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Throughout the festival, we’ll spotlight forward-thinking visionaries — in film, art, activism, science and technology — and explore a future that turns toward creative, out-of-the-box solutions for big-picture issues. This weekend, we will be sharing thought-provoking perspectives that spark ideas and lead to a deeper understanding of these Thank you Mountainfilm, for moretopics. than four decades of important

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educating and inspiring all ofWhen us you to walk create a better world. be live and in-person in 2022 with all away from this year’s of our venues back and at full capacity.

It will be a welcome change to meet each other again on the streets of Telluride. Thank you for being here!

festival, we hope your mind will be blown, your heart will swell and you will feel invigorated from time spent collaborating with respected visionaries in these beautiful mountains.

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GUEST DIRECTOR

Mountainfilm is honored to have Jeff Orlowski-Yang as our 2022 guest director.

Welcome, everyone, to the 44th Mountainfilm festival! It’s an honor to be this year’s Guest Director. Mountainfilm has always been a special place for me. I visited Telluride for the first time when screening our documentary Chasing Ice in 2012 and immediately felt the magic of the people and stories that make up this festival. I’ve always loved the conversations here — the coffee talks and the informal access to the incredible thought leaders, filmmakers, artists and advocates who attend.

My favorite part of being a filmmaker isn’t shooting in far-flung fantastical locations (though that’s not the worst); it’s being in community with other artists using stories as a tool for change.

Through the festival circuit and film screenings, we sit with others around the proverbial campfire, laughing, crying or in awe together, all witnessing the same thing. Over the last two years of COVID, we’ve lost out on that powerful community. We’ve been walled off, separated from each other between glass and masks and forced to retreat onto our individual screens

at a time when we’ve needed human connection the most.

And at the same time, the power of film to transport us to places and perspectives previously inaccessible to us has never been so evident. Stories have helped us get through the last two years, and they can help bring us back together as we begin to re-emerge and relearn how to feel comfortable around one another again.

This year, Mountainfilm will once again surround us with stories that move us, ideas that arrest us and people who inspire us to repeatedly recommit to working toward a better world, despite distance and resistance. The privilege of coming together again in community — celebrating films that still got made, through indomitable spirit — is visceral.

I’m so glad you can join and look forward to being with you in the very special spot on our planet that is Telluride.

JEFF ORLOWSKI-YANG

Join Orlowski-Yang for presentations (page 72, 73 & 90), film screenings (page 17 & 18) and other events throughout the weekend.

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F E S T I VA L T I P S HOSPITALITY Hospitality is located at Mountainfilm HQ at 122 S. Oak St. You can visit us throughout the festival with questions or for the latest up-to-date information.

This is also where lost and found is located. Hospitality Hours: Thursday, 8 a.m.-8 p.m; Friday, 8 a.m.-8 p.m.; Saturday, 9 a.m.-7 p.m.; Sunday, 9 a.m.-7 p.m.; Monday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

HOW TO MOUNTAINFILM

MOUNTAINFILM APP Use the free Mountainfilm app as your festival guide.

It contains your ticket reservations, festival schedule, film descriptions, event details and real-time festival updates, including TBAs and program changes. Search for “Mountainfilm” in the Apple store or Google Play for Android to download the app.

PASSHOLDER RESERVATIONS & THEATER LINES For guaranteed access to programs, passholders must reserve tickets through the online festival schedule.

Reservations are linked to your pass. You must wear your pass to be admitted into the venue. To be guaranteed a seat, attendees with reservations, including Patron passholders, must arrive at the theater at least 30 minutes before the start of the program. If you change your mind and want to attend a different program, you may cancel your existing reservation and create a new reservation up to two hours prior to the start of a program (pending availability).

Passholders without a reservation must queue in the standby line for admission.

Once passholders in the standby line have been seated, public (nonpassholders) will be admitted on a first-come, first-served basis. Program tickets are $30. Credit cards only.

HOW TO VOTE Using the Mountainfilm app or your Eventive account, cast your vote for the Audience Choice Award by rating any feature films you attend during the in-person festival. Click on My Tickets and follow steps to vote. Voting ends Monday, May 30 at 2 p.m.

TBA PROGRAMS TBA screenings take place on Sunday and Monday. Tickets for TBAs can be reserved in advance and there will also be a standby line. You can find TBA information and updates on the Mountainfilm app and at mountainfilm.org.

THE MOUNTAINFILM STORE Official Mountainfilm apparel and gear is available at Bootdoctors, located at 236 S. Oak St. You can also find this year’s Mountainfilm poster created by multimedia artist Anna Brones.

GETTING AROUND TOWN All venues are accessible by foot, bicycle, bus or free gondola. Most venues are located in town and are accessible by foot, bicycle or bus. The free Galloping Goose shuttle bus runs a loop through Telluride every 10 minutes. Check street signs for times and stops.

High Camp (Telluride Conference Center) is located in Mountain Village.

The free gondola runs between Telluride and Mountain Village daily from 6:30 a.m. to midnight. On Friday and Saturday during the festival, gondola hours are extended until 1 a.m.

If you have any questions during the festival, please stop by Hospitality, contact our support team at help@mountainfilm.org or call 970-728-4123, option 1.

AFTER THE FEST ONLINE Catch up on films you missed at the festival by tuning into After the Fest Online. You can stream films from May 31 at 12 p.m. MDT to June 7 at 11:45 p.m.

MDT. Please note that a few select films will not be available online due to film distribution restrictions.

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OUR MISSION

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MOUNTAINFILM’S MISSION Mountainfilm uses the power of film, art and ideas to inspire audiences to create a better world.

WHAT WE DO MOUNTAINFILM ON TOUR After the festival each year, Mountainfilm on Tour hits the road showcasing the best-loved short films from the festival. Mountainfilm on Tour events are hosted by a wide array of organizations in communities large and small, reaching audiences around the world.

MOUNTAINFILM FOR STUDENTS We aim to educate and inspire beyond theater audiences. Connecting with schools locally, regionally and around the world, we offer free programming to K-12 public schools based on informative, fun and imaginative films.

MOUNTAINFILM COMMITMENT GRANTS & EMERGING FILMMAKER FELLOWSHIP Every year, we award Commitment Grants of up to $5,000 to filmmakers

telling stories that support our mission.

Our Commitment Grant focuses on supporting documentary filmmakers in the production and post-production stages. A myriad of grantee projects have premiered over the past decade at the festival — keep an eye out for this year’s recipients.

Mountainfilm also awards an Emerging Filmmaker Fellowship each year to a promising early-career filmmaker, offering mentorship, support, networking opportunities and $2,000 cash. This year, we are proud to have Brooklyn-based filmmaker Fiz Olajide as our Emerging Filmmaker Fellowship recipient.

TAKE ACTION Mountainfilm strives to go beyond inspiration to promote action.

One way to do that is to facilitate connections between Mountainfilm audiences and the causes espoused by our filmmakers and speakers. Take Action offers a platform for audience members to learn about and support nonprofit organizations through our app and website.

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SYNOPSIS WRITERS

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SC – Seth Cagin SD – Sabrina Davis LH – Lauren Howie JJ – Jennifer Julia BL – Bria Light AM – Angela Mallard HS – Heather Sackett RS – Rosie Stabile KW – Kellyn Wilson JM - Jason Merritt TC - Trisha Cofield

PALM – Palm Theater HC – High Camp SOH – Sheridan Opera House NUG – Nugget Theatre MAS – Masons Theater LIB – Wilkinson Public Library BC – Base Camp Outdoor Theater TW – Transfer Warehouse See maps, pages 108-109, for locations.

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The American Dream and Other Fairy Tales An Accidental Life Director: Henna Taylor Producers: Sarah Steele, Henna Taylor, Jacob Bailey SAT, 5:45 PM, PALM SUN, 6:30 PM, NUG

In Person: Filmmaker and Film Subject Alpinist and speed climber Quinn Brett was at the peak of her career when a fall on Yosemite’s “The Nose” caused a ruinous injury to her spinal cord and left her a paraplegic. The film follows Brett for the two years after her fall as she navigates dating again, debilitating nerve pain and grieving the life she lost while learning to accept this new version of herself. As she heals, Brett comes face to face with many truths, some merely uncomfortable and some devastating. An Accidental Life is a vulnerable look at the transition from a life of bigwall striving and achieving to finding peace, purpose and community even as a full recovery remains out of reach. –HS (USA, 2021, 86 min.)

MountainfilM CoMMitMent Grant Winner 2021

Directors: Abigail E. Disney, Kathleen Hughes Producers: Abigail E. Disney, Kathleen Hughes, Aideen Kane FRI, 1:30 PM, PALM SAT, 6:30 PM, NUG

In Person: Filmmaker and Film Subject In this personal essay documentary, filmmaker and philanthropist Abigail Disney grapples with America’s profound inequality crisis.

The story begins in 2018, after Abigail encounters workers at Disney struggling to put food on the table.

Could she use her famous last name to help pressure Disney and other American corporations to treat low-wage workers more humanely? Believing her conservative grandfather Roy Disney would never have tolerated employee hunger at “The Happiest Place On Earth,” Abigail reexamines the story of modern American capitalism from the middle of the last century to today. What happened?

What Abigail learns about racism, corporate power and the “American Dream” is eyeopening and inspiring. –TC (USA, 2022, 87 min.)

Colorado Premiere

Anonymous Sister Director: Jamie Boyle Producers: Marilyn Ness, Elizabeth Westrate SUN, 5:45 PM, PALM MON, 10:30 AM, SOH

In Person: Filmmaker and Film Subjects Years before the term “opioid epidemic” became commonplace, Jamie Boyle watched her sister and mother both succumb to an unknown, unnamed illness. As a way to process what was happening, she picked up her camera and started filming. Little did she know her family members had become pawns in a deceptive, pharmaceutical promotion that was transforming the way medicine was practiced, resulting in the deadliest, manmade public health crisis in U.S. history. The intimate footage from Anonymous Sister is captured from inside Boyle’s tight-knit, loving family, revealing an emotional truth that cannot be fully appreciated from news stories and statistics.

In trying to understand a nationwide catastrophe of such epic proportion, the most important vantage point might just be from within. –AM (USA, 2019, 94 min.)

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Chasing Director: Simon Tucker

Bad Axe Director: David Siev Producers: Jude Harris, Katarina Vasquez, Diane Quon, David Siev FRI, 8 PM, MAS SUN, 9:30 AM, NUG

In Person: Filmmaker and Film Subjects Director David Siev returned to his small hometown of Bad Axe, Michigan, to capture his family’s experience and struggle to keep their restaurant afloat during the pandemic. The younger Sievs’ courageous participation in a BLM protest is a beautifully shot and edited verité tour de force that became the film’s terrifying centerpiece.

Ironically, it draws even more unwelcome attention from Michigan white supremacists when Siev posts it online to raise funds for this very film. The personal is political; the politics are personal; Bad Axe is both. This family’s fraught origin informs the next generation’s unshakeable conviction about what it means to be American. –SC (USA, 2022, 104 min.)

Colorado Premiere

FRI, 8:30 PM, PALM SAT, 3:30 PM, HC

Chasing Coral Director: Jeff Orlowski-Yang

In Person: Filmmakers and Film Subjects

Producer: Larissa Rhodes

Jason Caldwell is an American athlete fed up with silver medals, a pro baseball career foiled by injury and narrowly missing out on the Olympic rowing team.

Restless and looking for a win, he discovers a 3,000mile rowing race. Jason aims to win the race and smash the record for the fastest crossing. Ten days in, two of the four men jump ship mid-Atlantic. Jason limps to the finish line, battered and humbled. One year later, he’s back with a new team. When seasickness and weather threaten his dream again, Jason faces an impossible task: 400 miles in just 5 days to beat the record. –JM

In Person: Filmmakers

(USA, 2021, 89 min.)

World Premiere

FRI, 8:30 PM, BC

Otherworldly habitats that are home to a psychedelic array of colors, creatures and life, coral reefs are crucial foundations of ocean ecosystems. But hidden from sight, these miraculous places are largely out of mind for most humans.

And they are also under dire threat as warming ocean temperatures trigger unprecedented rates of bleaching and dying. In Chasing Coral, director Orlowski-Yang and a team of scientists, photographers and divers set out to document this underwater crisis and share it with a global audience. It’s no easy task, and the team faces technical challenges, the whims of nature and the ticking clock as it races to record bleaching events as they happen. Chasing Coral is a film that pairs beauty and urgency with a glimpse of the tragedies that will continue if humans don’t address climate change. –TC (USA, 2016, 93 min.)

Guest DireCtor retrospeCtive

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FILMS | FEATURES

Exposure Director: Holly Morris

Delikado Director: Karl Malakunas

Chasing Ice Jeff Orlowski-Yang SAT, NOON, SOH

In Person: Filmmakers and Film Subject In 2005, photographer James Balog set out on an audacious quest: to document the disappearance of glaciers by setting up time-lapse cameras around the world.

With temperatures on the rise, his plan worked well as the cameras of his Extreme Ice Survey captured some of the biggest calving incidents ever documented. But award-winning Chasing Ice isn’t just about the glaciers, it also shows an artist at work.

Balog, who has been coming to Mountainfilm for more than a decade, wrestles with a bad knee, faulty equipment and the existential question of how the collapse of glaciers is a harbinger of our own uncertain future. –TC

Producers: Marty Syjuco, Michael Collins, Kara Magsanoc-Alikpala FRI, 9:30 AM, MAS SUN, 4 PM, LIB

In Person: Filmmakers On the island of Palawan, the sand is white and the forests are lush, but the idyllic tropical island is in peril. Beyond becoming one of Asia’s most visited tourist destinations, the land has suffered devastating blows from decades of unabashed, fearless illegal logging and fishing. The dire reality of the environmental degradation of Palawan leads local environmental champions to take action, fighting tooth and nail to save this precious land they call home. –RS (Philippines, Hong Kong, Australia, US, UK, 2022, 95 min.)

Colorado Premiere

Producers: Holly Morris, Jill Mazursky, Michael Kovnat, Eleanor Wilson FRI, 1 PM, HC SAT, 4 PM MAS

In Person: Filmmakers In 2018, a group of women from a diverse mix of Western and Eastern nations set out to ski more than 1,000 kilometers to the North Pole on an expedition led by explorer Felicity Aston and an all-female film crew. Trekking across record-low volumes of sea ice in dangerously precarious conditions, the team was challenged by the most daunting threat the Arctic currently faces: climate change.

Their audacious journey, which included polar bear threats, frostbite and the most inhospitable of living conditions, celebrates cross-cultural teamwork and the powerful resilience of women. –JJ (USA, 2022, 88, min.)

(USA, 2012, 75 min.)

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The Holly Director: Julian Rubinstein Producer: donnie l. betts, Sarah Dowland, Dia Sokol Savage

Fire of Love Director: Sara Dosa Producers: Shane Boris, Ina Fichman, Sara Dosa FRI, 1 PM, SOH SAT, 7 PM, LIB

In Person: Filmmakers Katia and Maurice Krafft loved each other and volcanoes. For two decades, the daring French volcanologist couple roamed the planet, chasing eruptions and documenting their discoveries. In 1991, they both inevitably die in a volcanic explosion doing the very thing that brought them together — unraveling the mysteries of volcanoes by capturing some of nature’s most explosive imagery. Director Sara Dosa created a lyrical celebration of the intrepid scientists’ spirit of adventure, drawing from the Kraffts’ spectacular archive. Fire of Love tells a story of primordial creation and destruction, following two bold explorers as they venture into the unknown, all for the sake of love. –RS (USA, Canada, 2022, 93 min.)

Colorado Premiere

FRI, 8 PM, SOH SUN, 9 AM, PALM

Horse Tamer

In Person: Filmmakers and Film Subject

Director: Hamid Sardar

Renowned journalist Julian Rubinstein returns home to the Mile High City in order to investigate a story of structural racism from the perspective of an anti-gang activist, Terrance Roberts. The story centers on a controversial shooting that took place at a peace rally that Roberts himself organized. Over the course of seven years, Rubinstein patiently unpacks the intricate layers of Roberts himself, the community, media misinformation and a contentious history of criminal injustices that fed gang violence in Denver.

As Roberts stands trial for life in prison, the Holly shooting cracks open a window into the complex relationships that exist amongst gentrification and violence, communities of color, high-rolling developers and Denver’s city hall. –RS

SAT, 8:30 PM, SOH MON, 9 AM, HC

Producer: Vivien Lemaignan

In the Darhat Valley of northern Mongolia, horses of the nomad tribes continue to vanish. Shukhert, a Darhat horseman dedicated to protecting and reclaiming his herd, tracks bandits to the edge of the Mongolian taiga, all the way to the Siberian border. Director Hamid Sardar spent the last 10 years documenting the Darhat nomad’s way of life and is inevitably invited to follow Shukhert on his eternal journey. Between tribal rivalries, smuggling and traditions, Sardar wonders what horse stealing says about modern-day Mongolia. –TC (France, 2020, 90 min.)

Colorado Premiere

(USA, 2022, 100 min.)

World Premiere MountainfilM CoMMitMent Grant Winner 2020

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Learning to Drown Director: Ben Knight Producer: Travis Rummel SUN, 3:30 PM, HC MON, 9 AM, NUG

In Person: Filmmaker and Film Subject Pro snowboarder Jess Kimura has an irrational fear of water. In a finely crafted juxtaposition of snow and surf, director Ben Knight delicately weaves a tale of love, loss, adrenaline and conquering fear through the lens of this loose cannon turned gentle spirit. Growing up with a rebel mentality, chastised as a kid for pushing boundaries, Kimura rose to the top, crushing stereotypes for female athletes and accruing accolades and awards along the way. When disaster strikes, Kimura begins re-evaluating the lens through which she looks at life. Trading in the dangerous binary of black and white, Kimura now chooses to view life as a constant wave. –SD (USA, 2021, 40 min.)

