Mountainfilm in Telluride 2010 Program

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I encountered this year’s theme—the Extinction Crisis—through the artist Maya Lin who created a memorial—her fifth and final one—dedicated to species loss. Called What is Missing?, this multimedia piece is being installed all over the world, including right outside the Sheridan Opera House. The memorial focuses on the extinction of species, but it’s also about the loss of what we don’t necessarily see: oxygen in the oceans, the flow of rivers, stars at night.

Also missing are intangibles, such as scale or longevity, both of which are decreasing in species. Take abundance—the pronghorn antelope still exists, but what’s missing is its massive numbers. Their decrease in population is partly due to lack of migratory corridors (check out Joe Riis’ photographs on the subject at La Cocina de Luz), an issue Rick Ridgeway, a long time Mountainfilm guest, is addressing with his Freedom To Roam program.

Rick will be joined onstage at the Moving Mountains Symposium by many other dedicated folk—scientists, activists and artists—who are rallying against extinction.

And while these speakers focus only on species loss, there are also people looking

beyond the scope of the Symposium, such as photographer Chris Rainier who is working to stop the extinction of aboriginal languages and cultures and Gordon Hempton, the subject of the film Soundtracker, who is recording the vanishing sounds of nature.

Then there are all the people here this weekend—and this most likely includes you—who are trying to render certain mindsets extinct, such as apathy and ignorance.

Prudence Mabhena (star of the Oscarwinning Music By Prudence) moves people to action through music, while artist Chris Jordan shows us the hidden cost of consumption. Monkey wrenchers Tim DeChristopher, Dave Foreman and the indomitable Katie Lee (who turned 90 last year and still kicks ass) challenge “progress” through personal risk.

Take-no-prisoners filmmakers—such as Josh Fox (Gasland) and Louie Psihoyos (who won an Oscar for The Cove)—speak truth to power. Find these folk and others, such as the Freedom Riders or Sons of Perdition. Let them inspire you, and make sure extinction doesn’t claim the one thing we really can’t afford to lose: hope.

– David Holbrooke, festival director

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3 Welcome to Mountainfilm

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76 Breakfast Talks

8 How to Mountainfilm

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82 Awards

10 Mountainfilm Commitment

83 Judges

11 Minds of Mountainfilm and Mountainfilm Media

84 Mountainfilm on Tour

14 Moving Mountains Symposium 19 Films 43 Kidz Kino 48 Schedule 53 Presentations 68 Social Events

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85 Making Movies That Matter 87 Green Screen 88 Boards 89 Donors 90 Staff 91 Volunteers 92 In Memoriam

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Getting Around: The Gondola and The Goose

All theaters are reachable by foot, bicycle or Gondola—which runs between Telluride and Mountain Village from 7:00 a.m. to 12:00 a.m. On Friday and Saturday during the festival, gondola hours will be extended to 1:00 a.m.

Telluride’s shuttle, the Galloping Goose, runs a loop through Telluride every 10 minutes. All are free of charge.

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When lines start to form, theater staff will often issue Q tickets. If you see these colored and numbered pieces of paper being handed out, get one. The lower your number, the likelier that you’ll get into the theater. Qs are issued at the discretion of each theater staff—depending upon the popularity of the program. Qs do not

TBAs and special screenings will be posted outside all theaters, at Hospitality and online at mountainfilm.org.

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All theaters have two lines: 1) pass holders and ticket holders and 2) ticket buyers.

Pass and ticket holders are admitted first.

Queue early, especially at the smaller theaters—Sheridan, Nugget, Masons and the library—in order to assure seating. The back of your pass explains any restrictions.

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The Mountainfilm Commitment

grant program With this new granting program, Mountainfilm is committing to help individuals use a variety of media sources to tell stories one would find at the festival. The Mountainfilm Commitment Grant will go to filmmakers, photographers, artists, adventurers and explorers whose projects are intended to move audiences to action on issues that matter.

Mountainfilm’s financial commitment in 2010 will be five individual cash grants of up to $5,000 each. Aside from the cash, we’ll also work with grantees to ensure that their stories are heard as widely as possible.

Please go to mountainfilm.org to learn more.

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If you leave the festival still hankering for more Mountainfilm, we’re excited to offer a new option: Look for Mountainfilm Movie Night in the fall, a primetime show we’re producing with the new Outside TV network that will feature some of our best films and interviews from the festival.

We’ll also produce another round of Minds of Mountainfilm, a series of thought-provoking guest interviews that will be posted on our website in June. Also online will be the Moving Mountains Symposium from 2009 (Food) and 2010 (Extinction), along with select breakfast talks from those festivals.

Later this year, we’ll kick off the Mountainfilm Movie Club, where you’ll find classic films from past programs on our website.

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speakers Josh Bernstein, the emcee for this year’s Symposium, has traveled the world for television shows on the History and Discovery Channels. He also owns and runs the Boulder Outdoor Survival School.

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Greg Carr made his fortune marketing and selling voicemail.

He’s since become a philanthropist and has committed $40 million of his own money and 20 years of his life to reviving a moribund game preserve in Mozambique, called Gorongosa, which was ravaged by civil war and drought.

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Mike Fay has studied the biodiversity of forests up close through his remarkable Megatransect project, which took him on foot through Congo, Gabon and the length of the West Coast’s redwood forest (page 55).

The Sixth Extinction

Friday, May 28

12:15 to 1:15 p.m.)

High Camp, Telluride Conference Center in Mountain Village

The symposium is open to all Wilson, Ama Dablam and Patron passholders and includes lunch.

Individual all-day tickets can be purchased online or at the door for $65.

“The key to life on this planet is biodiversity.” —E.O. Wilson

Dave Foreman, the founder of Earth First, has turned his attention to the calamities of the Sixth Extinction. His book, Rewilding North America, calls for restoring big wilderness based on the roles of large predators.

There have been five previous eras of extinction on this planet, each caused by a massive geological event. Today, we are living in the sixth era, also known as the Holocene Extinction, which is the first extinction to be caused by humans.

It’s the natural order of life on this planet that, over millions of years, species evolve and die. When the rates of extinction are as high as they are today, however—with a species dying off every 20 minutes—there is real cause for concern.

We have assembled a wide-ranging lineup of scientists, artists and activists who are working to turn around this epic tragedy.

Photo by: Walter Smith, courtesy The Pace Gallery

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Tom Lovejoy coined the term “biological diversity” and is a leading scientist on the subject of extinction. As the head of the Heinz Center for Science, Economics and the Environment, he examines how climate change is affecting species loss.

Louie Psihoyos, who just won an Oscar for his documentary The Cove, is focusing his next film on the extinction crisis in the oceans and what that means for people living on terra firma.

Rick Ridgeway is an acclaimed alpinist and an executive at Patagonia who founded and developed Freedom to Roam, an organization dedicated to establishing and preserving essential migratory corridors for North American species.

Terry Root is a scientist at Stanford University who studies the viability of species and populations.

She is also a senior fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment.

Nicole Rosmarino is a scientist with Wild Earth Guardians, which works to protect and preserve biodiversity in the American West.

Maya Lin’s last memorial, “What is Missing,” addresses the extinction crisis. She poses a simple question with complicated and disturbing answers that force viewers to think about how shifting baselines have changed what we think of as normal. his book, Rare.

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Joel Sartore, a National Geographic photographer, has been working on a multi-year project photographing endangered species for

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Welcome to the 2010 Moving Mountains Symposium Josh Bernstein What is the Sixth Extinction and how do we know that it’s happening?

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Mike Fay What is disappearing in our own backyard?

Nicole Rosmarino What’s at stake with this increased rate of extinction?

Josh Bernstein, Mike Fay, Nicole Rosmarino and Terry Root

What are we losing?

Joel Sartore Why are migratory corridors so important to preserving biodiversity?

Rick Ridgeway What can we bring back?

How hard is it to re-populate an ecosystem?

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Josh Bernstein Greg Carr, Dave Foreman and Rick Ridgeway

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Chuck, we will be climbing and building with you forever.

– Kathy, Ron, Rich, Peter, JC, William, Rudi & Heinz And all the past & present Bone crew

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The Films Writing credits: Mary Duffy (MD) David Holbrooke (DH) Peter Kenworthy (PK) Katie Klingsporn (KK) Emily Long (EL)

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Africa’s Lost Eden

The 10 Conditions of Love

James Byrne

(Saturday, 9:30 a.m., MAS)

Jeff Daniels

IN PERSON: Greg Carr & Bob Shacochis

(Friday, 6:30 p.m., NUG; Sunday, 7:15 p.m., HC)

IN PERSON: Raela Tosh

Once the richest woman in China, Rebiya Kadeer is the exiled leader of the Uyghur people who live in her East Turkistan homeland, which is officially China’s Xinjiang Province. This oil-rich area has been referred to as “The Other Tibet” because its people are fighting for autonomy under a repressive Chinese regime (but without a gaggle of celebrities fighting for the cause). After spending six years in a Chinese prison for “terrorism,” Kadeer now lives in the U.S., where she stages a relentless human-rights campaign for her people. Three of her sons have been imprisoned

by China, and this personal cost is too much for her daughter, Raela Tosh, who rues the pain her mother’s activism has caused the family. Kadeer is so controversial that Chinese nationalists tried to stop the world premiere of this film at the Melbourne Film Festival by destroying the festival’s computer system. This is the film’s U.S. premiere.

—MD (Australia, 2009, 60 min)

180° South 11 Degrees Anna Ewert

(Saturday, 3:30 p.m., NUG; Sunday, 7:00 p.m., MAS)

You might not think of Scotland as the place to link turns, but despite a warming climate, a little Scottish ski resort continues spinning the motor on its rope tow. Skiers keep descending on one small swatch of browning snow. And whatever the conditions, Scottish humor and enthusiasm shine in the ski attendant, a mild-mannered man of the mountains.

—EL (United Kingdom, 2009, 8 min)

Chris Malloy

(Saturday, 12:15 p.m., SOH; Sunday, 7:00 p.m., MAS)

IN PERSON: Timmy O’Neill & Executive Producer Rick Ridgeway

In 1968, Yvon Chouinard, Doug Tompkins and Lito Tejada-Flores were part of a group that drove from Ventura, California, to Patagonia to climb a new route on Mt. Fitzroy. The epic trip spawned a great mountaineering film (Fitzroy) and two major outdoor companies (Patagonia and The North Face). Four decades later, director Chris Malloy followed mountaineer Jeff Johnson as he tried to retrace part of the route and recapture the same spirit on his own trip to South America. Of course you can’t recreate an epic, but if you bring Timmy O’Neill along, sprinkle in the wisdom of Chouinard and Tompkins and fortuitously pick up a beautiful surfer girl from Easter Island, you can create a lovely and thoughtful film. 180° South is about the true nature of adventure and how it’s changed and how it hasn’t.

—DH (USA, 2010, 90 min)

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At the age of 38, Greg Carr had made enough money to last a lifetime and became a philanthropist. As Bob Shacochis wrote in Outside magazine, “… by 2002, Carr was inundated with projects: turning the former headquarters of the Aryan Nations into a peace park; donating $18 million to establish Harvard’s Carr Center for Human Rights; starting a radio station in Afghanistan. He was conducting a marching band of altruism, on fire with intellectual stimulation yet yearning for something with ‘a little vision to it, some mystery, some romance, some difficult problems to solve.’”

He found one helluva problem in Mozambique’s Gorongosa National Park, once a paradise for wildlife but now another victim of the country’s two decades of civil war. As this film from National Geographic shows, Carr committed $40 million of his fortune and 20 years of his life to return Gorongosa to its former glory.

—DH (USA, 2009, 50 min)

Alone on the Wall Peter Mortimer & Nick Rosen

(Saturday, 9:30 a.m., NUG)

IN PERSON: Alex Honnold, Peter Mortimer & Nick Rosen Today, many climbers ascend Yosemite’s famous Half Dome in just a few hours. But how would they fare all alone with no partner, no rope and just a thousand feet of air between them and the ground? Meet Alex Honnold. He’s 23, tall, unassuming and kind of goofy.

He’s also a super-athlete who is pioneering new territory by free soloing big walls. Alone on the Wall, one of Sender Films’ First Ascent series, follows Alex as he completes two groundbreaking projects: free soloing Zion’s Moonlight Buttress and Yosemite’s Half Dome. In the world of climbing, free soloing is rare, and in the world of free soloing, nobody else attempts such big walls. His climbing is exceptional, but it’s his composure, focus and utter calm that make an impression.

—KK (USA, 2009, 25 min)

As It Happens Renan Ozturk

(Saturday, 9:30 a.m., NUG)

At the beginning of this terrific short, Renan Ozturk (director of the award-winning Samsara at Mountainfilm 2009) addresses how disconnected an expedition and a film can be, which happens simply because of the time that elapses between the two.

So he and mountaineer Corey Bradshaw “go rogue,” as they call it, and file video dispatches from their attempt at the first ascent of Nepal’s 6,000-meter Tawoche Himal. The film takes these individual pieces and ties them together in one well-made story that lets a challenging trip unfold as it happens. This talented director also has two other films in this festival: Khumbu Climbing Class 2010 and Living the Dream.

—DH (USA, 2010, 16 min)

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Bearwalker of the Northwoods David Wright

Brother’s Wild

(Saturday, 3:45 p.m., LIB)

Peter Mortimer & Nick Rosen

IN PERSON: David Wright

Bag It

Suzan Beraza (Saturday, 3:30 p.m., PALM; Sunday, 4:00 p.m., NUG)

Barefoot to Timbuktu

IN PERSON: Suzan Beraza, Jeb Berrier & Scientist Theo Colborn

(Sunday, 10:00 a.m., NUG; Monday, 11:00 a.m., NUG)

Try going a day without plastic.

Go ahead. You’d be hard pressed to get out of bed without encountering the substance in one form or another. Plastic is everywhere and infiltrates our lives in unimaginable and alarming ways according to Suzan Beraza’s documentary, which is getting its first finished screening here in Telluride. What starts as a film about plastic bags, evolves into a wholesale investigation into plastic and its effect on our lives, bodies and waterways. Starring Telluride local Jeb Berrier, playing the role of the “everyman” (those of us who know him realize that this role is a stretch), the film travels around the world, from Telluride to Midway Island. As we learn more about how little we know about plastic, one thing becomes certain: The advice given to Dustin Hoffman’s character, Ben, in The Graduate—“One word: Plastics”—was right on.

—DH (Telluride, 2010, 79 min)

Martina Egi

IN PERSON: Ernst Aebi

In 1989, the Swiss-American artist Ernst Aebi passed through the Araouane oasis in the Sahara as part of a caravan. The few inhabitants were poor, so Aebi spontaneously decided to help these people who had known neither fruit nor vegetables. Aebi, who had made a lot of money in real estate in Manhattan, stayed for three years, helping the villagers build a network of wells and gardens, until civil war drove him out. He returned to Araouane in 2008, a film crew in tow.

—DH (Switzerland, 2009, 87 min)

Dr. Lynn Rogers is a biologist who began studying black bears in the North Woods of Minnesota in the late ’60s. Early on, he developed an entirely new method for research: He adopted trust, instead of traps, to enter the world of black bears. In this manner, he tromps around the forest following the bears—playful, gentle and always hungry—and gathering piles of data about how they behave in the wild. It’s hard to watch the film and not think of Timothy Treadwell, who was a Mountainfilm guest several times and the tragic star of Grizzly Man. Lynn, however, is more avuncular and focused on science as he follows the black bears through the passage of each season. For him, each day of research is a part of his larger mission: to change people’s beliefs that black bears are aggressive, dangerous animals.

—KK (United Kingdom, 2009, 60 min)

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The Blueline Bryan Smith

(Saturday, 9:30 a.m., NUG)

Take a rope, stretch it taut across a yawning gorge and then walk across it while tethered by only a leash and harness. This is the formula for high lining—an intense and highly exposed sport that athlete Robin Avery and friends practice over a precipitous canyon in this short film about heights, exposure and the relationship between man and a thin blue line.

