Telluride Mountainfilm
Get your 2009 festival passes at www.mountainfilm.org.
Mountainfilm in Telluride is a showcase of cultural, environmental and adventure films in the town where we were born. Each Memorial Day weekend the town of Telluride fills with people from all over the world seeking inspiration, global education, cultural exploration, and adrenaline quenching adventure. Following each festival, Mountainfilm on Tour takes on the open road to deliver the Mountainfilm experience to cities and towns across the nation and the world. The goal is to awaken, inspire, humor, impassion and rouse audiences through film and conversation. If you can't make it to the Telluride on Memorial Weekend see if you can catch a show on tour. It will leave you inspired and curious.
We think their mission statement says it all. “Mountainfilm is dedicated to educating and inspiring audiences about issues that matter, cultures worth exploring, environments worth preserving and conversations worth sustaining.” Telluride is a very special place to us toads and we can’t think of a better place and a better festival to be a part of.
This year's festival has a symposium on the global food crisis:
Of the 6.7 billion people currently living on this planet, one billion of them are overweight, while another 800 million starve. By the year 2050, demographers estimate there will be 9.2 billion people on the planet.
Present-day agriculture practices are clearly not sustainable - much less adequate - to be able to feed today's population. With a planet clearly in crisis, what has to be done - in the next 41 years - if we are going to feed a populace with an additional 2.5 billion people?
And, of course, plenty of inspirational films followed by discussions with filmmakers in some cases. The town is transformed into a world stage and it is an invigorating, educational and inspirational event to be a part of from sun up to sun down.
The festival this year is from May 22nd through May 25th. If you can't make it to the festival in Telluride, don't fret, they go on tour. See the dates in your area here.