McCurry: The Pursuit of Colour Director: Denis Delestrac Producers: Denis Delestrac, Marieke van den Bersselaar, Carles Brugueras SUN, 8:30 PM, PALM MON, 9 AM, MAS

Photographer Steve McCurry is responsible for some of the most iconic images from brutal war zones of the late twentiethcentury: Afghanistan, Lebanon, Kuwait and 9/11.

One of his most renowned portraits of “Afghan Girl” was plastered on National Geographic’s 1985 cover. In every bit of his long career, he has celebrated the world’s color and diversity through photography, his work being the personification of the photographer-as-global adventurer and intrepid chronicler of his time.

McCurry: The Pursuit of Colour is a portrait of both a deeply-engaged artist and an expression of McCurry’s vision of the world at the nexus of profound beauty and heartbreak. –SC (Spain, 2021, 92 min.)

Mission: Joy — Finding Happiness in Troubled Times Directors: Louie Psihoyos, Peggy Callahan Producers: Peggy Callahan, Mark Monroe, John Negropontes SAT, 12:30 PM, NUG SUN, 10 AM, LIB

In their final joint mission, these self-described mischievous brothers give a master class in how to create joy in a world that was never easy for them.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Tutu give us unprecedented access to their unlikely friendship as they transcend religion to offer neurosciencebacked wisdom to help each of us live with more joy, despite circumstances.

Prepare to be deeply moved through this laugh-outloud documentary from Academy Award-winning Louie Psihoyos and codirector Peggy Callahan.

–TC (USA, 2021, 90 min.)

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One Road to Quartzsite Omoiyari: A Song Film by Kishi Bashi The Neighborhood Storyteller Director: Alejandra Alcala Producer: Francisco Alcala FRI, 10 AM, LIB SAT, 1 PM, MAS

Directors: Justin Taylor Smith, Kaoru Ishibashi

Producer: Josh Polon, Ryan Maxey SAT, 5:45 PM, SOH

Producers: JJ Gerber, James Angelo, Jenny Mills

SUN, 1 PM, MAS

FRI, 4:30 PM, SOH

A ragtag group of crustpunks, libertarians, snowbirds and elderly folks become unlikely neighbors during their annual pilgrimage to a temporary longterm camping community in Quartzsite, Arizona. Steeped in rural folklore and full of a diverse and complicated set of characters, this film is a beautiful, poetic and observational portrait of people trying to live outside of the constraints of American society, or for some, to simply escape the winter. –TC

SAT, 9:30 AM, NUG

In Person: Filmmakers

In Person: Filmmakers and Film Subject

For the girls at the Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan, marriage may become a reality by the age of 14 or 15.

But for 28-year-old Asmaa, mother of four, that doesn’t mean that girls and women have to stop dreaming or leave behind the pleasure of reading. When Asmaa, who married at 16 before being forced to flee a war-torn Syria with her young family, starts a reading group for her neighborhood’s teenage girls, many of whom are reserved. Through reading aloud, drawing and group activities, the girls open up about life at camp, the trauma of war and their dreams for the future. In this touching film by Alejandra Alcala, the girls’ confidence grows and imagination blossoms as they reflect on their pasts and dream of a hopeful future. –BL

When a media interview links the Muslim ban and the immigration crisis at the USA-Mexico border with the incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII, Kaoru Ishibashi, better known as the internationally acclaimed multi-instrumentalist, Kishi Bashi, goes on a journey to learn about this history and its relevance. As a first generation Japanese American struggling with his own cultural identity, he revisits the history of the Japanese internment camps, examining how an executive order passed over 80 years ago can generationally affect an entire culture. Along the way, he improvises and writes music in an effort to better understand his identity as a bi-cultural American. –AM

(United Arab Emirates, 2021, 49 min.)

(USA, 2022, 94 min.)

World Premiere

Director: Ryan Maxey

In Person: Filmmakers

(USA, 2022, 89 min.)

Colorado Premiere

Colorado Premiere MountainfilM CoMMitMent Grant Winner 2019

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Ranger Director: Austin Peck

Pasang: In the Shadow of Everest

Producers: Kate Garwood, Roger Ross Williams, Geoff Martz, Jochen Zeitz

Director: Nancy Svendsen

FRI, 9:30 AM, PALM SAT, 4 PM, LIB

Producers: Sharon Wood, Richard Levien, Christy McGill FRI, 9:30 AM, SOH SUN, 4 PM, MAS

In Person: Filmmakers Transcending cultural barriers and consistently going against the grain, female Nepali climber Pasang Lhamu Sherpa attempted to summit Everest four times in the early nineties. Although she was not allowed to attend school as a child, Pasang did not let that stop her from pursuing her dreams. After founding her own trekking company in Kathmandu, she blazed a trail for Nepali women via her efforts to summit Everest.

Proving how big you can dream and how far you can go to achieve those dreams, she left a legacy not only for the family she has left behind, but for the myriad women following in her footsteps. –SD

In Person: Filmmakers In the Maasai communities of rural Kenya, boys become warriors through ceremonial rites of passage, but girls are largely excluded. In 2019, a group of 12 women — some escaping poverty and abuse — try out to become East Africa’s first all-female, anti-poaching unit. As they undergo incredible transformations through ritual, the recruits endure tough physical training; however, it’s learning to tap into their trauma and channel their anger to cultivate courage that proves to be the most transformative.

After a six-month journey of self-discovery, the women create their own ceremonial rite of passage to become guardians of Kenya’s wildlife.

–HS

Refuge Directors: Din Blankenship, Erin Bernhardt FRI, 4 PM, LIB SAT, 7 PM, HC

In Person: Filmmakers Husband, father, veteran and former KKK leader, Chris Buckley spent 13 years in the army developing an extreme hatred for Muslims. Syrian refugee, Muslim and medical doctor, Heval Kelli, spends much of his time acting as an ambassador to bridge the gap between white nationalists and the people who seek refuge in America.

Extremist interventionist Arno Michaelis forges a connection between Buckley and Kelli that has the potential to transcend and transform the deeply seated hatred and fear that live within so many. –SD (USA, 2021, 73 min.)

(Kenya, 2020, 93 min.)

(USA, 2021, 71 min.)

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Spirit of the Peaks Sam Now Director: Reed Harkness Producer: Jason Reid FRI, 5 PM, NUG SAT, 3 PM, PALM

In Person: Filmmakers and Film Subject Sam Harkness and his Seattle family are shocked when his mother disappears, abandoning them with no explanation.

Sam and his half brother, director Reed Harkness, embark on a road trip to find her, bound for the West Coast. In Sam’s 20-year quest for understanding, the film delves into intergenerational trauma and the pivotal moments that shift a family’s dysfunction into healing.

As the story unfolds, viewers witness Sam’s coming of age as he works to break free from a singular trauma, one that has replicated itself in his family for generations. –TC (USA, 2022, 86 min.)

U.S. Premiere

The Sanctity of Space

Directors: Connor Ryan, Tim Kressin

Directors: Renan Ozturk, Freddie Wilkinson

Producers: Davis Goslin, Greg Balkin

Producers: Kate Holland, Ryan Kampe, Taylor Rees

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In Person: Filmmakers and Film Subject Catalyzed by a single black and white photo captured by legendary photographer and mountaineer Bradford Washburn, three climbers become obsessed with completing the climb shown in the image. The Sanctity of Space beautifully weaves Washburn’s extraordinary life and accomplishments with the climbers’ daring attempt to cross the Moose’s Tooth Traverse, which has never before been completed.

Co-directors and climbers Renan Ozturk and Freddie Wilkinson set out alongside Zach Smith to honor Washburn and complete the traverse that has captivated them since first laying eyes on the photo. Despite facing the deaths of fellow climbers and near-death experiences of their own, their resilience and tenacity keep them coming back to the mountains. –KW

In Person: Filmmakers and Film Subject Playing as part of the Minds Moving Mountains Speaker Series: Bridging Divides with Dr. Len Necefer Centered around skier and Hunkpapa Lakota, Connor Ryan, Spirit of the Peaks dives deep into the struggles of identity that comes with being stuck between two worlds. His mission is to connect the Ute people with the mountains that they were displaced from and work towards restoring balance through his own reciprocity. This film will call on anyone who spends time in the mountains to feel a deeper connection to the land and embrace traditional Indigenous ethics when fighting for the preservation of these sacred places. –KW (USA, 2022, 42 min.)

(USA, 2021, 102 min.)

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Surf Nation Directors: Jessica Q. Chen, Jeremiah M. Bogert Jr. Producers: Diane Quon, Nevo Shinaar FRI, 5:30 PM, PALM SUN, 3 PM, SOH

In Person: Filmmakers Less than a decade ago, China could claim only about 100 surfers. In a culture that values collectivism and conformity, an individualistic sport that is known for its spirit of rebelliousness was not encouraged. However, with the announcement that surfing would become an Olympic sport in 2021, that sentiment changed.

Can China’s infamous, state-owned Olympic training program succeed in this traditionally freespirited sport? Surf Nation follows the trajectory of two promising young Chinese surfers, Alex and Lolo, in an attempt to navigate the inevitable clash between the freedom embodied in the sport and the Chinese system. –AM (USA, 2021, 100 min.)

World Premiere

The Territory Director: Alex Pritz Producers: Lizzie Gillett, Gabriel Uchida, Will N. Miller, Sigrid Dyekjær, Darren Aronofsky SAT, NOON, PALM SUN, 3:30 PM, NUG

In Person: Filmmaker In the shrinking Amazonian jungles of Brazil, an urgent, high-stakes struggle for survival is playing out for the Indigenous Uru-eu-wau-wau tribe. First contacted in the 1980s, the hunter-gatherer group currently numbers just around 200 members. As the tribe works to protect its former isolation, the younger tribesmen are unafraid to embrace technology in order to fight the forces of cultural genocide. By being taught to document their struggle with cameras and drones, they finally gain agency over how their own story is told. –AM (Brazil, Denmark, USA, 2022, 86 min.)

Colorado Premiere

The Thief Collector Director: Allison Otto Producers: Caryn Capotosto, Jill Howerton, Joshua Kunau FRI, 4:30 PM, MAS SAT, 9:30 AM, HC

In Person: Filmmakers Director Allison Otto leans into one of the most audacious crimes of the 20th century — an art heist, solved 30 years later. The mystery is not what happened or whodunit, but why they did it. Jerry and Rita Alter were inseparable and attractive eccentrics; well-traveled loners devoted to lives seemingly well-lived. Why did they steal Willem de Kooning’s “Woman-Ochre” from the University of Arizona art museum? The answers, emerging from a deep dive into the Alters’ self-documented travels and their estate, presents the viewer with an irresolvable enigma: What could an audacious pair of criminals get away with in their pursuit of adventure? –SC (USA, 2022, 95 min.)

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To the End Tigre Gente Director: Elizabeth Unger Producers: Elizabeth Unger, Joanna Natasegara SAT, 9 AM, PALM SUN, 7:30 PM, MAS

In Person: Filmmaker and Film Subject Tigre Gente illuminates the dark network of the global jaguar trade through the lens of two impassioned individuals living on opposite sides of the world, both of whom share a common goal of protecting this majestic and increasingly endangered species. In the Madidi National Park of Bolivia, a determined park director, Marcos, investigates illegal hunting on its protected land. His investigation uncovers an unexpected connection between South America and the pervasiveness of wildlife trade in China, where journalist Laurel Chor shares Marcos’ deep concern and sense of social responsibility. Tigre Gente explores the majesty of the jungle as it stands against its greatest threat of all — mankind. –RS (USA, 2021, 93 min.)

Director: Rachel Lears Producers: Sabrina Schmidt Gordon, Rachel Lears, Robin Blotnick SAT, 7:30 PM, MAS SUN, 3 PM, PALM

In Person: Filmmakers Following the interweaving stories of four major players in the rise of the Green New Deal, To the End captures a volatile moment in history.

This group of leaders must work together to defend their generation’s right to a future. Set against the backdrop of the 2020 election, the coronavirus pandemic, a deepening economic crisis and historic protests against systemic racism, this fight is proving to be the fight of their lives.

They are racing against the clock in this historic shift in climate politics in the United States. —TC (USA, 2022, 104 min.)

Colorado Premiere

Torn Director: Max Lowe Producers: Chris Murphy, Max Lowe SAT, 8:30 PM, PALM SUN, 9 AM, SOH

In Person: Filmmaker and Film Subjects As a child, comprehending your family’s story might seem cut and dry. Unusual circumstances might even feel unremarkable if it’s all you have ever known — even if your family’s history is well-known. On October 5, 1999, legendary climber Alex Lowe was tragically lost in a deadly avalanche on the Himalayan peak Mount Shishapangma. Miraculously surviving the avalanche was Alex’s best friend, climbing partner and renowned mountaineer Conrad Anker, who went on to marry Alex’s widow and help raise his three sons. This courageous, messy, intimate story of the blended Lowe-Anker family exposes grief, vulnerability, woundedness, misplaced guilt and ultimately — healing.

As director Max Lowe steps out of his father’s shadow, he discovers a sense of acceptance and forgiveness.

Bring Kleenex. –AM (USA, 2020, 92 min.)

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The Yin and Yang of Gerry Lopez Director: Stacy Peralta Producers: Stacy Peralta, Monika McClure SAT, 8:30 PM, BC SUN, NOON, PALM

In Person: Filmmakers and Film Subject Aggressive yet Zen, legendary surfer Gerry Lopez was the kind of enigmatic athlete prone to ruthlessly stealing waves one minute and quieting the mind through meditation and yoga the next. A father and husband, entrepreneur and a shaper of surfboards, Lopez’s unabashed devotion to big waves sometimes led to hot water: brawls, gashes and even gazing longingly at the surf on the way to his own wedding. Told through introspective conversations, vibrant animation and jawdropping footage of Lopez gliding serenely through the towering blue-green barrels of monstrous waves, Peralta’s The Yin & Yang of Gerry Lopez beckons viewers into the inner world of one of the surf industry’s biggest personas of the past half century. –BL (USA, 2021, 104 min.)

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Beyond Sunset Directors: Keith Malloy, Jeff Johnson SUN, 3:30 PM, HC MON, 9 AM, NUG

Playing with Learning to Drown (page 20)

Beneath Our Feet Annapurna ‘78 Director: Jim Aikman Producers: Graham Zimmerman, Jeff Deikis FRI, 1 PM, HC SAT, 4 PM, MAS

Playing with Exposure (page 18) In Person: Filmmaker At a time when men dominated the sport, Arlene Blum and her troop of American women put up first ascents on some of the highest peaks in Iran, Afghanistan, Kashmir and the Himalaya. By selling T-shirts, the climbers earned the $80,000 needed for an expedition to Annapurna in 1978 — one of the world’s 14 8,000 meter peaks. The bid for the summit brings both inspiration and devastation, inevitably changing the course of Blum’s life. –HS

Director: Jenny Schweitzer Bell SUN, 8:30 PM, PALM MON, 9 AM, MAS

Playing with McCurry: The Pursuit of Colour (page 20) Jenny Schweitzer Bell uses sound to grapple with her solastalgia — the grief caused by watching the natural world succumb to climate change. First recording the sounds of the thawing Arctic permafrost, she then turns on her microphone to the subterranean melodies of her New York City home. By exploring the mysterious ecosystem of underground sounds, she finds a connection to nature by simply listening. –HS

Beyond Sunset follows a war-scarred big wave surfer, Roger Erickson, and his reconnection to his daughter, Emi, by way of the ocean. It’s easy to think that she just gets it from her father, after all, she rides his boards — long, singlefin guns. But when Emi is out there charging, riding 15- to 20-foot faces and getting rag-dolled at Jaws, she wants you to know that while it’s in her blood, no one’s on that board but her.

(USA, 2021, 25 min.) –RS

North American Premiere

(USA, 2022, 5 min.)

World Premiere

(USA, Nepal, 2022, 8 min.)

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Blue Room Director: Merete Mueller FRI, 1 PM, SOH SAT, 7 PM, LIB

Playing with Fire of Love (page 19) In Person: Filmmakers Hearing the sounds of chirping birds, feeling the ocean breeze and gazing at a starlit sky are some of the simple pleasures unattainable to most inmates. In two prisons in the Pacific Northwest, incarcerated men and women are given access to nature videos on loop, transporting them to scenes and experiences outsiders take for granted most days. Blue Room is a meditation on the human condition in prison and outside of it, exploring trauma, confinement and the wilderness. –TC (USA, 2022, 11 min.)

U.S. Premiere MountainfilM CoMMitMent Grant Winner 2017

Cenote Directors: Reed Rickert, Zachary Barr Producer: Reed Rickert SAT, 8:30 PM, SOH MON, 9 AM, PALM

Playing with Horse Tamer (page 19) In Person: Filmmakers The more time local Yucatan farmer Adolfo “Fito” Trujillo spends in the cenotes, the more he begins to explore the walls and rocks surrounding the beautiful sinkholes. This is his story of how he became quickly enthralled in the world of climbing, starting at these cenotes. –LH (USA, 2022, 10 min.)

Controlled Burn Directors: Nick Goldston, Eric Lagerstrom FRI, 1 PM, MAS MON, 9 AM, HC

Playing with Sanctity of Space (page 23) In Person: Filmmakers and Film Subject Music producer Nick Goldston and professional triathlete Eric Lagerstrom team up to create a brief and tempoed glimpse of the forest through the light and dark of a controlled burn in central Oregon. Due to the effects of climate change, overpopulation and urbanization, extreme and strategic planning have become necessary to keep people safe. Small peeks at regrowth breed hope as Langstrom controls a burn of his own in his triathlon training. –SD (USA, 2021, 4 min.)

