Telluride Film Festival News

Download the 34th TFF wrap press release

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0000

It's a wrap!
Read our wrap on the 34th Telluride Film Festival, and see what the media is saying.
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Download the 34th TFF program guide

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0000

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TFF Picks at the Oscars & Spirit Awards

Sun, 10 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0000

The Telluride Film Festival doesn't factor in glitz or awards potential when choosing the films it showcases each year. Our sole criterion is quality, we try and find the very best movies, new and old, from the U.S. or anywhere, to share with our audiences. Still, it's hard not to feel a bit of pride that the movies that we helped launch from our tiny box canyon have done so well in the bigger world. In total, members of the Telluride family took home two Oscars (for Diablo Cody's JUNO screenplay and tributee Daniel Day Lewis' performance in THERE WILL BE BLOOD) and 17 Oscar nominations (for, in various categories, PERSEPOLIS, THE SAVAGES, INTO THE WILD, I'M NOT THERE, DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY, SALIM BABA, THE COUNTERFEITERS and MADAME TUTLI-PUTLI). Add to that nine of the 17 Independent Spirit Awards and acclaim from critics groups from around the continent. What a year, both for Telluride and for high-quality cinema. We congratulate our friends who earned these justly-deserved awards, and thank them again for sharing these amazing films with us.

TFF Films Score Big at Indie Awards

Sun, 11 May 2008 00:00:00 +0000

The Telluride Film Festival salutes the success of TFF discoveries recognized by the 17th Annual Gotham Awards and nominated for the forthcoming 2008 Spirit Awards.

Inaugurating the film awards season, The Gotham Awards honored the TFF gem INTO THE WILD with Best Feature honors. The films fellow nominees in the best feature category, MARGOT AT THE WEDDING, I'M NOT THERE, and THE NAMESAKE (TFF 2006), have each graced Tellurides celluloid stages. Director Craig Zobel, whose film GREAT WORLD OF SOUND rounded out the nominee list for Best Feature, and landed him a win in the Breakthrough Director category, was a 1998 TFF Student Symposium attendee. Director Mira Nair, a TFF regular attendee, received a prestigious Gotham Tribute for her influential work in the film industry. In addition, DAY NIGHT DAY NIGHT, directed by Julia Loktev and featured in our 33rd Festival program, was nominated for Breakthrough Director and actress Luisa Williams received a Breakthrough Actor nomination for her work in the film.

The upcoming 2008 Spirit Awards, celebrating the best in independent film, features numerous TFF favorites as nominees, among them Julian Schnabel's THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY (Best Feature, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Cinematography), Tamara Jenkins' THE SAVAGES (Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Male Lead for Philip Seymour Hoffman), Jason Reitman's JUNO (Best Feature, Best Director, Best First Screenplay, Best Female Lead for Ellen Page), Craig Zobel's GREAT WORLD OF SOUND (Best First Feature), and Todd Haynes' I'M NOT THERE (Best Feature, Best Director, Best Supporting Female for Cate Blanchett, Best Supporting Male for Marcus Carl Franklin). I'M NOT THERE will also receive the Robert Altman Award, given to one film's director, casting director and its ensemble cast. Jennifer Jason Leigh garnered a Best Supporting Female nomination for her work in MARGOT AT THE WEDDING, and Irrfan Khan's performance in THE NAMESAKE received a Best Supporting Male nomination. In the Best Foreign Film category, three of the five nominated films delighted film enthusiasts at Telluride: Cristian Mungius' 4 MONTHS, 3 WEEKS, AND 2 DAYS (Romania), Eran Kolirin's THE BAND'S VISIT (Israel) and Vincent Paronnaud & Marjane Satrapi's PERSEPOLIS (France).

The Telluride Film Festival staff congratulates each of these films and artists! Well-deserved!

2008 Telluride Film Festival Draws To A Close

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Labor Day Picnic Seminar with moderator Anne Thompson of Variety, Paul Schrader (Adam Ressurected), Nandita Das (Firaaq), Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire), Jan Troell (Everlasting Moments) and Ari Folman (Waltz with Bashir). Photo by Lisa Law.

The 35th Telluride Film Festival featured a diverse selection of programming from across the globe with over seventy filmmakers, writers, actors and artists in attendance.

The Festival kicked off in style Friday night with a tribute to David Fincher. Rumors proved true when, following a dynamic Q&A between Fincher and Variety’s Chief Film Critic Todd McCarthy, the packed house got a first look at twenty minutes of Fincher’s highly anticipated new film, THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON. Laura Linney made an unannounced appearance at the Festival to present screen legend Jean Simmons the Silver Medallion at her Tribute on Saturday night. The third Tribute was for Oscar-nominated Swedish director Jan Troell who also presented his newest film, EVERLASTING MOMENTS.

Festival attendees included: Alloy Orchestra, Nicole Beharie, Cathal Black, Nae Caranfil, Philippe Claudel, Ron Colby, Lance Daly, Tim Disney, Tony Donoghue, Francois Dupeyron, Sergei Dvortsevoy, Nicholas Eliopoulos, Ari Folman, Matteo Garrone, Jeff Goldblum, Bent Hammer, Bill Haney, Kim Ji-Woon, Yoram Kaniuk, Joe Lawlor, Jane Lee, Mike Leigh, Thomas Lynch, Ole Christian Madsen, Steve McQueen, Christine Molloy, Youssou Ndour, Maud Nelissen, Tim Blake Nelson, Will Patton, Kimberly Reed, Richard Schickel, Paul Schrader, Jan Sikl, Götz Spielmann, Peggy Stern, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Paul Vester, Paul Watson, Félicité Wouassi, Slavoj Zizek, and Elsa Zylberstein. Salman Rushdie also made a special appearance to introduce Indian actress Nandita Das’s directorial debut, FIRAAQ.

Senegalese musician and composer Youssou Ndour and his band played surprise concerts following screenings of I BRING WHAT I LOVE.

In keeping with Festival tradition, audiences were treated to three sneak previews: Danny Boyle brought his just completed SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE about a young man seeking wealth on an Indian TV version of “Who Wants to be a Millionaire,” who reveals his brutal, sometimes comic life story through a series of questions asked by the hilariously slippery on-air TV host; FLASH OF GENIUS, directed by Marc Abraham and starring Greg Kinnear and Lauren Graham, all of whom were in attendance to introduce the film. The film tells the true story of a David (Kinnear) who took on the Goliath of the Detroit auto industry; and JAN TROELL’S MAGIC MIRROR, a trip inside the creative process of one of the world’s great directors.

2008 All Passes Sold Out!

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Cinephile Pass? Sold out. Acme Pass? Sold out. Festival Pass? Sold out. Patron Pass? That’s right, sold out. There are only a finite number of passes we can make available for sale, and it looks like, once again, we’ve come to the bottom of our well.

Even though we have no more passes for sale, we’d still love to see you in the mountains this Labor Day. If your spirit of generosity allows, a limited number of Sponsor passes are still available (for more information on becoming a Sponsor of the Telluride Film Festival contact our Development department at 510.559.9400) Otherwise, you can check out our Festival on a Budget Page for some tips on how to enjoy the SHOW without even having a pass.

Thanks to all those who got their orders in to us, we’re looking forward to seeing you all in line in Telluride!

37th Telluride Film Festival Draws to a Close

Mon, 06 Sep 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Today marks the close of the 37th Telluride Film Festival, presented by the National Film Preserve. Two surprise “Sneak Previews” joined the previously announced list of twenty-four feature films that played in the Festival’s main program; thirteen documentaries in the Backlot program; twenty-five new short films; and six revivals selected by Guest Director Michael Ondaatje. Telluride Film Festival’s celebration of art and film, set amongst the beauty of the Rockies, opened Friday, September 3 and closed today, September 6, 2010.

The following unannounced Sneak Previews screened at the 37th Telluride Film Festival:

127 HOURS (d. Danny Boyle, U.S., 2010)

BLACK SWAN (d. Darren Aronofsky, U.S., 2010)

Participating in seminars and panels ranging from cinema to culture to nature, and everything in between were Festival guests: Olivier Assayas, Danny Boyle, Claudia Cardinale, Lavinia Currier, Shlomi Eldar , Charles Ferguson, Colin Firth, James Franco, Stephen Frears, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Werner Herzog, Tom Hooper, Kazuo Ishiguro, Ben Mankiewicz, Lesley Manville, Greil Marcus, Errol Morris, Michael Ondaatje, Aron Ralston, Geoffrey Rush, Peter Sellars, Bertrand Tavernier and Peter Weir.

Additional attending Festival guests and program participants include:

Ehud Bleiberg, Serge Bromberg, James Bruce, Ken Burns, Justin Chadwick, Lee Chang-dong, Mark Cousins, Jake Eberts, Ralph Eggleston, Michelangelo Frammartino, Sasha Waters Freyer, Andrew Garfield, Alex Garland, Ed Harris, Naomie Harris, Jan-Christopher Horak, Dennis Jakob, Harutyun Khachatryan, Kent Jones, Stanton Kaye, Bob Last, Richard Leacock, Phillip Lopate, Audrey Marrs, Kris Marshall, Craig McCall, Todd McCarthy, Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra, Carey Mulligan, Alexander Nanau, Bill Plympton, Edgar Ramirez, Kirill Razlogov, Mark Romanek, Judith Rosenberg, Teri Schwartz, Florin Serban, Fernando Trueba, Paolo Cherchi Usai, Sami van Ingen, Denis Villeneuve, Jane Weiner and Jon Wilkman.

35th Festival Guest Director: Zizek!

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0000

The Directors of the Telluride Film Festival are thrilled to announce that Slavoj Zizek will preside as the Guest Director of the Festival's 35th Show. The Slovenian-born irrepressible political philosopher, cultural theorist, academic superstar and impassioned cinephile is certain to stimulate controversy and conversation with his hand-picked film treasures and exhilarating approach to talking about movies, art, culture, politics, and desire.

Most recently, Zizek collaborated with filmmaker Sophie Fiennes on The Pervert's Guide to Cinema (2006), a film that offers a striking visual introduction to Zizek's ideas on subjectivity, sexuality, and the relationship between fantasy and reality. Fiennes observes that Zizek is "always inverting things and setting up unexpected relationships. It's kind of like a mind gym."

"What I love about Slavoj's way of looking at film", Fiennes says, "is that he shows how important form is. Intuitively, when you watch films, you are enjoying that idiosyncratic language. And his explicit way of reading great moments is exhilarating for me." In the film, Zizek guides viewers into a close examination of some of the most lauded and fascinating films in cinema history.

Join us at the 35th Telluride Film Festival to meet Slavoj Zizek and savor the feast of films he will bring to the Festival!

That's a Wrap!

Tue, 06 Sep 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Telluride Film Festival, presented by the National Film Preserve, drew to a close following a spectacular weekend of diverse programming, surprise screenings, and special guests.

Telluride Film Festival screened twenty-eight new feature films in its main program, six film revivals selected by Guest Director Caetano Veloso, nine Backlot programs, nine classics and restorations, 30 shorts and student films, and hosted nine seminars and conversations between festival guests.

The Telluride Film Festival Silver Medallion awards, given to recognize an artist’s significant contribution to the world of cinema, went to George Clooney, Pierre Étaix, and Tilda Swinton. The Special Medallion award, given to a hero of cinema that preserves, honors and presents great movies, went to British film magazine Sight & Sound with editor Nick James in-person to accept the award.

Audiences were treated to what has become a Telluride Film Festival tradition: Sneak Previews. Announced throughout the weekend and an unofficial part of its program, TFF presented guests with three surprise films: Jim Field Smith’s BUTTER (U.S., 2011) starring Jennifer Garner and Ty Burrell, all three of whom were in attendance to present the film; CRAZY HORSE (U.S., 2011), Frederick Wiseman’s portrait of Paris’s glamorous cabaret of the same name; and LE GRAND AMOUR, TFF Tributee Pierre Etaix’s lost masterpiece, never-before-seen in North America.

2011 Telluride Film Festival attendees and program participants included: The Alloy Orchestra, Hilton Als, John Archer, Carroll Ballard, Richard Berge, Viviana García Besné, Margaret Bodde, Serge Bromberg, Joseph Cedar, Glenn Close, Mark Cousins, Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Dennis James and the Filmharmonia Ensemble, Michael Donnell, Dr. Biju, Asghar Farhadi, Scott Foundas, Rodrigo Garcia, Christopher Hampton, Mia Hansen-Løve, Olivia Harrison, Michel Hazanavicius, Werner Herzog, Agnieszka Holland, John Horn, Lisa Immordino-Vreeland, Annette Insdorf, Cristián Jiménez, Rory Kinnear, Shannah Laumeister, Greg MacGillivray, Greil Marcus, Joshua Marston, Todd McCarthy, Penelope Ann Miller, Davia Nelson, Diego Noguera, Casimir Nozkowski, Scott Pascucci, Alexander Payne, Micha X. Peled, Lynne Ramsay, Elizabeth Redleaf, Eryk Rocha, Peter Sellars, David Shamoon, Jon Shenk, Stacy Steers, Bert Stern, Nigel Sinclair, David Tedeschi, Alistair Tremps, Paolo Cherchi Usai, Justine Waddell, Alice Waters, Wim Wenders, André Wilms, and Alexander Zeldovich.

Previously announced new feature films that played in the official 38th Telluride Film Festival program THE SHOW: ALBERT NOBBS (d. Rodrigo Garcia, U.S., 2011), THE ARTIST (d. Michel Hazanavicius, France, 2011), BECOMING BERT STERN (d. Shannah Laumeister, U.S., 2011). BITTER SEEDS (d. Micha X. Peled, U.S., 2011), BONSÁI (d. Cristián Jiménez, Chile, 2011), A DANGEROUS METHOD (d. David Cronenberg, U.K.-Switzerland-U.S.-Canada, 2011). THE DESCENDANTS (d. Alexander Payne, U.S., 2011), DIANA VREELAND: THE EYE HAS TO TRAVEL (d. Lisa Immordino-Vreeland, U.S., 2011), FOOTNOTE (d. Joseph Cedar, Israel, 2011), THE FORGIVENESS OF BLOOD (d. Joshua Marston, U.S.-Albania-Denmark-Italy, 2011), GOODBYE FIRST LOVE (d. Mia Hansen-Løve, France, 2011), LE HAVRE (d. Aki Kaurismäki, Finland, 2011), HOLLYWOOD DON’T SURF (d. Greg Macgillivray, Sam George, U.S., 2011), IN DARKNESS (d. Agnieszka Holland, Poland, 2011), INTO THE ABYSS: A TALE OF DEATH, A TALE OF LIFE (d. Werner Herzog, U.S., 2011), THE ISLAND PRESIDENT (d. Jon Shenk, U.S., 2011), THE KID WITH A BIKE (d. Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Belgium, 2011), LIVING IN THE MATERIAL WORLD (d. Martin Scorsese, U.S., 2011), PASSERBY (d. Eryk Rocha, Brazil, 2011), PERDIDA (d. Viviana García Besné, Mexico, 2011), PINA (d. Wim Wenders, Germany, 2011), A SEPARATION (d. Asghar Farhadi, Iran, 2011), SHAME (d. Steve McQueen, U.K., 2011), THE STORY OF FILM: AN ODYSSEY (d. Mark Cousins, U.K., 2011), TARGET (d. Alexander Zeldovich, Russia, 2011), THE TURIN HORSE (d. Béla Tarr, Hungary, 2011), THE WAY HOME (d. Dr. Biju, India, 2010), WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN (d. Lynne Ramsay, U.K., 2011).

That's a Wrap!

Tue, 04 Sep 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Pictured above: Labor Day Picnic Seminar with Sarah Polley, Haifaa Al Mansour, Gael García Bernal, Annette Insdorf, Dennis Quaid, and Ray Liotta.

The 39th Telluride Film Festival, presented by the National Film Preserve, drew to a close today following a spectacular weekend of diverse programming, surprise screenings and special guests.

"As the 39th Telluride Film Festival closes, we are energized by the talent we've seen by both emerging and established filmmakers," said Festival Co-Directors Julie Huntsinger, Gary Meyer and Tom Luddy. "Following what has been a bountiful cinematic feast, we look toward next year's 40th Anniversary of TFF with anticipation of what's yet to come."

Telluride Film Festival screened twenty-five new feature films in its main program, seven film revivals selected by Guest Director Geoff Dyer, twelve Backlot programs, six revival programs, 29 shorts and student films, and hosted ten seminars and conversations between festival guests.

Ben Affleck presented his newest film ARGO (U.S., 2012) as an unofficial part of the Telluride Film Festival program known to attendees as a "Sneak Preview."

39th Telluride Film Festival guests and program participants include: Oskar Alegria, Nikolaj Arcel, Ramin Bahrani, Noah Baumbach, Gael García Bernal, Satya Bhabha, Wayne Blair, Katriné Boorman, Serge Bromberg, Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, Roger Corman, Marion Cotillard, Mark Cousins, C. Chapin Cutler Jr., Christine Cynn, Ziad Doueiri, Geoff Dyer, Shivendra Singh Dungarpur, Dave Eggers, Michael Fitzgerald, Scott Foundas, Liz Garbus, Jack Garfein, Greta Gerwig, Shirley Henderson, John Horn, Viktor Dénes Huszár, Katrina Kirk, Robert Kirk, Shaun Kirk, Stephanie Kirk, Ed Lachman, Pablo Larraín, Valentina Leduc, Laura Linney, Ray Liotta, Leonard Maltin, Haifaa Al Mansour, Todd McCarthy, David McMahon, Deepa Mehta, Kad Merad, Mads Mikkelsen, The Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra, Dror Moreh, Kim Morgan, Errol Morris, David Moynihan, Bill Murray, Marielle Nitoslawska, Alessandro Nivola, Joshua Oppenheimer, Alexander Payne, Christian Petzold, Sarah Polley, Sally Potter, Juan Carlos Rulfo, Salman Rushdie, Carolee Schneeman, Matthias Schoenaerts, Donald Sosin, Mickey Sumner, Margarete Tiesel, Paolo Cherchi Usai, Ariel Vroman and Michael Winterbottom.

