Since 2000, Mountainfilm in Telluride has traveled the globe educating and inspiring audiences and starting conversations with films from their festival. They have embraced the ethos of celebrating indomitable spirit and through their tour, have strived to incite change in global communities.
Mountainfilm has recently embarked on a new project that allows them to promote their mission while treading lightly upon the landscape. In June of 2009, they embarked on the “Zero Emissions Tour” – a 2,300 mile unsupported bike tour throughout Colorado, Wyoming & Utah. By illustrating how positive the tour can be with an almost total elimination of fossil fuels, they hope that their example will be a catalyst for action!
Mountainfilm presenter, Drew Ludwig, before he embarks on the Zero Emissions Tour
Beginning in Telluride, CO the route heads across Colorado, up to Wyoming, over to Utah and back to Telluride over two months. The plan is to average 50 miles a day so they can spend enough time in the host communities to actively raise awareness of the trip, the films and the tour’s sponsors. After hitting the TEVA Mountain Games in Vail, CO, the tour comes here to Lander for the Climbers’ Festival. Afterwards, they will hit up fibArk in Salida, CO and numerous points in-between. The entire trip will culminate in an industry bash in Salt Lake City, UT during the Outdoor Retailer Summer Show.
We are thrilled to be able to have Mountainfilm back in Lander again this summer for two more film screenings. We’d like to again thank Creative Energies for sponsoring our film festival and helping us bring these wonderful films to Lander.
Entry to both Mountainfilm screenings is free with a Climbers’ Festival ticket. Otheriwise the cost is $10 per show at the door.
Saturday Show:
7:30pm – 10:30pm
@ the Lander High School Auditorium
(come at 7pm to bid on outdoor gear in our silent auction!)
• Samsara - In the heart of the lofty, knife-sharp Vindhya Mountains in India sits a 6,500-foot rock route that resembles a massive shark fin and rises from the ocean of crags. This fin, which is twice as long as anything on El Capitan and just as steep, has denied many notable climbers from reaching its summit. In Samsara, all-star climbing team Conrad Anker, Jimmy Chin and Renan Ozturk set out to attempt a first ascent. Directed by Ozturk, the film is woven together with art, journal excerpts and still photography. Here’s the thing: The sacred peak, Meru, is said in mythology to be the center of the universe, but can you climb to the center of the universe? And that’s what Samsara—which means “wheel of suffering”—is about.
Samsara - Photo by Jimmy chin
• Bridal Veil Falls – For Erik Weihenmayer, a blind man, and Chad Jukes, an amputee, to ice climb is a feat in itself. To summit Telluride’s Bridal Veil Falls, the highest free-falling waterfall in Colorado, is even more notable. That the Trust for Public Lands finally succeeded in opening the falls to the public after innumerable challenges and setbacks, seems worthy of celebration. This short film tells both stories.
• Pickin’ & Trimmin’ - With the Walmartization of this country, small town America is changing quickly. This sweet and lovely short film about The Barbershop in Drexel, North Carolina, shows a bit of what we are losing.
• History Making Farming: Author on the Move
• And other surprise film selections
Sunday Show:
2pm – 5pm
@ the Lander High School Auditorium
• Look to the Ground – Imagine riding your mountain bike at full speed down a steep serpentine trail at night when the moon is a dim sliver that slips in and out of clouds, its vague light often lost in shadow. And now imagine that you’re wearing shades. Just such a scenario describes much of Bobby McMullen’s life: He is a blind mountain biker. Look to the Ground is his story.
Look to the Ground - Photo by Forest Arakawa
• Deep – Filmed in Japan after what appears to be a 100-year storm, this short is a melodic and meditative portrait of skiing powder—chest-deep powder. The film is stripped of the genre’s usual racket.
• Pockets - A locket, a spoon, licorice, a plastic spider, a ring, dog food, a Bible, a membership card, garlic…. What treasures are in your pockets?
• Home
• The Last Butcher in Little Italy
