 Mike Douglas 36, 72 Hunter Metcalf 78 Jamie Williams 62 The Record Breaker 32 Steve Duncan 17, 76 Sebastien Montaz-Rosset 43 Jenny Wilson 23 Seeds of Time 32 Char Duran 31 Ben Moon 18 Niels Windfeldt 42 Self-Storage 32 Lynsey Dyer 91 Frank Moore 27 Steve Winter 50, 67, 84, 85 Seven Deadly Sins 33 Sylvia Earle 28, 61, 85 Jeanne Moore 27 Allison Wolff 20 Sniffles 45 Ezra Edelman 29 Molly Morrison 37 Cedar Wright 25, 34, 83 Song of the Cicadas 33 Steve Engman 27 Peter Mortimer 24, 43 Peter Yarrow 71 Sound Of The Void 33 Steve “Doom” Fassbinder 72 Jesse Moss 30 Spice Girl 43 Dexter Filkins 66, 85 Dave Mossop 43 Stars Above Lofoten 34 Conor Finnegan 44 Stanley Nelson 22 Sticky 34 Wendy Fisher 36 Jenny Nichols 23 FILMS Stumped 34 John John Florence 43 Aly Nicklas 19 11-Year-Old Girl Shatters Sufferfest 35 Dave Foreman 39, 61, 85 Robert Nixon 28 Climbing Records 44 Summer Light 35 Cary Fowler 32, 85 Jim Nowak 73 14.c 16 Super Size Me 35 John Francis 61 Lauren Oakes 73 64 mph 16, 42, 44 SuperMom 36 Eugénie Frerichs 72, 76 Sean O’Neill 31 The Apothecary 17 Take Away Film: Uganda 36 Ron Fugelseth 45 Timmy O’Neill 31, 33, 83 Abita 44 Tashi and the Monk 36 Ashrtia Furman 32 Renan Ozturk 43 Alive Inside 16 A Toy Train in Space 45 Jeremy Galante 45 Will Parrinello 27 The Balloon Highline 43 Trail Riders of the Wilderness 37 Devlin Gandy 68, 78 Jeffrey Parrish 23 A Beautiful Waste 16 Tyler Howell 42 Tony Gerber 29 Darren Pearson 44 Begin Again 43 Valhalla 43 Sam Giffin 30 Josh Penn 25 Blink of an Eye 42 Vessel 37 Mark Grieco 26, 73 Martin Persiel 33 Born to Fly 16 Virunga 37 Ben Gulliver 22 Aaron Peterson 18 Bryan and Kaia 42 Vultures of Tibet 38 Catherine Gund 17 Richard Phelan 44 Castles In The Sky 18 Walled In 38 Linda Halpern 22 Duke Phillips 21 Catch It 18 Wedge 43 Christopher Hanson 28, 77 Klaus Pichler 78 Cold Rolled 18 The Whale Story 45 David Hanson 39 Jeff Plunkett 29 Coming Home 19 The Weight of Mountains 38 Michael Hanson 39 Dean Potter 39, 83 Coming Up for Air 42 When Dogs Fly 39 Shoko Hara 44 Mary Anne Potts 90 Common Ground 19 Who Owns Water 39 Adam Duncan Harris 61 Maxim Pozdorovkin 29, 73 Creative Compulsive Disorder 19 Wind 45 Joachim Hellinger 33, 72 Stormy Pyeatte 19 DamNation 20 Winter Light 35 Andrew Hinton 36 James “The Amazing” Randi 24, 85 Damned 44 Wrenched 39

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