Previously announced Telluride Film Festival Silver Medallion awards, given to recognize an artist's significant contribution to the world of cinema, went to Roger Corman, Marion Cotillard and Mads Mikkelsen. The Special Medallion award, given to a hero of cinema who preserves, honors and presents great movies, went to C. Chapin Cutler Jr. and Boston Light & Sound.

Previously announced new feature films that played in the official 39th Telluride Film Festival main program: THE ACT OF KILLING (d. Joshua Oppenheimer, Denmark, 2012); AMOUR (d. Michael Haneke, Austria, 2012); AT ANY PRICE (d. Ramin Bahrani, U.S., 2012); THE ATTACK (d. Ziad Doueiri, Lebanon-France, 2012); BARBARA (d. Christian Petzold, Germany, 2012); THE CENTRAL PARK FIVE (d. Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, David McMahon, U.S., 2012); EVERYDAY (d. Michael Winterbottom, U.K., 2012); FRANCES HA (d. Noah Baumbach, U.S., 2012); THE GATEKEEPERS (d. Dror Moreh, Israel, 2012); GINGER AND ROSA (d. Sally Potter, England, 2012); THE HUNT (d. Thomas Vinterberg, Denmark, 2012); HYDE PARK ON HUDSON (d. Roger Michell, U.S., 2012); THE ICEMAN (d. Ariel Vromen, U.S., 2012); LOVE, MARILYN (d. Liz Garbus, U.S., 2012); MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN (d. Deepa Mehta, Canada-Sri Lanka, 2012); NO (Pablo Larraín, Chile, 2012); PARADISE: LOVE (d. Ulrich Seidl, Austria, 2012); PIAZZA FONTANA (d. Marco Tullio Giordana, Italy, 2012); A ROYAL AFFAIR (d. Nikolaj Arcel, Denmark, 2012); RUST & BONE (d. Jacques Audiard, France, 2012); THE SAPPHIRES (d. Wayne Blair, Australia, 2012); STORIES WE TELL (d. Sarah Polley, Canada, 2012); SUPERSTAR (d. Xavier Giannoli, France, 2012); WADJDA (d. Haifaa Al-Mansour, Saudi Arabia, 2012); WHAT IS THIS FILM CALLED LOVE? (d. Mark Cousins, Ireland-Mexico, 2012).

Previously announced film screened in The Backlot, venue: BREAKING THE FRAME (d. Marielle Nitoslawska, Canada, 2012); CARRIÈRE 250 METERS (d. Juan Carlos Rulfo, Mexico, 2012); CELLULOID MAN: A FILM ON P.K. NAIR (d. Shivendra Singh Dungarpur, India, 2012); CINEMA JENIN (d. Marcus Vetter, Germany-Israel-Occupied Palestinian Territory, 2012); FINAL CUT: LADIES AND GENTLEMAN (d. György Pálfi, Hungary, 2012); IN SEARCH OF EMAK BAKIA (d. Oskar Alegria, Spain, 2012); JONATHAN MILLER (d. David Thompson, U.K., 2012); JOURNAL DE FRANCE (d. Raymond Depardon and Claudine Nougaret, France, 2012); ME AND ME DAD (d. Katriné Boorman, U.K., 2012); MIKIS THEODORAKIS, COMPOSER (d. Klaus Salge and Asteris Kutulas, Germany, 2012); ON BORROWED TIME (d. David Bradbury, Australia, 2012); THE SHORT FILMS OF JEAN NEGULESCO.

Telluride Film Festival celebrated the 100th birthday of its friend Chuck Jones (who died in 2002). Classic cartoons and his words of wisdom were included at screenings throughout the Festival. Animator-artist Jones, who received his first retrospective at Telluride in 1976, made regular visits to Telluride with his characters - The Road Runner, Wile E. Coyote, Pepe Le Pew, Speedy Gonzales, Marvin Martian, Michigan J. Frog plus those he directed including Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Yosemite Sam and Elmer Fudd. Jones's daughter, Linda Jones Clough, was present for a special animation conversation, which took place at the Chuck Jones Cinema.

39th Telluride Film Festival was dedicated to Bingham Ray (1954-2012) and Jan Sharp (1946-2012).

35th Poster - A Chair Awaits You...

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0000

A chair awaits you with our 35th Poster, compliments of Laurie Anderson, returning to us as this year’s poster artist. Many of you may remember Laurie attending as our Guest Director for our 18th Festival and with a repeat performance in 2005 with “ Hidden Inside Mountains. ”

“It is a great honor to have been asked to create this year’s Festival poster,” said Laurie Anderson. “*The chair drawing was featured in my book called “Night Life” which is a book of dream drawings I made a couple of years ago while out on tour. The red chair in the poster was part of a dream drawing I made that happened to be set in a theater at Telluride! So of course it seemed perfect for the Festival poster since it’s all about the audience and the dreams that films really are.”

Writer, director, visual artist and vocalist, Anderson has created groundbreaking works that span the worlds of film, art, theater, and experimental music. Her recording career, launched by “O Superman” in 1981, includes the soundtrack to her feature film “Home of the Brave” and “Life on a String.” Anderson has published seven books and her visual work has been presented in major museums around the world. In 2002, she was appointed the first artist-in-residence of NASA which culminated in her touring solo performance The End of the Moon. Anderson has contributed music to films by Wim Wenders and Jonathan Demme and a score for Robert LePage*s theater production, “Far Side of the Moon.” She has created pieces for National Public Radio, The BBC, and Expo ‘92 in Seville.

“Laurie had all kinds of ideas,” said Co-Director Gary Meyer. ” She showed us photographs and graphics with a wide range of possibilities. When we saw the chair, we knew it was the right image. But we had no idea there was a Telluride connection until long after she designed the actual poster.”* *”One of the great pleasures for us is when we can work with an artist in an ongoing relationship,” adds Co-Director Tom Luddy.

Her recent projects include a series of audio-visual installations and a high definition film, “Hidden Inside Mountains,” created for World Expo 2005 in Aichi, Japan. In 2007 she received the prestigious Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize for her outstanding contribution to the arts. Currently she is recording a new album for Nonesuch Records, “Homeland”, and touring internationally with an accompanying performance.

Laurie’s poster will be available during the Festival at our Memorabilia store located in Brigadoon, or contact the Festival offices in Berkeley.

2009 Call for Entries

Tue, 14 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Our film submission period is now open!

Student and Short film submissions must be received no later than 5:00 pm, July 1, 2009. Feature film submissions must be received no later than 5:00 pm, July 15, 2009. All submissions must have been completed after July 15, 2008 and no works in progress will be accepted. Feature-length films (60 minutes or longer) will only be considered if they are to have their first North American screening at Telluride Film Festival. Final program determinations will be made by August 1, 2009.

Professional and amateur filmmakers working in all aesthetic disciplines and genres are welcome. Shorts, features, documentaries, animation, film and video are eligible for consideration. Each year the four-day Telluride Film Festival plays host to an average of 25 feature films and 30 to 40 shorts and student films. Films selected to screen at Telluride Film Festival will be shown out-of-competition. TFF is not a competitive festival.

Please click here to download the 2009 Film Entry Submission form and regulations for the 36th Telluride Film Festival.

TFF 36 Announces Manny Farber Tribute and Guest Director Alexander Payne

Wed, 17 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0000

The Celebration of Manny Farber

Telluride Film Festival and The Library of America are pleased to present a special program in honor of artist and film critic Manny Farber. "The Celebration of Manny Farber" will include an intimate bookstore signing of The Library of America's September 2009 release Farber on Film: The Complete Film Writings of Manny Farber with editor Robert Polito and Farber's wife and collaborator, Patricia Patterson. They will also be part of an interactive panel with guests Jean-Pierre Gorin, Kent Jones, Greil Marcus, David Thomson, and Robert Walsh. More special guests will be in attendance for a screening of one of Farber's favorite films to be announced on Opening Day, September 4, 2009.

Alexander Payne as 36th Guest Director

We are proud to announce Alexander Payne as our 2009 Guest Director. The acclaimed director and screenwriter has been invited to enhance the already prestigious program and select a series of films to show at the 36th Telluride Film Festival.

Each year the Festival’s directors select one of the world’s great film lovers to join them in the creation of the Festival. The Guest Director serves as a key collaborator in the Festival’s programming decisions, bringing new ideas and overlooked films to Telluride.

“Alexander has succeeded in programming a group of films with both rarity and variety,” said co-director Gary Meyer. “We have a sophisticated audience at Telluride and he has met the challenge and exceeded our highest expectations.”

Payne won both the Academy Award and Golden Globe in 2005 for Best Screenplay for the film SIDEWAYS. Another of Payne’s acclaimed works, ABOUT SCHMIDT, earned Jack Nicholson an Oscar nomination for Best Actor in a Leading Role. Payne’s film credits also include ELECTION and CITIZEN RUTH. Upcoming projects include the HBO series HUNG.

“I have had the pleasure of knowing Alexander for many years – from the time he was a Stanford student who came to see rare films at the Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley and throughout his career,” said co-director Tom Luddy. “I have long admired his work and his obvious love of the art of film. Our partnership with him on this year’s Festival has been seamless.”

Julie Huntsinger, the Festival’s Managing Director adds, “In addition to his inspired film selections, Alexander's wit and enthusiasm will captivate our audience. We are thrilled he'll join us this year.”

In keeping with Telluride Film Festival tradition, Payne's film selections, along with the rest of the Telluride program will be kept secret and unveiled on Opening Day, September 4, 2009.

36th Telluride Film Festival Announces 2009 Festival Program

Thu, 03 Sep 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Telluride Film Festival is proud to announce its 2009 Festival program. Twenty-four new feature films will play in the Festival’s main program; eleven revivals including six programmed by 2009 Festival Guest Director Alexander Payne; twenty-nine short films; and ten documentaries will screen in the Backlot program. Celebrating works from over twenty-five countries, Telluride Film Festival opens Friday, September 4 and runs through Monday, September 7, 2009.

Breaking Telluride precedent, the Festival will officially begin at 2:00 pm on Friday afternoon with a marathon screening of the three-part U.K. film trilogy: RED RIDING. The screenings are open to all Passholders and will be held at the Palm Theatre.

THE ‘SHOW’
36th Telluride Film Festival is pleased to present the following new feature films to play in the ‘SHOW’:
•   A PROPHET (d. Jacques Audiard, Germany/Austria/France, 2009)
•   AN EDUCATION (d. Lone Sherfig, U.K., 2009)
•   BAD LIEUTENANT: PORT OF CALL NEW ORLEANS (d. Werner Herzog, U.S., 2009)
•   BRIGHT STAR (d. Jane Campion, U.K./Australia/France, 2009)
•   COCO BEFORE CHANEL (d. Anne Fontaine, France, 2009)
•   FAREWELL (d. Christian Carion, France, 2009)
•   FISH TANK (d. Andrea Arnold, U.K., 2009)
•   GIGANTE (d. Adrián Biniez, Uruguay, 2009)
•   HENRI-GEORGES CLOUZOUT’S INFERNO (d. Serge Bromberg and Ruxandra Medrea, France, 2009)
•   LIFE DURING WARTIME (d. Todd Solondz, U.S., 2009)
•   LONDON RIVER (d. Rachid Bouchareb, U.K./France/Algeria, 2009)
•   RED RIDING – three-part series: 1974 (d. Julian Jarrold, U.K., 2009); 1980 (d. James Marsh, U.K., 2009); 1983 (d. Anand Tucker, U.K., 2009)
•   ROOM AND A HALF (d. Andrey Khrzhanovsky, Russia, 2009)
•   SAMSON & DELILAH (d. Warwick Thornton, Australia, 2009)
•   SLEEP FURIOUSLY (d. Gideon Koppel, U.K., 2007)
•   TERRA MADRE (d. Ermanno Olmi, Italy, 2009)
•   THE JAZZ BARONESS (d. Hannah Rothschild, U.K. 2009)
•   THE LAST STATION (d. Michael Hoffman, Russian/German, 2009)
•   THE MISCREANTS OF TALIWOOD (d. George Gittoes, Australia/Pakistan, 2009)
•   THE ROAD (d. John Hillcoat, U.S., 2009)
•   THE WHITE RIBBON (d. Michael Haneke, Germany/Australia/France, 2009)
•   VINCERE (d. Marco Bellocchio, Italy, 2009)
•   VISION (d. Margarethe von Trotta, Germany, 2009)
•   WINDOW (d. Buddhadeb Dasgupta, India, 2009)

In keeping with Festival tradition, additional “Sneak Previews” are expected to surprise attendees over the weekend. Sneaks will be announced here. Stay tuned!

MEDALLION AWARDS
The 2009 Silver Medallion awards, given to recognize an artist’s significant contribution to the world of cinema, go to:
•   ANOUK AIMÉE - French film star Anouk Aimée will receive the Silver Medallion followed by an onstage interview conducted by Scott Foundas (Friday) and Davia Nelson (Saturday). The program will include a screening of Jacques Demy’s 1961 film, LOLA, starring Aimée in her iconic role as the lovelorn burlesque dancer.
•   VIGGO MORTENSEN – Telluride audiences will be the first to see American actor Viggo Mortensen’s performance in John Hillcoat’s THE ROAD. The film will be preceded by the presentation of the Silver Medallion and an onstage interview with Ken Burns (Sunday) and Davia Nelson (Monday).
•   MARGARETHE VON TROTTA – Historical filmmaker, actress and a key member of New German Cinema, von Trotta will be presented with the Silver Medallion by Barbara Sukowa, followed by an onstage interview conducted by Annette Insdorf (Friday) and Gary Giddens (Saturday). A screening of Von Trotta’s latest film, VISION, will follow the program.

Lobster Films’ Serge Bromberg will receive this year’s Special Medallion award, which honors a “hero” of cinema, at the program “Retour de Flamme,” Bromberg’s famed live cinema show. Bromberg’s new film, HENRI-GEORGES CLOUZOUT’S INFERNO plays in main program. Bromberg will also sign Flicker Alley DVD sets featuring works discovered and restored by Lobster Films.

GUEST DIRECTOR PROGRAMS
Guest Director Alexander Payne presents six forgotten film treasures from the past:
•   EL VERDUGO (d. Luís García Berlanga, Spain, 1963)
•   DAISAN NO KAGEMUSHA: THE THIRD SHADOW WARRIOR (d. Inoue Umetsugu, Japan, 1963)
•   LE RAGAZZE DI PIAZZA DI SPAGNA (d. Luciano Emmer, Italy 1952)
•   DAY OF THE OUTLAW (d. André De Tothe, U.S., 1959)
•   THE BREAKING POINT (d. Michael Curtiz, U.S., 1950)
•   MAKE WAY FOR TOMORROW (d. Orson Welles, U.S., 1937)

FILM REVIVALS
•   LES NOUVEAUX MESSIEUR (d. Jacques Feyder, France, 1929) - With live music by Stephen Horne, performing his original score
•   L’ARGENT (d. Marcel L’Herier, France, 1928) – Featuring the world premiere of a new score written and performed by the Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra
•   LOLA (d. Jacques Demy, France, 1961)
•   MIRACLE OF MALACHIAS (d. Bernhard Wicki, Germany, 1961)
•   TONI (d. Jean Renoir, France, 1934)

CELEBRATING MANNY FARBER
Our Celebration of Manny Farber includes a screening of one of Farber’s favorite films, TONI, followed by a panel discussion exploring Farber’s work with Greil Marcus, Jean-Pierre Gorin, Kent Jones, Robert Polito, Robert Walsh and Patricia Patterson. Following the panel, editor Robert Polito will sign copies of Farber On Film: The Complete Writings of Manny Farber.

POSTER ARTIST WILLIAM WEGMAN
Poster Artist William Wegman will present a selection of his short films followed by a conversation with art curator David Ross and the audience. Poster signing to follow. An exhibit of the posters with which Wegman experimented before selecting the final version will be on display at the Wegman Gallery, along with a series of original paintings created for Telluride and the unveiling of a second, limited edition poster. Gallery only open throughout the four-day Festival.

TALKING HEADS
Features six Conversations between Festival guests and the audience about film and culture, and three outdoor Seminars with a panel of Festival guests. These programs are free and open to the public.

ADDITIONAL FESTIVITIES
•   Fellini’s Book of Dreams – The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ exhibition includes reproductions of the 12-time Oscar nominee Federico Fellini’s dream-world sketches.
•   Russian Master: Animation by Khrzhanovsky – A rare screening of Andrey Khrzhanovsky’s animated films. His debut feature ROOM AND A HALF plays in the main program.
•   Alice Waters Book signing – Following the screening and intro of TERRA MADRE, Waters, vice president of Slow Foods International, will sign her classic Art of Simple Foods

Click here to download the 36th Telluride Film Festival Program Guide.

2009 Student Symposium Applications Now Available

Fri, 06 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Imagine being part of an exclusive give and take with filmmakers like David Fincher, Danny Boyle, Nandita Das, Wayne Wang, Ken Burns, Gus Van Sant, Diablo Cody, and Tamara Jenkins. Now, don't just imagine it - be there!