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Hey, Gunesh!

Directors: Marita Tevzadze, Ana Jegnaradze

I Am Salmon

FRI, 10 AM, LIB SAT, 1 PM, MAS

Director: Whit Hassett

Playing with The Neighborhood Storyteller (page 21) Growing up during a civil war, young Fasha was afraid to go to school. Now, he is an adult and ashamed for not being able to properly speak the Georgian language.

Wanting more for his eldest daughter Gunesh, he allows her the freedom to move into her grandmother’s home in the city in hopes that she may rise, shine, further her education and fulfill her greatest dream of all — to become a teacher. –SD (Georgia, 2021, 22 min.)

U.S. Premiere

FRI, 8:30 PM, PALM SAT, 3:30 PM, HC

Playing with Chasing (page 17) In Person: Filmmakers and Film Subject Connecting humanity with salmon and the sea through the subtle art of poetry and Gyotaku (fish rubbing), Duncan Berry shares his experience as a longtime environmentalist and former captain of a salmon troller.

In adopting the perspective of this transcendent fish, the beauty and power of the Oregon coast becomes the canvas through which the evolution of the salmon is illustrated. –SD (USA, 2022, 3 min.)

World Premiere

Ibach Director: Rachel Weinberg Producer: Matthew Mikkelsen SAT, 12:30 PM, NUG SUN, 10 AM, LIB

Playing with Mission: Joy - Finding Happiness in Troubled Times (page 20) In Person: Filmmakers Ibach follows the escape of a Jewish family and their beloved piano from Nazi Germany in the 1930s to the piano’s restoration in Philadelphia four generations later.

Weaving an in-depth look at the restoration process, alongside perspectives from the surviving family members, Ibach is a visual love letter that shares the heart-rending story of generational trauma and reconciliation. –AM (USA, 2022, 15 min.)

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Into the Mountain Malik

Director: Lucas Ratton Producer: Nicole Barreto SAT, 5:45 PM, PALM SUN, 6:30 PM, NUG

Playing with An Accidental Life (page 16) For Nicole Barreto, base jumping is a spiritual practice grounded in respect for the mountain, the equipment, mindfulness and the moment. She explains, “Everything has to be perfect. The weather, the mind, the fold.” In this narrative, Barreto shares her feelings and wisdom taught by the mountain, reflecting on how small we are in the face of nature. –SC (Brazil, 2021, 7 min.)

World Premiere

Like A River Director: Jim Aikman Producer: Graham Zimmerman SAT, 9 AM, SOH

Playing with Bill Kees Tribute (page 75) In Person: Filmmaker Enamored by the three major canyons of the Southwest, artist and climber Jeremy Collins narrates a mesmerizing trip in which a river becomes a brush stroke. Millions of years equal millions of strokes and although wildly different, each of these canyons are ultimately the same creature, created with the addition of water and the subtraction of earth. In an attempt to find his own flow, Collins seeks to be like a river, ever-changing but still the same, making something from nothing — nature’s greatest artist. –SD

Directors: Max Lowe, Chris Murphy SAT, 8:30 PM, PALM SUN, 9 AM, SOH

Playing with Torn (page 25) In Person: Filmmaker and Film Subject From disparate backgrounds seemingly worlds apart, Malik Martin and Conrad Anker bridge whatever divide our society has erected between them through brotherhood and heartfelt connection. Martin says of their atypical commonalities, “Conrad lost all his homies in the mountains, and I’ve lost all my homies in the hood.”

This film is a testament to the maxim that we can sometimes find the most meaning in the unlikeliest of friendships. –AM (USA, 2022, 13 min.)

World Premiere

(USA, 2021, 4 min.)

Colorado Premiere

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The Originals

Mama Has a Mustache Director: Sally Rubin Producer: Stacy Goldate FRI, 4:30 PM, MAS SAT, 9:30 AM, HC MON, NOON, PALM

Playing with The Thief Collector (page 24) Playing with Kids Kino (page 61) In Person: Filmmaker Mama Has a Mustache is an uplifting and lighthearted short film about loving ourselves and everyone around us. Through lively imagery and an honest narrative, this film normalizes all forms of gender identification, dismantles conventional biases related to gender, and invites us to accept all people regardless of differences. –Jula Cieciuch, age 15 (USA, 2021, 10 min.)

Directors: Cristina Costantini, Alfie Kim Koetter

not even for a moment do things stand still Director: Jamie Meltzer Producer: Annie Marr FRI, 4 PM, LIB SAT, 7 PM, HC

Playing with Refuge (page 22) In Person: Filmmaker In September 2021, artist Suzanne Brennan Firstenberg covered the National Mall in a blanket of white: one flag representing each life lost to COVID-19 in the United States. This film provides an observational glimpse into this exhibit, dropping into intimate moments of people honoring their loved ones and examining the role of mourning and closure during an unfolding tragedy. –TC

FRI, 1:30 PM, PALM SAT, 6:30 PM, NUG

Playing with The American Dream and Other Fairy Tales (page 16) The streets of Brooklyn in the 1970s were a wonderland for kids like Matty “Square” Ruggiero and his pack of neighborhood buddies, a tight-knit group known as the Union Street Boys.

In this vibrantly animated documentary, the colorful oral histories of these five childhood friends are told with warmth and nostalgia, recalling a time in American urban culture when outdoor imaginative play was boundless and community meant everything. –JJ (U.S., 2021, 10 min.)

Colorado Premiere

(USA, 2022, 15 min.)

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This is Beth

Pili Ka Mo‘o

Director: Jen Randall Producers: Sarah Steele, Noam Argov

Director: Justyn Ah Chong FRI, 9:30 AM, MAS SUN, 4 PM, LIB

Playing with Delikado (page 18) In Person: Filmmaker On the windward side of Oahu, native Hawaiians venerate the land and their ancestors who are buried on it. The struggle to prevent the loss of Hakipu‘u to development by “settlers” is a battle for the preservation of culture, spirit and a way of life. –SC (USA, 2021, 14 min.)

SUN, 3:30 PM, HC MON, 9 AM, NUG

Sonder

Playing with Learning to Drown (page 20)

Director: Jay Macmillan

In Person: Filmmakers

FRI, 9:30 AM, SOH SUN, 4 PM, MAS

Playing with Pasang: In the Shadow of Everest (page 22) In Person: Filmmakers and Film Subject The earthquake that struck Nepal in 2015 nearly decimated the Langtang Valley, taking with it hundreds of people from around the world. Sonder is the deeply beautiful account of one man who retraces his late parents’ footsteps in Nepal to rebuild after his loss alongside the people of Langtang. Their shared trauma and collective acceptance creates meaningful relationships and showcases lessons in love and loss that are universally understood. –KW

Professional climber Beth Rodden is one of the most accomplished athletes in the history of her sport.

Despite the many accolades she received, the magazine covers that sported her face and the bragging rights she carries for multiple first ascents, Rodden’s struggle with body image and selfloathing nearly crippled her career. This is the story of her transformational journey to self-love, grace and acceptance, one that was accompanied by a rejuvenated love of rock climbing. –JJ (Canada, 2021, 17 min.)

(Canada, 2021, 35 min.)

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Thomas Deininger.

Trash Artist.

Director: Gnarly Bay Producers: Kyle King, Dan Riordan, Dana Saint SAT, 5:45 PM, SOH SUN, 1 PM, MAS

Playing with One Road to Quartzsite (page 21) In Person: Filmmakers Thomas Deininger sculpts his anxiety about our plastic waste problem into a glued entanglement of misfit toys and forgotten items of nonbiodegradable stamina. He provides narration from the candid lens of a concerned artist, grasping for people’s sense of urgency by way of his recycled creations. He guides the conversation between his artwork and ruminations on society, calling on the empathetic capacity of human nature to look deeper into our mindless consumption and wake up to the reality of our warming world. –RS

(What They’ve Been Taught) Director: Brit Hensel Producers: Taylor Hensel, Adam Mazo, Kavita Pillay, Tracy Rector SAT, NOON, PALM SUN, 3:30 PM, NUG

Playing with The Territory (page 24) In Person: Filmmakers This film explores expressions of reciprocity in the Cherokee world, brought to life through a story told by an elder and first language speaker. circles the intersection of tradition, language, land and a commitment to maintaining balance. The film was created in collaboration with independent artists from both Cherokee Nation and the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. –TC (USA, 2022, 10 min.)

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DIRT & ROCK Saturday, 12:30 p.m., High Camp Sunday, 1 p.m., Library

Rise Director: Christopher Lewis Thomas In Person: Filmmaker and Film Subject In a place like Snowdonia, Wales; weather forecasts are often dotted with high chances of thunderstorms, rain and strong winds. When climber Delyth Owen was diagnosed in 2017 with Functional Neurological Disorder, manifesting in seizures and episodic loss of control of mind and body, her inner landscape began to mirror the tumultuous Welsh skies.

For Owen, finding strength and serenity on the sheer rock of a severe landscape has become much more than an athletic pursuit or a mental exercise, as she realizes along the way that the challenges of life are not an impasse but another wall to be scaled. –BL (UK, 2022, 5 min.)

In-Person World Premiere

For greater accessibility, this program has Closed Captioning and subtitles.

through narrow windows of completion that redefine the stakes by which trust and compatibility in partnership is defined. The two discuss the beauty and challenges of freefalling through partnership, the importance of trust and what it’s like to fly. –RS (Norway, 2021, 11 min.)

U.S. Premiere

North Shore Betty Directors: Travis Rummel, Darcy Hennessey Turenne In Person: Filmmaker Betty Birrell has been biking the fast, flowy, wooden roller coasters of British Columbia for nearly 30 years. She’s a pioneer and legend who pushes limits and instills her love for the outdoor lifestyle in her son. At 73, Betty continues to reinvent herself and inspire younger generations with the belief that life is just one big playground. –HS (USA, 2022, 12 min.)

Midair

RISE

Trustfall Director: Stefan Witts Producers: Stefan David Witts, Ingrid Spildo Nordhuus, Kjetil Kriken A couple of world-class wingsuit flyers, Espen and Amber, attempt an unlikely routine together as professionals and partners. The film takes us through a narrative of romance in freefall, diving 38

Director: Louis-Jack Producer: Theo Shields Midair is a bouldering film that thrusts the viewer into the free-fall perspective of climber Jim Pope, alongside some of the most talented climbers in the UK. As they traverse through the iconic Lake District, this short invites us to explore the inbetween spaces of humbling pursuits and the sacrifices that they require. –RS (UK, 2022, 4 min.)

U.S. Premiere

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SHO R T S P R O G R A M S | F I L M S Elevated Director: Palmer Morse Producer: Rachel Weinberg In Person: Filmmakers and Film Subject In an effort to make the outdoor and rock climbing industry more inclusive, Deaf climber Sonya Wilson shares her testimony in overcoming barriers and gaining acceptance while hosting climbing retreats with both hearing and Deaf outdoor enthusiasts. Through the trials and traumas of her childhood, Wilson has become elevated — adopting the belief that being Deaf is a gift that does not make you less than. –SD (USA, 2022, 15 min.)

World Premiere

The Trails Before Us Director: Fritz Bitsoie Producers: Emma Hsu Jackson, Leo Maco Nigel James’s parents and grandmother are immensely proud that he brought mountain biking to their remote corner of the Navajo Nation. His grandmother, Lorraine Herder, is gratified to see old horse trails restored and repurposed.

Mountain biking reminds his father Marvin of the sacred bond between the Diné people and horses. Whether they traverse the landscape on horseback or on bike, the journey connects the Diné to their land and traditional culture. –SC

CONTINUUM

For the Love of Afghanistan Directors: Asher Brown and Farid Noori Producer: Fanie Kok In Person: Filmmakers and Film Subject Graduate student and avid cyclist, Farid Noori, has made it his mission to enlighten others to the majesty of Afghanistan’s Hindu Kush Mountains. In founding the nonprofit Mountain Bike Afghanistan, Noori assists at-risk Afghan cyclists in evacuating Afghanistan to avoid persecution by the Taliban. Through cycling, he discovers the similarities that all humans share and despite the strife his homeland faces, he holds tight to his passion of sharing what he deems “a cyclist’s playground” with others. –SD (USA, 2021, 6 min.)

In-Person World Premiere

(USA, 2021, 13 min.)

Continuum

Julia

Director: Harrison Mendel

Director: Jocelyn Chavy Born into a family of climbers in the stunning Haute-Savoie region of France’s eastern Alps, Julia Chanourdie learned to climb almost as soon as she learned to walk. Winning her first competition at age eight, she has become a notable international competition climber. Less than eight months after her first successful 5.15a ascent in Saint Legére du Ventoux, Chanourdie set her sights on the 5.15b route “Eagle 4.” If she succeeds, she’ll be the third woman to ever achieve this level of climbing difficulty. –AM

Everything is connected, and each ride is an extension of the one before. In this film, Harrison Mendel creates visual trickery as he captures fellow rider Brett Rheeder in his happy place. The pair takes viewers into a flow state by way of careful cinematography and intentional riding.

The athletes blend art and sport to provide a uniquely rider-centric perspective with transitions into a coherent visual journey across ever-shifting landscapes. –RS (Canada, 2021, 2 min.)

(France, 2021, 30 min.)

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WATER & ICE

Friday, 8:30 p.m., Nugget Theatre Sunday, 7 p.m., High Camp

Fuel

Skin Swimmer

Director: Iz La Motte

Director: Hannah Walsh

Producer: Madison Rose Ostergren

In Person: Filmmakers

In Person: Filmmakers and Film Subject

Waking up on a cold and rainy Vancouver morning, most people choose to stay inside gripping their steaming coffee. This is not the case for Roberta Cenedese.

She wakes up and dives into the frigid waters of the Pacific Northwest, wearing only a bathing suit. Through triumph and failure, Roberta trains for one of the most challenging feats in action sports — an icy mile in three degree water. –TC

For Alta professional skier Madison Rose Ostergren, big mountain skiing is a form of personal expression — not to be squeezed into a specific mold. Her determination to show up as her true authentic self, despite pressures from the outside world, is nothing short of inspiring. –SC (USA, 2021, 6 min.)

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(USA, 2022, 7 min.)

JÖTUNN

World Premiere

Jötunn Director: Mikel Sarasola

The Black Stonefly Directors: Cody Lewis, Marc Rotse Producer: Jason “JR” Ferrell In Person: Filmmakers A self-described inner-city black “punk,” Gian Lawrence found salvation after a neardeath experience in the unlikeliest of sports — fly fishing. “I never in my life thought I’d be fly fishing,” he recalls. Yet, mastering the art was a pathway to peace and purpose.

The lesson: “Pick your path and don’t let anybody sway you from it,” –SC

When Spanish kayakers Aniol Serrasolses, Mikel Sarasola and Aleix Salvat are ready for some whitewater adventure after a year of lockdown, they travel to the land of fire and ice. Iceland, known for volcanoes and glaciers, also has the highest concentration of waterfalls in the world — many still unexplored. Hiking with their kayaks through miles of unforgiving terrain to scout first descents by drone, these hard-charging athletes push the limits of what is possible in an epic voyage of discovery. –AM (Spain, 2021, 23 min.)

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SHORTS PROGRAMS | FILMS Ascend: Reframing Disability in the Outdoors

BREAKING TRAIL

Director: Faith E. Briggs Producers: Dutch Simpson, Mike Ferrell, Kaki Orr, Rob Wassmer In Person: Filmmakers Vasu Sojitra doesn’t want to be called an inspiration. For the Indian-American right leg amputee, it’s not his disability, but instead, the barriers to access the outdoors that must be overcome. His ascent and ski descent of iconic Mount Moran’s “The Skillet,” alongside other mountain athletes of color, brings solidarity and intersectionality to backcountry skiing. –HS (USA, 2021, 12 min.)

Breaking Trail Director: Jesse Roesler Producers: James Edward Mills, Jen Larson Roesler In Person: Filmmaker and Film Subject

WE ARE LIKE WAVES

We Are Like Waves Director: Jordyn Romero Producer: Leah de Leon On the south coast of Sri Lanka, surfing is everywhere, yet local girls are discouraged from participating in the sport. Instead, they’re expected to stay home and concentrate on housework, getting married and caring for children. Sanu is challenging the strict gender roles of her village and dreams of becoming the first woman surf instructor. She found a home in the ocean and proves that the young women surfers of Sri Lanka are like waves.

You cannot stop them. —HS (USA, 2021, 12 min.)

Emily Ford sets out with a borrowed Husky sled dog, Diggins, to complete the 1,200-mile Ice Age Trail in the midst of winter. Not only is she the first woman to attempt the feat, but she is also the first LBGTQ+ person of color to embark on the adventure. As her story gathers momentum in local, national and international press, Emily learns she’s become a figurehead to encourage those who don’t feel like they belong in wild places — especially people of color — to spend more time in nature. –RS (USA, 2021, 30 min.)

Flow (with Sam Favret) Director: Maxime Moulin Producer: Sam Favret Skier Sam Favret embarks on an adventure of epic proportions, traversing the slopes of a closed ski resort on a majestic bluebird day. Moulin takes us on a cinematic aerial and symphonic journey as we are enveloped in powerful skiing and the complete unreality of such a serene landscape. –SD (France, 2021, 5 min.)