—KK (Canada, 2009, 5 min)

IN PERSON: Peter Mortimer, Sean O’Neill, Timmy O’Neill & Nick Rosen

This film about the O’Neill brothers, Timmy and Sean, profiles an unusual pair of siblings. Timmy is, of course, a familiar face to Mountainfilm audiences with his brilliant climbing and comedy. Sean, however, is new to the festival and is equally unforgettable for his own achievements. Sean is confined to a wheelchair because of an accident that happened when he was younger, but being an O’Neill, this doesn’t stop him from climbing Yosemite’s El Capitan or attempting Peak 6000 in Alaska’s Ruth Gorge.

This short piece, part of the First Ascent series by Sender Films, is the kind of climbing film that keeps the genre alive and well.

—PK (USA, 2009, 25 min)

Call of Life

Monte Thompson & Chera Van Burg (Saturday, 6:15 p.m., NUG)

IN PERSON: Scientist Tom Lovejoy, Monte Thompson & Chera Van Burg

This is the first feature-length film about the unfolding extinction crisis, which famed biologist E.O. Wilson feels is the biggest challenge facing us today. A primer on the Sixth Extinction, we are taken around the world to learn what is happening and why it’s essential we curb the frightening rate of extinctions. The film hosts a distinguished mix of scientists and activists who are trying to stop the crisis now.

—DH (USA, 2010, 60 min)

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Dirty Pictures Etienne Sauret

(Friday, 9:15 p.m., SOH; Sunday, 4:30 p.m., PALM)

The Cove

Louie Psihoyos (Friday, 9:45 p.m., PALM)

IN PERSON: Cameraman Eric Abramson, Production Manager Joe Chisholm & Louie Psihoyos

The 2010 Oscar for Best Documentary went to this film, a story that brought me to tears when I saw it at last year’s Mountainfilm, where it showed once in a surprise screening.

The Cove investigates dolphin harvesting in Japan and follows animal-rights activist Ric O’Barry—the star of the 1964 television show Flipper—as he tries to stop the slaughter of dolphins on the southwest coast of Japan. His swashbuckling crew includes free divers, scientists, filmmakers and techy geeks who use reconnaissance, hidden cameras and other covert techniques to expose this atrocity and examine mercury poisoning, the hazard of consuming animals this high on the food chain.

Directed by National Geographic photographer Louie Psihoyos, The Cove has impacted the practice of dolphin harvesting and become a model for activist documentaries.

—MD (USA, 2009, 90 min)

IN PERSON: Etienne Sauret, Alexander Shulgin & Ann Shulgin

Early in his career, the brilliant chemist Alexander Shulgin worked for Dow Chemical. As long as he delivered commercial products, such as pesticides, he could work on whatever he wished with the rest of his time, so he synthesized different variations of the drug Ecstasy (MDMA) until Dow grew concerned with the potential risks and let Shulgin go. He kept on creating—and sampling with his wife, Ann—many different psychedelics, a practice they continue today. Shulgin, now 84, is considered the Godfather of Ecstasy, a moniker he disdains.

Director Etienne Sauret spent years following the Shulgins to Egypt, Burning Man and on many other “trips.” The result is a complex portrait of a man who could have made millions at Dow but decided to follow his heart— and experiment on his brain.

—DH (USA, 2010, 80 min)

Eastern Rises

Ella es el matador

Ben Knight & Travis Rummel (Saturday, 12:15 p.m., PALM; Sunday, 4:00 p.m., MAS)

Dock Ellis and the LSD No-No James Blagden

(Friday, 9:15 p.m., SOH; Saturday, 6:30 p.m., LIB)

This animated short tells the story of Dock Ellis, a major league pitcher for the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1970. One day, he thought he wasn’t on the pitching schedule, so he decided to take acid. It turned out, however, that he was in the starting lineup, so he went into the ballpark, fully tripping, and managed to throw a no-hitter.

—DH (USA, 2009, 6 min)

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IN PERSON: Ben Knight, Travis Rummel & Frank Smethurst WORLD PREMIERE

The Kamchatka peninsula in the Russian Far East may as well be at the end of the earth.

Its enormous, wild landscape is threaded with rivers, swimming with massive mouse-eating trout and swarming with bugs and bears. In other words, this place is the Holy Grail for truly obsessed, halfway insane fly fishermen. Felt Soul’s Ben Knight and Travis Rummel last brought Mountainfilm audiences the story of Alaskan salmon at risk in Red Gold, and this film reunites the filmmakers with Frank Smethurst (the star of their short Running Down the Man) as he and other anglers head to Kamchatka during the summer of 2008. In this gorgeous film, fishing is poetry; Bigfoot lurks in the fog; and fishermen risk life and limb in decommissioned Cold War helicopters to explore rivers that have never been fished before.

—KK (Telluride, 2010, 37 min)

Gemma Cubero & Celeste Carrasco

The Edge of Never William A. Kerig

(Sunday, 4:00 p.m., MAS)

IN PERSON: William A. Kerig & Kasha Rigby

“What would Trevor ski?” That was the question on bumper stickers around the world after ski legend Trevor Peterson died in Chamonix in 1996. Nine years later, his 15-year-old son, Kye, is brought to Chamonix to tempt fate by skiing the same couloir that killed his father. The film, by director William Kerig, features an impressive roster of bigmountain skiers, such as Ansleme Baud, Doug Coombs, Stephane “FanFan” Dan, Mike Hattrup, Glen Plake and Kasha Rigby.

—DH (USA, 2009, 53 min)

(Friday, 9:15 p.m., MAS)

Upon entering the ring, both the matador and bull are performing a ritualistic dance that is ultimately seen as an expression of man’s mastery and prowess.

Unless, of course, the bullfighter is a woman. This film follows two women matadoras, who are breaking into a sport dominated by men that is, in many ways, still an exclusive realm of machismo and masculinity.

—EL (USA/Spain, 2009, 62 min)

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Fishman Fish Out of Water Charles Annenberg Weingarten

(Saturday, 3:30 p.m., NUG; Monday, 9:30 a.m., NUG)

IN PERSON: Charles Annenberg Weingarten and Veterans Christian Ellis & Joe Gracia

Facing the Waves Lee Quinby

(Saturday, 3:30 p.m., NUG; Sunday, 9:45 a.m., MAS)

IN PERSON: Producer Daniel Cowen, Lee Quinby & Bobby Vaughn

Bobby Vaughn is one of those characters who could originate from central casting in Los Angeles. Tough and charismatic, he’s a former gang member who has gotten into some trouble in the hood. Simultaneously, he’s an entrepreneur and helped build the cap company Von Dutch into a national brand and, of course, a surfer. But what makes this documentary by director Lee Quinby particularly compelling is that, after legal issues forced him out of L.A., Bobby has now taken root in Far Rockaway, Queens.

He’s started a new surf clothing line in New York called FTW, which has a variety of meanings, some of which are unprintable, but one of which is Facing the Waves.

It’s clear in this film that the waves represent a life force for Bobby as they rise and fall, much like this dynamic young man himself.

—DH (USA, 2010, 15 min)

The Fence

Rory Kennedy (Saturday, 9:45 a.m., LIB)

This important film by acclaimed documentarian Rory Kennedy looks at a 700-mile fence that was built in 2006 and runs along the northern border of Mexico. It’s meant to keep illegal immigrants out of the U.S., but the problem is that it cost $3.1 billion to build, still isn’t finished and doesn’t fulfill its purpose.

While this crisply made, short documentary examines why the fence exists and what it does and doesn’t accomplish, it also asks a bigger question: Who have we become as Americans that we need a giant fence to keep people out?

—DH (USA, 2009, 36 min)

Most fly fishermen say that being out on the water is therapeutic in some ways. The good people of Sun Valley Adaptive Sports would certainly agree: They use the experience to help veterans of the Iraq War who suffer from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, and fly fishing seems to be a highly effective treatment. In an almost timeless environment of natural beauty, far from the intrusions of counselors, clinics and medication schedules—not to mention IEDs and snipers— the soldiers make real progress toward coping. As one of them puts it, “You made me feel normal again.” Just as succinctly, Fish Out of Water manages to hook both the horror of war and the hope of healing.

—PK (USA, 2009, 19 min)

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Kathy Kasic (Friday, 6:45 p.m., MAS; Monday, 11:00 a.m., PALM)

IN PERSON: Kathy Kasic & Mike Kasic

For Mike Kasic, the Yellowstone River represents the West as it’s meant to be—wild, fast and free flowing. Mike should know: He spends a lot of time swimming the Yellowstone, looking for fish and almost becoming one himself. In particular, he looks for the native Yellowstone cutthroat trout that represents, for him, the soul of the river.

Unfortunately, all is not well for the cutthroat, and Mike finds fewer and fewer in his subaquatic searches. He sees the loss as emblematic of disappearing wilderness. “Take it away,” he says, “and we lose the ability to understand our world.” Playful yet elegiac, Fishman neatly captures the vital and tenuous connection between man and nature.

—PK (USA, 2009, 11 min)

Flathead Wild Trip Jennings

(Friday, 9:15 p.m., MAS; Saturday, 3:45 p.m., LIB)

IN PERSON: Trip Jennings & producer Andy Maser

At the headwaters of the Flathead—America’s most pristine river located in one of the most diverse ecosystems in North America—a mining project is proposed that involves mountaintop removal and coal bed methane drilling. The project would destroy an irreplaceable landscape, critical habitat for both rare and endangered species. In Flathead Wild, we see how photographers from the International League of Conservation Photographers (iLCP ) capture the beauty of this wilderness treasure as a step toward protecting it. Says one of the iLCP team, “If people see these images, they’re going to want to do the right thing.”

—PK (USA, 2009, 23 min)

Forgotten on the Roof of the World Matthieu Paley

(Friday, 6:30 p.m., NUG; Sunday, 12:00 p.m., LIB)

IN PERSON: Producer Ted Callahan & Photographer Beth Wald

The Wakhan Corridor, a thin finger of land in northeast Afghanistan, is an incredibly tough place to live. North of Pakistan, bordering China and the contested Kashmir state, the people here are statistically high in poverty and hunger, low in health and education. Yet in Matthieu Paley’s stunning photographs that comprise this simple and memorable film, we see joy and humanity from the impoverished inhabitants.

Beauty and hardship walk hand in hand in this collage of photographs and sounds from a place forgotten on the roof of the world.

—EL (Hong Kong, 2010, 29 min)

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Going Green

Jonathan Browning

Gasland Josh Fox

(Friday, 6:45 p.m., PALM, Sunday, 12:00 p.m., MAS)

Freedom Riders Stanley Nelson

(Saturday, 3:30 p.m., HC)

Found

Paramita Nath (Saturday, 6:15 p.m., SOH; Sunday, 6:45 p.m., NUG)

Found is an artistic representation of the poetry of Souvankham Thammavongsa, a Laotian woman born in a refugee camp in northeastern Thailand who immigrated to Toronto. Her dramatic birth and uncertain early life—without a land to call home and without a passport— led to a revelation that is deeply felt by many artists when they discover their medium: “When I learned to read…I knew this, this would be my way in.”

—EL (Canada, 2009, 7 min)

IN PERSON: Freedom Rider Ernest “Rip” Patton

In 1960, the Supreme Court decided that people did not need to observe local segregation laws at bus stations when they were traveling from state to state. In 1961, an intrepid group of men and women, white and black, set out from Washington D.C. to test the Jim Crow laws in states throughout the South by traveling and eating together.

This protest against racism provoked vicious attacks by angry mobs and arrests by racist police. Despite the violence—and pressure from the Kennedy Administration and even Martin Luther King, Jr.—the Freedom Riders stuck to their Gandhiinspired principles of nonviolence and changed the world.

—DH (USA, 2009, 113 min)

IN PERSON: Scientist Theo Colborn, Deputy EPA Administrator Bob Perciasepe & Josh Fox

The U.S. sits on a huge concentration of natural gas, making it the Saudi Arabia of this critical energy source. The good news is that we don’t have to depend on foreign countries for this resource, but the bad news is that natural gas is difficult to extract from the ground. We learn this and more through the personal journey of director Josh Fox, who received a letter from a natural gas company offering him $100,000 if they could drill on his land. He was tempted, but first, he wanted to know more about the process. What he found is the stuff of nightmares: pools of toxic waste that kill cattle and vegetation, cats with fur falling out in clumps and ignitable kitchen faucets. With natural gas exploration booming in the Southwest, including San Miguel County, this film is essential viewing.

—DH (USA, 2009, 104 min)

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Global Focus

Tom Dusenbery & Will Parrinello (Cambodia: Saturday, 12:15 p.m., LIB; Costa Rica: Saturday, 9:30 a.m., MAS)

IN PERSON: Will Parrinello

The Global Focus films profile the annual recipients of The Goldman Prize, which honors grassroots environmental heroes from around the world. Randall Arauz, from Costa Rica, is the subject of one film as he leads the fight against shark finning.

In an approach similar to the filmmakers of The Cove (page 24), Randall secretly shot footage of a Taiwanese ship illegally bringing 33 tons of shark fins ashore, which horrified the Costa Rican people and the international community alike.

The other film is about Vathana Tuy, who is from Cambodia.

He’s known as “Uncle Elephant” among small agrarian communities in Cambodia because of his efforts to protect the small population of elephants (approximately 250) left in a country where the animal once reigned. In the five years since Vathana began his work in earnest, not a single wild elephant has been killed in Cambodia.

—EL (USA, 2010, 4 min each)

(Saturday, 9:15 p.m., MAS; Sunday, 12:00 p.m., MAS)

IN PERSON: Jonathan Browning

Filmmaker Jonathan Browning, who turned the labor market inside out with his clever and funny film The Job (Mountainfilm 2007), is back with another short about one corporation’s understanding—or, rather, misunderstanding—of the term “going green.”

—EL (USA, 2009, 2 min)

Green

Patrick Rouxel (Saturday, 9:45 a.m., LIB)

Green speaks volumes about the extinction crisis as we see a monkey suffer, but the story of this ailing orangutan in Indonesia has no narration, no dialogue, no words of any kind—apart from the occasional fragmentary lyrics of songs.

This wordless commentary on our consumption and deeply troubling exploitation of land is powerful, uncomfortable, painful and prophetic.

—PK (Indonesia, 2008, 48 min)

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I Am

Tom Shadyac (Saturday, 6:30 p.m., PALM; Sunday, 6:45 p.m., NUG)

IN PERSON: Tom Shadyac WORLD PREMIERE

Hawaii Wave Ski Mike Douglas

(Saturday, 9:30 p.m., HC)

IN PERSON: Mike Douglas Pro freeskier Cody Townsend grew up surfing in Santa Cruz and skiing in Lake Tahoe, and ever since he was a kid, he’s been harboring a crazy dream to combine the two sports. In Hawaii Wave Ski, he does just that. Along with friend and fellow freeskier Mike Douglas, Cody takes a new hybrid of boots-and-board technology to Maui to test it out in the big, glassy, green waves of the Pacific.

—KK (USA, 2009, 7 min)

Tom Shadyac—longtime friend to Mountainfilm and director of huge blockbuster comedies, such as Ace Ventura, The Nutty Professor and Bruce Almighty—presents an autobiographical documentary that addresses how, despite his professional achievements and financial success, he felt unfulfilled. I Am, which is premiering here at Mountainfilm, is both an introspective journey about happiness and a larger commentary on the American Dream, questioning why we’re more prosperous today, yet apparently less happy than ever.

Tom interviews many wise men and women who bolster his cogent argument: If we are able to question our culture of consumption and find a new paradigm of connectedness and kindness, we will be truly richer for it.