Applications for the 2009 Student Symposium are now available. We are looking for college and university students representing a variety of study disciplines, cultures and backgrounds, and who appreciate healthy and vigorous philosophical debates with their colleagues. It's an opportunity you do not want to miss - and it all starts here.

2009 Production Apprentice Applications Now Available

Mon, 26 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Applications are now being accepted for the 36th TFF Production and Volunteer Departments. There are many ways to become involved in our Festival Family, so read carefully and apply accordingly! Applications must be received no later than Friday March 27, 2009.

Click here for details on how to become part of our behind-the-scenes experience!

2009 Patron Passes Now on Sale

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Buy Your 36th TFF Patron Pass Today!
Have you long been considering a Patron Pass? Are you one of our Patron regulars? Don’t miss the opportunity to secure your pass early! Our Patron Passes grow more popular every year, though our number of passes to sell remains unchanged.

March 1, 2009 will open our Box Office for all pass levels, and we anticipate sales will be brisk right out of the gate. Click here to order online.

TFF 2009 Academy Award Nominees

Fri, 12 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0000

We congratulate this year's Academy Award nominees whose films appeared at the 2009 Telluride Film Festival:

Bright Star
Coco Before Chanel
An Education
The Last Station
A Prophet
Up in the Air
The White Ribbon
The Door
The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant

Tom Luddy honored at American Cinematheque

Sat, 03 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Telluride Film Festival Co-founder and Co-Director Tom Luddy received the second annual Sydney Pollack Award on March 27, 2010 at "Hollywood Salutes Matt Damon: An American Cinematheque Tribute."

 “The Sydney Pollack Award honors someone who has been of critical importance and continuing influence in non-profit film exhibition, film preservation and/or independent film distribution - people whose work Sydney supported and found to be so valuable, who are not often recognized for their efforts,” states the Cinematheque.

For details about the award and to read Tom's biography click here.

TFF 37 Call for Entries

Thu, 15 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Our submission period is now open. Shorts and student film submissions must be received in our offices no later than 5:00 pm, July 1, 2010. Feature film submissions must be received no later than 5:00 pm, July 15, 2010. All submissions must have been completed after July 15, 2009 and no works in progress will be accepted. Feature-length films (60 minutes or longer) will only be considered if they are to have their first North American screening at the Telluride Film Festival. Final program determinations will be made by August 1, 2010.

Professional and amateur filmmakers working in all aesthetic disciplines and genres including narrative, documentary, animation and experimental are welcome.

Each year, the four-day Telluride Film Festival plays host to an average of 24 feature films and 25 shorts and student films. Films selected to screen at Telluride Film Festival will be shown out-of-competition. TFF is not a competitive festival.

For all submission regulations and to download a Film Entry Form, click here.

Thank you!

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Thanks to all of you, the 36th Telluride Film Festival prevailed once more. We could not have done it without the support of our faithful Passholders, our unbelievable Sponsors, our dedicated Staff and of course, our fabulous Filmmakers! It is because of you the Festival was a success...and because of you it will continue to be for many years to come.

Too soon to think about next year? Not for us. The Telluride Film Festival will be held over Labor Day Weekend September 3-6, 2010. Mark your calendars and see you at the SHOW!

36th Telluride Film Festival Draws to a Close

Tue, 08 Sep 2009 00:00:00 +0000

The 36^th Telluride Film Festival, presented by the National Film Preserve. played twenty-four feature films in the Festival’s main program, not including three Sneak Previews added throughout the four-day event. Telluride Film Festival’s celebration of art and film, set amongst the beauty of the Rockies, opened Friday, September 4 and closed September 7, 2009.

The following unannounced Sneak Previews screened at the 36^th Telluride Film Festival:

UP IN THE AIR (d. Jason Reitman, U.S., 2009); MY SON MY SON, WHAT HAVE YE DONE? (d. Werner Herzog, U.S./Germany, 2009); PARANORMAL ACTIVITY (d. Oren Peli, U.S., 2008).

Festival guests Nicolas Cage, Andrew Eaton, Michael Haneke, Julian Jarrold, Katie Jarvis, James Marsh, Helen Mirren, Carey Mulligan, and Warwick Thornton participated in the Festival’s Conversations series, allowing Festival attendees to listen and participate in discussions ranging from cinema to culture to politics, and everything in between.

Seminar topics included: “Real Lives Becoming Reel Characters” with Christian Carion, Anne Fontaine, Michael Hoffman, James Marsh, Carey Mulligan, and Barbara Sukowa; “The Challenges of Portraying Complex Heroines on Screen” with Brenda Blethyn, Michael Lerner, Helen Mirren, Lone Scherfig, and Margarethe Von Trotta; and “The Edge of Humor: When Does the Laughter Stop” with Nicolas Cage, George Gittoes, Jason Reitman, and Paul Schneider.

And of course there were our Tributees. Silver Medallion honorees were the old-fashioned movie star Viggo Mortensen, the very definition of feminine mystique Anouk Aimée, and the rebel with a cause Margarethe von Trotta. Last, but certainly not least, the Special Medallion was presented to Lobster Films’ Serge Bromberg, whose enthusiasm for film preservation and showmanship ignited many new fans and admirers!

TFF 37 Announces Festival Lineup

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Telluride Film Festival, presented by the National Film Preserve, is proud to announce its 2010 Festival program. Twenty-four new feature films presented by their creators in the Festival’s main program; six programs curated by 2010 Festival Guest Director Michael Ondaatje; twenty-five new short films; plus thirteen documentaries screening in the Backlot program. Celebrating works from over twenty countries, Telluride Film Festival opens Friday, September 3 and runs through Monday, September 6, 2010.

THE ‘SHOW’

37th Telluride Film Festival is pleased to present the following new feature films to play in the ‘SHOW’:

A LETTER TO ELIA (d. Martin Scorsese and Kent Jones, U.S., 2010)
ANOTHER YEAR (d. Mike Leigh, U.K., 2010)
BIUTIFUL (d. Alejandro González Iñárritu, Mexico, 2010)
CARLOS (d. Olivier Assayas, France/Germany, 2010)
CHICO AND RITA (d. Fernando Trueba, Javier Mariscal Spain-Cuba, 2010)
THE FIRST GRADER (d. Justin Chadwick, U.K., 2010)
THE FIRST MOVIE (d. Mark Cousins, U.K., 2009)
HAPPY PEOPLE: A YEAR IN THE TAIGA (d. Dmitry Vasyukov with Werner Herzog, Germany, 2010)
IF I WANT TO WHISTLE, I WHISTLE (d. Florin Şerban, Romania, 2010)
THE ILLUSIONIST (d. Sylvain Chomet, U.K., France, 2010)
INCENDIES (d. Denis Villeneuve, Canada, 2010)
INSIDE JOB (d. Charles Ferguson, U.S., 2010)
THE KING’S SPEECH (d. Tom Hooper, U.K., 2010)
LE QUATTRO VOLTE (d. Michelangelo Frammartino, Italy, 2010)
NEVER LET ME GO (d. Mark Romanek, U.K./U.S., 2010)
OF GODS AND MEN (d. Xavier Beauvois, France, 2010)
OKA! AMERIKEE (d. Lavinia Currier, U.S.-Central African Republic, 2010)
POETRY (d. Lee Chang-dong, Korea, 2010)
PRECIOUS LIFE (d. Shlomi Eldar, Israel, 2010)
THE PRINCESS OF MONTPENSIER (d. Bertrand Tavernier, France, 2010)
TABLOID (d. Errol Morris, U.S., 2010)
TAMARA DREWE (d. Stephen Frears, U.K., 2010)
THE TENTH INNING (d. Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, U.S., 2010)
THE WAY BACK (d. Peter Weir, U.K., 2010

In keeping with Festival tradition, additional “Sneak Previews” are expected to surprise attendees over the weekend. Sneaks will be announced on the Telluride Film Festival webpage throughout the weekend.

MEDALLION AWARDS

TFF is proud to honor the following three recipients with its Silver Medallion awards, given to recognize an artist’s significant contribution to the world of cinema:

CLAUDIA CARDINALE - Italian film star Claudia Cardinale (8 ½, THE LEOPARD, THE PINK PANTHER) will receive the Silver Medallion followed by an onstage interview conducted by Hilton Als (Saturday) and Davia Nelson (Sunday). The program will include a screening of Valerio Zurlini’s GIRL WITH A SUITCASE (Italy, 1961).

COLIN FIRTH – Telluride audiences will be the first to see British actor Colin Firth’s performance in THE KING’S SPEECH. The film will be preceded by a survey of Firth’s career (PRIDE AND PREJUDICE, GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING, A SINGLE MAN), the presentation of the Silver Medallion and an onstage interview with Davia Nelson (Sunday) and Todd McCarthy (Monday).

PETER WEIR – Filmmaker Peter Weir (WITNESS, THE TRUMAN SHOW, MASTER AND COMMANDER) will be presented with the Silver Medallion followed by an onstage interview with Leonard Maltin (Friday) and Scott Foundas (Saturday). A screening of Weir’s lost classic THE PLUMBER (Australia, 1976) and his latest film, THE WAY BACK, will screen during the Festival.

UCLA Film & Television Archive will receive this year’s Special Medallion award, which honors a hero of cinema - an organization or individual - that preserves, honors and presents great movies. Festival guests will be treated to a special program put together by Archive director Jan-Christopher Horak entitled: TREASURES FROM UCLA. Two films from the Archive will play elsewhere in the program: the 1927 film CHICAGO, recently discovered in Cecil B. DeMille’s vaults and restored by the UCLA Film & Television Archive, will screen with a live, original score performed by the Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra; and Stanton Kaye’s 1968 film, BRANDY IN THE WILDERNESS, a scheduled restoration by UCLA.

For the first time, Telluride Film Festival is presenting digital in all its venues. Dolby’s Digital Cinema server is being used throughout the four-day festival in its three largest venues. Dolby is facilitating a program of 3D featuring rare works from the 1890s through 2010 in RETOUR DE FLAMME IN 3D, curated and performed by Serge Bromberg with live piano and stories. Dolby 3D Digital Cinema technology, in conjunction with BARCO digital cinema projectors provides TFF with an efficient and flexible solution designed to deliver a superior 3D experience. Dolby, together with Cinedigm, Barco and Boston Light and Sound, has moved TFF forward into a completely state of the art film festival.

GUEST DIRECTOR PROGRAMS

Guest Director Michael Ondaatje presents six films spanning the last four decades of the 20th century:

THE ASCENT (d. Larisa Shepitko, U.S.S.R., 1977, archive print)

CONFIDENCE (d. István Szabó, Hungary, 1980, archive print )

FAT CITY (d. John Huston, U.S., 1972, archive print) followed by an interview with author Leonard Gardner

HERE’S YOUR LIFE (d. Jan Troell, Sweden, 1966, restoration print from the Swedish Institute)

THE HUSTLER (d. Robert Rossen, U.S., 1961, archive print)

MOTHER DAO, THE TURTLELIKE (d. Vincent Monnikendam, Netherlands, 1995, archive print )

ADDITIONAL FILM REVIVALS

ROTAIE (d. Mario Camerini, Italy, 1930) – Pordenone Presents with live music performance by Judith Rosenberg.

MOANA: A STORY OF THE SOUTH SEAS (d. Robert Flaherty, U.S., 1926) – With the 1970s soundtrack Flaherty’s daughter Monica created to honor her father’s original intentions and a restored print by his great-grandson Sami van Ingen. With special guest documentarian Richard Leacock who worked with Flaherty.

BACKLOT

Backlot, Telluride’s intimate screening room with behind-the-scenes movies and portraits of artists, musicians and filmmakers will screen the following documentary programs:

BERGMAN: featuring two films by Stig Björkman …BUT FILM IS MY MISTRESS ( Sweden, 2010) and IMAGES FROM THE PLAYGROUND ( Sweden, 2009)
CAMERAMAN: THE LIFE AND WORK OF JACK CARDIFF (d. Craig McCall, U.K., 2010)
CHEKHOV FOR CHILDREN (d. Sasha Waters Freyer, U.S., 2010)
DANIEL SCHMID: LE CHAT QUI PENSE (d. Pascal Hofmann, Benny Jaberg, Germany, 2010)
DOCUMENTARIST (d. Harutyun Khachatryan, Armenia, 2003)
HURRICANE KALATOZOV (d. Patrick Cazals, France, 2010)
THE MAGNIFICENT TATI (d. Michael House, U.K.-U.S.-France, 2009)
MOGULS AND MOVIE STARS (d. Jon Wilkman, U.S., 2010, two episodes, TCM television documentary series)
MUSIC MAKERS OF THE BLUE RIDGE (d. David Hoffman, U.S., 1965)
ON “BEING THERE” WITH RICHARD LEACOCK (d. Jane Weiner, U.S., 2010)
PYGMIES IN PARIS (d. Mark Kidel, U.K., 1992)
THE WORLD ACCORDING TO ION B. (d. Alexander Nanau, Romania, 2010)

SHORT FILMS

SHOWcase for Shorts features seven short films chosen to precede select feature films. Filmmakers of Tomorrow includes three shorts programs: Great Expectations, Calling Cards and Student Prints, from eighteen emerging filmmakers.

EDUCATION PROGRAMS

The Student Symposium provides 50 graduate and undergraduate college students a weekend-long immersion in cinema. The City Lights Project offers fifteen high school students and five teachers from three divergent schools the opportunity to participate in a concentrated program of screenings and discussions.

TALKING HEADS

Seven Conversations between Festival guests and the audience about cinema and culture, and three outdoor Seminars featuring a panel of Festival guests, offer a rare opportunity for film lovers to interact with directors, actors and writers. These programs are free and open to the public.

ADDITIONAL FESTIVITIES

Spotlight on Harutyun Khachatryan – Screening two of the Armenian director’s works, BORDER and RETURN OF THE POET. DOCUMENTARIST also plays in the Backlot program.
Ralph Eggleston Poster Signing – Previously announced 37th TFF poster artist in person.
Pix-Art: The Creations of Ralph Eggleston - Personal artwork from the Pixar and TFF poster artist.
Michael Ondaatje Booksigning – Signing copies of The Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing.
Kazuo Ishiguro Booksigning – Signing his novel Never Let Me Go, adapted for Mark Romanek’s film.
Serge Bromberg and Mont Alto Orchestra signing – Signing DVDs of silent classics.
Millions –Danny Boyle will present his 2005 family film to the Telluride audience.

The Festival’s program will be posted in its entirety on Friday, September 3 here.

Congratulations Oscar Nominees

Wed, 26 Jan 2011 00:00:00 +0000

We congratulate this year's Academy Award nominees whose films appeared at the 2010 Telluride Film Festival.

ANOTHER YEAR

BIUTIFUL

BLACK SWAN

THE ILLUSIONIST

INCENDIES

INSIDE JOB

THE KING'S SPEECH

127 HOURS

THE WAY BACK

GOD OF LOVE

POSTER GIRL

2012 Call for Entries

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Our submission period is now open for all categories including student, short and feature length films. Professional and amateur filmmakers working in all aesthetic disciplines and genres including narrative, documentary, animation and experimental are welcome. Download the submission form here.

Shorts and student film submissions must be received no later than 5:00 pm, July 1, 2012. Feature film submissions must be received no later than 5:00 pm, July 15, 2012. All submissions must have been completed after July 15, 2011 and no works in progress will be accepted. Feature-length films (60 minutes or longer) will only be considered if they are to have their first North American screening at Telluride Film Festival. Final program determinations will be made by August 1, 2012. No early or late entries will be accepted. For more information, click here.

Congratulations!

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0000

We congratulate this year's Academy Award nominees and winners whose films appeared at the Telluride Film Festival.

• ALBERT NOBBS

• THE ARTIST - Winner Best Picture, Director, Actor, Music (Original Score), Costume Design

• CHICO & RITA

• THE DESCENDANTS - Winner Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

• FOOTNOTE

• IN DARKNESS

• LA LUNA

• PINA

• A SEPARATION - Best Foreign Language Film

Box Office Alerts: Sunday

Mon, 28 Jun 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Late Show Tickets are still available at the Festival Box Office, still a great deal! If you lost your pass, come on by for a new one (with your ID, please!) and we'll have you on your way in no time.

TFF 37 Poster Artist Ralph Eggleston

Sun, 16 May 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Telluride Film Festival is pleased to announce Pixar Animation Studios’ Ralph Eggleston as the 37th Telluride Film Festival poster artist. Eggleston will lend his talent to create the Festival’s official poster, along with a second special edition poster to be unveiled closer to the Festival.

Eggleston will attend the 37th Telluride Film Festival over Labor Day weekend to present his poster designs to the public and hold a poster signing for festival guests. A special reception will also be held to honor Eggleston, sponsored by the UCLA School of Theatre, Film and Television.

Ralph Eggleston first joined Pixar Animation Studios in 1992 as the Art Director of Toy Story, which earned him the International Animated Film Society’s Annie Award for Best Art Direction. Following Toy Story , he helped develop the treatment and screenplay for Monsters, Inc. Eggleston also wrote, designed and directed the Oscar and Annie winning short film For the Birds , and served as Production Designer on the Academy Award winning feature film Finding Nemo, which also garnered him another Annie for Best Art Direction. Eggleston was the Art Director for The Incredibles and Production Designer on another Academy Award® winning feature, WALL•E, where his work was nominated by the Art Directors Guild award for “Best Production Design” in 2008. His most recent Pixar project was Up , on which he contributed to the color and lighting design.

Eggleston began his career as a freelance animator and designer on various small projects, including commercials, television, movie titles, and various “special projects” for numerous companies. He has also contributed to the development of several feature films both at Pixar and elsewhere in the industry.