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ORIGINALS

Friday, 1:30 p.m., Nugget Sunday, 12:30 p.m., High Camp

What You’ll Remember Director: Erika Cohn

Meantime CAN'T SKI VEGAS

Director: Michael T. Workman

Producer: Marcia Jarmel

In Person: Filmmaker and Film Subject

Amidst the backdrop of homelessness, a mother and father write a letter to their children, urging them to remember that home is more than just a building. After being evicted from their apartment, the young parents vow to remain together as a family, reframing life as a “car camping adventure,” while struggling to make ends meet. Shot on an iPhone by mother Elizabeth Herrera, What You’ll Remember offers an intimate window into one family’s battle with housing insecurity that challenges societal biases about homelessness, security and family. –BL

After Michael T. Workman’s father suffers a stroke, he returns home to Missoula to spend time with his aging father, Tim. Struggling with memory loss, Tim reflects on a difficult past while remembering previous chapters of life as a father teaching his young son to ski. Against the backdrop of a snowy Montana winter, Workman and his father spend more time together than they have since Workman’s childhood. Meantime offers a lyrical exploration of his relationship with his father, unraveling complex themes of family, guilt and trauma. –BL

(USA, 2021, 12 min.)

(USA, 2022, 19 min.)

Colorado Premiere

Colorado Premiere

WHAT YOU’LL REMEMBER

Last Days of August Directors: Rodrigo Ojeda-Beck, Robert Machoian Producer: Laura Heberton In Kimball, Nebraska, downtown storefronts have been gutted by Amazon, pigeons roost in an abandoned gymnasium and the skeletons of burned out cars rest near the railroad tracks. Last Days of August paints a stark picture of prairie towns succumbing to what one Bible-quoting resident says is “a lack of love.” Blurring the lines between still photography and cinema, this haunting film asks: what would be the cost of a miracle to bring the town back from the dead? –HS (USA, 2022, 13 min.)

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SHORTS PROGRAMS | FILMS There’s No End Director: Mattias Evangelista In Person: Filmmakers The eerie beauty of the San Juan Islands provides a bittersweet backdrop to this intimate look at the life of noted recording artist Phil Elverum. A worldclass musician whose contributions have helped define contemporary indie rock, Elverum reflects on eternity, single parenting and the fragility of life while raising his young daughter and finding time to make art. This rich human story celebrates resilience, creativity and joy in the face of adversity. –JJ (US, 2022, 19 min.)

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MA’S HOUSE

Ma’s House Director: Jeremy Dennis In Person: Filmmaker

AFTER SKID ROW

After Skid Row Director: Lindsey Hagen Producers: Lauren Todd, Amelia Rayno In Person: Filmmakers Barbie Carter spent a decade on the merciless streets of Los Angeles’ notorious Skid Row, constantly watching her back and earning the nickname “Gangster Granni.” After finally securing housing, she begins navigating the mundane tasks of buying bedding and setting up bank accounts. She revels in the small luxuries of having her own apartment and enjoying things most of us take for granted, like taking baths whenever she wants. After Skid Row is an intimate and compelling portrait of perseverance that demystifies and personalizes America’s homelessness crisis. –HS

The Shinnecock Indian Nation of Southampton, New York, breathes new life through the renovation of a home that was once the heart of the community. Ma was a glamorous and loving spirit whose pow-wows put the house at capacity in the 1980s. Ma’s grandson, Jeremy, takes on the challenge of shifting the public perception of the Shinnecock Nation through transforming this once vibrant place into a communal art space designed to generate conversations around race and equality. –SD (USA, 2022, 9 min.)

(USA, 2021, 22 min.)

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INDOMITABLE SPIRIT Friday, 7 p.m., Library Sunday, 9:30 a.m., High Camp

Caliefah Director: Shiouwen Hong In Person: Filmmakers Caliefah is a single mother, home gardener, soap maker and, after attending classes for over 13 years, a recent college graduate. Fully recognizing her family heritage and community, she is the personification of pride, resourcefulness and spirit. She leverages the skills learned from her elders to provide for her community, and in return, her community supports her in unfathomable ways.

Caliefah was filmed during Juneteenth 2020 in South Los Angeles at the height of the Black Lives Matter movement. –SC (USA, 2022, 7 min.)

In-Person World Premiere

FIGHT OR FLIGHT

Rural Runners Director: Forest Woodward Producers: Dan Riordan, Dana Saint, Sanjay Rawall, Forest Woodward In Person: Filmmakers and Film Subjects Rural Runners is a short film about finding purpose and common ground in rural America as Chloe Maxmin makes a bid to be the youngest woman in the Maine house of representatives and Canyon Woodward balances his lifestyle with running rural trails and political campaigns.

–TC (USA, 2022, 15 min.)

World Premiere

Fight or Flight Director: Lindsey Hagen In Person: Filmmakers and Film Subject Fight or Flight chronicles the journey of the only female pilot employed by Colorado Parks and Wildlife as she overcomes her long-standing relationship with trauma by taking to the sky. In a place where mental health is often swept under the rug for fear of losing the freedom to fly, Denise shares her story to change the stigma associated with mental health in the aviation industry and to stand in solidarity with survivors of sexual assault. –TC CALIEFAH 44

(USA, 2022, 8 min.)

World Premiere

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SH O R T S P R O G R A M S | F I L M S Bacon ‘N’ Laces Director: Stephen Michael Simon Producer: Stephen Michael Simon, James Vasco Rodrigues In Person: Filmmaker In Bacon ‘N’ Laces, a blind single father of three manages a classic diner outside of New York City. This father’s love for his children, his perseverance to defy the odds that come with his blindness and his appreciation for classic sneakers is a dose of joy. This short film is a playful portrait of a dad and his children who refuse to be limited by their struggles. –HS

The Children Will Lead the Way

(USA, 2021, 19 min.)

Directors: Beth Gage, George Gage

Colorado Premiere

In Person: Filmmakers

JANWAAR

After the tragic 2018 Valentine’s Day massacre of 17 Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students, the survivors of the Parkland, Florida, school turn inward to sort through the trauma. Working with songwriters and musicians to harness their creativity, the students find ways to push through their trauma, expressing their feelings and healing through song. –TC (USA, 2020, 4 min.)

Colorado Premiere BACON ‘N’ LACES

Free to Care Directors: Chris Temple, Owen Dubeck Producers: Jo Jensen, Jenna M Kelly

Janwaar Director: Danny Schmidt Producer: Zac Ramras In Person: Filmmakers and Film Subject

Is there hope for redemption in America?

Not easily, if you’re born into a family where drug addiction and criminality goes back generations. “I was in prison for six years at 19,” Lisa Creason recounts. As a felon, Illinois law prohibited her from a nursing career. So Creason fights an unjust law to provide for her family and create opportunities for thousands of others in her state. –SC

In one of the largest and poorest states in India, there lies a community skate park built in 2015. Ulrike Reinhard, the creator of this Janwaar Castle, is all about challenging the status quo and providing a safe space for kids to find their own way.

Skateboarding is the ideal disruptor to the mainstream mentality for the youth of Madhya Pradesh. The castle has become a haven for the two castes in the village to interact with one another through the shared passion of skating. –SD

(USA, 2022, 14 min.)

(USA, 2021, 10 min.)

In Person: Filmmakers and Film Subject

World Premiere

World Premiere MountainfilM CoMMitMent Grant Winner 2019

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LOON

TERRA

Friday, 7:30 p.m., High Camp Sunday, 5:45 p.m., Sheridan Opera House

Loon

American Scar

Directors: Jason Whalen, Chris Zuker

Director: Daniel Lombroso

When hiking the Appalachian Trail, thru-hikers often choose a trail name that says something about their home or their history. Mike Freed, now in his 80s, chose the name Loon as a symbol of the spirit of the wild, interconnected lakes of his Minnesota homeland. The Appalachian Trail is also where Loon had a revelation about what course of action to take with his 2,000-acre expanse of unfragmented land in the pristine Boundary Waters region. –AM

Producers: Stephania Taladrid, Melissa Fajardo, Daniel Lombroso

(USA, 2021, 10 min.)

Colorado Premiere

In Person: Filmmaker and Film Subject When wedding photographer John Kurc decided to spend a few days between assignments exploring the borderlands of southwest Arizona, he had no idea he would spend the next eight months documenting the devastation of the desert ecosystem created by the construction of Trump’s border wall. In the blitz to build the barrier as fast as possible, the administration ignored 47 laws that protect bears, deer, jaguars and javelina roaming the mountains in both the U.S. and Mexico. In addition to being a failed re-election campaign prop and racist monument, the wall also inhibits wildlife migration, putting 70 vulnerable plant and animal species at risk. –HS (USA, 2022, 13 min.)

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SHORTS PROGRAMS| FILMS Stories of You and I

Seasons

Director: John Davies

Directors: Gabriella Canal, Michael Fearon

In Person: Filmmaker

In Person: Filmmakers

Starring Academy Award-nominated Jonathan Pryce, Stories of You and I is a series of love letters to the Earth and a plea for environmental justice.

What feels like universal memories of moments with the natural world, are director John Davies’ recollections of a lifetime spent in love with nature.

Alongside Davies’ true accounts and personal anguish over the environmental crisis are striking images of the wild that emphasize what is at stake. –KW

For Nevia No, owner and farmer at Bodhitree Farms in New Jersey, the seasons are a way of life. But along with the beauty of producing food and working the land comes a lifestyle of uncertainty as she grows older. When the pandemic enables Euni, Nevia’s daughter, to come home and try farming for a season, the mother-daughter duo work together, navigating moments of shared stubbornness while Euni helps to streamline the farm’s production systems and embrace her mother’s world. –BL

(UK, 2021, 19 min.)

Colorado Premiere FINDING HETCH HETCHY

(USA, 2021, 24 min.)

Colorado Premiere

Wood Hood Director: Alexander Cullen In Person: Filmmakers

Finding Hetch Hetchy Directors: James Q Martin, Chris Burkard Producers: Mike Sandifer, Chelsea Walsh In Person: Filmmakers and Film Subjects

From the hood of Rockaway, Queens, 15-year-old Devon finds a safe place and brotherhood in the woods along the Appalachian Trail, thanks to the Camping to Connect mentorship program. For urban kids of color historically unable to access natural places, we witness the joy and growth that is possible when kids have an opportunity to find that “quiet place.” –SC (USA, 2022, 16 min.)

World Premiere

When the O’Shaughnessy Dam was constructed in 1923, the Hetch Hetchy Valley in Yosemite National Park became nearly inaccessible to visitors. It has since become the subject of great environmental controversy. Eager to explore this wild and largely unvisited corner of Yosemite, veteran climbers Timmy O’Neill and Lucho Rivera set out to experience Hetch Hetchy firsthand, scaling its granite walls and advocating for its restoration. –JJ (USA, 2021, 9 min.)

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JACKET

WILD

Friday, 4:30 p.m., High Camp Saturday, 10 a.m., Masons

Look at the Fish

The Ocean Solution

Director: Ashleigh McArthur

Director: Darcy Hennessey Turenne

Inspired by John Berger’s seminal essay “Why Look at Animals?,” Look at the Fish takes the viewer on a sensorial journey through the aquarium, prioritizing the perspective of its inhabitants to ultimately reveal the space as a site for the observation of the human species. –TC (Australia, USA, 2021, 6 min.)

Colorado Premiere

Jacket Director: Yuri Chicovsky Producer: Lauren Blair In Person: Filmmakers Traditional sheep ranching maintains a strong foothold in Moffat County, Colorado. Here, Albert Villard practices the ancient art of coaxing a suspicious ewe to adopt an orphaned lamb to replace her own lamb that has died.

There is no exact science to bonding a potential adoptive mother with an orphaned lamb but pairing them up is a dirty and difficult job. –SC (USA, 2020, 19 min.)

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Producers: Patagonia Provisions, Birgit Cameron In Person: Filmmaker Bren Smith isn’t just redefining ocean farming, he’s literally turning it upside down. After experiencing a string of pitfalls in conventional fishing, Smith decided to reimagine the future of aquatic farming by asking the ocean, “what should our relationship be?” He found his answer and returned to the sea with a new method of restorative ocean farming that produces a sustainable food source, restores the ocean, fights the climate crisis and mimics nature’s penchant for biodiversity. –JJ (USA, Canada, 2021, 15 min.)

THE OCEAN SOLUTION

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Nuisance Bear

Eco-Hack!

Directors: Jack Weisman, Gabriela Osio Vanden

Directors: Josh Izenberg, Brett Marty

Producer: Jack Weisman

Due to increased human activity, desert biologist Tim Shields has been watching the tortoise population of the Mojave desert decline since the 1990s. Rather than continue to sit back and let nature take its course, Shields combats the depressing nature of conservation biology by accessing its antithesis, modern engineering. Through the usage of specialized drones, desert rovers, laser cannons and fake exploding tortoise shells, Shields and his colleagues take what control they can over the ecological levers in play to save the tortoise population. Akin to a cathedral builder laying bricks, Shields may never get to see the true effects of his work, but he does not let that deter him in his endeavors. –SD

In Person: Filmmakers and Film Subject

In Person: Filmmaker Throngs of visitors from around the globe travel to Churchill, Manitoba each fall to observe the polar bears’ annual migration. Amid paparazzi-style wildlife enthusiasts and a provincially funded deterrence program, we accompany the bears through an often chaotic human landscape. Nuisance Bear provides a glimpse into the bears’ unique journey while challenging us to ask the question: Who exactly is the nuisance here? –JJ (Canada, 2021, 14 min.)

(USA, 2022, 16 min.)

World Premiere MountainfilM CoMMitMent Grant Winner 2020

Hargila Director: Gerrit Vyn In Person: Filmmaker

HARGILA

As endangered species are vanishing at alarming rates, can just one person really make a difference? If that one person is Dr. Purnima Devi Barman, then maybe the answer is yes. When a wildlife photographer travels to India to document the Greater Adjutant, the world’s rarest stork — known to the locals as Hargila — he discovers Barman and her inspiring efforts to rally the local community of Assam, India, to save it. –AM (USA, 2021, 28min.)

Colorado Premiere

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THE BARDIA

GLOBAL POV Friday, 1 p.m., Library Sunday, 10 a.m., Masons

Weaving the Path Director: Cristóbal Ruiz Producer: Olli Dickerson In Person: Filmmakers Debra Sparrow weaves together the past and the present by reviving the blanketmaking traditions of the Coast Salish communities. Through her Blanketing the City project, Sparrow wraps the city of Vancouver in the colorful, intricate designs that are the foundation of her people. Every time she creates a blanket, she’s building a bridge to her ancestors and repatriating lost connections. For the Musqueam people, weaving blankets is not just art, it’s a way of life. –HS (Canada, 2021, 13 min.)

U.S. Premiere MountainfilM CoMMitMent Grant Winner 2021

BLACK GOLD

Black Gold Director: Sydney Bowie Linden In Person: Filmmaker Big oil tells a story of economic resentment in small-town America.

Director Sydney Bowie Linden journeys into a red pocket of the nation, Taft, California, that is home to one of the largest oil reserves in North America. She shares intimate and personal moments of everyday people and their fight for economic prosperity by way of far-right politicians and their allegiance to fossil fuels. Despite the existential threats of the declining oil industry, residents find a renewed sense of hope in the possibility of a second presidential term for Trump. –TC (USA, 2022, 17 min.)

Colorado Premiere WEAVING THE PATH

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SHORTS PROGRAMS | FILMS Ali and His Miracle Sheep Director: Maythem Ridha In Person: Filmmaker After his father is killed by ISIS, traumatized 9-year-old Ali stops speaking. He tells his grandmother he will feel better if allowed to take part in an annual 400-kilometer walk to Karbala, a mourning pilgrimage to sacrifice his sheep, Kirmenta, for his father’s soul. As Ali and his brother walk the desert road with thousands of other pilgrims, the sheep becomes sick — and stubborn. The boys try coaxing, carrying and eventually pushing the sheep in a wheelchair. This hybrid film is a haunting, lyrical look at a nation destroyed by war and broken promises, asking if miracles are still possible. –HS (Iraq, UK, 2021, 26 min.)

Colorado Premiere

Seeds, the Legacy of the Land Director: Fernando Valencia Producer: Cristóbal Camarena González Rubio In Person: Filmmakers Seeds are not just the source of all food.

They are a metaphor for survival and persistence over generations. In rural Mexico, Camilo and Ramón harvest, curate, trade and venerate varieties of maize. The dream is to cultivate not only

ALI AND HIS MIRACLE SHEEP

crops, but a culture and perhaps to sustain life itself. If traditional agriculture is the most sustainable, what will happen when elders die off? –SC (Mexico, 2021, 16 min.)

Colorado Premiere

The Bardia Director: Gabriella Garcia-Pardo Producers: Iftane Takarroumt, Gwyneth Talley In Person: Filmmakers Steeped in traditional Moroccan heritage, The Bardia follows one woman’s journey to balance motherhood, career and the pursuit of her passions. After giving birth to her second child, she spent three years working towards competing in tbourida — a dangerous sport that is equal parts equestrian showmanship and military parade. The Bardia’s protagonist carries the weight of being one of the few women in this male-dominated sport while wearing the many hats that working mothers do. –KW (USA, Morocco, 2022, 19 min.)

Colorado Premiere

SEEDS, THE LEGACY OF THE LAND

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LONG & SHORT OF IT 1 Friday, 10 a.m., Nugget Saturday, 1 p.m., Library

Strangers in Boxes Director: Gabriel Diamond A group of activists – all strangers – from more than 15 countries meet online in the midst of the pandemic. In Strangers in Boxes, we see how people can connect in surprisingly profound ways, despite the vast differences that lie between them.

This is a life-affirming testament to how the power of human connection can transcend language, distance, a global pandemic and technology limitations to create a better world. –TC (USA, 2022, 6 min.)