—DH (USA, 2010, 81 min)

Khumbu Climbing Class 2010

I Dreamed About Pol Pot

Renan Ozturk

Michael Krotkiewski & Julia Stanislawaska

(Friday, 9:30 p.m., NUG)

IN PERSON: Conrad Anker

(Saturday, 4:00 p.m., SOH; Sunday, 12:00 p.m., LIB)

IN PERSON: Michael Krotkiewski & Julia Stanislawaska

In 1978, Gunnar Bergstrom was part of a small Swedish diplomatic delegation that received rare permission to visit Cambodia and meet its notorious leader, Pol Pot. When Bergstrom returned to Sweden, he publicly defended the Khmer Rouge regime, despite the terrifying reports from Cambodian refugees. Three decades later, filmmakers Michael Krotkiewski and Julia Stanislawska follow Bergstrom as he returns to Cambodia, haunted by his wrongheaded proclamations from when he was a younger man.

—DH (Sweden, 2009, 36 min)

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Kavi

Gregg Helvey (Saturday, 3:30 p.m., MAS)

IN PERSON: Author and Abolitionist Ben Skinner

Interviews, 50 Cents Ethan Boehme

(Saturday, 3:30 p.m., PALM, Saturday, 6:30 p.m., PALM, Sunday, 9:30 a.m. HC)

IN PERSON: Ethan Boehme & Alex Chadwick

Alex Chadwick returns to Telluride with the Interviews, 50 Cents series. Short conversations with this year’s festival folk will be filmed, quickly edited by director Ethan Boeme and his team, and shown on the big screen.

—DH (Telluride, 2010, 5 min each)

India is home to more slaves than any other country on earth.

Kavi is the fictional, but very real, story of a young Indian boy who is enslaved at a brick factory. The film, which director Gregg Helvey began as a student project, was nominated for a 2010 Academy Award for Best Live Action Short.

—DH (USA, 2009, 19 min)

In a pocket of the blustery, lofty region of Nepal sits the Khumbu Climbing School, where Nepali climbers, sherpas and highaltitude workers are trained in safe climbing practices and protocols. Students—many of whom have already reached the summits of Everest and K2 and worked in the Himalayas for years—learn proper techniques for knot-tying, belaying and ice climbing from Conrad Anker (star of The Wildest Dream, page 41) and other top-flight mountaineers. The school, which is part of the Alex Lowe foundation, aims to increase the safety margin in a region where many work—and risk their lives—in the craggy peaks that surround them. As this gorgeous film by Renan Ozturk (As It Happens, page 21) unfolds, it becomes obvious that more than just training takes place here—there’s also connection, community and growth.

—KK (2010, USA, 8 min)

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Last Train Home Lixin Fan

(Saturday, 10:00 a.m., SOH; Sunday, 12:30 p.m., NUG)

Last Paradise (festival cut) Clive Neeson

(Saturday, 9:30 p.m., HC)

IN PERSON: Jeff Campbell Director Clive Neeson, armed with footage from 45 years of extreme sports pioneers in the wilds of New Zealand, has made a film about the unique time when such outdoor sports as bungee jumping were created.

We’re showing just one of these amazing stories from the film: It involves Telluride local Jeff Campell, skiing, glaciers and Levi’s jeans.

—EL (New Zealand, 2010, 10 min)

IN PERSON: Author Peter Hessler

Last Train Home examines the demographic bind that the Chinese are currently experiencing because of massive migration to cities. This visually rich film’s macro themes are told in a micro way by following one family, the Zhangs. The youngest generation—a brother and sister—live on the beautiful family farm with their grandmother, while the parents— the breadwinners—move to the city to work several jobs. This fissure creates struggles for the siblings, even though the parents are making a sacrifice for their kids. This film, directed by Lixin Fan, won the Grand Prize at the International Documentary Film Amsterdam for its portrayal of China at a personal and cultural crossroads.

—DH (China, 2009, 85 min)

Living the Dream Renan Ozturk

(Saturday, 9:30 p.m., HC)

This clever short film by Renan Ozturk (the climber and director of Mountainfilm’s 2009 Charlie Fowler winner Samsara) is a video journal of a day from his life in Boulder, Colorado.

—DH (USA, 2010, 2 min)

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Lost Tribes of New York City

Andrew London & Carolyn London (Saturday, 12:00 p.m., NUG)

New York City is known as the multicultural epicenter of the world, a place where colors and languages mix and mingle. This short film playfully animates the unnoticed cityscapes of New York with quirky voices of multifarious characters.

—EL (USA, 2009, 5 min)

Madagascar, a Journey Diary Bastien Dubois

(Saturday, 9:30 a.m., MAS)

A travel diary may include all sorts of mementos, such as sketches, bus tickets, exotic currency and watercolor portraits. In this animated short, the journey diary’s scope is broadened with music and moving pictures. The pages of this vibrant diary tell the story of a European visitor’s trip to a Malagasy ceremony called Famadihana (“the turning of the dead”).

—EL (France, 2009, 12 min)

Man vs. Eiger Peter Mortimer & Nick Rosen

(Saturday, 3:30 p.m., NUG)

IN PERSON: Peter Mortimer, Dean Potter & Nick Rosen

The famous North Face of the Eiger is revered among climbers, not only for the quality of its rock but also for its intimidating dimensions and technical challenges. This lethal exposure has tested the limits of climbing for the past century. Now, climbing pioneer Dean Potter pushes another boundary for himself and the Eiger by scaling the North Face with no rope, just a backpack containing a carefully folded parachute. “Adrenaline makes me feel calm,” says Dean in this film that is part of the First Ascent series by Sender Films.

—PK (USA, 2009, 25 min)

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Point of No Return Peter Mortimer & Nick Rosen

(Friday, 6:30 p.m., SOH)

Music by Prudence

IN PERSON: Peter Mortimer & Nick Rosen

Roger Williams

(Saturday, 9:30 a.m., PALM; Monday, 9:15 a.m., PALM)

Mount St. Elias Gerald Salmina

(Sunday, 9:30 p.m., PALM)

The distance from Mount Saint Elias’ summit (18,009 feet) to sea is only 10 miles, a rare and steep vertical descent. In 2007, a group of men tackle this Alaskan peak, intending to climb and ski it, an attempt at what may be the longest vertical descent in ski history. Brilliantly filmed and dramatically told, Mount St. Elias is an epic film about the obsession with a superlative mountain, where weather can change in an instant, and success is far from guaranteed.

—EL (Austria/USA, 2009, 100 min)

IN PERSON: Prudence Mabhena & Roger Williams

This short, moving documentary is about a memorable character named Prudence Mabhena who was born severely disabled in Zimbabwe, a country where many believe that the handicapped are cursed by witchcraft. Her grandmother refused to believe that pernicious stereotype and saved Prudence from a life on the streets. Despite her physical challenges, Prudence was blessed with a remarkable voice that has become an instrument for social change in Africa. She and her band, Liyana—which is comprised entirely of disabled musicians—have gained a sturdy platform after this film won an Academy Award for short documentary this year. (And, yes, director Roger Williams’ Oscar speech was the one that was notoriously “Kanyed.”)

Prudence will perform after the film screens.

—DH (USA, 2009, 33 min)

Nico’s Challenge Steve Audette

(Friday, 6:30 p.m., SOH; Monday, 11:00 a.m., PALM)

IN PERSON: Carl Calabria & Nico Calabria Nico Calabria was born with only one leg, but his disability does not define him. As he says, “Even though I have one leg, I can still do what anyone else can.” In this short documentary, he takes on the highest peak in Africa, Mt. Kilimanjaro, with his father, Carl, and shares his success with those less fortunate than him. This is not a story of overcoming adversity or of unknown challenges faced and met. It is a story about one remarkable 13-year-old boy who knows who he is and what he’s capable of doing—both for himself and others—and he changes the world, or at least one little corner of it.

—EL (USA, 2009, 15 min)

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Plastic Bag Ramin Bahrani

(Friday, 6:45 p.m., LIB; Saturday, 9:15 p.m., MAS)

One of the most humble, yet immortal, characters to ever grace the screen is the star of this poignant and original short film.

We are introduced to Plastic Bag on a nameless beach, where he is trying to end it all by joining the rumored Pacific Vortex. We follow Plastic Bag—voiced by the indubitable Werner Herzog— from his first breath, through an existential quest for his maker and then for the elusive end: death. Award-winning filmmaker Ramin Bahrani (Man Push Cart, 2005) skillfully creates—with an inanimate object as unobtrusive and ordinary as a plastic bag—a character with emotional complexity. He also manages to weave in an environmental message that resonates on a level only possible through fiction.

—EL (USA, 2009, 19 min)

Only 24 people have reached the summit of Mt. Edgar in China’s Sichuan Province, but none approached via the east side of the 22,368-foot mountain. Top-flight alpinists Jonny Copp and Micah Dash, followed by cameraman Wade Johnson for the Sender Films First Ascent series, were attempting a new route. As the group hiked toward base camp, they expressed concern about the warm weather. “It’s scary,” Jonny said on camera. “I’ve been on a lot of expeditions with Jonny,” Micah said, “and that’s the first time I’ve ever heard him refer to something as ‘scary.’” They were right to be unnerved. After three weeks in base camp with little progress, they decided to abandon the ascent and retrieve some gear they’d stashed higher on the mountain.

As they proceeded, a massive avalanche let loose, killing all three of them. Point of No Return tells the compelling story of these accomplished men and is also a testament to the talented Sender Films team who produced a cleareyed film about their lost friends.

—DH (USA, 2009, 25 min)

The Queen of Trees Mark Deeble and Victoria Stone

(Saturday, 12:15 p.m., LIB)

This is the extraordinary story of a relationship between two unlikely creatures: a regal African fig tree and a nearly microscopic wasp.

The Queen of Trees shared a Best of Festival award at Mountainfilm in 2006, and we bring it back because few films demonstrate the intricate and essential relationships of a specific ecosystem as well or as beautifully. Each individual fig is a microcosm—a stage for sex, birth and death—and the tiny players battle against predators and parasites to fulfill their missions.

The screening will be followed by a discussion about why biodiversity matters with scientists Tom Lovejoy, Terry Root and Nicole Rosmarino. Filmmakers Mark Deeble and Victoria Stone’s next offering, about elephants, is scheduled to arrive in the next year.

—EL (UK, 2006, 52 min)

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Shooting With Mursi Ben Young

(Friday, 6:45 p.m., LIB; Saturday, 6:30 p.m., LIB)

Restrepo

Tim Hetherington & Sebastian Junger (Sunday, 9:30 a.m., SOH)

“War is hell.” The adage is certainly confirmed by this remarkable documentary about the American forward operating base Restrepo, which is named for a fallen comrade. The film takes place in Afghanistan’s Korengal Valley, widely considered the most dangerous place in the world for an American soldier to be stationed. Filmed over a 15-month period by intrepid co-directors—photographer Tim Hetherington and author Sebastian Junger—Restrepo shows how quickly tedium can turn to terror on the frontlines of a war. The film, which won the Grand Prize at Sundance 2010, doesn’t place the situation into geopolitical context and doesn’t make any political statements about the war; it simply shows how these men go about their brutally demanding days.

—DH (USA, 2009, 93 min)

Shining Spirit: The Musical Journey of Jamyang Yeshi Karen McDiarmid

(Saturday, 6:15 p.m., SOH; Sunday, 7:15 p.m., HC)

IN PERSON: Karen McDiarmid & Jamyang Yeshi

In Shining Spirit, a family separated by exile is brought back together through music.

Jamyang Yeshi is a Tibetan musician who first escaped Tibet for Dharamsala, India, in 1998 and now lives in Canada. With the help of multi-track recording technology, Jamyang (in Canada) and his brother Tsundue (in the U.S.) join voices with the family they left behind in Tibet. Filmed between 2006 and 2009, Shining Spirit is a testament to the power of music, the resilience of Tibetan culture and the enduring bond of a family separated by politics and geography. This screening will be followed by a special performance

by Jamyang Yeshi.

—EL (Canada, 2009, 34 min)

Olisarali Olibui is a member of the pastoralist Mursi tribe, one of the most isolated in Ethiopia. Shooting with Mursi is aptly named because Olisarali carries a Kalashnikov rifle in one hand, ready for potential threats from the 14 other tribes that surround the Mursi. In the other hand, he carries a video camera that captures the sometimes-brutal rites and routines of his people, including women placing their lip plates (a sign of beauty) and a ritualistic beating of Olisarali and other men of his generation for an affront to the elders. He also trains his camera on less painful, but equally insightful, features of tribal life, such as the intrusive construction of a road that brings tourists who create complications for the once-remote Mursi.

—DH (UK, 2009, 55 min)

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Sign Language Oscar Sharp

Sluice Box and a Rocker

(Saturday, 6:15 p.m., MAS)

The protagonist of this charming short narrative is an outgoing and talkative sign carrier on a busy street corner. It’s a seemingly dead-end job, and he appears a little delusional as he talks with pride about his long-held position. While we see a busy and banal street corner, he notices “so much beauty, so much opportunity, right under our noses.” It’s his last day on this much-loved job, and his positive outlook is infectious and magically changes our own perspectives.

—EL (UK, 2009, 5 min)

Signatures

Nick Waggoner (Saturday, 9:30 p.m., HC)

IN PERSON: Nick Waggoner

Nick Waggoner, a talented young filmmaker, captures the essence of deep powder skiing in Hokkaido, Japan.

—DH (USA, 2009, 10 min)

Deco Dawson

(Saturday, 9:15 p.m., MAS; Sunday, 4:15 p.m., SOH)

Dawson, in Canada’s Yukon Territory, was once a thriving mining outpost with three competing steamship companies, prospecting miners in search of wealth, and dancehall girls collecting their share of the earnings. A 13-hour drive north of Whitehorse—back then a distance that translated to 13 days of hard travel—Dawson’s early history mirrors that of Telluride’s. Sluice Box and a Rocker is an artfully shot film of Dawson’s ruins, overlaid with a narration by old-timers who instill a strong sense of the poignant allure of the past.

—EL (Canada, 2009, 8 min)

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The Films

Soundtracker Nick Sherman

Somewhere Near Tapachula (festival cut) Jonno Durrant & Stefan Hunt

(Friday, 9:30 p.m., NUG)

IN PERSON: Jonno Durrant & Stefan Hunt

Jonno Durrant and Stefan Hunt (the duo behind Surfing 50 States, which won the Student Award last year at Mountainfilm) are back with another surfing film. This year’s effort is decidedly different than their madcap 2009 romp across the U.S. Somewhere Near Tapachula is about Mission Mexico—an orphanage set up by an Australian couple, Pam and Alan Scuse, who have helped nearly 200 kids in Mexico find their way out of gangs, drug addiction and a variety of other Dickensian nightmares. One activity that has made a difference is surfing.

After a volunteer left a surfboard behind in 2004, the sport has taken hold, and various surf companies and pro surfers offer gear and guidance so that these disadvantaged youth can take advantage of the swells outside their back door.

—DH (Australia, 2010, 30 min)

(Saturday, 12:00 p.m., MAS; Sunday, 9:30 a.m., LIB)

Sons of Perdition Tyler Measom & Jennilyn Merten

(Saturday, 9:15 p.m., SOH; Sunday, 12:15 p.m., SOH)

IN PERSON: Tyler Measom, Jennilyn Merten & sons of perdition The Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints (FLDS) are an offshoot sect of the Mormon Church who practice polygamy. Aside from the moral issues, polygamy has a simple mathematical flaw: There are not enough females for the males. Sons of Perdition, directed by Tyler Measom and Jennilyn Merten, tells the story of what happens to the teenage boys of Colorado City, Utah, who are expelled from their families because they threaten the older men’s hold on the young women.

Mostly, these youth start anew in nearby St. George, but without family, education or training, the challenges are enormous.

Fortunately, they have each other, and a web of support has started in St. George for these lost boys.

We see their deep determination to create a new life for themselves, different than the medieval one from which they were exiled.

