This year’s Mountainfilm was a new experience for most of us, and the opportunities were limitless. We met new friends and filmmakers, saw dozens of great documentaries, were inspired by speakers and symposia, and enjoyed everything Telluride had to offer. Here...
Going into the Mountainfilm 2019 screening of Any One of Us, nearly every audience member knew that professional mountain biker Paul Basagoitia was going to suffer a devastating accident leading to a spinal cord injury. The film had been advertised for this very plot...
One Mountainfilm that was quite heart-wrenching for me personally was Moonlight Sonata: Deafness in Three Movements, directed by Irene Taylor Brodsky. This film focused on the director’s family, her son, and father as they lived and tried to cope with deafness. The...
Tigerland, a 2019 feature-length documentary directed by Ross Kauffman, is an excellent representation of one of the many topics that the festival values. Mountainfilm started with films mainly centered around sports but has grown over the years to show films that...
Released at the 2019 MountainFilm Festival, Anbessa tells the story of ten-year-old Asalif and his fight against modernization in his Ethiopian community. The film is directed by Mo Scarpelli, previously known for her 2015 documentary Frame by Frame, which also...
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