Colorado Premiere

A PECULIAR SILENCE

A Peculiar Silence Director: Cinque Northern Producer: Catherine Gund In Person: Filmmakers

STRANGERS IN BOXES

A Peculiar Silence tells the story of playwright Liza Jessie Peterson, whose acclaimed play The Peculiar Patriot was shut down mid-performance at the Louisiana State Penitentiary, commonly known as Angola Prison.

This film examines how one woman’s words challenged the country’s largest prison-plantation and impacted the incarcerated men long after the record of her visit was erased by the institution’s administration. –RS (USA, 2021, 26 min.)

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Stranger at the Gate Director: Joshua Seftel Producers: Mohannad Malas, Suzanne Hillinger, Conall Jones, Lena Khan In Person: Filmmakers and Film Subject Returning home from a long career in the U.S. Marine Corps, Richard “Mac” McKinney found himself struggling under the weight of a ferocious rage fueled by 25 years of an indoctrinated hatred of Muslims. Desperate to take action in the name of his country, McKinney set out to commit an unthinkable crime against his community’s mosque. His plans took an unexpected path however, when he faced his enemy head-on. –JJ (USA, 2021, 29 min.)

Colorado Premiere

PONY BOYS

Pony Boys Director: Eric Stange In the summer of 1967, two young Massachusetts brothers set off on an improbable journey with their family pet, a Shetland pony named King.

The 9- and 11-year-old boys, Tony and Jeff Whittemore, are desperate to visit Expo ‘67, the world’s largest fair in Montreal. When their parents suggest they hitch King to a pony cart to journey the 325 miles to the Expo, the brothers quickly realize they are in for the adventure of a lifetime. –TC (USA 2022, 25 min.)

Colorado Premiere

STRANGER AT THE GATE

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LONG & SHORT OF IT 2 Saturday, 3:30 p.m., Nugget Sunday, 12:30 p.m., Nugget

The Queen of Basketball Director: Ben Proudfoot Producers: Abby Lynn Kang Davis, Brandon Somerhalder, Elizabeth Brooke, Gabriel Berk Godoi, Sarah Stewart When she was a child, Lusia “Lucy” Harris was teased for being “long and tall and that’s all.” She proved them wrong when she led the Delta State Lady Statesmen to three consecutive national championships in the mid-1970s — the start of the Title IX era. As the first woman to score a basket in the Olympics, Lucy helped the U.S. take home the silver medal. Harris wanted to keep playing, she recalls, but “there was no place to go.” Recounting her glory years, she isn’t bitter. Instead, she wonders what might have been if she’d come of age a few years later. –SC

has attracted passionate followers in the movement and utilizes music as a tool for healing and rebellion as a way to embrace queer identity in the historically oppressive governments of the Middle East. –BL (USA, 2021, 28 min.)

U.S. Premiere

DANI’S TWINS

(USA, 2021, 22 min.)

osCar aWarD Best DoCuMentary short suBjeCt

Dani’s Twins Directors: Brad Allgood, Steve Dorst Producers: Angie Gentile, Andy Arias, Daniela Izzie In Person: Filmmakers and Film Subjects

BEIRUT DREAMS IN COLOR

Beirut Dreams in Color Director: Michael Collins Producers: Marty Syjuco, Michael Collins, Sarah Kaskas, James Costa In Person: Filmmakers Beirut Dreams in Color follows Mashrou’ Leila, a Lebanese indie rock band pushing back on decades of repression and prosecution against the LGBTQ+ community in the Middle East. The band 54

Dani’s Twins captures the pregnancy and early parenting journey of Dani Izzie, one of the few quadriplegics ever to give birth to twins. While a source of great joy, Dani’s twin pregnancy is highly unusual and susceptible to an array of risks, ranging from blood pressure spikes that could lead to a stroke to the almost-certain likelihood of preterm labor. When the pandemic strikes, it raises the stakes for an already complicated pregnancy. –TC (USA, 2022, 40 min.)

World Premiere MountainfilM CoMMitMent Grant Winner 2020

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SHORTS PROGRAMS | FILMS In honor of the Queen of Basketball, Lusia “Lucy” Harris 1955-2022

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Saturday, 3 p.m., Sheridan Opera House Sunday, 8:30 p.m., Base Camp

Barefoot Charles Directors: Josh Lowell, Zachary Barr, Brett Lowell Producer: Zachary Barr In Person: Filmmakers Meet the opera-singing, cave-dwelling Frenchman Barefoot Charles (Charles Albert) who climbs futuristic boulder problems sans chaussons. Charles demonstrates what it means to live as one with nature, while opening eyes to what is possible in the world of climbing. –LH (USA, 2022, 29 min.)

Big Things to Come Directors: Nick Rosen, Peter Mortimer Producers: Nick Rosen, Zachary Barr Bree Robles In Person: Filmmakers When elite climber Alex Johnson meets a bouldering project which proves to be more difficult than anticipated, she is set on a journey of self-discovery and works to inspire the world as a rad LGBTQ icon. –LH 56

BAREFOOT CHARLES

(USA, 2022, 21 min.)

Cuddle

Directors: Peter Mortimer, Nick Rosen Producer: Zachary Barr In Person: Filmmakers As a famed duo of climbers attempts a massive link-up of 17 alpine summits, they learn your friends are just as essential to completing a climb as food, water and pants. –LH (USA, 2022, 35 min.)

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LOCAL LEGENDS & STEEP THRILLS Thursday, 8:30 p.m., Base Camp Monday, 10 a.m., Library This program kicks off the festival with films highlighting the people, places and exciting adventures that remind us of home. This is one of the most loved programs of the festival and screens under the stars at Base Camp in town park. We will be screening the program for a second time at the Library on Monday morning — both screenings are free and open to the public. Let’s show our local athletes, filmmakers and friends some love!

Schwanky Thang

Sheri

Director: Ian Glass

Director: James ‘Q’ Martin

In Person: Filmmaker and Film Subject

Producer: Sheila Smithson

As shortening summer days make way for frosty winter mornings, mountain biker Rafa Infante showcases his favorite aspects of riding in the Colorado Rocky Mountains. –LH

In Person: Filmmakers and Film Subjects

(USA, 2021, 2 min.)

Sheri showcases the beautiful story of how one woman and her family revolutionized the outdoor gear industry. –LH (USA, 2022 24, min.)

World Premiere

Colorado Premiere

Playing with Fire Director: Bria Light In Person: Filmmaker For 16-year-old Jasper Manning, playing bluegrass music is about more than just the catchy melodies and lightning fast licks. When he picks up his mandolin, he’s carrying on an oral tradition that began before he was born, which he hopes to carry into the future. –LH (USA, 2022, 3 min.)

SCHWANKY THANG

Powder Snow Hokkaido Directors: Jake Cohn, Charlie Cohn, George Knowles In Person: Filmmakers The essence of Hokkaido skiing is as pure and unique as each snowflake that falls on this Japanese Island. –LH (Japan, 2021, 3 min.)

World Premiere SHERI 58

W E L C O M E | G U E S T D I R E C T O R | S P O N S O R S | C O N T E N T S | F E S T I VA L T I P S | O U R M I S S I O N | F I L M S | S C H E D U L E

SHORTS PROGRAMS | FILMS Mixtape Directors: Alex D’Agostino, Caleb Chicoine Producer: Caleb Chicoine In Person: Filmmakers In this film, the beauty of the mixtape is revived as a collection of seemingly unconnected moments. The film highlights time spent enjoying the mountains, which are given more meaning with music. –LH (USA, 2021, 16 min.)

Colorado Premiere

TUBULAR: A BIKING STORY

Southwest Scramble Colton Farrow, Cody Cirillo In Person: Filmmakers and Film Subject

THE FARMER

The Farmer

After a particularly challenging winter, skier Cody Cirillo sets out on a biking adventure through the Southwest United States only to find it’s not as easy as the journey once appeared to be. –LH (USA, 2021, 9 min.)

Director: Michael James Brown In Person: Filmmakers Through years of simple living, David Van Dame spent over 35 years of his life dedicated to chasing turns in the Cottonwood Canyon and harvesting powder. –LH (USA, 2021, 3 min.)

Fabric: A Documentary Series - Episode 1 “Knowledge” Directors: Robin Van Gyn, Justin Taylor Smith

Tubular: A Biking Story Aurelie Slegers In Person: Film Subjects As mountain bikers, siblings Ryan and Becky Gardner feel as though they’ve hit all their firsts with biking. So they turn to pioneering the new sport of high alpine tubing. Do they have what it takes? –LH (USA, 2021, 10 min.)

Colorado Premiere

In Person: Filmmakers The importance of building intuition through mentorship and study is showcased through the stories of female athletes Robin Van Gyn, Paige Alms, Estelle Pensiero, and Izzi Gomez. –LH (USA, Canada, 2021, 25 min.)

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KIDS KINO Monday, Noon, Palm

Mountainfilm’s program of short, family-friendly educational films are curated for kids and held annually at the Palm. This program offers a wide variety of age-appropriate and perspective-widening themes. Please note that these films are not rated.

This program is free to all passholders and students of all ages. $10 tickets are available to the general public.

Kayak

This is Home: Jackson Goldstone

Directors: Solène Bosseboeuf, Flore Dechorgnat, Tiphaine Klein, Auguste Lefort, Antoine Rossi

Director: Colin Jones

This film is silly! My favorite part is when the bird takes the baby to the nest. I love adventures with my dad, too!

–Beckett Sheedy, age 7 (France, 2021, 6 min.)

Join young ripper Jackson Goldstone in his hometown of Squamish, B.C as he rips big jumps and rides trails with style, dreaming about his favorite sport; mountain biking. Watch the film to witness the magic that Squamish offers, and all that Jackson is capable of while behind the handlebars.

–Lilah Lerner, age 17 (Canada, 2020, 7 min.)

Shaba Director: Ami Vitale Producer: Gaby Bastyra Shaba is a sweet, heart-warming story about elephant rescuers and the elephants themselves that shows you really can do anything when you put your mind to it. –Caroline Merritt, age 12 (USA, UK, 2021, 12 min.)

KAYAK

Adventures at Home Director: Travis Lupher Producers: Travis Lupher, Chad Skinner In Person: Filmmakers My favorite part is when her brother saves her. I love my brother!

–Miller Sheedy, age 5 (USA, 2020, 5 min.)

Colorado Premiere

Colorado Premiere

Little Forest Director: Paulina Muratore Producer: Facundo Corsini This film brings recognition to flooding caused by deforestation. It is the story of a girl growing up with a tree that she becomes attached to. That tree later helps her through the floods.

–Townes Merritt, age 15 (Argentina, 2020, 8 min.)

Colorado Premiere

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SHORTS PROGRAMS | FILMS Between Walls Directors: Jakob Schweighofer, Johannes Hoffmann, Simon Platzer Producer: Whiteroom Productions Between Walls takes place in Austria, featuring two insanely cool women that shred between walls of snow and keep you on the edge of your seat. Bring a helmet because the speed is top notch.

–Joe Galbo, age 16

it. This is the story of their relationship to the ocean, tourism, colonialism and how they help their community with a deeper understanding of the whole picture.

–Sadie Steinberg, age 17 (The Bahamas, USA, 2021, 8 min.)

Colorado Premiere

(Austria, 2020, 2 min.)

Julieta & the Turtles in the Plastic Soup Director: Mirjam Marks Producers: Willem Baptist, Nienke Korthof This film follows a young and relatable teenage girl who is fighting for the health of turtles and the elimination of pollution on her home island. This story not only stresses the importance and relevance of problematic climate change and pollution but shows all of us what we can do to reverse it. –Ruby Cieciuch, age 12 (The Netherlands, 2020, 15 min.)

Colorado Premiere

The Train Station Director: Lyana Patrick Producer: Jessica Hallenbeck Inspired by her father’s experience of his Canadian Indian Residential School, the filmmaker from the Stellat’en First Nation animated this beautiful story to make sure we remember the past so we don’t repeat it. –Jake Martin, age 17 (Canada, 2020, 2 min.)

Antonese Director: Lavado Stubbs Producer: Gina Papabeis Antonese and Eagle Ray Empress are two residents of Cat Island in the Bahamas, interested in protecting the breathtaking ocean they live around and also recognizing the fears that come with

ANTONESE

Mama Has a Mustache Director: Sally Rubin Producer: Stacy Goldate In Person: Filmmaker Mama Has a Mustache is an uplifting and lighthearted short film about loving ourselves and everyone around us.

Through lively imagery and an honest narrative, this film normalizes all forms of gender identification, dismantles conventional biases related to gender, and invites us to accept all people regardless of differences. –Jula Cieciuch, age 15 (USA, 2021, 10 min.)

Write Your Line Directors: Marc Augey, Andy Collet Producers: David Lacote This is totally a kids’ film. Kids love the internet and the internet loves skiing. This time, watching the internet helped Ben get outside and write his own “ski” line.

–Zoe Cooper, age 10 (France, 2021, 3 min.)

Colorado Premiere

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Ranger (p.22)

Q&A

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10 AM–NOON

Rick Ridgeway: Life Lived Wild (p.72)

Sonder (pg.33) Pasang: In the Shadow of Everest (p.22)

Q&A

James Balog: The Human Element (p.72)

1 PM–3 PM

1:30 PM–3:30 PM

The Originals (p.32) The American Dream & Other Fairy Tales (p.16)

10 AM–11:45 AM

THE LONG & THE SHORT OF IT 1 (p.52)

Q&A

1 PM–3:15 PM

Annapurna ‘78 (p.28) Exposure (p.18)

Blue Room (p.29) Fire of Love (p.19)

Q&A

Q&A

1:30 PM–3:30 PM

ORIGINALS SHORTS (p.42)

Q&A

Q&A

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5:30 PM–7:15 PM

4:30–6:30 PM

WILD SHORTS (p.48)

Omoiyari: A Song Film

by Kishi Bashi (p.21)

Q&A

Q&A

5 PM–6:45 PM

Sam Now (p.23)

Q&A

Surf Nation (p.24)

Q&A

7:30 PM–9:30 PM

TERRA SHORTS (p.46) 8:30 PM–10:30 PM

Q&A

I Am Salmon (p.30) Chasing (p.17)

8 PM–10 PM

The Holly (p.19)

Q&A

8:30 PM–10:30 PM

WATER & ICE SHORTS (p.40)

Q&A

Q&A

6 FILM

6 EVENT

6 PRESENTATION

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TOWN PARK MAIN STAGE

9:30 AM–11:45 AM

Pili Ka Mo’o (p.33) Delikado (p.18)

Q&A

10 AM–11:30 AM

Hey, Gunesh! (p.30) The Neighborhood Storyteller (p.21)

Q&A

1 PM–3:15 PM

Controlled Burn (p.29) The Sanctity of Space (p.23)

Q&A

BASE CAMP OUTDOOR THEATER IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

1 PM–3 PM

GLOBAL POV SHORTS (p.50)

Q&A

4 PM–5:45 PM

4:30 PM–6:45 PM

Mama Has a Mustache (p.32) The Thief Collector (p.24)

not even for a moment do things stand still (p.32) Refuge (p.22)

Q&A

4 PM–7 PM

TELLURIDE ARTS ART WALK (p. 83)

Q&A

7 PM–9:15 PM

INDOMITABLE SPIRIT SHORTS (p.44) 8 PM–10 PM

Bad Axe (p.17)

Q&A

Q&A

THURSDAY

8:30 PM–10:30 PM

LOCAL LEGENDS AND STEEP THRILLS (p.58)

Q&A

FRIDAY

8:30 PM–10:30 PM

Chasing Coral (p.17)

Q&A

8:00 AM 8:15 8:30 8:45 9:00 AM 9:15 9:30 9:45 10:00 AM 10:15 10:30 10:45 11:00 AM 11:15 11:30 11:45 12:00 PM 12:15 12:30 12:45 1:00 PM 1:15 1:30 1:45 2:00 PM 2:15 2:30 2:45 3:00 PM 3:15 3:30 3:45 4:00 PM 4:15 4:30 4:45 5:00 PM 5:15 5:30 5:45 6:00 PM 6:15 6:30 6:45 7:00 PM 7:15 7:30 7:45 8:00 PM 8:15 8:30 8:45 9:00 PM 9:15 9:30 9:45 10:00 PM 10:15 10:30 10:45 11:00 PM 11:15 11:30 11:45 12:00 AM

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A Tribute to Bill Kees (p.75) Like a River (p.31)

9 AM–11 AM

Tigre Gente (p.25)

Q&A

9 AM–11 AM

Mama Has a Mustache (p.32) The Thief Collector (p.24)

9:30 AM–11:30 AM

Omoiyari: A Song Film

by Kishi Bashi (p.21)

Q&A

Q&A

NOON–2 PM

(What They’ve Been Taught) (p.34) The Territory (p.24)

Q&A

NOON–1:30 PM

12:30 PM–2:30 PM

DIRT & ROCK SHORTS (p.38)

Q&A

Q&A

Q&A

3 PM–4:45 PM

Sam Now (p.23)

Chasing Ice (p.18)

3:30 PM–5:30 PM

I Am Salmon (p.30) Chasing (p.17)

5:45 PM–7:45 PM

Q&A

3:30 PM–5:15 PM

LONG AND SHORT OF IT 2 (p.54)

Q&A

5:45 PM–7:45 PM

Into the Mountain (p.31) An Accidental Life (p.16)

Q&A 7 PM–8:45 PM

not even for a moment do things stand still (p.32) Refuge (p.22)

Thomas Deininger: Trash Artist (p.34) One Road to Quartzsite (p.21)

Q&A

6:30 PM–8:30 PM

The Originals (p.32) The American Dream & Other Fairy Tales (p.16)

