by Madeline Peterson | Jun 5, 2019 | Reviews, Right
The Mountainfilm festival’s theme for the 41st year is equity, meaning equal opportunities for everyone. One particular film directed by Erik Osterholm, Ascending Afghanistan, focuses on thirteen Afghani women mountaineers pushing through the setbacks women in their...
by Brynn Artley | Jun 5, 2019 | Left, Reviews
Following a perspective-changing and soul-searching weekend at the 2019 Mountainfilm Festival in Telluride, CO, many of us festival-goers were left with a disorienting sensation. The events of the past few days had certainly been influential, but they would shortly...
by Brittney Bluhm | Jun 5, 2019 | Left, Reviews
Our exciting trip to Telluride, CO has ended, yet we are still buzzing about the fantastic documentaries we all saw at Mountainfilm! One of the last films was shown on Monday, May 27th in the Off-Width venue: Gay Chorus Deep South (2019, David Charles Rodrigues). From...
by Brynn Artley | Jun 2, 2019 | Left, Reviews
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...
by Madeline Peterson | Jun 2, 2019 | Reviews, Right
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...
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