—DH (USA, 2010, 84 min)

IN PERSON: Gordon Hempton & nick sherman

John Muir once said, “The mountains are calling, and I must go.” This quote ends Nick Sherman’s film about Gordon Hempton, a.k.a The Sound Tracker. Gordon drives around the country recording the sounds of nature and is obsessed with clean sound without interference from civilization, which is increasingly hard to find and, in many places in the U.S., entirely extinct. Gordon says that America’s mantra has, sadly, become the persistent and never-ending buzz of electrical wires. A wonderful documentary character, Gordon is honest and emotional, brilliant and flawed as he goes about his craft far away from his family, mired in debt and wondering if anyone cares about what he does. Luckily, director Nick Sherman does care and told this story, realizing that Gordon is an essential voice in the wilderness.

—DH (USA, 2009, 86 min)

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Stone River: The Passion of Jon Piasecki

Hal Clifford & Jason Houston

Tattoo Odyssey

(Friday, 6:45 p.m., MAS)

IN PERSON: Hal Clifford, Jason Houston & Jon Piasecki

With his thick glasses, duct-taped gloves, worn-out boot toes and ursine bearing, Jon Piasecki may not immediately impress you as someone who can change the world. But watch as he waltzes hefty slabs of flagstone through the woods and connects them meticulously into a pathway that melds seamlessly with its surroundings, and you will likely credit him with having earthshaking power and down-to-earth wisdom. Hal Clifford (executive editor of Orion magazine and former Telluride resident) and Jason Houston (2009 Mountainfilm gallery artist) created this thoughtful film.

—PK (USA, 2009, 17 min)

Sun Come Up

Jennifer Redfearn (Saturday, 6:15 p.m., NUG; Sunday, 4:15 p.m., SOH)

IN PERSON: Producer Tim Metzger & Jennifer Redfearn

If you follow the heated blowback on climate change roiling the airwaves, you’d think this is an issue with some uncertainty involved. Sure, you could allay those doubts with actual science, or you could listen to the Carteret Islanders of the South Pacific, who are evacuating their longtime home on a tiny island because of rising seas. Sun Comes Up chronicles the difficult plight as these people are forced to go hat in hand to the mainland to ask for land upon which to relocate their village. The tale takes on the tragic overtones of Paradise Lost as a world of pure-and-simple delights is poised for extinction.

—PK (USA, 2010, 38 min)

Andrew Gregg

(Saturday, 3:30 p.m., MAS; Sunday, 7:00 p.m., LIB)

IN PERSON: Chris Rainier

Photographer Chris Rainier is familiar to Mountainfilm audiences who have appreciated his exploration of the human condition across the globe.

Part anthropologist, much of his work targets disappearing worlds. He has documented the last speakers of dying languages, the last guardians of threatened cultures and the last wild people living beyond the edges of maps. In Tattoo Odyssey, we’re awarded a rare look into Chris’s fascinating world as he delves into the symbolism and meaning of tattoos and the unexpected bond they represent between traditional indigenous and modern societies.

—PK (Canada, 2009, 60 min)

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The Films

Trouble the Water Carl Deal & Tia Lessin

(Saturday, 9:15 p.m., NUG)

IN PERSON: Carl Deal & Tia Lessin

Time for a New God David Holbrooke

(Sunday, 9:30 a.m., HC)

IN PERSON: David Holbrooke & Irwin Kula

Irwin Kula is an eighthgeneration rabbi who teaches that every religion that thinks it has it all right, is surely all wrong.

In this moving monologue along the beaches, wharves, hot dog stands and roller coasters of Coney Island, Irwin spins a web of wisdom in a time when nothing is simply what it is.

Amidst the changing ethnicity of New York City, with its new sounds, peoples and rhythms, he offers religion as a “giant tool box.” And in an era when we have tamed the animals, can grow all the food we need and are the masters of the universe, the rabbi sweetly poses the question: “What kind of gods do we need?”

—Rick Silverman (from the 2004 program when this film first showed at Mountainfilm) (USA, 2004, 18 min)

Trouble the Water is the story of Kimberly Roberts and her husband Scott, two self-described street hustlers who don’t have a way out of New Orleans when Hurricane Katrina comes to town. Kimberly—an aspiring rap artist—has a video camera and decides to film herself and her neighbors in the ninth ward, many of whom also have to stay behind. Filmmakers Carl Deal and Tia Lesson meet the Roberts at the Astrodome, where they see Kimberly’s footage from inside the ferocious hurricane.

The filmmakers then follow the displaced couple on their search for family and a new home. This definitive film about Katrina snaps the audience back five years and into the storm, which is shown through the eyes of the truly memorable and indomitable Kimberly Roberts.

—DH (USA, 2008, 90 min)

We Love You

Jonathan Kalafer

Waste Land

(Friday, 6:45 p.m., MAS; Sunday, 9:30 p.m., SOH)

Lucy Walker

(Saturday, 12:00 p.m., NUG; sunday, 4:00 p.m., hc)

This film is a testament to creativity and the human spirit.

The creativity comes from Vik Muniz, the brilliant Brazilian artist. The spirit stems from his subjects—“recyclers,” as they call themselves—who work at the Jardim Gramacho landfill, one of the largest dumps in the world, which is just outside of Rio de Janeiro. Vik photographs several of the workers and turns those images—thoughtful and lovely—into stunning artworks that incorporate garbage from Gramacho. Director Lucy Walker captures the process of the artist closely, but the most compelling part of this story is that of the recyclers. Their jobs may be dirty, but their dignity is intact.

—DH (USA, 2009, 98 min)

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IN PERSON: Jonathan Kalafer

WayPoint Namibia (festival cut) Chris Alstrin

(Saturday, 9:30 a.m., NUG)

IN PERSON: Chris Alstrin & Majka Burhardt

The goal of this climbing expedition to Namibia was not only to find a way up an explored face, but also to delve deeper into the culture of southern Africa.

Climbers Majka Burhardt, Peter Doucette and Kate Rutherford attempt a trip that is as much about experiencing a way of life as it is about feeling the adrenaline rush of adventure.

—EL (USA, 2009, 7 min)

We Love You is about an annual coming together of like-minded people who believe they can change the world. No, it isn’t the story of Mountainfilm, but rather a different tribe: the Rainbow Gathering. Each summer since 1972, tens of thousands of people have met in a national park in search of a utopia without social hierarchy, commerce or war. This short documentary chronicles the 2008 gathering at the Wind River Range in Wyoming, where people built kitchen systems from nothing to provide food for thousands. It’s not just a communal love-in, though. The police arrive, casting a dark cloud over the Rainbow that the Gathering must face in their own way.

—DH (USA, 2009, 40 min)

The Wildest Dream Anthony Geffen

(Saturday, 6:45 p.m., HC)

IN PERSON: Conrad Anker In 1999, Conrad Anker was part of an expedition to the Northeast Ridge of Mt. Everest to search for the remains of George Mallory, the great British mountaineer known as the source of three famous words in mountaineering: “Because it’s there.” Mallory’s attempt to climb the world’s tallest mountain had been shrouded in mystery for 75 years because his body was never found until Conrad—a longtime Mountainfilm guest—came across it on this expedition. The discovery sparked a deep need in Conrad to better understand what had happened to Mallory.

The Wildest Dream is the tale of Mallory’s obsession with Everest and, in turn, Conrad’s obsession with Mallory. Liam Neeson represents Mallory’s voice, and his late wife, Natasha Richardson, in her last role, reads the letters of Mallory’s wife, Ruth.

—DH (UK, 2009, 90 min)

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kidz kino * The Films Kidz Kino is Monday, 11:00 A.M., palm

Electric Car

In this They Might Be Giants video, a magical animated electric car goes everywhere, picking up animal friends along the way.

—EL (USA, 2008, 3 min)

Fishman

Kathy Kasic

IN PERSON: Kathy Kasic & Mike Kasic

William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe Emily Kunstler & Sarah Kunstler (Saturday, 6:15 p.m., MAS; Sunday, 4:15 p.m., LIB)

IN PERSON: Emily Kunstler

From the Chicago Seven activists to inmates at Attica prison to the American Indians at Wounded Knee, lawyer William Kunstler fought fierce battles for people who had little voice in our legal system. His core belief was that everyone—no matter the charge—should receive quality legal counsel. An agile attorney who was highly respected for his work in the courtroom, he was also a polarizing figure for defending his often-radical and dangerous clients. But to his daughters, Emily and Sarah, he was the center of the universe.

This powerful film—made by the Kunstler sisters—not only recounts the historic cases that their father argued, it also reveals a man that even his own daughters did not always understand, a man who risked public outrage and the safety of his family so that justice could serve all.

—EL (USA, 2009, 85 min)

Woodsy

Alicia Nogueira

Wipe Out

Lionel Goddard (Sunday, 9:45 a.m., MAS)

IN PERSON: Lionel Goddard

In many sports, athletes are pushing to achieve bigger jumps and harder tricks. The emphasis is on glory, but the underlying danger is the risk of major accidents. Wipe Out tells the stories of three young men whose lives are changed forever when they suffer brain injuries in severe accidents while snowboarding, skateboarding and dirt biking. In the aftermath, they face lengthy rehabilitation, frustrating setbacks, physical disabilities and the reality that they’ll never be the same. They use the experience as a way to tout helmets—trying to persuade the next generation to protect their precious heads.

—KK (Canada, 2008, 51 min)

(Friday, 6:45 p.m., MAS; Sunday, 4:00 p.m., NUG)

IN PERSON: David Brankley, Angela Mallard & Alicia Nogueira world premiere

Living fully off the grid (and partially outside the law) is a rewarding way of life for two characters in this homegrown film. Telluride director Alicia Nogueira profiles Angela Mallard and David Brankley, locals who are fully engaged in this community, yet they choose to live in the woods, where they feel more aligned with the natural world.

—EL (Telluride, 2010, 9 min)

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Mike Kasic spends a lot of time swimming the Yellowstone, looking for fish and almost becoming one himself.

Unfortunately, all is not well for his favorite fish, the cutthroat trout. Fishman neatly captures the connection between man and nature.

—PK (USA, 2009, 11 min)

The Happy Duckling Gili Dolev

In an animated pop-up book world, a boy comes across a pesky duck on his way home from school. The duck just won’t leave him alone. What happens next in this page-turner of a tale is anyone’s guess.

—EL (UK, 2008, 7 min)

Lost and Found Philip Hunt

What would you do if a penguin knocked on your front door?

The little boy in Lost and Found decides to return the penguin to its rightful home at the South Pole, but the journey is not an easy one.

—EL (UK, 2009, 24 min)

The Mouse That Soared Kyle Bell

Step right up and see the hairraising adventures of a flying circus mouse! Witness the story of how an orphan foundling learns lessons in life and flight from his adoptive songbird parents. Come one, come all to this high-flying tale of beating the odds!

—EL (USA, 2009, 6 min)

Nico’s Challenge Steve Audette

IN PERSON: Carl Calabria & Nico Calabria Nico Calabria was born with only one leg, but as he says, “I can still do what anyone else can.” In this short documentary, he tackles the highest peak in Africa, Mt. Kilimanjaro, and shares his success with those less fortunate.

—EL (USA, 2009, 15 min)

Seven Days a Week (I Never Go to Work)

They Might Be Giants sing about their least favorite thing to do: go to work. That’s why they never do it. What do they do instead?

—EL (USA, 2005, 4 min)

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Why I Am

By Tom Shadyac Documentaries? Are you kidding me?

Aren’t docs serious and probing and, well, anti-fun for Friday-night fare? This was the kind of prejudice that possessed me most of my adult life, a prejudice that the gods and serendipity were to shatter one Memorial Day weekend some seven years ago. It was a postcard of a silhouetted sadhu perched somewhere high in the Himalayas that first got my attention and prompted me to turn around a private jet (I was consuming lots in those days) and head back to the mountain town of Telluride.

I had picked the postcard up from the lobby of my usual haunt, the Camel’s Garden, where I had spent a few days to escape the rigors and racket of L.A. That same weekend, Bruce Almighty was to be released, but instead of returning to the city to track the box office tally, I was inexplicably drawn to those shadowy figures backlit in blue. The gods, of course, knew that I had a long love affair with monks and mystics, and used those Himalayan holy men (sadhus are the holy men of India) as the perfect bait to lure me in. It turns out that Twighlight Men, a powerful work in progress by Roko Belic and Folco Terzani, was just the appetizer.

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“

Mountainfilm is not just about the movies, it’s equally about the crazy collection of soulful, spirited, festival family members you meet...”

A smorgasbord of emotional, edifying and paradigm-shattering films followed. Three days later, I staggered back to L.A., shell shocked by what I had discovered. I was challenged to rethink my priorities and determined to learn more.

But Mountainfilm is not just about the movies, it’s equally about the crazy collection of soulful, spirited, festival family members you meet—such extraordinary kin as Ben Skinner, the journalist and abolitionist who woke me up to modern day slavery; Richard Fatoussi, the filmmaker and activist who triggered my involvement in the Cambodian Land Mine issue; filmmakers and paradigm shifters Jason Russell, Laren Poole and

Bobby Bailey of Invisible Children, whose band of rag-tag, radical youth are committed to liberating all child soldiers in Uganda and ending Africa’s longest running war; and so many more.

Mountainfilm changed my life, simply, deeply, profoundly. I Am, my first documentary (go easy on me, Ken Burns), is a love letter of sorts to this festival to show my gratitude to all those whose journeys have influenced my own, and in the end, to do what I can in some small way to add a measure of love, light and perspective to a world in need of the same.

(P.S. Documentaries are so friggin’ hard!)

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The AAC

is about what matters.

ARKive is...

The Bond

AAC members Kate Rutherford & Madaleine Sorkin hang on Zion’s Moonlight Buttress during the first ascent by a female team.

A rapidly growing digital collection of the very best films and photos of the world's threatened species Safely storing this media in a centralized digital vault for posterity

Membership info:

AmericanAlpineClub.org

Where climbers unite.

A FREE educational resource for all!

Raising the profile of those species most threatened by extinction

Photo by Mikey Schaefer

ELEvATE YOuR LIfE “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it’s the only thing that ever has.”

– PIONEERING ANTHROPOLOGIST MARGARET MEAD

We are urgently collecting and disseminating photos, film & audio clips, and species information to profile endangered species.

Help us visit www.ARKive.org today!

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schedule saturday nugget

masons

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library

high camp

Breakfast Talks | 8:00 - 9:15 a.m.

9:00 a.m. 3:30 p.m.

Moving Mountains Symposium on Extinction (p. 14)

9:30 to 11:30 a.m. (p. 55)

10:00 to 11:45 a.m.

Last Train Home

Music By Prudence

(p. 76)

9:30 to 11:00 a.m. 9:30 to 11:15 a.m.

Mike Fay

Q&A

Concert and

Q&A

WayPoint Namibia Global Focus Q&A

Costa Rica

As It Happens The Blueline Alone on the Wall

Madagascar, a Journey Diary

Q&A

Q&A

9:45 to 11:30 a.m.

The Fence Green

Africa’s Lost Eden

12:00 to 2:15 p.m. 12:00 to 2:00 p.m.

12:15 to 2:15 p.m. 12:15 to 2:15 p.m. Lost Tribes of Soundtracker 12:15 to 2:00 p.m.

John Vaillant (p. 56)

180° South Q&A

New York City

Q&A

Waste Land

Global Focus Cambodia Q&A

Eastern Rises

The Queen of Trees

Q&A

biodiversity roundtable

Ice Cream Social | 2:15 - 3:30 p.m.

3:30 to 5:30 p.m.

Interviews, 50 Cents Q&A

Gallery Walk | 3:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.

Bag It Q&A

(p. 69)

3:30 to 5:30 p.m. 3:30 to 5:30 p.m.

11 Degrees

4:00 to 5:45 p.m. Facing the Waves I Dreamed About Pol Pot Q&A

Q&A

Man vs. Eiger Q&A

Kavi Q&A

Tattoo Odyssey Q&A

George Packer Fish Out of Water (p. 58)

3:30 to 6:00 p.m.

3:45 to 5:45 p.m.