Eggleston joins a prestigious list of artists who have shared their talents with the Telluride Film Festival. Past poster artists include Ed Ruscha, John Mansfield, Julian Schnabel, Dottie Attie, Doug and Mike Starn, David Lance Goines, Chuck Jones, David Salle, Alexis Smith, Jim Dine, Seymour Chast, Frederic Amat, Francesco Clemente, Dave McKean, Gary Larson, Chip Kidd, John Canemaker, Mark Stock, Laurie Anderson and William Wegman.

FilmWatch Now Online

Sat, 04 Sep 2010 00:00:00 +0000

The 92 page FILMWATCH magazine, edited by Jason Silverman and published by The Telluride Watch is now available online for the first time. In depth articles about the 2010 Festival explore the films and their creators, penned by an array of filmmakers and writers including David Thomson, Michael Ondaatje, Scott Foundas, Paul Schrader, Denis Johnson, Roger Ebert, Rebeca Mauleon, Olivier Assayas, Justin Chadwick, Ken Russell, Mark Cousins, Michelangelo Frammartino, Denis Villeneuve, Barry Gifford, Phillip Lopate and Norman Lear. There are also interviews and insights all accompanied by illustrations and photographs.

Selections from FILMWATCH and a downloadable print edition are available here.

TFF 37 Memorabilia Now Available in SHOW Shop

Sat, 18 Sep 2010 00:00:00 +0000

The Telluride Film Festival Memorabilia Shop is now open online so you can obtain special goodies…great gifts for family, friends and yourself. The TFF 37 posters, hats, coaster sets, magnets, pins, T-shirts, hoodies, and other clothing items are available in limited supply.

New this year is a stunning Poster Art Collage Umbrella and a DVD featuring the best moments from the Festival. Relive the highlights of your favorite guests, Tributees, and conversations from TFF 37. The store is open here.

TFF 38 2011: Call For Entries

Fri, 15 Apr 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Our Submission Period is now open.

Shorts and student film submissions must be received no later than 5:00 pm, July 1, 2011. Feature film submissions must be received no later than 5:00 pm, July 15, 2011. All submissions must have been completed after July 15, 2010 and no works in progress will be accepted. Feature-length films (60 minutes or longer) will only be considered if they are to have their first North American screening at Telluride Film Festival. Final program determinations will be made by August 1, 2010. No early or late entries will be accepted.

Professional and amateur filmmakers working in all aesthetic disciplines and genres including narrative, documentary, animation and experimental are welcome.

Each year the four-day Telluride Film Festival (taking place this year September 2-5, 2011) plays host to an average of 24 feature films and 25 shorts and student films. Films selected to screen at Telluride Film Festival will be shown out-of-competition. TFF is not a competitive festival.

For all submission regulations and to download the 2011 Film Entry Form, click here.

TFF 37 TBAs, Sneaks and Seminars

Sun, 05 Sep 2010 00:00:00 +0000

THE ‘SHOW’

37th Telluride Film Festival is pleased to present the following new feature films to play in the ‘SHOW’:

A LETTER TO ELIA (d. Martin Scorsese and Kent Jones, U.S., 2010)

ANOTHER YEAR (d. Mike Leigh, U.K., 2010)

BIUTIFUL (d. Alejandro González Iñárritu, Mexico, 2010)

CARLOS (d. Olivier Assayas, France/Germany, 2010)

CHICO AND RITA (d. Fernando Trueba, Javier Mariscal Spain-Cuba, 2010)

THE FIRST GRADER (d. Justin Chadwick, U.K., 2010)

THE FIRST MOVIE (d. Mark Cousins, U.K., 2009)

HAPPY PEOPLE: A YEAR IN THE TAIGA (d. Dmitry Vasyukov with Werner Herzog, Germany, 2010)

IF I WANT TO WHISTLE, I WHISTLE (d. Florin Şerban, Romania, 2010)

THE ILLUSIONIST (d. Sylvain Chomet, U.K., France, 2010)

INCENDIES (d. Denis Villeneuve, Canada, 2010)

INSIDE JOB (d. Charles Ferguson, U.S., 2010)

THE KING’S SPEECH (d. Tom Hooper, U.K., 2010)

LE QUATTRO VOLTE (d. Michelangelo Frammartino, Italy, 2010)

NEVER LET ME GO (d. Mark Romanek, U.K./U.S., 2010)

OF GODS AND MEN (d. Xavier Beauvois, France, 2010)

OKA! AMERIKEE (d. Lavinia Currier, U.S.-Central African Republic, 2010)

POETRY (d. Lee Chang-dong, Korea, 2010)

PRECIOUS LIFE (d. Shlomi Eldar, Israel, 2010)

THE PRINCESS OF MONTPENSIER (d. Bertrand Tavernier, France, 2010)

TABLOID (d. Errol Morris, U.S., 2010)

TAMARA DREWE (d. Stephen Frears, U.K., 2010)

THE TENTH INNING (d. Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, U.S., 2010)

THE WAY BACK (d. Peter Weir, U.K., 2010)

MEDALLION AWARDS

TFF is proud to honor the following three recipients with its Silver Medallion awards, given to recognize an artist’s significant contribution to the world of cinema:

GUEST DIRECTOR PROGRAMS

Guest Director Michael Ondaatje presents six films spanning the last four decades of the 20th century:

THE ASCENT (d. Larisa Shepitko, U.S.S.R., 1977, archive print)

CONFIDENCE (d. István Szabó, Hungary, 1980, archive print )

FAT CITY (d. John Huston, U.S., 1972, archive print) followed by an interview with author Leonard Gardner

HERE’S YOUR LIFE (d. Jan Troell, Sweden, 1966, restoration print from the Swedish Institute)

THE HUSTLER (d. Robert Rossen, U.S., 1961, archive print)

MOTHER DAO, THE TURTLELIKE (d. Vincent Monnikendam, Netherlands, 1995, archive print )

ADDITIONAL FILM REVIVALS

ROTAIE (d. Mario Camerini, Italy, 1930) – Pordenone Presents with live music performance by Judith Rosenberg.

BACKLOT

Backlot, Telluride’s intimate screening room with behind-the-scenes movies and portraits of artists, musicians and filmmakers will screen the following documentary programs:

BERGMAN: featuring two films by Stig Björkman …BUT FILM IS MY MISTRESS ( Sweden, 2010) and IMAGES FROM THE PLAYGROUND ( Sweden, 2009)

CAMERAMAN: THE LIFE AND WORK OF JACK CARDIFF (d. Craig McCall, U.K., 2010)

CHEKHOV FOR CHILDREN (d. Sasha Waters Freyer, U.S., 2010)

DANIEL SCHMID: LE CHAT QUI PENSE (d. Pascal Hofmann, Benny Jaberg, Germany, 2010)

DOCUMENTARIST (d. Harutyun Khachatryan, Armenia, 2003)

HURRICANE KALATOZOV (d. Patrick Cazals, France, 2010)

THE MAGNIFICENT TATI (d. Michael House, U.K.-U.S.-France, 2009)

MOGULS AND MOVIE STARS (d. Jon Wilkman, U.S., 2010, two episodes, TCM television documentary series)

MUSIC MAKERS OF THE BLUE RIDGE (d. David Hoffman, U.S., 1965)

ON “BEING THERE” WITH RICHARD LEACOCK (d. Jane Weiner, U.S., 2010)

PYGMIES IN PARIS (d. Mark Kidel, U.K., 1992)

THE WORLD ACCORDING TO ION B. (d. Alexander Nanau, Romania, 2010)

SHORT FILMS

EDUCATION PROGRAMS

TALKING HEADS

ADDITIONAL FESTIVITIES

Spotlight on Harutyun Khachatryan – Screening two of the Armenian director’s works, BORDER and RETURN OF THE POET. DOCUMENTARIST also plays in the Backlot program.

Ralph Eggleston Poster Signing – Previously announced 37th TFF poster artist in person.

Pix-Art: The Creations of Ralph Eggleston - Personal artwork from the Pixar and TFF poster artist.

Michael Ondaatje Booksigning – Signing copies of The Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing.

Kazuo Ishiguro Booksigning – Signing his novel Never Let Me Go, adapted for Mark Romanek’s film.

Serge Bromberg and Mont Alto Orchestra signing – Signing DVDs of silent classics.

Millions –Danny Boyle will present his 2005 family film to the Telluride audience.

The Festival’s program will be posted in its entirety on Friday, September 3 here.

2012 Guest Director Geoff Dyer

Mon, 11 Jun 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Telluride Film Festival is thrilled to announce its 2012 Guest Director, Geoff Dyer. The award-winning writer is set to select a series of films to present at the 39th Telluride Film Festival running over Labor Day Weekend, August 31 – September 3, 2012. The Guest Director program is sponsored by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Festival directors Julie Huntsinger, Tom Luddy and Gary Meyer annually select one of the world’s great film enthusiasts to join them in the creation of the Festival’s program lineup. The Guest Director serves as a key collaborator in the Festival’s programming decisions, bringing new ideas and overlooked films to Telluride.

“I’ve always been a fan of Geoff’s writing,” said Tom Luddy, co-founder and co-director of Telluride Film Festival. “He and I were introduced while he was writing his book Zona, an in-depth exploration of Andrei Tarkovsky’s film STALKER. Around that time Sight & Sound asked Geoff what his five favorite books on film were. His top choice was David Thomson’s A Biographical Dictionary of Film in its first edition. The revised second, third, fourth and fifth editions were picks two, three, four and five. His answer convinced me that he and I are on the same wavelength film-wise. Zona is, in my opinion, one of the best books ever written on a single film. I’ve had a wonderful time dialoguing with him about his film selections and know we have another winner in our series of Guest Directors.”

British writer Geoff Dyer is the author of four novels: Paris Trance, The Search, The Colour of Memory, and, most recently, Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi; two collections of essays, Anglo-English Attitudes and Working the Room; and five genre-defying titles: But Beautiful, The Missing of the Somme, Out of Sheer Rage, Yoga For People Who Can’t Be Bothered To Do It and The Ongoing Moment.   A collection of essays from the last twenty years entitled Otherwise Known as the Human Condition was published in the US in April 2011 and won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism in March 2012.

Dyer’s new book Zona: A Book about a Film about a Journey to a Room, was published in February 2012 by Canongate, UK and in March 2012 by Pantheon, US. The book takes the reader through the film STALKER by the great Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky, and, like the film itself, confronts the most mysterious and enduring questions of life and how to live. Dyer guides his readers on a 200-page shot by shot exploration of the film and his own personal obsession with cinema.

“I'm very conscious of the honour of being the latest in a long line of very distinguished guest directors at a great festival, but I'm even more conscious of the pleasure I'm already having (discovering new films, re-watching old favourites and discovering if they have stood up to the test of time),” said Dyer. “Even more than the honour and the pleasure, though, I'm glad finally to be putting an end to the envy I felt whenever I met people who'd just come back from Telluride and insisted on telling me that they'd had the most wonderful time of their lives. I'm no stranger to having a good time over the Labour Day weekend: I used to go to Burning Man and was quite evangelical about it. I fully expect to be as passionate a convert to Telluride.’”

Dyer’s awards are as follows: But Beautiful winner of the 1992 Somerset Maugham Prize and shortlisted for the Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize;  Out of Sheer Rage finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award, US; Yoga For People Who Can’t Be Bothered To Do It winner of the 2004 W H Smith Best Travel Book Award;  The Ongoing Moment winner of the ICP Infinity Award for Writing on Photography;  Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi winner of the 2009 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Best Comic Novel;  Otherwise Known as the Human Condition winner of the 2011 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism.

Other honors include the Lannan Literary Fellowship, 2003; Winner of the E. M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, 2006; GQ Writer of the Year Award, 2009

In keeping with Telluride Film Festival tradition, Dyer’s film selections, along with the rest of the Telluride lineup will be kept secret and unveiled on Opening Day, August 31, 2012.

Next year Telluride Film Festival will be celebrating its 40th Anniversary, scheduled for August 29 – September 2, 2013. To commemorate this special occasion an additional day has been added to the usual four-day Festival, making room for a five-day bounty of special programming and festivities. Passes will be available for purchase beginning in March, 2013

TFF 37 Guest Director Michael Ondaatje

Fri, 16 Jul 2010 00:00:00 +0000

"How does one choose only six films to represent a love of the art of cinema? One ends up one-handed, with only a portion of the meal. I chose a remarkable first film by one of my favourite directors; an early-forgotten two-hander; a sentimental favourite; a masterpiece of documentary and also a couple of smaller films - lesser known, more local films that were so quickly forgotten after their release. I've ended up with seven films. And one will have to fall away. But for now, let us leave all seven here, on the table." - Michael Ondaatje

Telluride Film Festival, presented by National Film Preserve LTD., is proud to announce its 2010 Guest Director, Michael Ondaatje. The celebrated writer has been invited to select a series of films to present at the 37th Telluride Film Festival. The Guest Director program is sponsored by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Michael Ondaatje, best known as a novelist and author of The English Patient, has a body of work also encompassing memoir, poetry, music and film. He published a volume of memoir, entitled Running in the Family, in 1983. His collections of poetry include There’s a Trick With a Knife I’m Learning To Do (1979); The Collected Works of Billy the Kid: Left Handed Poems (1981); The Cinnamon Peeler: Selected Poems (1989); and Handwriting: Poems (1998). His first novel, Coming Through Slaughter (1976), is a fictional portrait of jazz musician Buddy Bolden. The English Patient (1992) won the Booker Prize for Fiction and was made into an Academy Award-winning film in 1996. In 2000, Ondaatje was awarded the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize, the Prix Medicis, the Governor General’s Award for Fiction, and the Giller Prize for his novel Anil's Ghost. Ondaatje’s most recent non-fiction work is The Conversations: Walter Murch & the Art of Editing Film (2002). His latest novel is entitled Divisadero (2007). He has directed two documentaries, Sons of Poetry (1970) and The Clinton Special: A Film About The Farm Show (1971).

2011 Guest Director Caetano Veloso

Tue, 28 Jun 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Telluride Film Festival is proud to announce its 2011 Guest Director, Caetano Veloso. The beloved artist has been invited to select a series of films to present at the 38^th Telluride Film Festival. The Guest Director program is sponsored by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Caetano Veloso began his professional music career in 1965 in Sao Paulo and has made more than 30 studio albums to date. Absorbing ideas from sources as diverse as The Beatles, concrete poetry, the French Dadaists and the Brazilian modernist poets of the 1920s, Veloso—together with Gilberto Gil, Gal Costa, his sister Maria Bethania, and a number of other poets and intellectuals—founded a movement called Tropicalismo. He experimented with new sounds and words, adding electric guitars to his bands, and utilizing the imagery of modern poetry. Tropicalismo set the tone for Veloso’s career, which continues to incorporate elements of rock, reggae, fado, tango, samba canao, baiao and rap. Veloso’s music is sometimes traditional, sometimes contemporary, often hybrid.

With over 100 film and television credits, Veloso is no stranger to the big and small screen. Veloso followed his 1999 Grammy Award-winning release Livro with a soundtrack for the Carlos Diegues film Orfeu. In spring 2001,Veloso’s Omaggio a Federico e Giulietta—a live recording made in 1997 in Rimini in honor of two masters of Italian cinema, Federico Fellini and Giulietta Masina—was released. In 2002, Veloso received worldwide recognition for his performance of “Cucurrucucú Paloma” (“Cucurrucucu Dove”) in Pedro Almodóvar’s Academy Award-winning film, Talk to Her.

Caetano Veloso’s memoir, Tropical Truth: A Story of Music and Revolution in Brazil, was published by Knopf in 2002, alongside the release of a new 2-CD set, Live in Bahia. Recent albums include Onqotô (2005), Cê (2006), Caetano Veloso e Roberto Carlos - e a música de Tom Jobim (2008) and Zii e Zie (2011). Veloso’s recordings have been released through Nonesuch in America since 1987.

Telluride Film Festival founder and co-director Tom Luddy remarks, "Peter Sellars -- Telluride's 1999 Guest Director who has since become one of our permanent curators -- first suggested the idea of Caetano Veloso for a Guest Director position at the festival. I knew from many common friends and from Caetano's book that he was a passionate film lover. I am thrilled that this great artist will be with us over Labor Day Weekend to present some of his favorite films."

In keeping with Telluride Film Festival tradition, Veloso’s film selections, along with the rest of the Telluride lineup will be kept secret and unveiled on Opening Day, September 2, 2011.

TFF 38 Poster Artist Maira Kalman

Mon, 06 Jun 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Telluride Film Festival is proud to announce famed New York artist Maira Kalman as our 38th Poster Artist.

"High in the San Juan Mountains people gather each year to experience the unexpected: moving images from around the world that take them on journeys they may never have imagined," said Maira Kalman. "I wanted to capture some of these cinematic dreams directly on to the poster, the dreams I myself might encounter at the Festival."

- Maira Kalman

Maira Kalman has worked as a designer, author, illustrator and artist for more than 30 years. She has written and illustrated thirteen children's books including Ooh-la-la-Max in Love, What Pete Ate, and most recently, 13 WORDS in collaboration with Lemony Snicket. Kalman is a regular illustrator for The New Yorker magazine, one of her most notable works being the 2001 "New Yorkistan" cover in collaboration with Rick Meyerowitz.