Q&A

Q&A Malik (p.31) Torn (p.25)

Ibach (p.30) Mission: Joy — Finding Happiness in Troubled Times (p.20)

3 PM–4:45 PM

REEL ROCK 16 SHORTS (p.56)

Q&A

8:30 PM–10:45 PM

12:30 PM–2:15 PM

8:30 PM–10:15 PM

Cenote (p.29) Horse Tamer (p.19)

Q&A

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TRANSFER WAREHOUSE

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CAPACITY [145]

CAPACITY [150]

CAPACITY [65]

TOWN PARK MAIN STAGE

8 AM–9 AM

COFFEE TALKS (p. 86)

10 AM–11:45 AM

WILD SHORTS (p.48)

Q&A

10 AM–NOON

Stories for a Better Future: Jeff Orlowski-Yang and Exposure Labs (p.90)

1 PM–2:30 PM

Hey, Gunesh! (p.30) The Neighborhood Storyteller (p.21)

Q&A

10 AM–NOON

Portals to Nature: Nalini Nadkarni and Tierney Thys (p.74)

1 PM–2:45 PM

2 PM–4 PM

Meet the Grist Fixers (p.76)

THE LONG & THE SHORT OF IT 1 (p.52)

Q&A

BASE CAMP OUTDOOR THEATER IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC 2 PM–3:30 PM

ICE CREAM SOCIAL (p. 94)

4 PM–6 PM

4 PM–6 PM

Ranger (p.22)

Annapurna ‘78 (pg.28) Exposure (p.18)

Q&A

Q&A

7 PM–9:15 PM

Blue Room (p.29) Fire of Love (p.19)

7:30 PM–9:30 PM

To The End (p.25)

Q&A

Q&A

8:30 PM–10:30 PM

8 PM–11 PM

YETI DANCE PARTY (p. 95)

The Yin & Yang of Gerry Lopez (p.26)

Q&A

8:00 AM 8:15 8:30 8:45 9:00 AM 9:15 9:30 9:45 10:00 AM 10:15 10:30 10:45 11:00 AM 11:15 11:30 11:45 12:00 PM 12:15 12:30 12:45 1:00 PM 1:15 1:30 1:45 2:00 PM 2:15 2:30 2:45 3:00 PM 3:15 3:30 3:45 4:00 PM 4:15 4:30 4:45 5:00 PM 5:15 5:30 5:45 6:00 PM 6:15 6:30 6:45 7:00 PM 7:15 7:30 7:45 8:00 PM 8:15 8:30 8:45 9:00 PM 9:15 9:30 9:45 10:00 PM 10:15 10:30 10:45 11:00 PM 11:15 11:30 11:45 12:00 AM

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The Holly (p.19)

Q&A

9 AM–11:15 AM 9:30 AM–11:45 AM

INDOMITABLE SPIRIT SHORTS (p.44)

Malik (p.31) Torn (p.25)

Q&A

9:30 AM–11:30 AM

Bad Axe (p.17)

Q&A

Q&A

NOON–2 PM

The Yin & Yang of Gerry Lopez (p.26)

Q&A

NOON–2 PM

12:30 PM–2:30 PM

ORIGINALS SHORTS (p.42)

Q&A

3 PM–5 PM

To The End (p.25)

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Spirit of the Peaks (p.23) A Conversation with Len Necefer and guests (p.78)

12:30 PM–2:15 PM

THE LONG & THE SHORT OF IT 2 (p.54)

Q&A

3 PM–4:45 PM

3:30 PM–5:15 PM

This is Beth (p.33) Beyond Sunset (p.28) Learning to Drown (p.20)

Surf Nation (p.24)

Q&A

Q&A

5:45PM–7:45 PM

3:30 PM–5:30 PM

(What They’ve Been Taught) (p.34) The Territory (p.24)

Q&A

5:45 PM–7:45 PM

Anonymous Sister (p.16)

TERRA SHORTS (p.46)

Q&A

Q&A

6:30 PM–8:30 PM

Into the Mountain (p.31) An Accidental Life (p.16)

7 PM–9 PM

WATER & ICE SHORTS (p.40)

Q&A

Q&A 8:30 PM–10:45 PM

Beneath Our Feet (p.28) McCurry: The Pursuit of Colour (p.20)

8:30 PM–10:30 PM

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COFFEE TALKS (p. 88)

10 AM–NOON

GLOBAL POV SHORTS (p.50)

10 AM–NOON

1 PM–3 PM

1 PM–3 PM

Thomas Deininger: Trash Artist (p.34) One Road to Quartzsite (p.21)

Q&A

10 AM–11:45 AM

Stephanie Miller: Ibach (p.30) Progress Not Perfection Mission: Joy — Finding (p.77) Happiness in Troubled Times (p.20) Woodwell Climate Scientists (p.77)

DIRT & ROCK SHORTS (p.38) 2 PM–4 PM

Q&A

How Threatened is American Democracy? (p.79)

4 PM–6:15 PM

BASE CAMP OUTDOOR THEATER IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

*Now at Ah Haa School

4 PM–6:15 PM

Sonder (p.33) Pasang: In the Shadow of Everest (p.22)

Pili Ka Mo’o (p.33) Delikado (p.18)

Q&A

Q&A

7 PM–9 PM

TBA

7:30 PM–9:30 PM

Tigre Gente (p.25)

Q&A 8 PM–11 PM

STIO PARTY WITH LIVE MUSIC @THE LIBERTY (p. 95)

8:30 PM–10:15 PM

REEL ROCK 16 SHORTS (p.56)

Q&A

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SC HE DULE MONDAY 8:00 AM 8:15 8:30 8:45 9:00 AM 9:15 9:30 9:45 10:00 AM 10:15 10:30 10:45 11:00 AM 11:15 11:30 11:45 12:00 PM 12:15 12:30 12:45 1:00 PM 1:15 1:30 1:45 2:00 PM 2:15 2:30 2:45 3:00 PM 3:15 3:30 3:45 4:00 PM 4:15 4:30 4:45 5:00 PM 5:15 5:30 5:45 6:00 PM 6:15 6:30 6:45 7:00 PM 7:15 7:30 7:45 8:00 PM 8:15 8:30 8:45 9:00 PM 9:15 9:30 9:45 10:00 PM 10:15 10:30 10:45 11:00 PM 11:15 11:30 11:45 12:00 AM

PALM

HIGH CAMP

SHERIDAN OPERA HOUSE

NUGGET

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CAPACITY [500]

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CAPACITY [165]

8 AM–10 AM

9 AM–11:15 AM

Controlled Burn (p.29) The Sanctity of Space (p.23)

9 AM–10:45 AM

Cheryl Strayed & Tom Shadyac: What Now? (p.80)

Cenote (p.29) Horse Tamer (p.19)

9 AM–10:45 AM

This is Beth (p.33) Beyond Sunset (p.28) Learning to Drown (p.20)

Q&A 10:30 AM–12:30 PM

Q&A

Anonymous Sister (pg.16)

Q&A NOON–1:30 PM

KIDS KINO (p.60)

11:45 AM–1:45 PM

TBA

NOON–2 PM

TBA

Q&A

6 FILM 6 EVENT 6 PRESENTATION 6 BASE CAMP 6 TBA 6 FILM 6 EVENT 6 PRESENTATION 6 BASE CAMP 6 TBA

MONDAY SC HEDULE MASONS

TRANSFER WAREHOUSE

LIBRARY

BASE CAMP

CAPACITY [145]

CAPACITY [150]

CAPACITY [65]

TOWN PARK MAIN STAGE

9 AM–10:45 AM

Beneath Our Feet (p.28) McCurry : The Pursuit of Colour (p.20)

10 AM–NOON

LOCAL LEGENDS AND STEEP THRILLS (p.58)

Q&A

NOON–2 PM

TBA

1 PM–4 PM

CLOSING PICNIC & AWARDS CEREMONY (p. 95)

THANK YOU FOR A WONDERFUL FESTIVAL!

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FRIDAY, 10 AM, HIGH CAMP

RICK RIDGEWAY: LIFE LIVED WILD

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JAMES BALOG: THE HUMAN ELEMENT

Followed by a special conversation with Conrad Anker

Followed by a special conversation with Guest Director Jeff Orlowski-Yang

Collectively spending more than five years of his life pitching and sleeping in tents in some of the most remote regions of the world yields Rick Ridgeway the sort of rare life experiences that taught him how to “distinguish matters of consequence from matters of inconsequence.”

In his memoir, Life Lived Wild: Adventures at the Edge of the Map, Ridgeway reflects on his ambitious feats: the first American ascent of K2; the first direct coast-to-coast traverse of Borneo; the first crossing on foot of an extremely remote 300mile corner of Tibet that no outsider had ever trekked. Despite these seemingly insurmountable exploits, it’s the small unexpected encounter with a butterfly at 23,000 feet on K2 and the relationships he forged with his fellow travelers, like Patagonia’s Yvon Chouinard, that Ridgeway cherishes most in Life Lived Wild.

Join Ridgeway as he shares how his greatest adventures and relationships shaped his desire to protect wild places and create a better world.

An environmental photographer, thinker and long-time presenter at Mountainfilm, James Balog has spent the last 40 years working to turn attention toward the impact humans have on our environment and climate change. As the founder of Extreme Ice Survey, Balog and his EIS were featured in Chasing Ice (Mountainfilm 2012) for their renowned study of glaciers and the implications of climate change within this environment. In his latest book The Human Element: A Time Capsule from the Anthropocene, Balog shares remarkable images and insights that National Geographic’s Dennis Dimick calls “...a profound statement by a force of nature on the forces of nature.

The scale, scope and versatility of his vision is without compare.” In this presentation, Balog will share stunning images and provocative ideas from The Human Element.

Please join Rick and James for a book signing at the Hotel Madeline’s Timber Room at 12:15 p.m.

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JEFF ORLOWSKI-YANG: THE CLIMATE STORIES WE NEED TO BE TELLING NOW

SATURDAY, 10 AM, TRANSFER WAREHOUSE

Mountainfilm’s 2022 Guest Director Jeff Orlowski-Yang is known for his work as a director, producer and filmmaker of award-winning films Chasing Ice (Norman Vaughan Indomitable Spirit Award 2012), Chasing Coral (Mountainfilm Audience Award and Student Award, 2017) and The Social Dilemma. As the founder of the award-winning production company Exposure Labs, Orlowski-Yang’s mission of using film to create stories for a better future is part of a growing ecosystem of storytellers and practitioners that

continue to forge conversations leading to action and meaningful change. Join Jeff, Impact Team members, Megha Agrawl Sood (Doc Society) and Jade Begay (NDN Collective) to discuss the climate stories we need to be telling now. Learn more about the critical importance of story in the midst of the climate crisis and best practices for working in collaboration + reciprocity with organizers and movements. The speakers will share their learnings and facilitate a hearty Q & A with the audience.

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NALINI NADKARNI & TIERNEY THYS: PORTALS TO NATURE

SATURDAY, 10 AM, WILKINSON PUBLIC LIBRARY

Drs. Nalini Nadkarni and Tierney Thys have spent years studying the influence of nature contact and education on some of our nation’s most severely naturedeprived audiences — incarcerated populations. With nature film and soundtracks as their experimental tools, they have measured beneficial impacts on human behavior and health to develop best practices for working with hard-to-reach audiences who live or work where nature is

not. This dynamic duo will share the latest findings of nature imagery and sounds on human health, and then highlight their prison work which was honored by TIME magazine as one of the top inventions of 2014.

The workshop will close with a lively participatory discussion inviting audience members to explore innovative, non-traditional ways of getting nature docs to those who need them most.

This presentation is free to the public after passholders are seated.

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A SPECIAL TRIBUTE TO BILL KEES

SATURDAY, 9 AM, SHERIDAN OPERA HOUSE

In 1972, Bill and Susan Kees rolled into the Telluride Valley with their kids in tow and never looked back. Bill’s love for adventure, the mountains and everything outdoors inspired him to co-found Mountainfilm Festival in 1979, alongside Lito Tejada-Flores.

Throughout his life, Kees dedicated himself to perfecting and embodying the art of mountain living. Known to many as ‘The Father of the Ophir Wall,’ he was among the most influential pioneers in the area — with dozens of routes to his name. An avid backcountry skier, Bill and his friends snagged first tracks on nearly every face in the San Juans. His adventures reached far beyond the box canyon

as his swansong took him from the headwaters of the Green River all the way down the Colorado to the Gulf of California.

The Mountainfilm family gathers to honor Bill with memories, photos, short film clips and toasts from friends and special guests. Join us as we pay tribute and honor the legacy of our founding father, Bill Kees.

In the tradition of Mountainfilm’s early years, there will be a homebaked pie reception in the downstairs Opera House SHOW Bar immediately following the program.

This presentation is free to the public.

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MEET THE GRIST FIXERS

SATURDAY, 2 PM, TRANSFER WAREHOUSE

If you look beyond the doom and gloom of the climate conversation, you’ll find inspiring, visionary leaders working to solve the world’s biggest challenges in equitable and innovative ways. But what makes these visionaries tick? How do their personal paths and experiences inform their passion for climate action and environmental justice? For many of them it was finding wonder, peace and joy in the outdoors.

Join Grist board member Brady Piñero Walkinshaw in conversation with Favianna Rodriguez (Center for Cultural Power), Jade Begay (NDN Collective) and T. Jane Zelikova (500 Women Scientists) as they recount

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their personal paths to climate activism and how experiences in the outdoors catalyzed their trajectories as climate and justice advocates.

This session is presented by Grist, the national media partner of Mountainfilm, and Grist’s solutions lab, Fix. Grist is a nonprofit, independent media organization dedicated to telling stories of climate solutions and a just future. Through creative storytelling, network-building and events, Fix shines a light on the visionaries whose bold ideas are powering real, tangible progress, leading the way to a planet that works for everyone.

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STEPHANIE MILLER: PROGRESS NOT PERFECTION

In conversation with Rebecca Martin Former Director of Climate Business at the World Bank Group, Stephanie Miller left her 25-year corporate career to embark on a personal experiment to better understand how her daily decisions could impact the climate and waste crises. After stumbling on the zero waste movement, she realized it’s about progress and practice, not perfection. Her 80/20 approach to zero waste living is simple: focus on 20 percent of those things that make 80 percent of the biggest difference and individuals will make a real, sustainable impact. In this discussion with longtime Mountainfilm attendee and board member, and Exploration Connections Founder and President Rebecca Martin, the two delve into what led Stephanie to embark on her zero waste journey, her aha moments along the way, and the steps each of us can take to lead a more sustainable lifestyle.

INTERTWINED FATES: THE ARCTIC, THE AMAZON AND US Join Woodwell Climate Research scientists Drs. Susan Natali, Max Holmes, Michael Coe, research assistant Ellen Bradley and artist Aaron Dysart as they discuss the many benefits our most treasured natural places provide, including storing carbon and cooling the planet. Right now, climate change and human activities are eroding the resilience and natural functions of ecosystems. From the Arctic to the Amazon, longstanding carbon sinks are turning into carbon sources that could threaten our global climate future. This panel of brilliant minds will bring together the perspectives of art and science with the intertwined fates of people and ecosystems around the globe.

Coffee and pastries will be served. Following the speakers, join Stephanie Miller for a signing of her book, Zero Waste Living: the 80/20 Way.

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LEN NECEFER: BRIDGING DIVIDES

SUNDAY, NOON, SHERIDAN OPERA HOUSE

With a screening of Spirit of the Peaks (pg. 23) Following the screening of Spirit of the Peaks, Dr. Len Necefer, CEO and Founder of NativesOutdoors and executive producer of the film, will be joined by Hunkpapa Lakota skier and co-director of Spirit of the Peaks Connor Ryan. They will discuss Indigenous perspectives in filmmaking and ski mountaineering, and bridging the divides that stand in the way of cultivating reciprocity between sport and the sacred, natural world. The two, along with

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other special guests, will dive into the nuances of Indigenous perspectives in the greater Southwest and the San Juan Mountains and share insights on how to work with and alongside native communities to create a sustainable future through the stories they tell.

Necefer’s storytelling work melds the intersection of sport, environmental advocacy and Indigenous people and has been featured in the Alpinist, National Geographic and over 50 film festivals globally.

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BEAUCHAMP, CORASANITI AND LOMBROSO: HOW THREATENED IS AMERICAN DEMOCRACY?

SUNDAY, 2 PM, TRANSFER WAREHOUSE

For many years, journalists and scholars have warned that democracy in the United States has been under threat. January 6 legitimized those warnings and proved prescient; the question now is not whether American democracy is imperiled but rather how serious the danger is.

On this panel, Vox’s Zack Beauchamp, Nick Corasaniti of The New York Times, and the director of The Atlantic’s documentary feature film

White Noise, Daniel Lombroso, will discuss what their reporting has uncovered about the dangers to American democracy and where they think things might go next. The three will talk about voting rights, gerrymandering, the far-right and the information ecosystem as it stands today. The panelists will also address the relevance of the rise of populism, authoritarianism and far-right candidates around the world.

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CHERYL STRAYED & TOM SHADYAC: WHAT NOW?

MONDAY, 8 AM, SHERIDAN OPERA HOUSE

After three days of immersion in incredible documentaries, uplifting stories and remarkable individuals, you are feeling electrified, abuzz with possibility and motivated to create a better world. But how do you take that inspiration and incorporate it into your real life in ways that are meaningful and impactful?