Freedom Riders

Q&A

Q&A

Flathead Wild Bearwalker of the Northwoods Q&A

Q&A

6:15 to 8:15 p.m. 6:15 to 8:45 p.m. 6:15 to 8:15 p.m.

6:30 to 8:45 p.m.

Interviews, 50 Cents Q&A

Rick Hodes (p. 59)

I Am

Found

Sun Come Up

Mel Goldstein

Q&A

(p. 60)

Shining Spirit

Call of Life Q&A

Concert and

Sign Language 6:30 to 7:45 p.m.

Dock Ellis and 6:45 to 8:45 p.m.

William the LSD No-No The Wildest Kunstler: Dream Disturbing the Shooting with Q&A Mursi Q&A Universe Q&A

Q&A

Q&A

9:15 to 11:15 p.m. 9:15 to 11:15 p.m. 9:15 to 11:15 p.m.

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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

(p. 70) 5:15 5:30 5:45 6:00 pm 6:15 6:30 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. 6:30 to 8:45 p.m.

6:45 6:45 to 9:15 p.m. Nico’s Challenge Forgotten on 6:45 to 8:30 p.m. 6:45 to 8:15 p.m. the Roof of the Stone River 7:00 pm Q&A gasland Plastic Bag World Q&A Q&A 7:15 Q&A Point of No Shooting With 7:30 Woodsy Return Q&A Mursi 7:45 The 10 Q&A Q&A 8:00 pm We Love You Conditions of Q&A 8:15 Ed Viesturs Love (p. 54) Q&A 8:30 8:45 9:00 pm 9:15 9:15 to 11:15 p.m.

9:15 to 11:00 p.m.

9:30 Dock Ellis and 9:30 to 11:15 p.m. Flathead Wild 9:45 Q&A 9:45 to 11:45 p.m. the LSD No-No Khumbu... Q&A 10:00 pm The Cove Dirty Pictures Somewhere Ella es el 10:15 Q&A Q&A Near Tapachula matador 10:30 Q&A 10:45 11:00 pm Brother’s Wild 11:15 Q&A 11:30 11:45 12:00 am

Sons of Perdition

Trouble the Water

Q&A

Q&A

Going Green

Sluice Box and a Rocker Plastic Bag War of the Words (p. 61)

9:30 to late

ADRENALINE PROGRAM

Hawaii Wave Ski Last Paradise Living the Dream Signatures Greg Stump (p. 61)

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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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palm

Breakfast Talks | 8:00 - 9:15 a.m.

TBA

library

high camp

Breakfast Talks | 8:00 - 9:15 a.m. (p. 76)

9:15 to 10:30 a.m.

Music By Prudence Concert

9:30 to 11:30 a.m.

Interviews, 50 Cents Tim DeChristopher

and

Q&A

9:30 a.m.

TBA

9:30 to 10:30 a.m.

9:30 a.m.

9:30 a.m.

11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.

11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.

11:00 a.m.

Barefoot to Timbuktu

The American Place Theatre

Fish Out of Water

TBA

TBA

Q&A

FREE

(p. 62)

Time for a New God

11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.

Q&A

KIDZ KINO

Chris Jordan (p. 63)

11:00 a.m.

TBA

Q&A

Greg Mortenson

(p. 60)

FREE

(p. 43)

12:15 to 2:00 p.m.

TBA

Q&A

(p. 64)

with George Packer (p. 58)

Closing Awards Party | 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

(p. 69)

4:00 to 6:00 p.m.

Waste Land

7:15 to 9:30 p.m.

The 10 Conditions of Love Q&A

Shining Spirit Concert and

Q&A

TBA

TBA

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Presentations Films Events

TBA

nugget

Reading Frenzy | 2:00 - 4:00 p.m.

TBA

sheridan

Presentations Films Events

8:00 AM 8:15 8:30 8:45

(p. 76) 9:00 am 9:15 9:30 9:30 to 11:15 a.m.

9:30 to 11:30 a.m.

9:45 9:45 to 11:30 a.m. Soundtracker Restrepo 10:00 am 10:00 a.m. to Q&A Facing the 10:15 12:00 p.m.

Waves 10:30 Q&A Barefoot to 10:45 Timbuktu 11:00 am Wipe Out Q&A 11:15 Q&A 11:30 11:45 12:00 pm 12:00 to 2:00 p.m. 12:00 to 1:45 p.m.

12:15 I Dreamed 12:15 to 2:15 p.m.

Going Green About Pol Pot 12:30 12:30 to 2:15 p.m.

Sons of Q&A 12:45 Gasland Perdition Last Train 1:00 pm Q&A Q&A Home Forgotten onthe 1:15 Roof oftheWorld 1:30 Q&A 1:45 2:00 pm 2:15 2:30 2:45 3:00 pm 3:15

(p. 80) 3:30 3:45 4:00 pm 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. 4:00 to 6:15 p.m.

4:15 4:15 to 6:15 p.m.

Woodsy Eastern Rises 4:15 to 6:15 p.m.

4:30 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Sluice Box and Q&A Q&A William 4:45 a Rocker Kunstler: Dirty Pictures 5:00 pm Disturbing Bag It The Edge of Q&A Sun Come Up the Universe Never 5:15 Q&A Q&A Q&A 5:30 Kenny Broad 5:45 (p. 65) 6:00 pm 6:15 6:30 6:45 6:45 to 9:00 p.m.

7:00 pm 7:00 p.m.

7:00 p.m.

7:00 to 9:15 p.m. 7:00 to 8:30 p.m.

Found 7:15 11 Degrees Tattoo Odyssey 7:30 Q&A I Am 7:45 Q&A 180째 South 8:00 pm Q&A 8:15 8:30 8:45 9:00 pm 9:15 9:30 9:30 p.m.

9:30 to 11:30 p.m.

9:30 p.m.

9:45 9:45 p.m.

Mount St. Elias We Love You 10:00 pm Q&A 10:15 10:30 10:45 11:00 pm 11:15 11:30 11:45 12:00 am

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Presentations

all raffle proceeds will go to Big city mountaineers, the country’s leading non-profit volunteer organization devoted to providing significant mentoring for urban teens during wilderness trips.

“When I hear of the destruction of a species, I feel just as if all the works of some great writer have perished.”

Writing credits: David Holbrooke (DH) peter kenworthy (PK) Emily Long (EL)

- THEODORE ROOSEVELT

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Ed Viesturs

Michael christopher brown

presentations

Jake norton

presentations

In high school, Ed Viesturs read the classic mountaineering book Annapurna by Maurice Herzog, and it changed his life. He explains, “What I liked was that these guys had a goal, and they just wouldn’t give up. They spent months and months finding the mountain; then they climbed it. So simple, so basic. I’m a very goal-oriented person, and I like things that take a long time to accomplish.”

With that in mind, it took Ed 16 years to accomplish his goal to be the first American to climb all 14 peaks over 8,000 meters without bottled oxygen. The key to the strategy was attempting more than one massive peak per trip. In 1993, he and Rob Hall

Jake norton

(Friday, 6:30 p.m., SOH)

stood atop Everest. A week later, already acclimatized, they set out on a successful three-day, alpine-style summit on Lhotse.

Ed completed his quest in 2005 when he reached the summit of Annapurna

(26,545 feet), which, in some ways, was the mountain that sparked his climbing career through Herzog’s book. He has now written his own book, K2: Life and Death on the World’s Most Dangerous Mountain, with author David Roberts. (They will discuss this book, and their upcoming one about Annapurna, at a breakfast talk on Saturday and sign books afterward.) He is also a leading member of the guide team at Eddie Bauer/ First Ascent, the Presenting Sponsor of Mountainfilm.

We’re thrilled to welcome Ed to Telluride. We’ve been trying to get him to the festival for more than a decade, but it always conflicts with the Himalayan climbing season.

—DH

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Mike Fay (Saturday, 9:30 a.m., PALM)

Redwood Transect Mike Fay dazzled Mountainfilm audiences in 2001 with Megatransect, a presentation about his 2,000-mile walk across an enormous and intact corridor of jungle in the Congo and Gabon. As he hiked, he chronicled the trees, wildlife and human impact he witnessed. This work led to the preservation of 11,000 square miles of national parks by the Gabonese government, who recently appointed

Mike as the director of the country’s national parks.

This National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence and Wildlife Conservation Society field scientist is back with his latest walk, the Redwood Transect, which he completed in 2008. On this journey, he zigzagged more than 1,800 miles through the forest of Big Sur all the way to Oregon. During this 11-month adventure, he encountered loggers, foresters

and environmentalists. All of these people were dependent upon the forests, and as he spoke to them, he developed a sense of how the redwoods could be both used and preserved. As Mike says, “California revolutionized the world with the silicon chip.

They could do the same with forest management.”

—DH

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John Vaillant (Saturday, 12:15 p.m., PALM)

In John Vaillant’s first book, The Golden Spruce (2005)—a story about human intrigue and conflict—the environment of the Pacific Northwest is an integral and compelling character. He does the same thing with his upcoming book, The Tiger, set in Russia’s remote Far East. The main character of this compelling story is the Siberian Tiger, a force of nature, both beautiful and chilling. It can grow to ten feet long, weigh more than six hundred pounds and range daily over vast territories of

forest and mountain.

In The Tiger, a hardscrabble poacher in a remote forest in Russia’s Far East sets out to snare one of the world’s most extraordinary animals.

Instead, the poacher is savagely killed and an entire village is terrorized as the tiger takes its revenge.

John will give us a preview of The Tiger—which won’t be released until August, 2010—in his presentation at 12:15 p.m. on Saturday at the Palm.

—EL

Emily: You must think highly of each other to share stories so closely.

John: The feeling I had watching Conflict Tiger was one of startling recognition: In it, I saw a filmmaker who successfully portrays his subjects with the same intensity and sensitivity that I aspire to in my books. The idea that Sasha might make a film about The Golden Spruce is, in addition to being a huge honor, very reassuring: I know he gets it, and I have complete faith that he will do what it takes to bring it across.

Having now done fieldwork in the Russian Far East myself, I am even more impressed that Sasha was able to make a film there.

Sasha: Yes, it’s very peculiar how the felling of a sacred tree and the slaying of a wounded tiger on opposite sides of the Pacific Ocean within a few weeks of each other, could result in the collaboration of an author and filmmaker living on opposite sides of the planet. In this creative exchange, John will be a very tough act to follow.

Emily: Sasha, can you explain how you came across the story that turned into your film Conflict Tiger?

Sasha: I was trying to make a film on the Russia/Chinese border about the biggest illegal black market in the world, and I found out that film was already being made. By chance, I bumped into someone working for the World Wildlife Foundation, who asked if I knew about the work being done with tigers out at the Chinese border. A lightbulb went off in my head, and I began doing research, just trying to find out more about the Siberian tiger. By luck, I came across an English translation of a biologist’s field report of the incident. I read the account and thought, well, that’s the film.

Th e S t o r y B e h i n d Th e T i g e r John Vaillant was inspired to write The Tiger after he saw a film called Conflict Tiger, which screened at Mountainfilm in 2006 and was directed by Sasha Snow. In an interesting turn of events, Sasha is now making a documentary about the riveting story of murder and ecology that Vailliant tells in The Golden Spruce.

Mountainfilm’s Emily Long spoke to the author and the filmmaker about the two subjects that inspired them. >>>

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Emily: Can you tell me more about the original story that inspired you?

Sasha: It’s a story I’ve lived with for 10 years now. It involves a gentleman called Yuri Trush, the head of the Conflict Tiger unit, who was called in by the authorities when an incident of a tiger behaving unnaturally was reported. One of the worst cases was this particular incident, which involved a tiger killing two people and

nearly killing Yuri himself. What made it fascinating was the tiger’s desire for revenge, that it actually targeted a particular person and stalked him over a period of time.

Emily: John, how did you come across Yuri and the Conflict Tiger unit?

John: Really by total accident. I’d been invited to present on The Golden Spruce at the Banff Mountain Film Festival, and I got free tickets to this film I’d never heard of about tigers and Russia and poachers. I went in with no expectations or even understanding of what I was seeing. I just sat there, riveted, and I remember one moment particularly; about 15 minutes into it, there was just this lightning bolt—through the lens of this one tiger, and this one man who was the tiger’s first victim, we are introduced to a much larger context and a much larger series of portraits that all coalesce. These stories are like hubs around which a panoply of issues revolve. Every now and then, a story comes along that draws many related issues together in a sort of crystalline and dynamic way. The tiger that Sasha made the film about does that as few other stories I’ve ever encountered have done. It’s irresistible.

Emily: At their core, the stories speak about the rare nature of certain elements of the environment. Can you speak a bit about extinction and how both stories play into that?

John: What you have, in both stories, are systems that were, until really quite recently, intact, stable and functional. In the case of The Tiger, several forces—Perestroika, the opening of the Chinese border and the collapse of the nationalized logging industry—led to a complete disruption of the environment. What you see is a very ugly, violent and destructive response to this destabilization as tremendous impacts are visited upon these environments. In both stories, people are as much victims as causes.

Sasha: We often think about extinction as extinction of other species, about animals other than us; whereas, I think both stories point toward the extinction of human communities and particular types of people that are as much a part of the ecosystem as the golden spruce or the tiger. The way of life is connected intimately between both creatures. When one goes, they both go.

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Rick Hodes (Saturday, 6:30 p.m., PALM)

George Packer (Saturday, 4:00 p.m., PALM)

“One can only be honest about having a point of view while remaining open to aspects of reality—the human faces and voices—that might demolish it” writes George Packer in his collection of articles titled Interesting Times: Writings from a Turbulent Decade. As a staff writer at The New Yorker magazine, he writes about everything from atrocities in Sierra Leone to America with its flawed political system: Seduction by iced latte, mutual fund, and “The Sopranos” is a slow, nearly invisible disease; it can happen without leaving a trace in print, yet at some point the organism has lost the impulse to object.

An opposition that is financially secure, mentally insincere, and generally ignored isn’t likely to produce Common Sense or Democratic Vistas.

Author of the highly acclaimed book The Assassin’s Gate: America in Iraq, Packer will discuss his work with Mountainfilm Festival Director David Holbrooke at the Sheridan Opera House on Saturday at 4:00 p.m.

George will also speak about the Middle East with his wife— Laura Secor, who is also with The New Yorker—at a breakfast talk on Sunday. Later that day, he’ll moderate a discussion with Three Cups of Tea author Greg Mortenson about the Af-Pak region.

—DH

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Last year at Mountainfilm, the Moving Mountains Prize, which goes to the subject of a film in the festival, was awarded to Dr. Rick Hodes, who stars in Making the Crooked Straight.

Rick lives in Ethiopia and treats children with spinal tuberculosis, which horribly twists the spine of those afflicted by the disease.

When he won the $5,000 award, he said he wanted to use the prize money to treat one child, a 13-year-old girl named Mieraf, who speaks English and wants to be a doctor when she grows up.

This year, Rick is returning to Mountainfilm and bringing Mieraf with him. He’ll show a brief presentation about

the surgery that made such a dramatic change in Mieraf’s life.

The Moving Mountains Prize money totaled only $3,000 last year, and the judges decided upon two winners: Rick Hodes and the brave Burmese activists in Burma VJ. Through the generosity of Mountainfilm audiences, who supplemented the fund, Mountainfilm was able to award two separate cash prizes of $5,000.

Thank you all for making this happen.

Rick will also be a judge for the Moving Mountains Prize this year.

—DH Mieraf before and after surgery

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Melvyn Goldstein

(Saturday, 6:15 p.m., SOH)

Melvyn Goldstein, a social anthropologist at Case Western Reserve University and an expert on Tibet, has spent the last 24 years studying the nomads and farmers of Western Tibet, a people who live in one of the world’s harshest environments at altitudes between 15,200 to 17,200 feet.