Kalman's most recent books include the illustrated Strunk and White's classic Elements of Style in 2007 and Various illuminations (of a Crazy World) in 2010. Two monthly on-line columns for The New York Times entitled Principles of Uncertainty (2006-07) and The Pursuit of Happiness (2008-09) have been collected in book form. In 2010 the Institute of Contemporary Art organized a retrospective of Maira's work, entitled "Various Illuminations (of a Crazy World)", which traveled to the Skirball Cultural Center (Los Angeles, CA), the Contemporary Jewish Museum (San Francisco, CA), the University of Pennsylvania and is currently at The Jewish Museum (New York, NY). Kalman lives in New York City and is represented by the Julie Saul Gallery, New York.

36th Poster Artist: William Wegman

Mon, 11 May 2009 00:00:00 +0000

We are pleased to announce William Wegman as our 36th Telluride Film Festival poster artist. Known worldwide for his photographs and videos, especially those starring his Weimaraners, Wegman will design, create and present the Festival with its 2009 Festival poster art.

“Given the opportunity to present an idea for the 36th Telluride Film Festival, I immediately came up with the thought of using a photograph of one of my favorite models: Chip,” says Wegman. “A grey velvet curtain falls around him as he patiently awaits further direction, while the audience wonders what cinematic mysteries are hiding behind it.”

Wegman has created two posters for the 36th Telluride Film Festival. The second poster, available in a limited edition, is from an original painting created for this year’s Festival and will be unveiled over Labor Day weekend. An exhibition of photographs and paintings related to the Telluride posters will be shown at the Schilling Gallery in Telluride during the Festival’s run. Wegman will also be in attendance at the Festival.

Wegman began his career as a painter, earning a B.F.A. in painting at the Massachusetts College of Art, Boston in 1965 and an M.F.A. in painting from the University of Illinois, Champagne-Urbana in 1967. From the early 70s his work has been exhibited internationally. He is the author of numerous books, and his film and video work have appeared on Saturday Night Live, Nickelodeon and Sesame Street.

Wegman’s recent exhibitions have included retrospectives in Sweden, Japan, Korea and Spain and the touring exhibition “Funny/Strange,” which opened at the Brooklyn Museum of Art in 2006 and traveled to the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus in 2007. Wegman’s work is in the permanent collections of museums throughout the US and Europe including The Whitney Museum of American Art, MoMA, SFMoMA, MoCA, The LA County Museum of Art, the Ludwig Museum, Cologne and the Centre Pompidou, Paris.

Telluride Film Festival Announces 2008 Lineup!

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Telluride Film Festival announces its program for the 35th annual Festival. Featuring diverse programming from around the globe, including a surge of international films, TFF once again sets the stage for some of the most highly anticipated films of the year.

TFF opens its 35th year with over twenty-five new feature films plus special artist tributes and salutes, guest director programs by Slavoj Zizek, a new animation section, classics and restorations, shorts, student prints, seminars and conversations.

2013 Passes on Sale Now

Thu, 30 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Alert- Acme level passes have SOLD OUT. Cinephile, Festival, and Patron level passes are available for purchase here. This year Telluride Film Festival will be celebrating its 40th Anniversary, scheduled for August 29 – September 2, 2013. To commemorate this special occasion an additional day has been added to the usual four-day Festival, making room for a five-day bounty of special programming and festivities.

38th Telluride Film Festival Opening Lineup

Thu, 01 Sep 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Telluride Film Festival, presented by the National Film Preserve, announces its program for the 38th Telluride Film Festival. Featuring diverse programming from around the globe, TFF once again sets the stage for some of the year’s most highly anticipated films.

TFF opens its 38th year with over twenty-five new feature films plus special artist tributes, Guest Director programs selected by Caetano Veloso, Backlot programs, classics and restorations, shorts, student films, seminars and conversations, each introduced or proceeded with a Q&A by its filmmaker, actors, writer or producer. Telluride Film Festival opens Friday, September 2 and runs through Labor Day, Monday, September 5.

THE ‘SHOW’
38th Telluride Film Festival is proud to present the following new feature films to play in its main program, the ‘SHOW’:
•   ALBERT NOBBS (d. Rodrigo Garcia, U.S., 2011)
•   THE ARTIST (d. Michel Hazanavicius, France, 2011)
•   BECOMING BERT STERN (d. Shannah Laumeister, U.S., 2011)
•   BITTER SEEDS (d. Micha X. Peled, U.S., 2011)
•   BONSÁI (d. Cristián Jiménez, Chile, 2011)
•   A DANGEROUS METHOD (d. David Cronenberg, U.K.-Switzerland-U.S.-Canada, 2011)
•   THE DESCENDANTS (d. Alexander Payne, U.S., 2011)
•   DIANA VREELAND: THE EYE HAS TO TRAVEL (d. Lisa Immordino-Vreeland, U.S., 2011)
•   FOOTNOTE (d. Joseph Cedar, Israel, 2011)
•   THE FORGIVENESS OF BLOOD (d. Joshua Marston, U.S.-Albania-Denmark-Italy, 2011)
•   GOODBYE FIRST LOVE (d. Mia Hansen-Løve, France, 2011)
•   LE HAVRE (d. Aki Kaurismäki, Finland, 2011)
•   HOLLYWOOD DON’T SURF (d. Greg Macgillivray, Sam George, U.S., 2011)
•   IN DARKNESS (d. Agnieszka Holland, Poland, 2011)
•   INTO THE ABYSS: A TALE OF DEATH, A TALE OF LIFE (d. Werner Herzog, U.S., 2011)
•   THE ISLAND PRESIDENT (d. Jon Shenk, U.S., 2011)
•   THE KID WITH A BIKE (d. Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Belgium, 2011)
•   LIVING IN THE MATERIAL WORLD (d. Martin Scorsese, U.S., 2011)
•   PASSERBY (d. Eryk Rocha, Brazil, 2011)
•   PERDIDA (d. Viviana García Besné, Mexico, 2011)
•   PINA (d. Wim Wenders, Germany, 2011)
•   A SEPARATION (d. Asghar Farhadi, Iran, 2011)
•   SHAME (d. Steve McQueen, U.K., 2011)
•   THE STORY OF FILM: AN ODYSSEY (d. Mark Cousins, U.K., 2011)
•   TARGET (d. Alexander Zeldovich, Russia, 2011)
•   THE TURIN HORSE (d. Béla Tarr, Hungary, 2011)
•   THE WAY HOME (d. Dr. Biju, India, 2010)
•   WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN (d. Lynne Ramsey, U.K., 2011)

Additional Sneak Previews will play outside the main program and will be announced over the course of the four-day weekend on the Telluride Film Festival website: www.telluridefilmfestival.org.

“This has proven to be a marvelous year for the Telluride Film Festival. We discovered many more fine movies than our four-day weekend could include. There were difficult decisions and the results make for an exciting and varied selection of new works by both established filmmakers, many returning to Telluride, and first-time directors," said Festival Co-Director Gary Meyer.

MEDALLION AWARDS
The 2011 Silver Medallion awards, given to recognize an artist’s significant contribution to the world of cinema, go to the following three honorees:

• GEORGE CLOONEY – Academy Award-winning actor (SYRIANA; MICHAEL CLAYTON; UP IN THE AIR) and director (CONFESSIONS OF A DANGEROUS MIND; GOOD NIGHT AND GOOD LUCK) George Clooney will grace the stage to receive the Silver Medallion award and participate in an onstage interview. His latest starring role in Alexander Payne’s THE DESCENDANTS will screen throughout the festival in the main program.

• PIERRE ÉTAIX –The French filmmaker, actor, writer and visionary will be presented the Silver Medallion award followed by an onstage interview and screening of THE SUITOR (d. France, 1963). An additional program will include a screening of YOYO (France, 1970) and Étaix’s Oscar-winning short film HAPPY ANNIVERSARY (France, 1962).

•   TILDA SWINTON – Oscar-winning actress Tilda Swinton (EDWARD II; ORLANDO, MICHAEL CLAYTON; DEEP END) stars in Lynne Ramsey’s WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN, shown following the presentation of the Silver Medallion and onstage interview.

Telluride Film Festival annually celebrates a hero of cinema that preserves, honors and presents great movies. This year’s Special Medallion award goes to British film magazine Sight & Sound. Alan Clarke’s rarely seen 1974 film PENDA’S FEN, will be introduced by one of the magazine’s editors, Nick James.

Tom Luddy, Co-Founder of the Festival expressed his anticipation of this year's event, "In addition to an especially strong mixture of new surprises from around the world and archival finds, this year's Guest Director, Caetano Veloso will be presenting six films, both rare and established classics, with his unique enthusiasm about why they are movies worth seeing again or for the first time."

GUEST DIRECTOR PROGRAM
Previously announced Guest Director Caetano Veloso, who serves as a key collaborator in the Festival’s program, presents the following six films in archival 35mm prints:
•   ANICETO (d. Leonardo Favio, Argentina, 2008)
•   THE APARTMENT (d. Billy Wilder, U.S., 1960)
•   BLACK GOD, WHITE DEVIL (d. Glauber Rocha, Brazil, 1964)
•   LE GRANDES MANOEUVRES (d. René Clair, France, 1955)
•   NORDESTE: CORDEL, REPENTE E CANÇÃO (d. Tânia Quaresma, Brazil, 1975)
•   VIVRE SA VIE (d. Jean-Luc Godard, France, 1962)

ADDITIONAL FILM REVIVALS
•   FROM MORNING TO MIDNIGHT (d. Karl-Heinz Martin, Germany, 1920) – Brand new original score performed live by the Alloy Orchestra.
•   HAPPY-GO-LUCKY (d. Vasili Shukshin, Russia, 1972)
•   THE HOUSE ON TRUBNAYA SQUARE – (d. Boris Barnet, USSR, 1928) – A score by Dennis James, commissioned by the Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley for its 25th Anniversary, will be performed by its composer and his Filmharmonia Ensemble.
•   SPOTLIGHT ON MARCEL PAGNOL – Two films will screen in celebration of the great French filmmaker: HARVEST (France, 1939) and MERLUSSE (France, 1938) introduced by Nicolas Pagnol and Alice Waters.
•   A TRIP TO THE MOON AND BEYOND – Serge Bromberg returns to Telluride with Georges Méliès’s famous 1902 “moon with a rocket in the eye” completely restored by Lobster Films and the Groupama Gan and Technicolor Foundation. Along with other surprises from attics and flea markets, Bromberg accompanies it all with live piano and stories.

BACKLOT
Backlot, Telluride’s intimate screening room featuring behind-the-scenes movies and portraits of artists, musicians and filmmakers, will screen the following programs:
•   AVENTURERA (d. Alberto Gout, Mexico, 1950)
•   DOCUMENTARY REVOLUTIONS: featuring two hour-long documentaries THE DOCUMENTARY FILM MOB (d. Chris Durlacher, U.K., 2011) and THE CAMERA THAT CHANGED THE WORLD (d. Mandy Chang, U.K., 2011)
•   I AM MY FILMS, PART 2… 30 YEARS LATER (d. Christian Weisenborn, Germany, 2011)
•   IN THE TRACKS OF GEORGE DELERUE (d.Pascale Cuenot, France, 2011)
•   MONDO LUX – DIE BILDERWELTEN DES WERNER SCHROETER (d. Elfi Mikesch, Germany, 2011)
•   NOTES FOR AN IMAGINARY BIOGRAPHY (d. Edgardo Cozarinsky, France, 2011)
•   SARRIS, SILENTS AND SOUNDS: a collection of short films including ANDREW SARRIS: CRITIC IN FOCUS (d. Casimir Nozkowski, U.S., 2011); SERGEI PROKOFIEV (d. Julia Titova, Russia, 2011); NIGHT HUNTER (d. Stacy Steers, U.S., 2011); and ODE TO THE DAWN OF MAN (d. Werner Herzog, U.S., 2011)
•   SODANKYLÄ FOREVER (d. Peter von Bagh, Finland, 2011)
•   TROPICÁLIA (d. Marcelo Machado, Brazil, 2011)

SHORT FILMS
SHOWcase for Shorts features twelve short films chosen to precede select feature films. Filmmakers of Tomorrow includes three short programs: Student Prints, Great Expectations and Calling Cards from eighteen emerging filmmakers.

EDUCATION PROGRAMS
Celebrating its 23rd year, the Student Symposium provides 50 graduate and undergraduate college students a weekend-long immersion in cinema. The City Lights Project, now in its 12th year, brings fifteen high school students and five teachers from three divergent schools the opportunity to participate in a concentrated program of screenings and discussions.

TALKING HEADS
Telluride Film Festival’s Talking Heads programs allow attendees to go behind the scenes with the Festival’s special guests. Seven Conversations between Festival guests and the audience about cinema and culture, and three outdoor Noon Seminars feature a panel of Festival guests discussing a wide range of film topics. These programs are free and open to the public.

ADDITIONAL FESTIVITIES
•   ALICE WATERS BOOK SIGNING –Alice Waters signs copies of her new book 40 Years of Chez Panisse: The Power of Gathering.
•   CAETANO VELOSO BOOK SIGNING – Festival Guest Director Veloso signs copies of Tropical Truth: A Revolution in Music and Brazil.
•   OLIVIA HARRISON BOOK SIGNING – Olivia Harrison signs advance copies of her biography George Harrison: Living in the Material World.
•   JAZZ ON A SUMMER’S DAY (d. Bert Stern, U.S., 1960)
•   THE WORLDS OF MAIRA KALMAN – Previously announced 2011 Poster Artist Maira Kalman http://telluridefilmfestival.org/press/releases, whose works grace the cover of the New Yorker and museum walls around the world, brings some of her favorite prints to Telluride. All proceeds benefit the Festival.

Corporate support at Telluride Film Festival plays an essential role in the life of the Festival. TFF is privileged to collaborate with some of the world’s most renowned and iconic companies, which are each aligned with a unique feature of the Festival. TFF is excited to welcome new partners this year including Land Rover, Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group, Travelocity and Virgin Atlantic Airways who underscore the Festival’s commitment to quality, adventure and distinction in the art of cinema. Equally, Telluride Film Festival has a long relationship with Hollywood and is excited to introduce United Talent Agency to its film family and to underscore its committed and longstanding industry supporters, Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, Turner Classic Movies and Universal Studios.

“TFF would not be the Festival it is today without the generous support from our sponsors,” said Co-Director Julie Huntsinger. “We enjoy a synergistic relationship with our corporate friends and are proud they are part of the Telluride team.”

The 38th Telluride Film Festival’s program is in its entirety here.

TFF 39 Poster Artist Dave Eggers

Mon, 09 Jul 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Telluride Film Festival proudly announces it has selected American writer, editor, publisher and philanthropist Dave Eggers as its 39th Telluride Film Festival poster artist. Eggers will attend the 39th Telluride Film Festival over Labor Day weekend to present his poster design to the public and hold a poster signing for Festival guests.

Dave Eggers began working as a freelance graphic designer out of college and then moved into writing and editing at Salon.com. He founded Might magazine while also writing a comic strip for SF Weekly. He is the best-selling author of numerous books including his first work, a lightly fictionalized memoir, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (2000), a national bestseller and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction. You Shall Know Our Velocity (2002) was Eggers’ first published novel; an expanded and revised version was released as Sacrament in 2003. What is the What was a finalist for the 2006 National Book Critics Circle Award and won France’s Prix Medici. In 2009, the Council on American-Islamic Relations presented Eggers with the “Courage In Media” Award for his book Zeitoun. Film director Jonathan Demme has optioned the book, which has also won the American Book Award and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. Eggers co-wrote two screenplays in 2009: Away We Go and Where The Wild Things Are. His latest novel, A Hologram for the King, was released in 2012 to critical acclaim.

Eggers is the founder and editor of McSweeney’s, an independent publishing house based in San Francisco built to help emerging and underappreciated writers find their voice. The publishing house produces a daily humor website and publishes Timothy McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, the Believer, Lucky Peach, Wholphin, Grantland Quarterly, and a growing selection of books under various imprints.

In 2002 Eggers co-founded 826 Valencia, a nonprofit writing and tutoring center for youth in the Mission District of San Francisco. The program offers free tutoring, English as a Second Language classes, writing workshops, summer camps, publications projects and other services to kids ages six to 18. Local communities have since opened sister 826 centers in Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Ann Arbor, Seattle, Boston and Washington, DC.

A native of Chicago, Eggers now lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife and two children.

Festival Co-Director Julie Huntsinger comments, "Dave is well-known for his terrific literary works, but most people don’t know he was trained as a painter, and when he was starting out as a writer, he worked as an illustrator and graphic designer. The fact that he is a gifted visual artist is a bit of a secret we want to share with the world. Dave is talented, big-hearted, smart and remarkably well-rounded. We’re overjoyed to have him join the Telluride Film Festival community as our poster artist this year. Our audiences will be delighted with the fresh take he has created for the artwork of TFF 39."

“I was thrilled to be asked to do the poster for this year’s Telluride Film Festival,” said Dave Eggers. “I decided to make the poster look a bit like the national parks posters from back in the day, and to go with a light, almost washed-out palette. That’s how I think of Colorado in the summer: sun-drenched and with incredible color combinations. From there, it just seemed appropriate to have a bear filming an elk.”

Next year Telluride Film Festival will be celebrating its 40th Anniversary, scheduled for August 29 – September 2, 2013. To commemorate this special occasion an additional day has been added to the usual four-day Festival, making room for a five-day bounty of special programming and festivities. Passes will be available for purchase beginning in March 2013.

39th TELLURIDE FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES 2012 LINE-UP

Thu, 30 Aug 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Telluride Film Festival, presented by the National Film Preserve, today announces its official program selections for the 39th Telluride Film Festival. TFF will screen nearly 100 feature films, short films and revivals representing over thirty countries, along with Tribute programs, Conversations, Panels and Education Programs.