Both longtime friends of the festival, Hollywood filmmaker, writer and director of blockbuster comedies such as Ace Ventura, The Nutty Professor, Bruce Almighty and documentary I Am (Mountainfilm

2010 Audience Award Winner and Student Award), Tom Shadyac will join Wild author and co-director of the film We Are Forbidden (Mountainfilm 2019), co-host of popular podcast Dear Sugar Radio, and Mountainfilm special guest, judge, speaker and 2019 Guest Director Cheryl Strayed to tackle the question “what now?” in this festival-wrap conversation about turning motivation into action. Timmy O’Neill will open and host the event, sharing musings about personal wisdom and insight into communal wisdom; tempered by his lighthearted wit and humor.

Free and open to the public.

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EVENTS

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ART WALK

COFFEE TALKS

DOC TALKS

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FREE RANGE PROGRAMS

PARTIES & MORE

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ART WALK Opening Reception Friday, 4 p.m.–7 p.m.

Mountainfilm is partnering with Telluride Arts to celebrate and showcase the work of top visual artists and creatives with the Art Walk. The opening reception is Friday from 4 p.m.-7 p.m. with exhibits peppered across various venues and galleries in downtown Telluride.

PAR TICIPATIN G VENUES Atelier 215 E. Colorado Ave.

Slate Gray Gallery 209 E. Colorado Ave.

Bella Fine Goods 213 W. Colorado Ave.

Red Dirt Studio Gallery 201 W. Colorado Ave.

Crossbow Leather 217 E. Colorado Ave. Elinoff & Co. 204 W. Colorado Ave. La Cocina de Luz 123 E. Colorado Ave.

Telluride Gallery of Fine Art 130 E. Colorado Ave. Telluride Truffle 171 S. Pine St.

Tellurado Studio 219 E. Colorado Ave.

Tony Newlin Gallery 100 W. Colorado Ave.

Telluride Arts HQ Gallery 220 W. Colorado Ave.

Wilkinson Public Library 100 W. Pacific Ave.

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EVENT S | AR T WALK

Main Street mural by JR PHOTO: MARK AZOULAY

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AR T WALK | EVENT S

F E AT U R E D A R T I S T S ANNA BRONES 2022 Mountainfilm poster artist at Telluride Arts HQ Anna Brones is a writer, artist and producer. She is the author of several books: The Culinary Cyclist, Fika: The Art of the Swedish Coffee Break; Paris Coffee Revolution; Hello, Bicycle; Best Served Wild: Real Food for Real Adventures and Live Lagom: Balanced Living the Swedish Way. Her film production work includes Mending the Line (Mountainfilm 2014) and Les Voyageurs Sans Trace (Mountainfilm 2016). She is the co-director of Wild Harvest: Alaska (Mountainfilm 2017) and the producer of the film Afghan Cycles (Mountainfilm 2018). Brones is the creator of Mountainfilm’s 2022 poster, where she blends the mediums of paper cutting and watercolor to capture the essence of the interwoven relationship between humans and nature. Visit Telluride Arts HQ to view Brones’ work.

JR Main Street mural artist at 210 W. Colorado Ave. (Main Street) JR, a pseudonym of his first name Jean-René, is a French photographer, street artist and filmmaker known for his photographic collage technique used for the murals he exhibits around the world for free. His award-winning films Women are Heroes, Le Grand Journal, Inside Out: The People’s Art Project and Faces, Places continue to expose audiences to a slew of the realities and challenges facing humanity today. His Mountainfilm mural is based on a photograph by renowned Black photographer, musician, artist and director Gordon Parks.

AARON DYSART Woodwell Climate Research Center guest artist “Latitude” at Transfer Warehouse Aaron Dysart is a sculptor interested in using colorful spectacle to give hidden stories a broader audience. His environmental interventions showcase his love of light shows, fog machines and data, while his objects showcase his love of material’s ability to carry content. He has shown nationally and partnered with organizations including the National Park Service, Army Corp of Engineers and Woodwell Climate Research Center. His work has been in publications such as Art in America, Hyperallergic and Berlin Art Link. Dysart’s “Latitude” installation can be found on display at the Transfer Warehouse on Saturday and Sunday.

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EVENT S | C OFFEE TALK S

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COFFEE TALKS

Saturday and Sunday, 8 a.m.–9 a.m.

Mountainfilm kicks off the mornings with our popular Coffee Talks.

We’re bringing together some longtime friends of the festival, along with first-timers, for engaging discussions. Bring a cup of joe and join us as we dive into conversations on equity, climate change, diversity, community organizing, environmental advocacy and matters of the heart.

LOCATIONS/HOSTS #1 TRANSFER WAREHOUSE / MATT HOISCH

#4 AH HAA SCHOOL / BIANCA DARBY-MATTEODA

#2 WILKINSON PUBLIC LIBRARY / SARAH STEELE

#5 HOTEL TELLURIDE / LAURA COLBERT

#3 MOUNTAIN LODGE / JON TUKMAN

SATURDAY #1 BUILDING TOWARDS EQUITY Filmmaker and activist, Abigail Disney, great-niece of Walt Disney and co-director of The American Dream & Other Fairy Tales, is a dedicated advocate for change of America’s dysfunctional, unequal economy. Through her work, she strives to leverage her family’s name to impact these inequities plaguing our nation. Join Abigail as she dives into a deeper conversation on how we can impact the systemic inequality that comes with the pursuit of the “American Dream.”

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#2 BEYOND DIVERSITY: BUILDING A MORE INCLUSIVE WORLD Regan Byrd is an activist, speaker and trainer, who has dedicated her career to training organizations on cultivating safe environments in the workplace with anti-oppression and allyship at the forefront. She participates in expert panels discussing topics ranging from critical race theory to policy history and housing justice.

Listen in as Byrd, local powerhouse Claudia Garcia Curzio and other special guests discuss how we can work together to build a more inclusive and diverse world.

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SATURDAY #3 CLIMATE BRIGHT SPOTS: WHAT’S GOOD?

Thank goodness, it’s not all bad!

Nuna Teal of One Earth; National Geographic Explorer, biologist and filmmaker Tierney Thys; former Director of Climate Business (the private sector arm of the World Bank Group) Stephanie Miller; and Woodwell Climate Research Center’s Arctic Program director Susan Natali will discuss the bright spots in the climate fight.

#4 IMPROVING COMMUNITIES & GRASSROOTS ORGANIZING Maine State Senator Chloe Maxmin and her campaign manager Canyon Woodward, both subjects in Rural Runners (Mountainfilm 2022), distill their experiences into concrete lessons that can be applied to rural districts across the country to build power from the local and state levels on up. They lay out a new long-term vision for Democrats to rebuild trust and win campaigns in rural America by translating progressive values to a rural context. Listen in on ways to move beyond the failed strategies of establishment consultants by utilizing grassroots-movement organizing strategies to effectively engage moderate rural voters.

Followed by a book signing of Dirt Road Revival: How to Rebuild Rural Politics and Why Our Future Depends on It

#5 FIVE BULLETS THAT CHANGED A NEIGHBORHOOD: STOPPING VIOLENCE IN VULNERABLE COMMUNITIES When Terrance Roberts fired five shots in 2013 in Denver’s historic Holly Square, it marked the end of an era and landed the acclaimed anti-gang activist in jail, facing life in prison. This panel, including film subject of The Holly (Mountainfilm 2022) and Denver mayoral candidate Roberts — a former gang member who previously served a decade in prison — discusses the hidden factors behind violence and what complicates efforts to stop it. Other panelists include The Holly director Julian Rubinstein and producer donnie l. betts.

Followed by a book signing of The Holly

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SUNDAY #1 THE ALT-RIGHT LANDSCAPE AND CHANGES OF HEART In this particularly divisive time in our history, the quest for truthful dialogue and understanding is paramount.

In this powerful conversation about the landscape of the alt-right and unexpected changes of heart, Mac McKinney, subject of Stranger at the Gate (Mountainfilm 2022), talks to Daniel Lombroso, director of American Scar (Mountainfilm 2022) and journalist whose debut feature White Noise with The Atlantic was the result of a four-year commitment to investigating and exposing the roots of rising white nationalism in the U.S. and abroad.

#2 DISTURBANCE AND RECOVERY: A CRITICAL THEME IN NATURE, HUMAN LIVES AND FILM

Disturbances are a ubiquitous and unpredictable feature in nature and our lives, and often are portrayed in the films we make — forest burns, airplane crashes, natural disasters, personal disasters and pandemics.

Yet, disturbances can also lead to regeneration and creativity.

The way we perceive and portray disturbances reveal a wide range of consequences, exposing an untapped realm of creativity and spirituality. Join Dr. Nalini Nadkarni to consider how these precepts might move us towards a deeper understanding of the paths to recovery.

#3 FULL CIRCLE WITH THE LOWE-ANKERS The story of Alex Lowe’s death on Shishapangma in 1999, and the family he left behind, is the subject of Max Lowe’s film Torn (Mountainfilm 2022). Join Jenni Lowe-Anker, Conrad Anker and Max Lowe as they discuss the six-year journey of the film, from speaking publicly about the discovery of Alex’s body at Mountainfilm in the spring of 2016 to sharing the film here at the festival.

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#4 NAVIGATION Join film subjects Dani Izzie (Dani’s Twins, Mountainfilm 2022 — world premiere, Mountainfilm Commitment Grant winner) and Quinn Brett (An Accidental Life, Mountainfilm 2022, Mountainfilm Commitment Grant winner) as they discuss navigating societal prejudice vis-a-vis a host of topics, from relationships to parenting to extreme sports with a disability as they work to raise awareness for spinal cord injuries.

#5 NATIVE VOICES: THE INTERSECTION OF MOUNTAIN SPORTS, FILMMAKING AND ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCACY Founder of Natives Outdoors, Dr. Len Necefer and Connor Ryan (co-director/subject, Spirit of the Peaks) will be joined by Jade Begay (Climate Justice Campaign Director, NDN Collective), Tracy Rector (Managing Director, Nia Tero) and Isaiah Branch-Boyle (cinematographer, Spirit of the Peaks) to discuss why it’s vital to incorporate the Native perspective in issues of conservation, land management and the outdoors.

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DOC TALKS Mountainfilm’s newly designed DocTalks will focus on themes of authentic support for what creatives are seeking in our hyperconnected world.

Our panels, workshops and peer-to-peer discussions are designed to understand the forces at play, connection and the intersection between what we want and how to get there. Sessions will be hosted by Caitlin Mae Burke and Merrill Sterritt from IF/THEN Shorts, a fund and mentorship program for short documentaries that supports storytellers in breaking barriers to access, exposure and sustainability in the media landscape.

DocTalk workshops are intended for filmmakers and special guests.

STORIES FOR A BETTER FUTURE: FILMMAKER WORKSHOP WITH JEFF ORLOWSKI-YANG AND EXPOSURE LABS IMPACT TEAM FRIDAY, 5 PM TRANSFER WAREHOUSE

Using film for impact is part of Mountainfilm’s most foundational ethos. Join Guest Director Jeff Orlowski-Yang and the Exposure Labs Impact Team to discuss best practices for creating impactful films that operate at the intersection of storytelling and movements, support a holistic, inclusive production process, and how to work in collaboration and reciprocity with organizers, movements and more.

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IF/THEN SHORTS PRESENTS: MASTERING THE ART OF THE PITCH AND RELATIONSHIP BUILDING SATURDAY, 10 AM AH HAA SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS

Pitching your documentary is no easy feat, yet it’s a fundamental skill all filmmakers should master. Join pitch mentors Caitlin Mae Burke and Merrill Sterritt to learn the ropes on nailing your elevator pitch. They will also offer additional filmmaker advocacy tips, such as general etiquette when navigating festivals and meetings, and building relationships with collaborators and decision makers in the industry.

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A FRESH PERSPECTIVE IN FESTIVAL STRATEGY AND DISTRIBUTION

HOW TO MAKE A (REAL) LIVING AS A FILMMAKER

SATURDAY, 5 PM TRANSFER WAREHOUSE

SUNDAY, 5 PM TRANSFER WAREHOUSE

The landscape of how decisionmakers discover films online and outside of the festival setting has shifted hugely with COVID. With access being as simple as the click of a link, where and how films premiere is beginning to matter less. Join our panelists to discuss what festival strategies look like now and how final distribution is being impacted.

Panelists: Kathryn Everett (XTR), Eric d’Arbeloff (Roadside Attractions), Zana Lawrence (Netflix) and Evan Hayes (Ace Content)

With lower production costs and post-production technology at nearly everyone’s fingertips, filmmakers and content creators are popping up everywhere. Breaking into the filmmaking industry is easier than ever, yet building a viable career and making a living at it is the real challenge.

Panelist Filmmakers: Diane Quon, Stacy Peralta, Renan Ozturk, Lindsey Hagen and Rachel Lears

ALL THINGS SHORTS: HOW TO GET FUNDED, FIND YOUR AUDIENCE AND MAKE A DIFFERENCE SUNDAY, 10 AM AH HAA SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS

Hear from experts, from filmmakers and tastemakers to the folks behind the scenes at Vimeo, Nia Tero and Kickstarter as they discuss the evolution, innovation and necessity of short films in the overall film landscape.

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Panelists: Skye Fitzgerald (Academy Award-nominated filmmaker), Tracy Rector (Nia Tero), Elise McCave (Kickstarter), Blair Barnes (Vimeo), Merrill Sterritt and Caitlin Mae Burke (IF/THEN SHORTS)

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EVENTS | FREE RANGE PROGRAMS

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FREE RANGE PROGRAMS SATURDAY THROUGH MONDAY, ELKS PARK

Mountainfilm has a history of getting people outside, and to honor that tradition, we offer Free Range Programs — events centered around the forests, trails and landscapes of Telluride. This year, The North Face is hosting our Free Range headquarters in Elks Park featuring world-class athletes including Conrad Anker, Jim Morrison, Jess Kimura, Erik Leon, Renan Ozturk and others.

VENTURE OUT WITH THE NORTH FACE

STOP BY AND SIGN UP AT THE NORTH FACE TENT STARTING SATURDAY AT 9 AM

Passholders and the general public are welcome at these free events but there is limited space of 8 to 10 people per event. Saturday and Sunday there will be afternoon happy hours sponsored by Telluride Brewing Company and Spire Wines from 3 p.m.–5 p.m.

SATURDAY

10 AM-NOON Indoor Climbing with TNF athlete Conrad Anker 1 PM-3 PM Hike Bear Creek with TNF athlete Erik Leon 3 PM-5 PM Happy Hour and Athlete Chat

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10 AM-NOON - Hike Jud Wiebe with TNF athlete Jim Morrison NOON-1 PM - Skateboarding Session with Janwaar director Danny Schmidt, local legend Craig Wasserman and TNF athlete Erik Leon

MONDAY

10 AM-NOON Hike with TNF athlete Erik Leon

1 PM-3 PM - Hike Bear Creek with TNF athlete Renan Ozturk 3 PM-5 PM - Happy Hour and Athlete Chat

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San Miguel Power Association is an equal-opportunity provider and employer.

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GREEN Clean Energy Committee

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EVENT S | PAR TIES & MORE

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PARTIES & MORE

Along with the films, speakers, panels, hikes, book signings and art walk, Mountainfilm squeezes a few parties and special surprises into the mix.

Special events are free to the public, unless otherwise noted.

WOODWELL PARTY

network and compare notes.

Featuring homemade ice cream from local restaurant La Cocina de Luz.

Join Mountainfilm’s partner, Woodwell Climate Research Center, to kick off the weekend celebrating 35 years of Woodwell’s collaborative transformational research and education to combat climate change and safeguard the future of life here on Earth.

This event is free and open to the public.

THURSDAY, 8 PM SMUGGLER’S BREWPUB

This event is open to the public.

ICE CREAM SOCIAL

SATURDAY, 2 PM-3:30 PM COLORADO AVENUE (MAIN STREET) BETWEEN ASPEN AND FIR STREETS

It’s called the Ice Cream Social, but there’s much more than scoops of free frozen treats. It’s a place to connect with fellow Mountainfilmers,

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Be sure to stop by Between the Covers at 224 W. Colorado Ave. for a special book signing featuring local authors and tons of Mountainfilm-related titles

MOUNTAINFILM: THE EARLY YEARS

SATURDAY, 2 PM-3:30 PM WILKINSON PUBLIC LIBRARY TERRACE

Join Mountainfilm special guests for this intimate conversation about the early years of Mountainfilm, founded in 1979 by Bill Kees and Lito Tejada-Flores. This panel of climbing and filmmaking luminaries will tell stories of the early festival years,

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PA R T I E S & M O R E | E V E N T S where attendees played outside in the mountains by day and watched cutting-edge mountain films by night.

In person: Edgar Boyles, Susan Kees, Scott Ransom and Lito Tejada-Flores

HAPPY HOUR & ATHLETE CHAT WITH THE NORTH FACE

SATURDAY, 3 PM-5 PM - ELKS PARK

Join TNF for an afternoon Happy Hour and Athlete Chat featuring worldclass athletes Conrad Anker, Jim Morrison, Jess Kimura, Erik Leon and Renan Ozturk.

This event is sponsored by Telluride Brewing Company and Spire Wines.

YETI PRESENTS: SATURDAY NIGHT DANCE PARTY SATURDAY, 8 PM-11 PM THE LIBERTY

Yeti invites the community to gather for a night of music, celebration and dancing. Catch up with friends, meet some new ones and boogie away the night with DJ Wombat.

This event is open to passholders only.

OSPREY SPOKEN WORD WITH CRAIG CHILDS & TIMMY O’NEILL SUNDAY, 2 PM-3 PM JAGGED EDGE MOUNTAIN GEAR

Calling all writers and lovers of the spoken word! Craig Childs, author of Atlas of a Lost World: Travels in Ice Age America, and Timmy O’Neill, professional rock climber and public speaker, are joining forces for a spoken-word event at Jagged Edge, hosted by Osprey.

