Outdoor Adventure / World Culture / The Environment
Mountainfilm on Tour is the traveling branch of Mountainfilm
in Telluride, the “annual celebration of indomitable spirit” held
in Telluride, Colorado every Memorial Day weekend. Mountainfilm focuses
on outdoor subjects and, for 30 years, has been “dedicated to educating
and inspiring audiences about issues that matter, cultures worth exploring,
environments worth preserving and conversations worth sustaining.” A
presenter from Mountainfilm staff will introduce and discuss
both of these programs, which are produced for the Rafael by Kimberly
Hughes and Kelli Petersen.
Program 1
Wednesday, February 27, 7:15
Films include Gimme Green by Isaac Brown and Eric
Flagg (environmental), Learning
to Fly by Lincoln Else and (in attendance) Chris
McNamara (BASE jumping), First
Ascent: The Obscurist by Peter Mortimer (climbing
Yosemite), Badgered by
Sharon Colman (animation), Roam (mountain biking), Global
Focus (portraits
of environmentalists by Bay Area filmmakers Will Parrinello, Tom
Dusenbery and John Antonelli (in attendance)
, A
Voyage to 100 Meters by Jerome Espla (portrait
of free-diving recordholder Guillaume Nery) and Running Down
the Man by Ben
Knight and Travis
Rummel (taming Baja’s Rooster fish). Program approximately
2.5 hours.
Program 2
Thursday, February 28, 7:15
Films include First Ascent: Black Canyon by Peter
Mortimer (free
ascents), Titans of the Coral Sea (Papua New Guinea) Global
Focus (more
portraits of environmentalists by Bay Area filmmakers Will Parrinello, Tom
Dusenbery and John Antonelli (in attendance)), Emmy:
The Story of an Orphan by Bobby
Bailey (Ugandan
war survivor), The Job by Jonathan Browning (satire), Trial
and Error Progression by Bjorn Enga (mountain biking,
environmental), The
Good Fight by Mark Fraser and James
Fox (environmental crusader Martin
Litton), A Land Out of Time by Mark
Harvey (environmental), Good
Riddance- Air Pollution by Nick Hilligoss (animation)
and Middle Kaweah (kayaking).
Program approximately 2.5 hours.
Tickets for each program
$12 (CFI members, seniors $9)
member & senior prices only available at the Rafael ticket office