I visited this area in 1993 with my father and brother and asked Professor Goldstein how the nomads’ lives had changed over the last 17 years. His answer: “They’ve changed tremendously in some ways. Many now ride motorcycles instead of horses, but they’re a great success story because, like us, they’re picking and choosing what

and the Nomads of Western Tibet

War of the Words (Saturday, 9:15 p.m., MAS)

The People of the World vs. The English Language A SquidShow Theatre Production

they want from modernity— and in their view, the essence of their unique way of life is still intact.”

Goldstein, a member of the National Academy of Sciences, will present a

history about the survival of these nomads’ way of life in the face of powerful economic, political and socio-cultural changes, and he’ll address their prospects for the future.

—DH

The American Place Theatre presents Three Cups of Tea (Monday, 11:00 a.m., MAS)

The American Place Theatre (APT) brings this adaptation of Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin’s bestseller Three Cups of Tea to the stage. This Literature to Life program engages its audience through dramatic staging, direct interaction and a Q&A after the performance

with David Kener, executive director of APT. Developed for students and brought to Telluride through Pennies for Peace, the play offers a chance to deeply explore the story that is inspiring people worldwide.

—EL

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SquidShow Theatre has made a name in Telluride with original productions, play readings and professional stagings of contemporary work. Company members collaborate to build new shows with elements of

music, dance, art and comedy.

The Squids are partnering again with Mountainfilm (they produced Voices of a People’s History in 2009), this time with the creation of an original production called War of the Words, which is about the extinction of languages across the planet.

Ninety percent of the world’s languages are likely to be lost this century.

Whodunnit? As languages die like the dodo, a special

court convenes to find out who is responsible for the new boutique crime of “languicide.”

Is it globalization? Simple goodwill? Or is the English language itself the culprit?

SquidShow’s first criminal justice event premieres at this year’s Mountainfilm—and you’re the jury.

War of the Words is written

by Reilly Capps and Sasha Cucciniello and performed by the company.

—EL

Greg Stump

(Saturday, 9:30 p.m., HC)

“In 1971, ski lifts were introduced into the side of a 16-mile box canyon in southwestern Colorado. Hardcore skiers, uncomfortable with the commercialism and lack of steep skiing in Vail- and Aspen-type ski towns, came to Telluride. Telluride residents have long held a reputation of being hardcore.”

So says filmmaker Greg Stump in his seminal 1988 ski film Blizzard of Aahhh’s. This

year, Greg returns to Telluride to talk about the making of that film, which featured Glen Plake, Mike Hattrup and Telluride’s own Scott Kennet and inspired huge growth in big-mountain skiing. Greg will also discuss the evolution of ski films and show clips from the long-awaited sequel, The Legend of Aahhh’s.

—DH

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Tim DeChristopher (Sunday, 9:30 a.m., HC)

In a widely distributed letter, James Hansen, Naomi Klein, Bill McKibben, and Terry Tempest Williams wrote: The epic fight to ward off global warming and transform the energy system that is at the core of our planet’s economy takes many forms: huge global days of action, giant international conferences like the one that just failed in Copenhagen, small gestures in the homes of countless people.

But there are a few signal moments, and one comes when the federal government puts Tim DeChristopher on trial in Salt Lake City June 21st. Tim—“Bidder 70”—pulled off one of the most creative protests against our runaway energy policy in years: He bid for the oil and gas leases on several parcels of federal land even though he had no money to pay for them, thus upending the auction. The government calls that “violating the Federal Onshore Oil and Gas Leasing Reform Act” and thinks he should spend ten years in jail for the crime; we call it a noble act, a profound gesture made on behalf of all of us and of the future.

When Tim disrupted the auction, he did so in the fine tradition of non-violent civil disobedience that changed so many unjust laws in this country’s past. Tim’s upcoming trial is an occasion to raise the alarm once more about the peril our planet faces.

Tim will provide an update on his trial and talk about his latest actions, including organizing protests at the Snowbird Ski Resort and finding a congressional candidate on Craigslist (Sunday, 9:30 a.m., High Camp).

Tim will also participate in two breakfast talks (see page 76 for details).

—DH

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Chris Jordan (Sunday, 9:30 a.m., HC)

Artist Chris Jordan spoke at Mountainfilm in 2008 about his trenchant series of images titled “Running the Numbers,” which showed the scale of our consumption. He’s back this year to discuss his new work from Midway Island, where he journeyed last fall to further understand the Great Garbage Patch—a gyre in the Pacific Ocean of plastic that’s twice the size of Texas. The plastic looks like food to the albatross on nearby Midway Island, and they collect a panoply of lighters, bottle caps and other items to feed their chicks. The plastic kills

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the birds who then die on the beach, their bellies full with the detritus of our lives. Chris photographed the birds’ desiccated and exposed corpses as they lay, not touching anything, pre-

serving the destruction. The photos are searing, memorable and essential—words that also describe Chris’ powerful presentation.

—DH

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(Sunday, 12:15 p.m., HC)

Greg Mortenson first came to Mountainfilm in 1981. At the time, he was just another mountaineer living out of his car, bound for the next “last, best place.” Today, he’s an internationally acclaimed humanitarian, a best-selling author and has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for his work helping educate some 60,000 children, mostly

girls, in remote and often highly volatile areas of Pakistan and Afghanistan.

His books—Three Cups of Tea and Stones into Schools— resonate with readers because people are inspired by the story of a dedicated, impassioned individual who makes a difference in the world. Greg’s own inspiration was Albert Schweitzer: “Dr. Schweitzer’s

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most prominent writing is a tome called Reverence for Life.

In it, he says that those who are happiest are those who have been taught and learned to serve others.” Greg says, “I have a natural tendency to be happy. I try to see the world through the eyes of a child—unfettered by the trepidations, fear and anxiety of adults.”

Like a good mountaineer, he’s also relied heavily on intuition. “The best decisions I have made were when I listened to my heart. And many of the worst decisions were based on linear Western logic,” he explains.

His instincts and native buoyancy have helped him succeed in such a challenging part of the world and against significant cultural odds. Greg says he’s learned at least two fundamental lessons. The first of which is to never fear failure: “It’s OK to take risks and fail and to make mistakes. In Balti (a form of classical Tibetan), failure means you’ve reached a fork in the road—it’s a decisionmaking moment.” The other lesson is that the strength of our world lies in its diversity: “What is desperately needed,” Greg says, “is to respect each other, live in humility and lead a life of compassion. Cultural sensitivity is simply key.”

Greg will speak on Sunday at 12:15 p.m. at High Camp about his work. He will then participate in a discussion about Pakistan with George Packer.

Find him at the breakfast talk on Monday at the Ah Haa School, and see a play about Greg’s work that will be performed at the Masons on Monday.

—PK

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Greg Mortenson

Kenny Broad ventures into places that few people see for themselves. This National Geographic Emerging Explorer and Expeditions Council grantee studies underwater caves, which offer clues about climate change, extinction and forgotten societies. “That’s why I find underwater cave exploration so engaging,” he says. “You never know what you’re going to find until you get there. You never know what the answer—if

there is one—may turn out to be.” Looking for answers is part of the challenge for this professor at the University of Miami, whose dangerous work in the Blue Holes of the Bahamas was the subject of a NOVA special this year.

He also works frequently with photographer Wes Skiles, whose photos of their expedition are on display at the Silver Bell and will be on the cover of National Geographic later this year.

—DH

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Mountainfilm hosts the following parties and events during the festival— all free to the public, unless noted.

Social Events

Eddie Bauer screening of Hotel Charley V Thursday, May 27 7:30 p.m.

Telluride Elks Lodge/swede finn hall

Follow a group of extreme kayakers as they seek out first descents in three countries.

Gallery Walk Friday, May 28 3:30 to 6:30 p.m.

See page 70 for a list of artists and galleries.

American Alpine Club Parties

Ice Cream—with special sauces provided

by Telluride Truffle—will be served and accompanied by live entertainment. This year we will feature the often-overlooked Olympic discipline of recycling. Heats will be broken into three competitors going head to head for the honor of world’s best recycler. Prizes will be awarded. iLCP 12SHOTS Reception & Karaoke Night Saturday, May 29 9:30 p.m.

Bubble Lounge

The International League of Conservation Photographers will convene a 12SHOTS photography reception at The Bubble Lounge. Each 12Shot portfolio projected will use 12 images to tell a story on the theme of “Extinctions.” Stick around for iLCP Karaoke Night, which will be hosted

by Timmy O’Neill. Start practicing your song now.

Reading Frenzy

(These events are free for AAC members, and there’s a small charge for non-members. The door charge will benefit AAC’s conservation efforts.)

Sunday, May 30 2:00 to 4:00 p.m.

Palmyra Restaurant at The Peaks Hotel in Mountain Village

Friday, May 28, and Saturday, May 29 4:00 to 7:00 p.m.

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Closing Awards Picnic

Friday: Meet the Sender Films crew from Boulder (Point of No Return, page 35 and others).

Saturday: Jack Tackle presentation Breakfast Talks Saturday, Sunday and Monday, May 29, 30 and 31 8:00 to 9:15 a.m.

See page 76 for the full descriptions of speakers and venues.

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Saturday, May 29 2:15 to 3:30 p.m.

Colorado Avenue (main street), between Aspen and Fir Streets

See the full list of authors on page 80.

(The picnic is free to passholders; tickets will be for sale at the entrance or online for $25.)

Monday, May 31 1:00 to 4:00 p.m.

Telluride Town Park

Here’s your chance to vote for the Audience Choice Award, have a delicious organic lunch and enjoy free-flowing beer and wine from New Belgium Brewing and Redwood Creek.

We’ll announce the winners of the Moving Mountains Prize, Charlie Fowler Award and others (see nominees, page 82) as we close out the 32nd edition of the annual festival.

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Alex Beard

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High Camp

StrongHouse gallery

We approached Alex Beard, a talented painter of junglescapes, to create this year’s Mountainfilm poster along the theme of the Extinction Crisis. He says it’s one of his favorite pieces because it contains a power and urgency within it.

Jonny Copp Steaming Bean

Jonny Copp died in an avalanche in China last June (and is the subject of the moving film Point of No Return). As the founder of the Boulder Adventure Film Festival, he left behind a terrific collection of photographs from his many expeditions around the world.

Joslyn Doerge just returned home to Telluride from South East Asia, which inspired this series of mixed media packages made from recycled materials she found there.

Lynsey Dyer Eddie Bauer Airstream

Lynsey Dyer returns to Mountainfilm with an exhibit of hand-painted, one-of-a-kind t-shirts. Look for the Eddie Bauer/First Ascent Airstream trailer on main street.

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Anthony Holbrooke

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Ah Haa School

Carefully carved out of Colorado marble, Anthony Holbrooke’s sculptures were made expressly with Telluride in mind.

His work lives in a wonderful space between abstraction and naturalism, allowing the viewer to bring their own sensibility and attitude to the work.

Stefan Hunt Steaming Bean

Stefan Hunt is the co-director of Somewhere in Tapachula, a surfing film about orphans in Mexico (he also made Surfing 50 States). His portraits of the kids portrayed in the film are both sweet and serious, offering insight into their lives.

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Cristina Mittermeier and her team at the International League of Conservation Photographers “believe that awe-inspiring photography is a powerful force for the environment.” At Mountainfilm, they are exhibiting images by some of their finest photographers, including Symposium speaker Joel Sartore (page 15).

Charlotta Janssen Ah Haa School

Charlotta Janssen adopts big themes for her paintings, yet she makes the pieces work on a personal level. Her latest series is about the Freedom Riders who rode buses to Mississippi in 1961 at great personal peril (and who are featured in the film Freedom Riders, page 28). These mug-shot-style paintings offer a sense of the Riders’ personal courage.

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Maya Lin Telluride Gallery of Fine Art and Oak Street Mall

Maya Lin has designed her last memorial, and to her, it’s the ultimate subject: our very existence on this planet. The memorial, titled “What is Missing?,” is a clear-eyed but deeply felt commentary on the tragic era of extinction in which we live today. Her work is the inspiration for the Extinction Crisis theme at this year’s Mountainfilm, where her simple question—What is Missing?—demands an answer.

Maya has redefined what a memorial can be, making this one a multi-sited, multimedia piece that can be seen in interactions everywhere from Oak Street and Times Square to whatismissing.net.

Her focus on landscapes and the world around us can also be seen in her sculptures and wall pieces at the Telluride Gallery of Fine Art, which are their own commentaries on our consumption (a reason, of course, for the extinction crisis). Then there are her atlases, which are a powerful and beautiful exploration of a world we don’t really see but very much exists. This part-time Ridgeway resident will speak about the Extinction Crisis at the Symposium on Friday at High Camp (page 14).

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Viviane Moos Schilling Studio Gallery

An acclaimed photojournalist, Viviane Moos’ photos of Angkor Wat capture the mix of human invention and natural perseverance that is embodied by these temples. Shot on film and printed using a special technique, these images are simply luminous.

Erika Nelson Main Street

Erika Nelson’s license plate says “Art Car,” which describes this four-wheeled commentary on fossil fuel dependency and which is also carrying her curated museum exhibit: “The World’s Largest Collection of the Smallest Versions of the World’s Largest Things.”

James Prosek Schilling Studio Gallery

James Prosek’s paintings of invertebrates would be almost clinical if they weren’t so beautiful. Close ups of butterflies and other bugs are accompanied by notes from the painter, who is clearly a naturalist in the grand tradition.

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Joe Riis la cocina de luz

Joe Riis has assiduously photographed the migration of the pronghorn antelope by using camera traps and taking long sojourns into the wilderness. He is a National Geographic Young Explorer and works with Freedom to Roam to establish and preserve migratory corridors.

Wes Skiles Silver Bell

Wes Skiles traveled to the Bahamas to capture these breathtaking photos of Blue Holes, underwater chambers that hold clues to climate change, evolution and extinction. Mountainfilm audiences are privileged to preview these images, which will adorn the cover of National Geographic magazine later this year. Wes works closely with National Geographic Emerging Explorer Kenny Broad (page 65), and they will talk about their experience in the Blue Holes on Sunday at 4:15 p.m. at the Sheridan Opera House.

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Beth Wald La Cocina de Luz

Beth Wald returns to Mountainfilm with a striking series of photos from a trip she made with legendary wildlife biologist George Schaller to Afghanistan’s Wakhan Corridor, a little finger of land between China, Pakistan and Tajikistan.

Jeff Zenick Schilling Studio Gallery

Jeff Zenick finds inspiration in the ordinariness of old yearbooks and other slightly random group photos, yet his paintings are anything but ordinary.

His series for Mountainfilm includes a Colorado Rodeo Club and state yearbooks from 1966 and 1975.

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events #4 Advocacy

Storytelling Suzan Beraza, director of Bag It (page 22); Josh Fox, director of Gasland (page 28); Louie Psihoyos, Oscar-winning director of The Cove (page 24); photographer Joel Sartore (page 70); and Nancy Schafer (page 83), Executive Director of Tribeca Film Festival, will address how filmmakers and photographers can tell a story that confronts a controversial subject aggressively and fairly. Moderator: Alex Chadwick (Interviews, 50 cents, page 31)

#5 K2

breakfast talks 8:00 to 9:15 a.m.

Saturday, May 29 #1 Senator Michael

Start your day off with great food and compelling conversations at the Mountainfilm Breakfast Talks, where you can engage with festival guests in a more intimate setting.

Note that conversations start at 8 a.m., so please be sure you are seated before then.

Thank you to the Telluride Daily Planet for hosting these talks and to The Butcher & The Baker, Capella Hotel, Indian Ridge, Jody’s Kitchen and Marjolaines for providing food.

Bennet Senator Bennet will address a range of issues that affect our region, ranging from the environment to veterans returning from war.

#2 Lots

of Problems—Some Solutions These folk are trying to make a difference. Dan Austin is founder of 88Bikes.org, which brings bikes to impoverished kids around the world. Matthew Frey works for PATH (path.org), an organization that has developed Ultra Rice, a fortified staple with micronutrients. Christiane Leitinger runs Pennies for Peace (penniesforpeace.org), a group founded by Greg Mortenson that helps students broaden their cultural horizons. Hank Louis is an architect who runs Design Bluff (designbuildbluff.org), which builds cheap, sustainable housing for Native Americans. What works, what doesn’t and why?