Now in its 39th year, Telluride Film Festival opens Friday, August 31 and runs through Monday, September 3. Telluride Film Festival Co-Director Julie Huntsinger comments, “TFF prides itself on loyal and personal relationships that deepen and enrich over time, as evidenced by the commitment of the majority of our passholders, filmmakers, and business partners, who come back every year to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with us in supporting the best and the brightest talents of this year and future generations."

This spirit of sustainability is reflected in TFF's prestigious film programs that embrace classic treasures, world masters and the most buzzed-about movies, in the presence and celebration of iconic filmmakers and the freshest young talent; and in our portfolio of business partners from longstanding relationships with revered institutions and quality brands to alignment with exciting new companies and unique relationships with university and high school education providers.

39th Telluride Film Festival is proud to present the following new feature films to play in its main program, the ‘Show’: THE ACT OF KILLING (d. Joshua Oppenheimer, Denmark, 2012); AMOUR (d. Michael Haneke, Austria, 2012); AT ANY PRICE (d. Ramin Bahrani, U.S., 2012); THE ATTACK (d. Ziad Doueiri, Lebanon-France, 2012); BARBARA (d. Christian Petzold, Germany, 2012); THE CENTRAL PARK FIVE (d. Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, David McMahon, U.S., 2012); EVERYDAY (d. Michael Winterbottom, U.K., 2012); FRANCES HA (d. Noah Baumbach, U.S., 2012); THE GATEKEEPERS (d. Dror Moreh, Israel, 2012); GINGER AND ROSA (d. Sally Potter, England, 2012); THE HUNT (d. Thomas Vinterberg, Denmark, 2012); HYDE PARK ON HUDSON (d. Roger Michell, U.S., 2012); THE ICEMAN (d. Ariel Vromen, U.S., 2012); LOVE, MARILYN (d. Liz Garbus, U.S., 2012); MIDNIGHT’S CHILDREN (d. Deepa Mehta, Canada-Sri Lanka, 2012); NO (Pablo Larraín, Chile, 2012); PARADISE: LOVE (d. Ulrich Seidl, Austria, 2012); PIAZZA FONTANA (d. Marco Tullio Giordana, Italy, 2012); A ROYAL AFFAIR (d. Nikolaj Arcel, Denmark, 2012); RUST & BONE (d. Jacques Audiard, France, 2012); THE SAPPHIRES (d. Wayne Blair, Australia, 2012); STORIES WE TELL (d. Sarah Polley, Canada, 2012); SUPERSTAR (d. Xavier Giannoli, France, 2012); WADJDA (d. Haifaa Al-Mansour, Saudi Arabia, 2012); WHAT IS THIS FILM CALLED LOVE? (d. Mark Cousins, Ireland-Mexico, 2012).

Additional Sneak Previews may play outside the main program and will be announced here on the website over the course of the four-day weekend.

“While screening hundreds of new movies for selection, we are looking for narrative and non-fiction films that offer festival goers new experiences, both in the subject matter and the way the filmmakers tell their stories,” said Festival Co-Director Gary Meyer. “This year’s program offers unique insights into the world today and past history. It is an especially strong year for films told by and about women.”

The 2012 Silver Medallion Awards, given to recognize an artist’s significant contribution to the world of cinema, go to director and producer ROGER CORMAN who will present CORMAN’S WORLD: EXPLOITS OF A HOLLYWOOD REBEL (U.S., 2011), THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH (U.S.-U.K., 1964) and (THE INTRUDER (U.S., 1961); Academy Award-winning actress MARION COTILLARD (LA VIE EN ROSE) who stars in TFF selection RUST & BONE; and Danish actor MADS MIKKELSEN who stars in two TFF selections: THE HUNT and A ROYAL AFFAIR.

“At the core of each year’s Festival are the Tributes that allow our audiences a chance to gain insight into the creative process of the filmmakers and actors being celebrated,” said Co-Director Tom Luddy. “We are especially pleased with the balance this year, beginning with director/producer, Roger Corman, who has helped launch so many important careers. Then actress Marion Cotillard, whose early career in French films brought her to the attention of the world’s filmmakers and now stars in both European and American movies. Finally there is Mads Mikkelsen, the Danish actor whose powerful performances have brought him much international attention and increasing audience awareness in America.”

Telluride Film Festival annually celebrates a hero of cinema who preserves, honors and presents great movies. This year’s Special Medallion award goes to C. Chapin Cutler Jr. and Boston Light & Sound for a commitment to setting the highest standards of film presentations at film festivals and special events worldwide.

Previously announced Guest Director Geoff Dyer, who serves as a key collaborator in the Festival’s program, presents the following six programs: BARAKA (d. Ron Fricke, U.S., 1992, new 70mm print); BEAU TRAVAIL (d. Clair Denis, France, 1999); STALKER (d. Andrei Tarkovsky, Russia, 1979); TOGETHER (d. Lukas Moodysson, Sweden, 2000); UNRELATED (d. Joanna Hogg, U.K., 2007); WERNER x 2 includes two Werner Herzog films: LESSONS OF DARKNESS (France-U.K.-Germany, 1992) and THE GREAT ECSTASY OF WOODCARVER STEINER (Germany, 1974).

Additional film revivals include the “Pordenone Presents” selection of the rarely seen Raymond Griffiths comedy HANDS UP! (d. Clarence Badger, U.S., 1926) with live music accompaniment by Donald Sosin; I KNEW HER WELL (d. Antonio Pietrangeli, Italy, 1965) selected and introduced by film director Alexander Payne; THE MARVELOUS LIFE OF JOAN OF ARC (d. Marco de Gastyne, France, 1929) with The Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra; RETOUR DU FLAMME 2012, Serge Bromberg’s latest program including the newly restored Charlie Chaplin classic THE IMMIGRANT and HUNGRY HOBOS, the first screening of a lost Walt Disney Film since its 1928 premiere.

A Spotlight will shine on the work and career of director Jack Garfein including screenings of his two movies, SOMETHING WILD (U.S., 1961); and THE STRANGE ONE (U.S., 1957) plus a conversation led by film critic Kim Morgan.

Backlot, Telluride’s intimate screening room featuring behind-the-scenes movies and portraits of artists, musicians and filmmakers, will screen the following programs: BREAKING THE FRAME (d. Marielle Nitoslawska, Canada, 2012); CARRIÈRE 250 METERS (d. Juan Carlos Rulfo, Mexico, 2012); CELLULOID MAN: A FILM ON P.K. NAIR (d. Shivendra Singh Dungarpur, India, 2012); CINEMA JENIN (d. Marcus Vetter, Germany-Israel-Occupied Palestinian Territory, 2012); FINAL CUT: LADIES AND GENTLEMAN (d. György Pálfi, Hungary, 2012); IN SEARCH OF EMAK BAKIA (d. Oskar Alegria, Spain, 2012); JONATHAN MILLER (d. David Thompson, U.K., 2012); JOURNAL DE FRANCE (d. Raymond Depardon and Claudine Nougaret, France, 2012); ME AND ME DAD (d. Katriné Boorman, U.K., 2012); MIKIS THEODORAKIS, COMPOSER (d. Klaus Salge and Asteris Kutulas, Germany, 2012); ON BORROWED TIME (d. David Bradbury, Australia, 2012); THE SHORT FILMS OF JEAN NEGULESCO.

Telluride Film Festival’s Short Films Program includes SHOWcase for Shorts, which offers nine short films chosen to precede select feature films; Filmmakers of Tomorrow includes four short programs: Student Prints, Great Expectations, Calling Cards and Annecy Animation from twenty-nine emerging filmmakers.

Telluride Film Festival’s Education Programs present students the opportunity to experience film as an art and expand participants’ worldview through film screenings and filmmaker discussions. Celebrating its 24th year, the Student Symposium provides 50 graduate and undergraduate college students a weekend-long immersion in cinema. The City Lights Project, now in its 13th year, brings fifteen high school students and five teachers from three divergent schools the opportunity to participate in a concentrated program of screenings and discussions. In 2011, TFF and UCLA’s School of Theater, Film and Television (UCLA/TFT) launched FilmLAB, an extraordinary new program giving ten outstanding graduate film students from UCLA/TFT the opportunity to attend the festival and learn from the greatest filmmakers in the world in a workshop/lab setting: and, For The Love Of Movies, a Los Angeles High School Screening Program focusing on the most creatively promising and under-served young talent featuring the “Best” of Telluride Film Festival, managed by UCLA-TFT graduate students and with the participation of selected filmmakers and TFT faculty.

Telluride Film Festival’s Talking Heads programs allow attendees to go behind the scenes with the Festival’s special guests. Six Conversations between Festival guests and the audience about cinema and culture, and three outdoor Noon Seminars feature a panel of Festival guests discussing a wide range of film topics. These programs are free and open to the public.

Book Signings will take place at the Festival hospitality center, Brigadoon, with TFF Poster Artist DAVE EGGERS, who will sign his latest novel A Hologram for the King, his nonfiction Zeitoun and A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius; JACK GARFEIN will sign his book Life and Acting; SALMAN RUSHDIE will sign his classic Midnight’s Children; ERROL MORRIS will sign Seeing is Believing; and Guest Director GEOFF DYER will sign his award-winning books: the novel Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi; Zona; Out of Sheer Rage; and his essays Otherwise Known as the Human Condition.

Corporate support at Telluride Film Festival plays an essential role in the life of the Festival and underscores the Festival’s commitment to quality, adventure and distinction in the art of cinema. TFF is privileged to continue collaborating with some of the world’s most renowned brands, including Festival Land Rover, Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group, Stella Artois which are each aligned with a unique feature of the festival, and excited to welcome new partners this year including Aesop, Americas Film Conservancy, HYPERLINK "http://Audible.com/"Audible.com, The London Hotels, Loyola Marymount University, Teatulia and The Hollywood Reporter. Equally, Telluride Film Festival has a long relationship with Hollywood and is extremely proud of its committed and longstanding industry supporters, The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Cinedigm, Dolby, Meyer Sound, Turner Classic Movies, Universal Studios and UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television.

The 39th Telluride Film Festival’s program will be posted in its entirety here on Friday, August 31, 2012.

40th Anniversary of the Telluride Film Festival
Next year Telluride Film Festival will be celebrating its 40th Anniversary, scheduled for August 29 – September 2, 2013. To commemorate this special occasion an additional day has been added to the usual four-day Festival, making room for a five-day bounty of special programming and festivities. Passes will be available for purchase beginning in March 2013.

TFF 38 FilmWatch now online

Sun, 04 Sep 2011 00:00:00 +0000

The Telluride Film Festival once again explores in depth the films and filmmakers featured at the 38th Festival with FILMWATCH. Edited by Jason Silverman and published by The Telluride Watch, selections about Guest Director Caetano Veloso, Silver Medallion recipient George Clooney, poster artist Maira Kalman plus several new and classic movies now available online.

The entire downloadable full color print edition of the 96 page magazine features Tributes to Tilda Swinton and Pierre Etaix, interviews with Alexander Payne (THE DESCENDENTS), Carroll Ballard (RODEO), Glenn Close (ALBERT NOBBS), Joshua Marston (THE FORGIVENESS OF BLOOD), Cristián Jiménez (BONSAI), Asghar Farhadi (A SEPARATION), Michel Hazanavicius (THE ARTIST), Agnieszka Holland (IN DARKNESS), Martin Scorsese and Olivia Harrison (LIVING IN THE MATERIAL WORLD), Michel X. Peled (BITTER SEEDS) and Peter Sellars in conversation with Caetano Veloso. Additionally there are articles by Greil Marcus, Ian Christie, Roger Ebert, Scott Foundas, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Mark Cousins, Annette Insdorf, Kenneth Turan, Peter DeBruge, Milos Stehlik, Meredith Brody, and Sheerly Avni accompanied by photographs and illustrations.

All of this can be found here.

2013 Film Entry

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Our submission period is now open for all categories including student, short and feature length films. Professional and amateur filmmakers working in all aesthetic disciplines and genres including narrative, documentary, animation and experimental are welcome. Download the submission form here.

Shorts and student film submissions must be received no later than 5:00 pm, July 1, 2013. Feature film submissions must be received no later than 5:00 pm, July 15, 2013. All submissions must have been completed after July 15, 2012 and no works in progress will be accepted. Feature-length films (60 minutes or longer) will only be considered if they are to have their first North American screening at Telluride Film Festival. Final program determinations will be made by August 1, 2013. No early or late entries will be accepted. For more information, click here.

Telluride Film Festival is celebrating its 40th Anniversary August 29 – September 2, 2013 and to commemorate this special occasion an additional day has been added to the usual four-day Festival, making room for a five-day bounty of special programming and festivities.

TFF 38 Sneak Previews and Seminars

Mon, 05 Sep 2011 00:00:00 +0000

SNEAK PREVIEWS

• BUTTER
Set around Iowa’s State Fair, this tale about a sculpting contest—the creations are all made out of butter—becomes a surprising and hilarious investigation of the right-wing divas that increasingly dominate our political discourse. Jennifer Garner (who also produces) plays a resentful, ambitious competitor with a fanatical desire to please; Yara Shahidi may be a little girl but she is a formidable competitor; Ty Burrell is her put-upon husband; Hugh Jackman a horny former sweetheart; and Olivia Wilde a potty-mouthed foe. Director Jim Field Smith gives this political satire, timed perfectly for the launch of a new presidential campaign, some serious bite. (U.S., 2011, 85m)   In person: Jennifer Garner, Jim Field Smith, Ty Burrell

• CRAZY HORSE
From mental institutions to ballets to boxing gyms, Frederick Wiseman excels in revealing the mechanics of our institutions. This refreshingly positive portrait of Paris’s glamorous Crazy Horse Cabaret, “the best chic nude show on earth,” captures the directors, dancers, costume designers, wig-makers, lighting technicians, and even the janitors. Using mesmerizing visual spectacle (silhouettes, chiaroscuro, and blocks of color) Wiseman recontexualizes the dancers’ exquisite bodies in surprising and beautiful ways. CRAZY HORSE begins with shadows on stage—an allusion to the magic lantern, one of cinema’s precursors—and ultimately celebrates the play of light and movement that is the essence of cinema itself. (U.S., 2011, 134m)

• LE GRAND AMOUR
Pierre Etaix’s lost and hilarious masterpiece, never-before-seen in North America, tells the story of a man who, having lost the spark in his marriage, begins dreaming about his cute young secretary. The non-stop visual humor is supplemented with references and homages to movie classics. (France,1967, 87m) In person: Pierre Etaix

SEMINARS – moderated by Annette Insdorf

Saturday - Complex Themes Directed with Simplicity: How do directors draw us deeper into their films?
Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, director/writer, THE KID WITH A BIKE
Mia Hansen- Løve, director/writer, GOODBYE FIRST LOVE
Agnieszka Holland, director, IN DARKNESS
Micha X. Peled, director, BITTER SEEDS

Sunday - What Screen Are You On?   How does screen format or size affect cinematic storytelling? How do filmmakers approach projects that jump from theatrical, to television, to 3D formats?
Michel Hazanavicius, director/writer, THE ARTIST
Werner Herzog, director/writer, INTO THE ABYSS
Joshua Marston, director/writer, THE FORGIVENESS OF BLOOD
Wim Wenders, director/writer, PINA

Monday - Actor as Auteur?: How do actors influence not only their own performances, but the deeper layers of a film?
Asghar Farhadi, director/writer, A SEPARATION
Rodrigo Garcia, director, ALBERT NOBBS
Lynne Ramsay, director/writer, WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN

2013 TFF 40 Poster Artist Dean Tavoularis

Thu, 30 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000

We proudly announce Oscar-winning production designer Dean Tavoularis as our 2013 poster artist.

As a student, Dean Tavoularis studied painting and architecture at different art schools and went on to work at Disney Studios as an in-betweener in the animation department where he worked on the 1955 film LADY AND THE TRAMP. He then transitioned to the live-action department where he worked on the 1954 film 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA. His career as a production designer began in 1967 when filmmaker Arthur Penn asked him to lead the artistic direction for BONNIE AND CLYDE. Three years later, he and Penn teamed up again on LITTLE BIG MAN. He began working with Francis Ford Coppola in 1972 on THE GODFATHER, which was the beginning of much collaboration including the latter two films in THE GODFATHER trilogy and APOCALYPSE NOW.

Tavoularis has spent the last ten years focusing on his work as a painter. His return to film came in 2012 when he was the production designer on Roman Polanski’s CARNAGE. He has worked on over thirty films spanning four decades, landing five Academy-Award nominations and one win for THE GODFATHER PART II. Tavoularis lives in Paris and Los Angeles with his wife, actress Aurore Clément.

Tavoularis remarks, “When I was asked by Tom Luddy and Julie Huntsinger if I would design the poster for the 40th Telluride Film Festival, I was first flattered and then thoughtful of being part of the Telluride film history. In my own way I pondered Telluride’s past and in fact all film festivals. Like the word implies, a festival is a fair; people gathering to show their films. It just as well could be their tomatoes. It’s an exchange. I wanted a poster that was simple and joyful, that looked homemade with pure colors in shapes that symbolize a 1:85 screen and an audience. One cannot exist without the other. I am very happy to be a small part of Telluride’s history.

40th Telluride Film Festival posters will be available for purchase throughout the five-day Festival or by visiting our online TFF SHOW Shop today.

New Charters Available!

Fri, 21 Jun 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Flying out of New York or Northern California to Telluride just got a whole lot easier. Telluride Film Festival has added two new charters flying out of JFK in New York and out of Oakland, California. As always, our Los Angeles, CA and Denver, CO charters are available- but don't delay as seats are going fast. Click here for all the details.