This event is free and open to the public.

HAPPY HOUR & ATHLETE CHAT WITH THE NORTH FACE

SUNDAY, 3 PM-5 PM - ELKS PARK

Join TNF for an afternoon Happy Hour and Athlete Chat featuring worldclass athletes Conrad Anker,

Jim Morrison, Jess Kimura, Erik Leon and Renan Ozturk.

This event is sponsored by Telluride Brewing Company and Spire Wines.

STIO PRESENTS: LIVE MUSIC PARTY

SUNDAY, 8 PM-11 PM - THE LIBERTY

Meet us at The Liberty to wrap up an amazing Mountainfilm weekend with entertainment from special guests and members of Birds of Play performing live. Enjoy music, dancing and mingle with filmmakers and guests.

This event is open to passholders only.

CLOSING PICNIC & AWARDS CEREMONY MONDAY, 1 PM-4 PM AWARDS CEREMONY STARTS AT 2:30 PM TELLURIDE TOWN PARK

Wrap up the festival with a delicious vegetarian lunch from La Cocina de Luz and the festival awards in the park. Rather than voting once for your favorite film, you’ll have the chance to rate every feature film you watch during Mountainfilm in Telluride May 27-30. You can vote by using the Mountainfilm app or by a web browser in your Eventive account.

Voting for Audience Choice ends at 2 p.m.

The picnic is free with your Patron, Ama Dablam, Special Guest & Palmyra passes.

Tickets available for $30 at the gate.

MOUNTAINFILM DOWNLOW

MONDAY, 7 PM-9 PM TRANSFER WAREHOUSE

This live storytelling event produced

by Telluride Theater features ingenious, hilarious, outrageous and moving tales by Mountainfilm guests and local performers.

This special event is open to the public.

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Bring Mountainfilm home to your community!

We provide inspirational short film programs with a full suite of marketing assets and operational tools to support your event. Additionally, Mountainfilm for Students programs are free for any K-12 public school. Learn more at:

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AWARDS

Festival awards are announced at the Closing Picnic and Awards Ceremony, which takes place in Telluride Town Park on Monday from 1 p.m.–4 p.m.

AUDIENCE CHOICE: $5,000 The winner of this award will be decided by Mountainfilm in Telluride attendees. All feature films (films over 40 minutes in length) are eligible.

MOVING MOUNTAINS: $2,500 This award honors films that focus on social justice and impact, and supports both the filmmaker and the film’s associated nonprofit.

Funded in part by Tully & Elise Friedman.

Funded in part by Tully & Elise Friedman.

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE: $5,000 This juried award celebrates exceptional filmmaking for feature films (films over 40 minutes in length).

WOMEN IN FILM: $2,500 This award is presented to an outstanding woman in the film industry who shows excellence and indomitable spirit either in front of or behind the camera.

Funded in part by Tully & Elise Friedman.

BEST SHORT FILM: $1,000 This juried award celebrates exceptional filmmaking for short films (films under 40 minutes in length).

Funded in part by Tully & Elise Friedman.

CHARLIE FOWLER BEST ADVENTURE FILM: $2,500 Charlie Fowler was a world-class climber and Telluride crag pioneer who died on a 2006 expedition in China with his partner Christine Boskoff. This juried award goes to the best adventure film.

Funded by the Fowler family.

Funded by Riccarda de Eccher & Bill Goldston.

STUDENT CHOICE: $1,000 High school students from the immersive Mountainfilm for Students program select the film they think will best inspire their generation.

Funded by Telluride Academy

2022 AWARDS ARTIST: R. NELSON PARRISH Alaskan sculptor R. Nelson Parrish’s tactile, dynamic pieces represent a fusion of natural and synthetic, sculpture and painting. They aim to disengage the viewer from the peripheral and focus on the present moment — eliciting a calm that is rare in today’s chaotic world.

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BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE ERIC D’ARBELOFF

Eric d’Arbeloff is the Co-Founder and Co-President of Roadside Attractions, which creates innovative releases for specialty feature films. Roadside films have garnered numerous awards, as well as a cumulative box office of almost half a billion dollars. D’Arbeloff produced films include Trick (Sundance 1999), Lovely & Amazing (Telluride Film Festival 2001), and All Is Lost (Cannes 2013).

KATHRYN EVERETT

Kathryn Everett is the Co-Founder and Head of Film at XTR and Co-Founder of the streaming platform DOCUMENTARY+.

Kathryn has executive produced Oscar-nominated, Emmy and Peabody award-winning documentaries, including Hunger Ward (Mountainfilm 2021) and 76 Days. She currently serves as a board member for Iqra Fund.

SHEILA NEVINS

Sheila Nevins is the foremother of documentary filmmaking, earning countless Oscars, Peabodys and Emmy awards over the course of her 50-plus-year career. Nevins joined HBO in 1979 and served as the network’s President of Documentary and Family Programming from 2005-2018. She oversaw more than 1,000 documentaries during her tenure at HBO and is now the Head of MTV Documentary division of MTV Studios.

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BEST SHORT FILM SKYE FITZGERALD

Skye Fitzgerald has built a career documenting global human rights and social justice issues. He has shot for Dateline NBC, CNN, History Channel, Travel Channel and ABC. He most recently directed a trilogy of films on the global refugee crisis: 50 Feet from Syria (Mountainfilm 2016), Lifeboat (Mountainfilm 2018) and Hunger Ward (Mountainfilm 2021) — the latter two both receiving Mountainfilm Commitment Grants and Oscar nominations.

SIAN-PIERRE REGIS

Sian-Pierre Regis is a filmmaker who recently directed, produced and self-distributed his debut feature documentary Duty Free (Mountainfilm 2021). Prior to filmmaking, Regis was a journalist and on-camera contributor to CNN, HLN, MTV and founded Swagger, an online lifestyle magazine for millennials with over 1.5 million fans. He is a Firelight Media Fellow and Film Independent Documentary Lab Fellow.

TOM OYER

Tom Oyer is the Senior Vice President of Member Relations and Awards at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. His career with the Academy jump-started in the mailroom, from which he landed a role in the Awards department. Oyer has become the go-to for everything documentary-related and the point person for Live Action Short Film, Animated Short Film, and Makeup and Hairstyling categories for the Oscars.

PRESENTATIONS | EVENT S | AWARDS & JUDGES | B OARD & DON ORS | S TAFF | VOL UNTEERS | IN MEMORIAM | MAPS

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CHARLIE FOWLER BEST ADVENTURE FILM PETE TAKEDA

Pete Takeda is a writer, filmmaker and climber. He is the editor of Accidents in North American Climbing and has penned stories for Alpinist, Rock and Ice, Outside, and Backpacker. He is the author of National Geographic: Climb! and An Eye at the Top of the World. Takeda has served as a jury member for the Banff Mountain Book Competition, and is a board member of the American Alpine Club, the American Mountain Guides Association, and the Boulder Adventure Film Festival.

SHELMA JUN

Shelma Jun is the Founder of Flash Foxy, a multimedia platform that creates space and resources in climbing for women and gender non-conforming folks, and is the creator of the Flash Foxy Climbing Festival, a weekend of climbing, panels and clinics. Shelma’s directorial debut, Do Better Together, was an official selection for Mountainfilm 2020.

JOANNA CROSTON

Joanna Croston grew up and went to university in Eastern Canada before moving to the Canadian Rockies permanently in 1998. She is the Director of the Banff Centre Mountain Film and Book Festival and World Tour. Her writing has appeared in Highline Magazine, Gripped, The Canadian Alpine Journal, The Canadian Rockies Annual and Alpinist. Additionally, she authored Breaking Trail: Chic Scott’s Story.

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BOARD OF DIRECTORS Katherine Borsecnik, President Sheryl Tishman, Vice President Nancy Donohue, Treasurer Dylan Hoos, Secretary Jordan Campbell Erik Fallenius Jon Jones Rebecca Martin Juan D. Martinez-Pineda Dr. Losang Rabgey Debbie Resnick

ADVISORY BOARD Conrad Anker James Balog Arlene Burns Jimmy Chin Wade Davis Lynn Hill Aaron Huey Pico Iyer Chris Jordan Ben Knight Ace Kvale

Frans Lanting Maya Lin Hilaree Nelson Jeff OrlowskiYang Doug Peacock Louie Psihoyos Chris Rainier Chip Thomas Beth Wald Paul Watson

EMERITUS BOARD MEMBERS Susan Dalton Beth Gage Mike Shimkonis Rick Silverman

HONORARY BOARD OF TRUSTEES Dick & Susan Saint James Ebersol Tully & Elise Friedman Ann & Rich Teerlink

LEGACY CIRCLE DONORS We thank our most generous donors who have included Mountainfilm in their estate plans to provide future support.

Anonymous • pattie adler • Ruth E. Bender • Cathe & Chip Dyer Dr. Hill & Bettie Hastings • Sage & Alex Martin

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DON ORS EVEREST Anonymous (2) • Katherine Borsecnik & Gene Weil • Stuart & Joanna Brown • The Dalton Family Foundation • Nancy Donohue & Diane Elam • Erik & Josephine Fallenius • Tully & Elise Friedman, Honorary Trustees • The Kelly Family • Casey & Megan McManemin • High Meadows Group • Elizabeth R. Patterson • Dick & Susan Saint James Ebersol, Honorary Trustees • Jim & Joanne Steinback • Ann & Rich Teerlink, Honorary Trustees • Sheryl & Daniel Tishman • Kimberly Williams • Missy & Mike Young K2 Michael Goldberg & Ashley Hayward • Beth McLaughlin • Debbie & Jeff Resnick DENALI Anonymous (3) • Darlene & Jeff Anderson • Ruth Bender & Dan Sheline • Dan & Liz Caton • John &

Elizabeth Cleveland • Vevie & Lawrence Dimmitt • Chip & Cathe Dyer • Bruce & Bridgitt Evans • Elizabeth Farrar & Craig Echols • Bill Goldston & Riccarda de Eccher • Joseph & Lynne Horning • Johnson Family Foundation • Richard & Charlotte Jorgensen • John & Peiper Kirkendoll • Micheline Klagsbrun & Ken Grossinger • Jim & Kay Mabie • John & Bridget Macaskill • Donald E. Novak • Casey & Margaret Olson • Anu & Michelle Parekh • Rankin Family • Bama Rucker & Scott Bergren • Mark & Torri Savoff • Dinny Sherman • Spencer Stewart • Tom & Donna Stone • Terry Tice • Missy & Mike Young • Saul Zaentz Charitable Foundation

EIGER Anonymous • Kenneth Broad • Dan & Lisa Brooks • Steve & Kendall Cieciuch • In honor of Bonnie & Louis Cohen • Allen & Elizabeth Cutler • Hill & Bettie Hastings • Lisa Hogan • Jim Johnson & Paul Hokemeyer • Jeffrey Katz • Kyle Koehler • Tom & Ellie Lawrence • The Mannion Family • The Markley Family • Diane L. Max • Nan Moon • Barry & Carmen Nordstrand • Tess Peters • Scott J. Petty • Eileen Robertson • Anita & Prabha Sinha • The Spitzer Family • Elliot Steinberg EL CAPITAN Anonymous (2) • James & Alvina Bartos Balog Foundation • Deanna & Dann Byck • Lynn Brubaker & Richard Cornelius • Tony D’Amico • Mike Deputy • Danna English & Gary Rosenfeld • Jeff & Allison Goldberg • Garrett Gruener & Amy Slater • Clare Hart & Greg Baer • Charles Helzberg & Sandra Baer • Stark (Dillard) Kirby • Joe & Suzy La Rue • The Lehman-Stamm Family Fund • Brian Lindstrom & Cheryl Strayed • Kelli Petersen & Ken Bouley • Laura & Chris Pucillo • Isaac Savitz, Silver Lining Builders • Jeff & Darcie Schlegel • Drake Taylor AJAX Anonymous (2) • Robert Bank • George & Lydia Bubolo • Bonnie & Louis Cohen • Rod Colburn • Jean Davidow •

The Day Family • Durfee Day Family & La Marmotte • Cory Freyer • Julie Goldstein • Billy Harbert • P.J. Younglove Hovey • Lindsay Hower • Richard Hughes • Cheryl & Bill Jensen • Yale & Shanti Jones • Caroline Kirkendoll • Rick Koonce • Ken & Dorothy Lamm • The Brooke and Gregg Larson Family • Audrey Marnoy • Jerry & Merle Measer • Mary Moran • Miranda Morris • Shelley M.C. Mortvedt • Jeffrey N. Nelson & Lisa Hay • James Nichols • Joy & John O’Malley • Kim Perutz • Martha Piper • Christopher Pucillo • Megan Rast • Reese Henry & Company • Jamie Roche • Jennifer Rubin • Susan Schwartz • Todd & Betiana Simon • Suzanne Dyer Wise • Ellen Yarrell • Joseph Yrisarri • Carli Zug & Steve Szymanski

EL DIENTE Anonymous (4) • Fawn Alcaide • Lee Anderson • Anne Andrew • Conrad Anker & Jennifer Lowe-Anker • Richard

Arnold & Marshall Whiting • Ann & Mark Barker • Ilene & Richard Barth • Dawn Barton • Rhonda Barton • Adam Bechtel • Judy & Paul Beckett • Suzan Beraza & Doug Fergus • Blanche C. Hill Foundation • Judy Bolen • In honor of Katherine Borsecnik • Cameron Brooks • Mary Lou Brous • Anne & Toby Brown • Dean Bubolo • Jordan Campbell • Cameron Clark Photography • Alan Cohen • Vanessa Coleman • Diana Conovitz • Jason Corzine • Lynn Cranford • David Craige • Kimberly Crowley • Becky Cullen • In honor of Zak Danielson & Sarah Glatfelder • Robert Deahl • Janet & Patrick Dekle • Charmaine Dittmar • John Doerr • Mike & Jody Doherty • Paul Doi • Karen Dunovan • Dwight Martin Team • Rose Edwards • Virginia Egger & Andre Schwartz • Patrice Egleston • Eleanor Emery • The Entwistle Family • Rube Felicelli • Jessica Fertig • Terry Fisk • Heather Flaker • Amy Fordham • Susan Fralick • Nancy Frank • Dave & Lael Fruen • David Gardiner • David Gast & Elena Schmid • Kevin Geiger & Keri Yoder • Nancy & Doran Geise • Michael Gerstein • Judith Gordon • Mary Gorman • Kathy Green • Ellen Greubel • Thiago Guerra • Liz Gumerman • Vicki Hamilton • Janet Hardy • Armie Harper • Jerry Harter • Ruth Hensen • Jan Herrick • Emily Hickey • Barbara Hinterkopf • Dan & Marla Hodes • Dylan Hoos • Vance Howard • Sarah Husein • Judith Ingalls • Cherliza Jimenez • Linda Rudd Johnson • Don Jones • Beryl Jupiter • Bryanna Kallman • Susan Kaufman • Aaron Ketter • Peiper & John Kirkendoll • Lisa Kraus • Elyn Kronemeyer • Sean Laffey • Christiane Leitinger • Brendan Leonard • Jim & Sue Lincoln • Martin Madorsky • Samantha Marquart • Michael Martelon • Janice & Steve Martin • Lisa Martin • Molly Martin • Rebecca Martin • Gareth Martins • Mele Mason • Shane Matthews • Matt & Katie Maxwell • T. Greg Merrion • Kathleen & Jason Merritt • Carolyn Metzger • Amy L.H. Miller • Gloria Miller • Kate Miller • Matthew Millspaugh • Megan & Jonathon Mischke • Susan Morauer • Elizabeth Joy Mueller • Meagan Mueller • Diana Mulligan • Steve Munn • Doug Munson • Lisa & Victor Nemeroff Foundation • Sue Nonweiler • Kenneth O’Connor • Greg & Rebecca Oldani • Dave & Natty O’Leske • The Ozanne Family • Ozark Outdoor Supply • Richard Pace • Kevin Parke • Iddo Patt • Joanne Patton • Charles Peck • Angie Peterson • Lorin Peterson • Joanne Pike • Thomas Preston MD • Sadie Quarrier • Jennifer Radge • Jason & Peggy Raible • Mike Rankin • Rebecca Ranta • Gweneth Rehnborg • Johan Reinhard • Susan Rhodes • Erin Ries • Ames Risch • Robert Roark • Mark Rosenthal • Richard Rozehnal • Kelly Rubin • Greg Rucks • Lisa Sandquist • Sarah & Robert Schmidt • Ingrid Shockey • Thomas Shortall • Rick Silverman • Ulli Sir Jesse • Brooke Smith • Michaelle Smith • Morgan & Sarah Lavender Smith • Brenda Solomon • Shannon Spellman • Joanna Spindler • Steven Steinberg • Jessica Stevens • Carrie Stone • Kim Stone • Donald Strickert • Katherine Sugg • William Susman • Nancy & Keith Swanson • Zelda & Sheldon Tenenbaum • Tim’s Naturals • Irene Tuddenham • Karen Valaika • Vicki Vlasic • Kate & David Wadley • Peter Waldor • Anne Wenstrom & Selvie Sundari • Margi White • Sally & Jim Whitehead • Margaret Wiley • Susan Williams & Jarret Kinder • Alice & George Wislocki • Chris Zieve • Paul & Aleta Zoidis

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Anonymous (5) • Bradley Abelow • Ashley Abner • Matthias Adam • James Adams • Bas Afman • Cynthia Agobian • Noah Albro • John Alguire • Tracey Allard • Lisa Allee • Elizabeth Allen • Alicia Allsopp • Diane Altieri • Stephen Altmin • Sasha Alyse • Emily Amburgey • Dave Anderson • Mary H. 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