#3 Can

Science Save Us from Ourselves?

Kenny Broad (page 65), Theo Colborn, Tom Lovejoy (page 15), Terry Root (page 15) and Alexander Shulgin (page 24) will examine what scientists will be able to fix and what they won’t.

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and Annapurna Ed Viesturs (page 54) and David Roberts co-authored K2: Life and Death on the World’s Most Dangerous Mountain and are at work on a new book about Annapurna. They’ll discuss these fierce mountains—two of only 14 that are above 8,000 meters. Moderator: Sarah Garlick (author of Flakes, Jugs and Splitters: A Rock Climbers Guide to Geology)

#6 Grow Your Own

Barclay Daranyi is co-founder of Indian Ridge Farm and Bakery. Manny Howard’s attempt to live off his own land—in Brooklyn, New York—is chronicled in his book My Empire of Dirt. Dave James runs James Family Ranch in Durango, Colorado. The group will discuss the challenges of growing real food.

Sunday, May 30 #1 Africa’s

Challenges Nico Calabria (Nico’s Challenge, page 34), Rick Hodes (Making the Crooked Straight, Mountainfilm 2009) and Prudence Mabhena (Music by Prudence, page 34) discuss what life is like for disabled people throughout Africa.

Iran and Iraq Laura Secor of the New Yorker covered the 2009 uprising in Iran that was brutally squelched by the Iranian government. She and her husband, George Packer (page 58), will discuss the future of Iran and Iraq. Moderator: Ben Skinner, author of A Crime so Monstrous.

#2

Three Generations of Monkey Wrenchers Katie Lee, Dave Foreman and Tim DeChristopher will discuss the risks they’ve taken and the direction they think the environmental movement needs to head. They’ll be joined by Corinne Platt and Meredith Ogilby, authors of the celebrated book, Voices of the American West, which highlights 50 important individuals who shaped the West.

#3

Image and Impact Artists Alex Beard, Chris Jordan (page 63) and Jeff Zenick (page 73) join iLCP photographers Wes Skiles and Chris Rainier to discuss how they want their images to impact society.

#4

#5 Millenial Anxiety

The one thing Al-Qaeda and Israeli settlers, cats and dogs, Glenn Beck and Keith Olberman agree on is that the world is a mess and getting worse. Rabbi Irwin Kula, featured in Time for a New God (page 40); Lee Quinby, author of Millenial Seduction: A Skeptic Confronts Apocalyptic Culture and the director of Facing the Waves (page 26); and I Am (page 30) director Tom Shadyac (page 44-45) discuss the deeply unsettling times in which we are living. Moderator: Mountainfilm Festival Director David Holbrooke #6 Outside Magazine and Television

Meet the editors of Outside magazine and the programmers from the new Outside Television network. Hear about how this storied magazine makes the move to television and new media.

Locations (see the map on page 9) #1—Ah Haa School, West Wing #2—Ah Haa School, East Wing #3—Honga’s Lotus Petal Restaurant #4—Th e Silver Bell Building #5—Sheridan Opera House #6—Suede Restaurant at Capella in Mountain Village

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breakfast talks continued MONDAY, may 31 #1 Greg

Mortenson The author (page 64) of Three Cups of Tea and Stones into Schools will discuss his work and how to continue during this increasingly unsettled time in the Af-Pak region.

#2 Haiti: After the

Earthquake Photographer Aaron Huey, author Bob Shacochis (The Immaculate Invasion) and author and abolitionist Ben Skinner will examine the future of Haiti.

#3 Can

the Climate Movement Learn from the Civil Rights Movement?

Freedom Rider Ernest “Rip” Patton (page 28) sits down with environmental activist Tim DeChristopher (page 62), EPA Deputy Administrator Bob Perciasepe and mountaineer Rick Ridgeway (page 15).

#4 Anna

Deveare Smith She’s appeared in a variety of films from Rachel Getting Married to The Kingdom and in such TV shows as “Nurse Jackie” and “The West Wing,” but Anna Deavere Smith’s signature is what’s been called “documentary theater.” For these tour de force performances, she addresses such subjects as the Rodney King riots (Twilight: Los Angeles) or, more

recently, health care (Let Me Down Easy).

Her process: Interview dozens of people and then step onto the stage and become these people, creating a work of art that is a hybrid of journalism and drama. Moderator: Sasha Cucciniello of SquidShow Theatre The Future of Minorities in China Mel Goldstein (page 60) has studied Tibetan Nomads for two decades. Jamyang Yeshi (page 36) is a Tibetan singer who fled Tibet and now lives in Canada. Raela Tosh (page 20) is the daughter of Rebiya Kadeer, the exiled leader of the Uighur people who have been oppressed by the Chinese government.

Peter Hessler is a writer for the New Yorker and the author of Country Driving: A Journey Through China from Farm to Factory.

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#6 Where Will

the Next Era of Exploration Take Us Where do global wanderers—such as mountaineer Conrad Anker (The Wildest Dream, page 41), Josh Bernstein (host of the Moving Mountains Symposium, page 14), author Gretel Erlich (Empire of Ice), National Geographic Explorer Mike Fay (page 55), ski mountaineer Hilaree O’Neill, and Eddie Bauer/First Ascent mountaineer Peter Whittaker—want to go next?

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Authors

Alex Beard Alexander Shulgin Bob Shacochis Chris Jordan Chris Rainier Conrad Anker Corinne Platt Dan Austin Dave Foreman David Roberts Ernst Aebi George Packer Ginny Fowler-Hicks Gordon Hempton Greg Mortenson Gretel Ehrlich Hal Clifford

Sunday, May 30, from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the Palmyra Restaurant inside The Peaks Hotel in Mountain Village

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Between the Covers bookstore moves to The Peaks for the day. Get your book signed and continue the conversation face to face with your favorite Mountainfilm authors. Beer, wine and hors d’oeuvres will be served, compliments of JanSport.

Rabbi Irwin Kula Jenni Lowe-Anker Jennifer Jordan John Vaillant Katie Lee Lee Quinby Majka Burhardt Manny Howard Mel Goldstein Meredith Ogilby Raela Tosh Rick Hodes Rick Ridgeway Rob Story Sarah Garlick Tom Lovejoy William A. Kerig

Note: Joel Sartore and Ed Viesturs will not be able to attend the Reading Frenzy.

Instead, Joel will sign books at Between the Covers (224 West Colorado Avenue) after the Symposium on Friday (4:00 to 5:00 p.m.), and Ed will sign books at his Breakfast Talk on Saturday morning (see page 77 for details)

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The Moving Mountains Prize This $3,000 award goes to a nonprofit that is featured in a new film at this year’s festival. The judges (facing page) watch each film and examine the mission of each nonprofit, considering its scope, impact and need in their decision. Note that the quality of the film itself is not a deciding factor for this prize.

Of course all of these nonprofits do important work, so each will receive at least $200. If you are moved by what you see and want to add to the collective prize pool, there will be opportunities to contribute.

Moving Mountains Prize Nominees

Khumbu Climbing Class 2010—page 31 Alex Lowe Charitable Foundation

The 10 Conditions of Love—page 20 Uyghur American Association

Music by Prudence—page 34 The Music by Prudence Project

Africa’s Lost Eden—page 21 Gorongosa National Park

Nico's Challenge—page 34 Free Wheelchair Mission

Fish Out of Water—page 26 Sun Valley Adaptive Sports

Somewhere Near Tapachula—page 38 Mission Mexico

Flathead Wild—page 27 iLCP (International League of Conservation Photographers)

Waste Land—page 40 The Association of Pickers of Jardim Gramacho (ACAMJG)

Gasland—page 28 The Endocrine Disruption Exchange (TEDX)

Please visit mountainfilm.org for direct links to these charitable organizations.

Mountainfilm Awards Student Award eligible—selected films decided by students participating in the Movies That Matter program

Charlie Fowler Award

Audience Award eligible—all films decided by audience vote

Festival Director’s Award eligible—all films decided by festival director

$1,000 cash prize

eligible—adventure films decided by judges

This year’s awards were created by local artist Anton Viditz-Ward.

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Moving Mountains Judges Dr. Rick Hodes, the subject of the film Making the Crooked Straight, was the recipient of the 2009 Moving Mountains Prize for his work in Ethiopia. He has lived there for two years, where he treats children with heart disease, cancer and spinal tuberculosis.

Irwin Kula is a rabbi who heads the Jewish think tank at the The National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership and a is regular contributor to “The Today Show.” Author of Yearnings: Embracing the Messiness of Life, he is also the subject of the documentary Time for a New God (page 40).

Nancy Schafer is the executive director of the Tribeca Film Festival and a creator of the SXSW Film Festival. As a former Telluride resident (1991-92), she worked with the Hanson brothers on Scrapple.

Anna Deveare Smith is an acclaimed playwright, but if you look closely at her plays (Fires in the Mirror, Twilight Los Angeles, Let Me Down Easy), you realize she has created a hybrid of brilliant theater and first-rate journalism that digs into such issues as race, poverty and injustice in a completely original way.

Charlie Fowler Judges Sarah Garlick is a New Hampshire-based climber and the author of Flakes, Jugs, and Splitters: A Rock Climber’s Guide to Geology. As a geologist, she’s also the founder of the Geoscience Outreach Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to increased public understanding of geoscience.

Kasha Rigby is a ski mountaineer with first ski descents of mountains on several different continents, including the Five Holy Peaks in Mongolia. She was an accomplished telemark racer and excelled in extreme skiing competitions.

David Roberts is an accomplished mountaineer who has written numerous books on climbing and adventure. He is currently writing a book about the mystery of Everett Ruess, the adventurer who disappeared into the Utah desert in 1934.

Abe Streep is the media and travel editor of Outside magazine. Before he journeyed the globe writing stories for such publications as Mother Jones and The New York Times, he was a circus musician. awards / judges / the TOUR / green / donors / staff & volunteers / in memoriam / index

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Wrapped in a deceptively entertaining package that manages to both move and inspire, these films will make you want to be a better global citizen. —Sydney Stowe, film manager for Hopkins Center at Dartmouth College, Ten years ago, we started packing up some of our best films from the festival and taking them on the road. In the past decade, Mountainfilm on Tour has brought our mission of education and inspiration to more than 60 locations around the globe including: Hobart, Tasmania, Australia Lubbock, TX Aspen, CO Watercolor, FL Bend, OR Seattle, WA Whitefish, MT Portillo, Chile Waitsfield, VT Champaign, IL And more than 60 other locations...

We present single-evening shows and multi-day events, working with companies and community groups, schools and nonprofits to touch the lives of more than 20,000 people on five continents. We even offer a zeroemissions version of the tour where we bike to your town. If you want to bring Mountainfilm to your community, email tour director Justin Clifton at justin@mountainfilm.org or call 970.728.4123, ext. 13. For more details, visit mountainfilmontour.org.

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Making Movies That Matter Mountainfilm in the Classroom For the past two years, our “Making Movies That Matter” program has introduced students to essential environmental and cultural issues through film editing projects. This hands-on program gives teachers and students an innovative way to process content-rich films from our past festivals.

“These students master more than the mere mechanics of combining image, word and sound to make a film. They also learn how opinions can be formed and minds changed, how image-charged media can alter our lives and our society. Bravo!”

—Lito Tejada-Flores, filmmaker, writer and co-founder of Mountainfilm

Educators who want to learn more can email education director Ellen Shelton: ellen@mountainfilm.org.

Movies That Matter at the Festival

Co-hosted with The Telluride Academy Every year, high-school students from around the country come to Mountainfilm to participate in a program designed specifically for them. For four days, they watch powerful films and meet the filmmakers to discuss the issues presented.

At the closing ceremony, the students present an award to the film that they feel “matters” most.

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green screen Since 2007, with the help of The New Community Coalition (TNCC), we have generated electricity for Mountainfilm within our local grid by using hydroand bio-diesel-powered generators, offset more than 350,000 pounds of our festival participants’ carbon emissions, invested in local solar power for our school district, and continued a decadeslong recycling and composting program to decrease Mountainfilm’s impact. We have even decreased the carbon footprint of our tour by introducing the Zero Emissions Tour this summer, a 2,000-

mile bike journey that brought tour host Drew Ludwig and Mountainfilm to communities throughout the West.

This year, we’re continuing our focus on local sustainability projects through participation in the TNCC Green Fund for local renewable energy projects, investment in local edible garden projects, and carbon offsetting through the Green Gondola Program and the Colorado Carbon fund.

To learn more about our programs, visit the Green Evolution page at mountainfilm.org/about/green.asp.

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Board of Directors

In Memoriam Galen Rowell David Brower Charlie Fowler Andy Sawyer

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K2 Anonymous Suzanne LaFetra Jim & Kay Mabie Ann & Rich Teerlink Stephen L. Wald Estate DENALI Steven Gluckstern Dr. Hill & Bettie Hastings Rick Kimball Lata Krishnan & Ajay Shah EIGER Stuart & Joanna Brown The Black/Marlens Family Bonnie & Louis Cohen Bill & Sally Estes John & Bridget Macaskill Tristin & Martin Mannion Terry & Susan Tice Kathleen & Ken Tropin

AJAX Paul & Mary Anderson Marc & Sharen Berman Frick & Tammy Burden Beth & George Gage Anonymous Michael Isaacs & Lisa Larsen James Jordan Diane & Irwin Levy John McCall Moe Family Scholarship Fund The Daniel M. Neidich and Brooke Garber Foundation Bob & Veronique Pittman Jeff Price & Jennie Franks Price Dinny Sherman & Terry Hermanson Prabha & Anita Sinha Susan & Barry Sonnenfeld John Steel & Bunny Freidus Scott & Carol Swank

BELAYER Josh Aronson EL CAPITAN Joel & Betty Bechtel Ruth Bender Angela & Roger Box Josh Bernstein Peter & Linda Bynoe Nancy & Duncan Burke Clark’s Market David & Nancy Cale Deborah & David Cohen Steve & Kendall Cieciuch Michael Connelly Chip & Cathe Dyer Christopher & Anne Donnelly Bruce & Bridgitt Evans Joslin Kimball Frank Stephanie Graham Chris & Meghan Hanson Garrett Gruener & Amy Slater Family Fund Trina Johnsten & Dennis Trotter Larrine Holbrooke John Leahey & Mary Uchida Paul Lehman & Ronna Stamm Linda Lockhart Frank Marshall & Kathleen Kennedy Liz Manne Jim & Jamie McNulty Betsy & Wight Martindale Jerry & Merle Measer Lou Mintz & Beverly Crilly Genny Plamondon Sam & Francesca Rehnborg Susan Rockefeller Frank & Bee Reichel Frances Rubacha Jane Reldan, M.D. Barry & Barbara Shaffer Jacklyn Ritter Tom & Donna Stone Bettylu & Paul Saltzman Dale Vrabec Andrew & Ann Sheils Robert & Kathleen Whitby Mike & Jennifer Shimkonis Ming Tsai Janet Woods

SHERPA Curt & Libba Anderson Wendy Brooks Anthony Brown Marvin Cohen & Jane Richman Mark & Amy Dobbins Mr. & Mrs. John Dugan David Gast & Elena Schmid Lois & Marty Hauselman Hall & Ann Healy Karen & Herb Hill Joel Kaufman Irwin Kula Amy Levek Lisa & Victor Nemeroff Kelli Petersen Tania Petrulis Bob & Mary Rubadeau Lowell Sachnoff & Fay Clayton Peter & Gail Wilson Peter Yarrow Jack S. Zoller

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John Ackerly Conrad Anker Michael Brown Arlene Burns Wade Davis Gretel Ehrlich Lynn Hill Richard Holbrooke Pico Iyer Chris Jordan Ace Kvale Frans Lanting Katie Lee Maya Lin Rebecca Martin Hilaree Nelson O’Neill Doug Peacock Beth Wald Paul Watson