Interested in volunteering for the Festival? Click here to download the Volunteer Application form. Fill it out and follow the instructions for emailing it back to our SHOWCorps office. Click here for even more information on volunteering for TFF 40!

2013 Passes Sold Out

Fri, 12 Jul 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Is it possible to enjoy the Telluride Film Festival without a pass? Why, yes, it is possible! Not having a pass is just another way to experience the Telluride Film Festival. We offer a few simple guidelines and tools that allow you to navigate your way through a weekend of spectacular Telluride films.

A couple of tips: On Opening Day, download the Festival app- its real time features including theatre seat availability, is a valuable tool. We have had 3,000 available individual tickets at past Festivals and our Festival app will help you find them.

Many venues will have individual tickets (cash only) to sell after passsholders are seated. We've added a new 650 seat venue to the mix which betters your odds: The Werner Herzog Theatre, be sure to check it out in Town Park.

Available at the Festival Box Office on Opening Day, The Late Show Pass will extend your film viewing into the night. It is good for the last screening at one of two venues each night of the Festival. Knowing how you will spend your nights opens up more options for your day.

And remember, certain Shows during the weekend are free. You read that right: Free! Pick up a Festival program and check out the film grid to find the free Shows playing over the five day weekend.

A Night at the Movies: 1913

Wed, 21 Aug 2013 00:00:00 +0000

The Telluride Film Festival presents “A Night at the Movies: 1913” at the historic Sheridan Opera House on Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2013 to celebrate the building’s 100th birthday in conjunction with the festival’s 40th anniversary. The Sheridan Opera House is the original home of the world-renowned Telluride Film Festival.

Tickets for this special evening of silent movies are $25. Proceeds benefit the Sheridan Arts Foundation, the non-profit that owns and operates the Opera House.

Come experience what it was like to spend an evening at the movies 100 years ago when audiences enjoyed 90 minutes of short films covering a range of genres. On this evening, you will see a suspense thriller, action-packed slapstick, a romantic comedy, news of the day and other surprises, all originally released in 1913.

Our featured drama, directed by D.W. Griffith stars Lillian Gish who appeared on the Sheridan Opera House stage! As a bonus we will screen a western made in Colorado.

All films will have live piano accompaniment by the renowned and frequent TFF guest Rodney Sauer.

Tickets are $25 general admission and all proceeds benefit the Sheridan Opera House’s capital campaign to renovate its entryway. Construction is expected to begin in late September 2013. The Sheridan Arts Foundation is in the midst of a $102,000 fundraising campaign, and the non-profit organization has raised roughly $82,000 to date.

Supporters of the Sheridan Opera House can also sponsor a seat in Telluride’s Crown Jewel for the next 10 years and have their name, business name or a loved one’s name engraved on a plaque on their favorite seat. Excess funds raised during the campaign will also replace the Sheridan Opera House’s antiquated movie screen and theater seats.

Tickets for “A Night at the Movies: 1913” can be purchased online at SheridanOperaHouse.com.

40th Anniversary Program Line-up

Wed, 28 Aug 2013 00:00:00 +0000

We are proud to announce official program selections for the 40th anniversary edition of Telluride Film Festival. TFF’s annual celebration of artistic excellence brings together, cinema enthusiasts, filmmakers and artists to discover the best in world cinema in the beautiful mountain town of Telluride, Colorado. TFF will screen more than 100 feature films, short films and revivals representing twenty-five countries, along with special artist Tributes, Conversations, Panels, Education Programs and Festivities.

In honor of its 40th anniversary, the usual four-day Telluride Film Festival has an additional day of programming and takes place Thursday, August 29 - Monday, September 2, 2013.

In celebration of their contributions to Joel and Ethan Coen’s new film INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS and the 40th anniversary of Telluride Film Festival, Punch Brothers will perform. The performance will include songs featured in several of T Bone Burnett and the Coen Brothers’ collaborations, including songs from the soundtrack of INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS. The concert will be tonight, Wednesday, August 28 at 5:00 pm in Telluride Town Park.

Telluride Film Festival is honored to present the Werner Herzog Theatre, the fourth cineaste for whom the Festival has named a theatre. Situated in Telluride’s Town Park Pavilion, the Werner Herzog Theatre is the Festival’s most technologically advanced theatre accommodating 650 pass holders. Chuck Jones, Abel Gance and Pierre Rissient also share this tribute.

The past 40 years have seen Telluride Film Festival mixing highly anticipated award hopefuls with the films of talented emerging filmmakers and auteurs from around the globe. First-time filmmakers discovered at TFF include Terry Zwigoff, Jim Jarmusch, Billy Bob Thornton, Robert Rodriguez, Michael Moore, Doug Liman, Jon Favreau, Andrea Arnold, Lodge Kerrigan, Robert Luketic and Sarah Gavron. In addition, TFF has previewed numerous films that have generated wins at the Oscars® in recent years, including FOG OF WAR, BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN, THE LIVES OF OTHERS, BABEL, THE LAST KING OF SCOTLAND, JUNO, SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE, UP IN THE AIR, THE KING’S SPEECH, BLACK SWAN, A SEPARATION, THE ARTIST, THE DESCENDANTS and ARGO.

“This year’s 40th anniversary is a celebration of what Telluride Film Festival has accomplished over the past four decades, as well as what we are doing now and forty years from now” said Telluride Film Festival Executive Director Julie Huntsinger. We are committed to presenting groundbreaking films with the world’s most preeminent talent in technologically advanced, state-of the art facilities including the brand new Werner Herzog Theatre. We look forward to continuing to explore the future in cinema through current masters of the art form and breakthrough talents.”

40th Telluride Film Festival is proud to present the following new feature films to play in its main program, the ‘SHOW’:

• ALL IS LOST (d. J.C. Chandor, U.S., 2013)

• BEFORE THE WINTER CHILL (d. Philippe Claudel, France, 2013)

• BETHLEHEM (d. Yuval Adler, Israel, 2013)

• BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOR (d. Abdellatif Kechiche, France, 2013)

• BURNING BUSH (d. Agnieszka Holland, Czech Republic, 2013)

• DEATH ROW: BLAINE MILAM + ROBERT FRATTA (d. Werner Herzog, U.S., 2013)

• FIFI HOWLS FROM HAPPINESS (d. Mitra Farahani, U.S., 2013)

• THE GALAPAGOS AFFAIR: SATAN CAME TO EDEN (d. Dan Geller, Dayna Goldfine, U.S., 2013)

• GLORIA (d. Sebastián Lelio, Chile, 2013)

• GRAVITY (d. Alfonso Cuarón, U.S./U.K., 2013)

• IDA (d. Pawel Pawlikowski, Poland, 2013)

• INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS (d. Joel and Ethan Coen, U.S., 2013)

• THE INVISIBLE WOMAN (d. Ralph Fiennes, U.K., 2013)

• LABOR DAY (d. Jason Reitman, U.S., 2013)

• THE LUNCHBOX (d. Ritesh Batra, India, 2013)

• LA MAISON DE LA RADIO (d. Nicolas Philibert, France, 2013)

• MANUSCRIPTS DON’T BURN (d. Mohammad Rasoulof, Iran, 2013)

• THE MISSING PICTURE (d. Rithy Panh, Cambodia/France, 2013)

• NEBRASKA (d. Alexander Payne, U.S., 2013)

• PALO ALTO (d. Gia Coppola, U.S., 2013)

• THE PAST (d. Asghar Farhadi, France/Italy, 2013)

• SLOW FOOD STORY (d. Stefano Sardo, Italy, 2013)

• STARRED UP (d. David Mackenzie, U.K., 2013)

• TIM’S VERMEER (d. Teller, U.S., 2013)

• TRACKS (d. John Curran, Australia, 2013)

• UNDER THE SKIN (d. Jonathan Glazer, U.K., 2013)

• THE UNKNOWN KNOWN (d. Errol Morris, U.S., 2013)

Additional Sneak Previews may play outside the main program and will be announced over the course of the five-day weekend.

“During its 40 years Telluride has brought together established filmmakers and those about to be discovered to celebrate together the joys of great cinema,” commented Festival Artistic Director Gary Meyer. “This year is especially exciting because of the many wonderful movies we were able to consider and then program, and also frustrating given the amount we could not fit into the program. Our selection of classics this year is truly rich as we celebrate the past, present and future of the art.”

Since its inception in 1974, Telluride Film Festival has paid tribute to numerous influential filmmakers and artists. Gloria Swanson, Francis Ford Coppola and Leni Riefenstahl were the first to be honored, and forty years later the prestigious list has grown to include Pedro Almodovar, Claudia Cardinale, George Clooney, Penelope Cruz, Daniel Day-Lewis, Catherine Deneuve, Laura Linney, Clint Eastwood, Colin Firth, Jodie Foster, Stephen Frears, Werner Herzog, Isabelle Huppert, Jack Nicholson, Jean Simmons, Meryl Streep, Tilda Swinton, Andrei Tarkovsky, and Agnes Varda to name a few.

Joining that list, the 2013 Silver Medallion Awards, given to recognize an artist’s significant contribution to the world of cinema, go to Grammy and Oscar-winning music producer T Bone Burnett and Oscar-winning filmmakers the Coen Brothers, whose four collaborations together include THE BIG LEBOWSKI, LADYKILLERS, O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU? and INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS with a 90-minute program featuring a musical performance by the Americans, a clip reel with scenes from the collaborations and an onstage interview; Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof (THE TWILIGHT, THE WHITE MEADOWS, GOODYBE) presenting his latest film, MANUSCRIPTS DON’T BURN. The program includes a selection of clips followed by the presentation of the Silver Medallion and onstage interview; and Oscar-winning director, actor, producer Robert Redford (ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN, BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID) who stars in the TFF selection ALL IS LOST. The program includes a selection of clips showcasing the range of performances during his career, followed by the presentation of the Silver Medallion and an onstage interview.

“When I joined James Card and Bill Pence to start the Telluride Film Festival, we wanted to make tributes, retrospectives and revivals central to the Festival” said Co-founding Artistic Director Tom Luddy. “40 years later, Julie, Gary and I are still able to present a show which focuses on film artistry and preservation. This is something I’m very proud of. The fact that there is still a large audience for it makes me believe in the future of the cinema.”

For each of the past 25 years, Telluride Film Festival directors have selected a Guest Director to serve as a key collaborator in the Festival’s programming decisions, bringing new ideas and overlooked films to light. Donald Richie, to whom the Festival is dedicated, had the first honor in 1988 and has been followed by many notable collaborators including Laurie Anderson, Peter Bogdanovich, John Boorman, J.P. Gorin, Edith Kramer, Errol Morris, Alexander Payne, Peter Sellars, Stephen Sondheim, Bertrand Tavernier and Slavoj Zizek, among others.

This year, Telluride Film Festival invites six past Guest Directors to return with new programs: novelist Don Delillo (TFF 2006) presents LA MORTE ROUGE (d. Victor Erice, Spain, 2006) and analyzes the 26-second ZAPRUDER film; screenwriter, director Buck Henry (TFF 2005) presents the “director’s cut” of THE TERMINAL MAN (d. Mike Hodge, U.S., 1972); writer Phillip Lopate (TFF 1995) presents NAKED CHILDHOOD (d. Maurice Pialat, France, 1969) with Pialat’s short, LOVE EXISTS (France, 1960); novelist Michael Ondaatje (TFF 2010) presents short films LA JETÉE (d. Chris Marker, France, 1962) and ELEPHANT (d. Alan Clarke, U.K., 1989); film scholar, curator and author B. Ruby Rich (TFF 1996) presents ONE WAY OR ANOTHER (d. Sara Gómez, Cuba, 1974); writer Salman Rushdie (TFF 2004) presents MAHANAGAR (d. Satyajit Ray, India, 1963).

Additional film revivals include Pierre Rissient’s selections, short MUSCLE BEACH (d. Irving Lerner, Joseph Strick, U.S., 1948) and TV episode A PIECE OF THE ACTION (d. Bernard Girard, U.S., 1962); “Pordenone Presents” has two selections: HE WHO GETS SLAPPED with The Alloy Orchestra performing their brand new score, and A SIMPLE CASE (d. Vsevolod Pudovkin, USSR, 1930) with a live musical performance by Gabriel Thibaudeau both presented by Paolo Cherchi Usai; PORTRAIT OF JENNIE (d. William Dieterle, U.S., 1948) presented by David Thomson; LE JOLI MAI (d. Chris Marker, Pierre Lhomme, France, 1963) presented by Colin MacCabe; LA POISON (d. Sacha Guitry, France, 1951) presented by Monique Montgomery; AGUIRRE, THE WRATH OF GOD (d. Werner Herzog, Germany, 1972); and Michael Barker presents DEATH RIDES A HORSE (d. Giulio Petroni, Italy, 1967).

Backlot, Telluride’s intimate screening room featuring behind-the-scenes movies and portraits of artists, musicians and filmmakers, will screen the following programs, five of which are preceded by short films:

• DIOR AND I (d. Frédéric Tcheng, U.S., 2013)

• HERE BE DRAGONS (d. Mark Cousins, U.K., 2013)

• JODOROWSKY’S DUNE (d. Frank Pavich, U.S./France, 2013)

• LOCATIONS: LOOKING FOR RUSTY JAMES (d. Alberto Fuguet, Chile, 2013) select screening will be followed by Francis Ford Coppola’s RUMBLE FISH (U.S., 1983)

• NATAN (d. David Cairns, Paul Duane, Ireland, 2013)

• MILIUS (d. Zak Knutson, Joey Figueroa, U.S., 2013)

• MULTIPLE VISIONS, THE CRAZY MACHINE (d. Emilio Maille, Mexico, 2012)

• MUSIDORA, THE TENTH MUSE (d. Patrick Cazals, France, 2013)

• PARTICLE FEVER (d. Mark Levinson, U.S., 2013)

• REMEMBRANCE – A SMALL MOVIE ABOUT OUUL IN THE 1950s (d. Peter Von Bagh, Finland, 2013)

• ROAD MOVIE: A PORTRAIT OF JOHN ADAMS (d. Mark Kidel, U.K., 2013)

• A STORY OF CHILDREN AND FILM (d. Mark Cousins, U.K., 2013)

Telluride Film Festival annually celebrates a hero of cinema who preserves, honors and presents great movies. This year’s Special Medallion award goes to Alejandro Ramirez who runs Cinepolis, the fourth-largest chain of movie theatres in the world, with a focus on how movies can address poverty and social change. Past recipients include C. Chapin Cutler Jr. and Boston Light & Sound, Criterion Collection, HBO, Ninon Sevilla, Ted Turner, Stanley Kauffman, Manny Farber, Pierre Rissient, Leonard Maltin, Serge Bromberg and UCLA Film & Television Archive.

Telluride Film Festival’s SHOWcase for Shorts features eleven short films chosen to precede select feature films; Filmmakers of Tomorrow includes four programs: Student Prints, Great Expectations – narrative and non-fiction, and Calling Cards from twenty-one emerging filmmakers.

Telluride Film Festival’s Education Programs present students the opportunity to experience film as an art and expand participants’ worldview through film screenings and filmmaker discussions. Celebrating its 25th year, the Student Symposium provides 50 graduate and undergraduate college students a weekend-long immersion in cinema. In honor of its anniversary, 25 new students and 25 alumni will make up the 2013 Symposium. The City Lights Project, now in its 14th year, brings fifteen high school students and five teachers from three divergent schools the opportunity to participate in a concentrated program of screenings and discussions. In 2011, TFF and UCLA’s School of Theater, Film and Television (UCLA-TFT) launched FilmLAB, an extraordinary new program giving ten outstanding graduate film students from UCLA/TFT the opportunity to attend the festival and learn from the greatest filmmakers in the world in a workshop/lab setting: and For The Love Of Movies, a Los Angeles High School Screening Program focusing on the most creatively promising and under-served young talent featuring the “Best” of Telluride Film Festival, managed by UCLA-TFT graduate students and with the participation of selected filmmakers and TFT faculty.

Telluride Film Festival’s Talking Heads programs allow attendees to go behind the scenes with the Festival’s special guests. Eight Conversations take place between Festival guests and the audience about cinema and culture, and three outdoor Noon Seminars feature a panel of Festival guests discussing a wide range of film topics. These programs are free and open to the public. A special seminar, Alice & Friends, with panelists Alice Waters, Michael Pollan and Dieter Kosslick will focus on the issues at the intersection of food sustainability, consumption and art and will be followed by the presentation of Participant Media’s inaugural FOOD, INC. Movement Award to Alice Waters.

Various Festivities take place throughout the Festival including Book Signings with Don DeLillo signing Libra and Underworld; Robyn Davidson signing Tracks; David Thomson signing Moments that Made the Movies; and Joyce Maynard signing Labor Day. Other festivities include Story Night in Brigadoon; Disney’s never-seen-before short GET A HORSE; and 40 Years of THE SHOW, presented by AMPAS featuring two 40th anniversary exhibitions from the Academy’s Telluride Film Collection, a photography display and clip reels highlighting TFF’s history from the Academy Film Archive to precede film screenings.

Corporate support at Telluride Film Festival plays an essential role in the life of the Festival and underscores the Festival’s commitment to quality, adventure and distinction in the art of cinema. TFF is privileged to collaborate with some of the world’s most renowned consumer and entertainment brands, including Land Rover North America, Turner Classic Movies, Audible.com, Meyer Sound, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group, Pine Ridge Vineyards and Universal Studios; and excited to welcome new partners Bombardier Business Aircraft, EY, Film Finances, Inc. and Participant Media-- each of which are aligned with a unique feature of the festival. Equally, Telluride Film Festival is extremely proud of its committed relationships with Americas Film Conservancy, The London Hotels, Teatulia, The Hollywood Reporter, Cinedigm, Dolby, New Sheridan Hotel, Telluride Alpine Lodging, and UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television.