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Susan & Mark Dalton Dick Ebersol & Susan Saint James, Honorary Trustees Tully & Elise Friedman, Honorary Trustees Tom & Janine Hill, Honorary Trustees Vincent & Anne Mai, Honorary Trustees

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Susan Dalton / President Beth Gage / Vice President Chris Hanson / Secretary Travis Spitzer / Treasurer Ruth Bender Alex Gregory Bettie Hastings Liz Manne Jeff Price Mike Shimkonis Rick Silverman

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Mountainfilm Staff Peter Kenworthy David Holbrooke Stash Wislocki Justin Clifton Emily Long Karen Overn Jenny Jacobi Chris Hanson Ellen Shelton Patti Duax Drew Ludwig Ellie Pope David Byars Tami Hodges-Malaniak Nicole Nugent Lance Waring Tim “Stuntman” Territo Rube Felicelli Kristen Lawrynk Leah Boelman Eric “Viking” Cooper Peter Garber Tom “T.R.” Richards Scott Upshur Jim Hurst Brian Gilmore Ted Wilson Mark Froehlich Johnny “Rotten” Bulson Justin Wiehs Anne Reeser Steve Johnson

Executive Director Festival Director Festival Producer Director of Mountainfilm on Tour Program Director Operations Director Operations Manager Mountainfilm TV Producer Education Director Lodging and Travel Coordinator Gallery Coordinator Volunteer Coordinator Pass Coordinator Food and Beverage Coordinator Food and Beverage Assistant Special Guest Liaison Production Manager Hospitality Manager Hospitality Manager Rigger Rigger Rigger Rigger Rigger Field Crew Field Crew Field Crew Lighting Designer Communications Manager Communications Assistant Graphic Design, Program Design General Counsel

Festival intro films created by: Justin Clifton Aaron Kehoe Casey Nay Alan Poon (In Our Talons)

Technical Production Curt Rousse Greg Babush Barbara Grassia Ross Krantz Marc Burrows Karl “K2” Mehrer Peggy Russell Karen Zenger Dean Rolley Paul Zoskey Gypsie Frank

Video Tech Director Video Inspection Film Inspection Chief Film Technician Video Technician K2 Imaging Film Traffic Manager Film Traffic Audio Manager Dolby Theater Audio Manager

Theater Staff Lynne Beck Ru Biener Max Cooper Mark Davis Marc Froehlich Erin Hamilton Shawn Heffley Rob Huber Ben Kerr Carol Lee Amy Levek Peter Lundeen Emily Mace Julie McNair Michelle Montague Sarah Pawlowski Luci Reeve Mason Rich John Rosenberg G. Douglas Seitsinger Jeff Shannon Felix Snow

Projectionists Greg Babush Nate Balding Luigi Chiarani Gypsie Frank John Gajda Barbara Grassia Dan Grey Sergio Laureano Patty Lecht Karen Long Keith Madden Micheal Moore Jacob Reuter David Riepe William Rousse Mark Schoneveld Tizzz

Prudence Accompaniment Mohammed Alidu William Boxcar Smethurst

Mountainfilm House Musicians Douglas Chard John Fitzgerald Heather Flaker

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Special Thanks:

Stephanie Balter Jim Bedford Gary Bennett Ana Coe Brandt Garber Eliza Goodall Rick Harrington Honga Im Marki Knopp Heather Knox-Rommel Jim Kolar Meghan Langford Jake Linzinmeir Rachel Loomis-Lee Night and Day Cleaners Ronnie Palamar Lucas Price Cinda Simons Telluride AIDS Benefit Terry Tice Town of Mountain Village Town of Telluride Bill and Jenny Ward Meg Whitman Christine Wilson Michael Wingfield

Volunteers Abe Goodale Aimee Bourget Alex Maenchen

Alex Paul Alfredo Lopez Allison Chervenak Allison Otto Andy Bokanev Angela Mallard Ann Mason Anne Roemer Anne-Marie Cox Ashley Coady Audrey Mann Ben Levek Beth Roberts Billy Royal Blair Brown Bob Justis Brad Green Brad Leick Bridget Holvenstot Bridget Williams Cally Anderson Carol Dix Caroline Alden Carson Taylor Cary Jobe Casey Welch CC Rocque Chris Warren Christine Roth Courtney Childe Dan Krokosky Daniel Murray Dave Rhodes Davene Kaplan David Brankley David Chew Derrick Casto Destiny Brown Diana Murray Don Mitchell Donna Lane Dylan Schwindt Eileen Burns Eliot Muckerman Elisabeth Gick Elissa Dickson Emily Hogan Fiona Thompson Gabriella Rhodeen Galen Koch Geneva Shaunette Graham Kelly Gregory Pettys Heather Baltzley

Hilary Peddicord Hillary Bushing Ian Cohen Ilsa Johansson Irene Warner Jack Sherman Jackie Shane Jackie Smith Jacob Sklar Jan Herrick Jana Simpson Janet Kelleher Janet Niichel Jennifer Radge Jesse Hope Jim Berkowitz Joanie Dix Joann Moon John Kelly John Verbeck Johnny Gerona Jon Marsh Jonathan Augello Joyce Waldman Julia Wentworth Kaiulani Schuler Kara Tatone Karen Brown Karen Parks Kate Wadley Katheryn Maloney Kathleen Erie Katie Mustard Keith Lindauer Keith Nichols Kelly Merck Kelly O’Laughlin Kent Gunnufson Kim Washuta Kristen Redd Lani Jones Laura Colbert Laurie Adams Lexi Tuddenham Linda Heiderer Lisa Ball Lisa Marquez Lynette Kuzmich Marcy Craig Maria Stauder Marki Knopp Marty Langion Mary Beth Mueller Mary Rios

Matt Stjernholm Meagan Ketterlin Meredith Muller Michael Holloway Michael Schoenfeld Michael Stjernholm Michelle Hovet Michelle Liljegren Micki Bish Molly Armstrong Myriem Le Ferrand Nancy Andrew Nancy Landau Nate Smith Nicole Hackman Nicole Miller Noah Sheedy Patricia Low Patricia Poulin Patrick Neely Ray Bailis Rebecca Mayer Renee Athay Rhoda Green Robert “Bobalouie” Allen Robert Roth Ronald Borrego Rudy McEntire Sarah Bushing Sarah Gregory Long Shannon Lippke Sharon Shuteran Shea McWilliams Sherab Kloppenburg Sherrion Taylor Shirley Purdy Simon Collins Sonja Nelson Stephen Burns Steve Adamson Takeo Hiromitsu Tara McMurtry Teresa Frank Terry Dorr Tom Gearheart Tova Davis Trevor James Vanessa Root Veneta Nikolova Victoria Schmitt Wade Davis Wesley Riggs Willie Rios

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Summit

Lawrence Anthony Captain Jack Carey Jonny Copp Micah Dash Jeanne-Claude, Artist Hilary Fitzgerald

Camp III

Kevin Green Grace Herndon Wade Johnson Heidi Kloos Lisa Setterfield Stephen Wald Walt Ratterman

Camp II

The Mountainfilm Inspirational Endowment Fund Stephen Wald was a loyal and generous supporter of Mountainfilm. In addition to serving as a board director for many years, he was instrumental in establishing, and annually funding, Mountainfilm’s Inspirational Endowment Fund.

Stephen was as unstinting with his wisdom and encouragement as he was with his financial help.

He will be deeply missed and never forgotten. To learn more about Mountainfilm’s endowment fund, please contact Peter Kenworthy by emailing peter@mountainfilm.org.

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index People Abramson, Eric 24 Aebi, Ernst 22, 80 Alstrin, Chris 41 Anker, Conrad 31, 41, 78, 80 Atanafu, Mieraf 56 Audette, Steve 34, 43 Austin, Dan 76, 80 Bahrani, Ramin 35 Beard, Alex cover, 70, 80 Bell, Kyle 43 Bennet, Michael 76 Beraza, Suzan 22, 77 Bernstein, Josh 15, 16, 78 Berrier, Jeb 22 Blagden, James 24 Boehme, Ethan 31 Brankley, David 42 Broad, Kenny 65, 73, 76 Browning, Jonathan 29 Burhardt, Majka 41, 80 Byrne, James 21 Calabria, Carl 34, 43 Calabria, Nicolai 34, 43, 77 Callahan, Ted 27 Campbell, Jeff 32 Capps, Reilly 61 Carr, Greg 15, 16, 21 Carrasco, Celeste 25 Chadwick, Alex 31, 77 Chisholm, Joe 24 Clifford, Hal 39, 80 Colborn, Theo 22, 28, 76 Copp, Jonny 35, 70 Cowen, Daniel 26 Cubero, Gemma 25 Cucciniello, Sasha 61, 78 Daniels, Jeff 20 Daranyi, Barclay 77 Dawson, Deco 37 Deal, Carl 40 DeChristopher, Tim 3, 62, 77, 78 Deeble, Mark 35 Dolev, Gili 43 Doerge, Joslyn 70 Douglas, Mike 30 Dubois, Bastien 33 Durrant, Jonno 38 Dusenbery, Tom 29 Dyer, Lynsey 71 Egi, Martina 22 Ehrlich, Gretel 78, 80 Ellis, Christian 26 Ewert, Anna 20 Fan, Lixin 32 Fay, Mike 15, 16, 55 Foreman, Dave 3, 15, 16, 77, 80 Fowler-Hicks, Ginny 80 Fox, Josh 3, 28, 76 Frey, Matthew 76 Garlick, Sarah 80, 83 Geffen, Anthony 41 Goddard, Lionel 42 Goldstein, Mel 60, 78, 80 Gracia, Joe 26 Gregg, Andrew 39 Helvey, Gregg 31 Hempton, Gordon 3, 38, 80

127891_15707 Hessler, Peter 32, 78 Hetherington, Tim 36 Hodes, Rick 59, 77, 80, 83 Holbrooke, Anthony 71 Holbrooke, David 3, 40, 66, 77 Honnold, Alex 21 Houston, Jason 39 Howard, Manny 77, 80 Huey, Aaron 78 Hunt, Philip 43 Hunt, Stefan 38, 71 James, David 77 Janssen, Charlotta 71 Jennings, Trip 27 Jordan, Chris 3, 63, 77, 80 Jordan, Jennifer 80 Junger, Sebastian 36 Kalafer, Jonathan 41 Kasic, Kathy 27, 43 Kasic, Mike 27, 43 Kener, David 60 Kennedy, Rory 26 Kerig, William A. 25, 80 Knight, Ben 25 Krotkiewski, Michael 30 Kula, Irwin 40, 77, 80, 83 Kunstler, Emily 42 Kunstler, Sarah 42 Lee, Katie 3, 77, 80 Leitinger, Christiane 76 Lessin, Tia 40 Lin, Maya 3, 15, 16, 72 London, Andrew 33 London, Carolyn 33 Louis, Hank 76 Lovejoy, Tom 15, 16, 23, 76, 80 Lowe-Anker, Jenni 80 Mabhena, Prudence 3, 34, 77 Mallard, Angela 42 Malloy, Chris 20 Maser, Andy 27 McDiarmid, Karen 36 Measom, Tyler 38 Merten, Jennilyn 38 Metzger, Tim 39 Moos, Vivian 72 Mortenson, Greg 58, 64, 78, 80 Mortimer, Peter 21, 23, 33, 35 Nath, Paramita 28 Neeson, Clive 32 Nelson, Erika 71, 72 Nelson, Stanley 28 Nogueira, Alicia 42 O’Neill, Hilaree 78 O’Neill, Sean 23 O’Neill, Timmy 20, 23 Ogilby, Meredith 77, 80 Ozturk, Renan 21, 31, 32 Packer, George 58, 64, 77, 80 Paley, Matthieu 27 Parrinello, Will 29 Patton, Ernest “Rip” 28, 78 Perciasepe, Bob 28, 78 Piasecki, Jon 39 Platt, Corinne 77, 80 Potter, Dean 33 Prosek, James 72 Psihoyos, Louie 3, 15, 16, 24, 76

Quinby, Lee 26, 77, 80 Rainier, Chris 3, 39, 77, 80 Redfearn, Jennifer 39 Ridgeway, Rick 3, 15, 16, 20, 78, 80 Rigby, Kasha 25, 83 Riis, Joe 3, 73 Roberts, David 54, 80, 83 Root, Terry 15, 16, 76 Rosen, Nick 21, 23, 33, 35 Rosmarino, Nicole 15, 16 Rouxel, Patrick 29 Rummel, Travis 25 Salmina, Gerald 34 Sartore, Joel 15, 16, 70, 76, 80 Sauret, Etienne 24 Schafer, Nancy 76, 83 Secor, Laura 77 Shacochis, Bob 21, 78, 80 Shadyac, Tom 30, 44-45, 77 Sharp, Oscar 37 Sherman, Nick 38 Shulgin, Alexander 24, 76, 80 Shulgin, Ann 24 Silverman, Rick 40 Skiles, Wes 65, 73, 77 Skinner, Ben 31, 45, 77, 78 Smethurst, Frank 25 Smith, Anna Deveare 78, 83 Smith, Bryan 23 Snow, Sasha 58-59 Stanislawska, Julia 30 Stone, Victoria 35 Story, Rob 80 Streep, Abe 83 Stump, Greg 61 Thompson, Monte 23 Tosh, Raela 20, 78, 80 Vaillant, John 56-57, 80 Van Burg, Chera 23 Vaughn, Bobby 26 Viesturs, Ed 54, 80 Waggoner, Nick 37 Wald, Beth 27, 73 Walker, Lucy 40 Weingarten, Charles Annenberg 26 Whittaker, Peter 78 Williams, Roger 34 Wright, David 22 Yeshi, Jamyang 36, 78 Young, Ben 36 Zenick, Jeff 73, 77 Films The 10 Conditions of Love 20, 82 11 Degrees 20 180° South 20 Africa’s Lost Eden 21, 82 Alone on the Wall 21 As It Happens 21 Bag It 22, 77 Barefoot to Timbuktu 22 Bearwalker of the Northwoods 22 The Blueline 23 Brother’s Wild 23 Call of Life 23

The Cove 3, 24, 77 5.5x8.5 Dirty Pictures 24 Dock Ellis and the LSD NoNo 24 4c Eastern Rises 25 The Edge of Never 25 Electric Car 43 Ella es el matador 25 Facing the Waves 26, 77 The Fence 26 Fish Out of Water 26, 82 Fishman 27, 43 Flathead Wild 27, 82 Forgotten on the Roof of the World 27 Found 28 Freedom Riders 3, 28, 71 Gasland 3, 28, 77, 82 Global Focus 29 Going Green 29 Green 29 The Happy Duckling 43 Hawaii Wave Ski 30 I Am 30, 44-45, 77 I Dreamed About Pol Pot 30 Interviews, 50 cents 31, 77 Kavi 31 Khumbu Climbing Class 2010 31, 82 Last Paradise 32 Last Train Home 32 Living the Dream 32 Lost and Found 43 Lost Tribes of New York City 33 Madagascar, a Journey Diary 33 Man vs. Eiger 33 Mount St. Elias 34 The Mouse That Soared 43 Music by Prudence 3, 34, 77, 82 Nico’s Challenge 34, 43, 77, 82 Plastic Bag 35 Point of No Return 35 The Queen of Trees 35 Restrepo 36 Seven Days a Week 43 Shining Spirit 36 Shooting With Mursi 36 Sign Language 37 Signatures 37 Sluice Box and a Rocker 37 Somewhere Near Tapachula 38, 82 Sons of Perdition 3, 38 Soundtracker 38 Stone River 39 Sun Come Up 39 Tattoo Odyssey 39 Time for a New God 40, 77 Trouble the Water 40 Waste Land 40, 82 WayPoint Namibia 41 We Love You 41 The Wildest Dream 41 William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe 42 Wipe Out 42 Woodsy 42

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