The 40th Telluride Film Festival’s program will be posted here in its entirety on Wednesday, August 28, 2013 at noon.

Updates

Thu, 29 Aug 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Welcome to the 40th anniversary of the Telluride Film Festival. Check here often for announcements, updates, and TBA information throughout the 5 day Festival.

MOBILE APPS- Thanks to all of you who have downloaded the 40th Anniversary iPhone and Android app! Remember to use the 4-digit number sequence on the front of your pass beneath your name to register the app. Enter the wrong code? Simply delete the app and download again to unlock some fun features. Don't have an iPhone or Android? Use the web version of our app! All links are here.

2014 Call for Entries

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Shorts and student film submissions must be received no later than 5:00 pm, July 1, 2014. Feature film submissions must be received no later than 5:00 pm, July 15, 2014. All submissions must have been completed after July 15, 2013 and no works in progress will be accepted. Feature-length films (60 minutes or longer) will only be considered if they are to have their first North American screening at Telluride Film Festival. Final program determinations will be made by August 1, 2014. No early or late entries will be accepted. For more information, click here.

Each year Telluride Film Festival plays host to an average of 25 feature films and 25 shorts and student films. Films selected to screen at Telluride Film Festival will be shown out-of-competition. TFF is not a competitive festival.

The 41st Telluride Film Festival will be held in Colorado over Labor Day Weekend, August 29-September 1, 2014.

Thank You!

Fri, 05 Sep 2014 00:00:00 +0000

That's a wrap. Enormous thanks to all of our pass holders, guests, sponsors and of course, amazing filmmakers for making the 41st Telluride Film Festival possible. Your loyalty and belief in TFF sustain our organization and we appreciate every last one of you.

Too soon to think about next year? No way! The Telluride Film Festival will be held over Labor Day Weekend September 4-7, 2015. Mark your calendars and see you at the SHOW.

That's a Wrap!

Tue, 03 Sep 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Telluride Film Festival, presented by the National Film Preserve, draws to a close today following a spectacular five-day anniversary presentation of diverse programming, surprise screenings and special guests attended by more than 4,000 movie lovers.

Telluride Film Festival curated over 100 programs representing twenty-five countries including twenty-seven new feature films in its main program; six film revivals selected by returning Guest Directors: Don Delillo, Buck Henry, Phillip Lopate, Michael Ondaatje, B. Ruby Rich and Salman Rushdie; twelve Backlot programs; 33 shorts and/or student films, and hosted twelve seminars and conversations between festival guests.

“We are overwhelmed at the level of talent we have seen at this year’s 40th Telluride Film Festival,” commented Festival co-founder and artistic director Tom Luddy. “We are privileged to be able to present the world’s best in cinema, surrounded by friends old and new. What a wonderful way to celebrate our anniversary.”

Four Sneak Previews that screened outside the official program include Steve McQueen’s latest film 12 YEARS A SLAVE (U.S., 2013), which appeared with cast members Brad Pitt, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender and Lupita Nyong’o; Denis Villeneuve’s PRISONERS (U.S., 2013) with Villeneuve in person; Shane Salerno’s SALINGER with Salerno and AE Hotchner via Skype and panelists David Shields, Buddy Squires, Jean Miller and Dylan Sellers in person; and Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall presented Hayao Miyazaki’s THE WIND RISES (Japan, 2013), and announced that it will be Miyazaki’s last film.

In a statement released yesterday from Frank Marshall by Telluride Film Festival, he said, "We were extremely honored to present Hayao Miyazaki's latest masterpiece, "The Wind Rises." But it was a bittersweet moment for us, as we also announced his retirement from directing, making this his last feature film."

Previously announced Telluride Film Festival Silver Medallion awards, given to recognize an artist’s significant contribution to the world of cinema, went to Robert Redford; T Bone Burnett and the Coen Brothers; and Mohammad Rasoulof.

Additional 40th Telluride Film Festival guests and program participants include: Yuval Adler, The Alloy Orchestra, the Americans, Michael Barker, Ritesh Batra, Sarah-Violet Bliss, Frances Bodomo, David Cairns, Patrick Cazals, JC Chandor, Ethan Clarke, Philippe Claudel, Linda Jones Clough, Francis For Coppola, Gia Coppola, Mark Cousins, Alfonso Cuarón, Jonás Cuarón, John Curran, Mark Danner, Robyn Davidson, Don DeLillo, Bruce Dern, Tony Donoghue, Paul Duane, Geoff Dyer, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Mitra Farahani, Asghar Farhadi, Battiste Fenwick, Ralph Fiennes, Joey Figueroa, Michael Fitzgerald, Scott Foundas, Robin Frohardt, Alberto Fuguet, Paulina García, Dan Geller, Jonathan Glazer, Dayna Goldfine, Emily Harrold, Buck Henry, Werner Herzog, Agnieszka Holland, John Horn, Bob Hurwitz, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Annette Insdorf, Oscar Isaac, Tim Jenison, Barry Jenkins, Tamara Jenkins, Penn Jillette, Esther Julie-Anne, Abdellatif Kechiche, Dieter Kosslick, Zak Knutson, Andrej Landin, Sebastián Lelio, Mark Levinson, Phillip Lopate, Colin MacCabe, David Mackenzie, Lauren MacMullan, Emilio Maille, Leonard Maltin, Joshua Marston, Joyce Maynard, Todd McCarthy, Jean Miller, Monique Montgomery, Errol Morris, Dario Nardi, Gregory Nava, Michael Ondaatje, Rithy Panh, Tatiana Pauhofová, Pawel Pawlikowski, Alexander Payne, Nicolas Philibert, Bill Plympton, Michael Pollan, Punch Brothers, Josh Radnor, Tahar Rahim, Alejandro Ramirez, Kirill Razlogov, Godfrey Reggio, Jason Reitman, B. Ruby Rich, Rob Richert, Pierre Rissient, A.V. Rockwell, Bobby Roth, Salman Rushdie, Lisanne Sartor, Dylan Sellers, Léa Seydoux, David Shields, Buddy Squires, Barry Sonnenfeld, Jordana Spiro, Milos Stehlik, Matt Steinauer, Dean Tavoularis, Teller, Gabriel Thibaudeau, David Thomson, Agata Trzebuchowska, Paolo Cherchi Usai, Mia Wasikowska, Alice Waters, Todd Wiseman, Joey Xanders, Sara Zandieh and Farley Ziegler.

2014 Passes Sold Out

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Passes for the 2014 Festival are sold out!

TFF 41 2014 Poster Artist

Tue, 10 Jun 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Telluride Film Festival announces visual artist Christian Marclay as its 2014 poster artist.

Over the past 30 years, Christian Marclay has explored the fusion of fine art and audio cultures, transforming sounds and music into a visible, physical form through performance, collage, sculpture, installation, photography and video. Early examples include the series ‘Recycled Records’ (1980-86); the ‘Body Mix’ series (1991-92); Virtuoso (1999); and ‘Snapshots’, an ongoing, informal series of photographs that depict elements of sound and onomatopoeia that the artist discovers in everyday situations. Over the last decade, Marclay has created ambitious work in a variety of media including the video Guitar Drag (2000); Video Quartet (2002); Crossfire (2007); and most recently The Clock (2010) from thousands of edited fragments, from a vast range of films to create a 24-hour, single-channel video.

Christian Marclay was born in California in 1955, raised in Switzerland and now lives in New York and London. He has exhibited widely, including solo exhibitions at LACMA (2011); LEEUM Samsung Museum of Art (2010); Whitney Museum of American Art (2010); Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain (2008); Cité de la Musique (2007); Moderna Museet (2006); Barbican Art Gallery (2005); Seattle Art Museum (2004); Tate Modern (2004); UCLA Hammer Museum (2003); and the SFMoMA (2001). Christian Marclay also continues to collaborate with musicians, including recent performances with Steve Beresford, Okkyung Lee, Shelley Hirsch and Otomo Yoshihide. He was awarded the Golden Lion at the 2011 Biennale di Venezia for his video work The Clock.

“We have always been enamored with Christian’s work, particularly The Clock and its concept,” commented Telluride Film Festival executive director Julie Huntsinger. “There is such wealth in cinema’s history and Christian pulls from different elements from the past and assembles them in a wholly new arrangement. The poster is a further exploration of this work. His ideas reflect one the most important goals at TFF, which is to create and sustain an appreciation of the art and history of film.”

“I was very pleased to be invited to design the poster for the Telluride film festival,” said Christian Marclay. “I decided to celebrate celluloid at a time when the old analog medium is being replaced by digital technology. I have always been interested in outmoded formats such as vinyl records, cassette tapes, or rotary telephones. I also wanted to show how cinema is an art of collage – fragments are collected and assembled to tell a story. The filmstrip with its sprocket holes and optical sound track is instantly recognized as the universal symbol for film. I wonder what will replace it?”

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2014 Guest Directors Guy Maddin and Kim Morgan

Wed, 18 Jun 2014 00:00:00 +0000

We are thrilled to announce Guy Maddin and Kim Morgan as Telluride Film Festival 41 Guest Directors. The husband and wife team is set to select a series of films to present at the Festival. The Guest Director program is sponsored by Audible.com.

Festival organizers annually select one of the world’s great film enthusiasts to join them in the creation of the Festival’s program lineup. The Guest Director serves as a key collaborator in the Festival’s programming decisions, bringing new ideas and overlooked films to Telluride. In keeping with Telluride Film Festival tradition, Maddin and Morgan’s film selections, along with the rest of the Telluride lineup will be kept secret and unveiled on Opening Day, August 29, 2014.

“Guy and Kim have long been a part of Telluride,” said Telluride Film Festival executive director Julie Huntsinger. “There was no question that they were the perfect choice for this year’s Festival. Their energy, knowledge and enthusiasm is a winning combination – our audience will benefit from that when their selections are unveiled at the Festival!”

Guy Maddin is an installation artist, writer and filmmaker, the director of ten feature-length movies, including MY WINNIPEG (2007), THE SADDEST MUSIC IN THE WORLD (2003), and innumerable shorts. He has also mounted around the world over seventy performances of his films featuring live elements – orchestra, sound effects, singing and narration.

Twice he has won America's National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Experimental Film, with ARCHANGEL (1991, TFF 17) and THE HEART OF THE WORLD (2001). He has been bestowed many other awards, including the Telluride Silver Medallion in 1995, San Francisco International Film Festival’s Persistence of Vision Award in 2006, and an Emmy for his ballet film DRACULA - PAGES FROM A VIRGIN'S DIARY (2002). Maddin is a print journalist and author of three books.

Kim Morgan is a film, music and culture writer who has written for Salon, GQ, LA Weekly, Criterion, MSN Movies, Huffington Post, IFC, Entertainment Weekly, The Dissolve, Playboy, The Los Angeles Review of Books and Garage Magazine.

Morgan has presented movies and moderated interviews for the Los Angeles Film Noir Festival and the Palm Springs Noir Festival. She has guest programmed for TCM and recently presented two films for Telluride Film Festival.

Morgan has worked with Maddin on several occasions appearing in his short films, or “Hauntings” with Udo Kier. They collaborated together on the short, BING AND BELA and their upcoming series “Seances” will move to MOMA in 2014.

“We are honored and thrilled to be guest directors at Telluride, by far the most concentrated, smartly curated, and enchanting of all the film festivals,” Guy Maddin and Kim Morgan commented jointly. “More than any other festival, Telluride is driven by the sheer love of cinema -- discovering new talents, honoring titans and unearthing neglected masterworks and geniuses. The opportunity to share our favorite films with Telluride and its always-discerning audience is not only exciting but an absorbing, wonderful challenge. There are so many movies we love, and to program a selection of six... where to begin? We really wanted to show those masterpieces we felt hadn't been revived enough, if ever, and to see them as they were meant to be seen -- on the big screen. We can’t wait to watch!”

TFF 42 Call for Entries

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Telluride Film Festival announces its Call for Entries in all categories including student, short and feature length films.

Submission period begins April 15, 2015. Film Entry Form is available here.

Shorts and student film submissions must be received no later than 5:00 pm, July 1, 2015. Feature film submissions must be received no later than 5:00 pm, July 15, 2015. All submissions must have been completed after July 15, 2014 and no works in progress will be accepted. Feature-length films (60 minutes or longer) will only be considered if they are to have their first North American screening at Telluride Film Festival. Final program determinations will be made by August 1, 2015. No early or late entries will be accepted.

Professional and amateur filmmakers working in all aesthetic disciplines and genres including narrative, documentary, animation and experimental are welcome.

Each year Telluride Film Festival plays host to an average of 25 feature films and 25 shorts and student films. Films selected to screen at Telluride Film Festival will be shown out-of-competition. TFF is not a competitive festival.

41st Telluride Film Festival Program Lineup

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Telluride Film Festival, presented by the National Film Preserve, announces its official program selections for the 41st edition of Telluride Film Festival. TFF’s celebration of artistic excellence brings together cinema enthusiasts, filmmakers and artists to discover the best in world cinema in the beautiful mountain town of Telluride, Colorado. TFF will screen 85 feature films, short films and revivals representing twenty-eight countries, along with special artist Tributes, Conversations, Panels, Education Programs and Festivities.

41st Telluride Film Festival is proud to present the following 25 new feature films to play in its main program:

• THE 50 YEAR ARGUMENT (d. Martin Scorsese, David Tedeschi, U.K.-U.S., 2014)

• ’71 (d. Yann Demange, U.K., 2014)

• 99 HOMES (d. Ramin Bahrani, U.S., 2014)

• BIRDMAN (d. Alejandro González Iñárritu, U.S., 2014)

• DANCING ARABS (d. Eran Riklis, Israel-Germany-France, 2014)

• THE DECENT ONE (d. Vanessa Lapa, Israel-Austria, 2014)

• DIPLOMACY (d. Volker Schlöndorff, France-Germany, 2014)

• FOXCATCHER (d. Bennett Miller, U.S., 2014)

• THE GATE (d. Régis Wargnier, France-Belgium-Cambodia, 2014)

• THE HOMESMAN (d. Tommy Lee Jones, U.S., 2014)

• THE IMITATION GAME (d. Morten Tyldum, U.K.-U.S., 2014)

• LEVIATHAN (d. Andrey Zvgagintsev, Russia, 2014)

• THE LOOK OF SILENCE (d. Joshua Oppenheimer, Denmark-Indonesia-Norway-Finalnd-U.S., 2014)

• MADAME BOVARY (d. Sophie Barthes, U.K.-Belgium, 2014)

• MERCHANTS OF DOUBT (d. Robert Kenner, U.S., 2014)

• MOMMY (d. Xavier Dolan, Canada, 2014)

• MR. TURNER (d. Mike Leigh, U.K., 2014)

• THE PRICE OF FAME (d. Xavier Beauvois, France, 2014)

• RED ARMY (d. Gabe Polsky, U.S.-Russia, 2014)

• ROSEWATER (d. Jon Stewart, U.S., 2014)

• THE SALT OF THE EARTH (d. Wim Wenders, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado, Brazil-Italy-France, 2014)

• TALES OF THE GRIM SLEEPER (d. Nick Broomfield, U.K.-U.S, 2014)

• TWO DAYS, ONE NIGHT (d. Luc Dardenne, Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Belgium-Italy-France, 2014)

• WILD (d. Jean-Marc Valleé, U.S., 2014)

• WILD TALES (d. Damián Szifrón, Argentina-Spain, 2014)

Additional Sneak Previews may play outside the main program and will be announced here over the course of the four-day weekend.

The 2014 Silver Medallions, given to recognize an artist’s significant contribution to the world of cinema, go to German filmmaker Volker Schlöndorff who will present his latest work DIPLOMACY as part of the Tribute program, his 1992 collaboration with Billy Wilder, BILLY, HOW DID YOU DO IT? and his 1970 film BAAL starring Rainer Werner Fassbinder, both of which will play elsewhere in the program; Two-time Academy award-winning actress Hilary Swank (BOYS DON’T CRY, MILLION DOLLAR BABY) who stars in TFF selection, THE HOMESMAN; and in celebration of its 35th Anniversary, Francis Ford Coppola’s APOCALYPSE NOW – screened from a new DCP of the original theatrical cut - including guests Coppola, screenwriter John Milius, producer-casting director Fred Roos, cinematographer Vittorio Storaro and editor-sound designer Walter Murch.

Guest Directors Guy Maddin and Kim Morgan, who serve as key collaborators in the Festival’s program, present the following six films:

• CALIFORNIA SPLIT (d. Robert Altman, U.S., 1974)

• IL GRIDO (d. Michelangelo Antonioni, Italy, 1957)

• M (d. Joseph Losey, U.S., 1951)

• A MAN’S CASTLE (d. Frank Borzage, U.S., 1933)

• THE ROAD TO GLORY (d. Howard Hawks, U.S., 1936)

• WICKED WOMAN (d. Russell Rouse, U.S., 1953)

Additional film revivals include CHILDREN OF NO IMPORTANCE (d. Gerhard Lamprecht, Germany, 1926) and TOO MUCH JOHNSON (d. Orson Welles, U.S., 1938) both presented by the Pordenone Silent Film Festival with live accompaniment by Donald Sosin; a collection of short films by Carroll Ballard forming the program, CARROLL BALLARD: SEEMS LIKE ONLY YESTERDAY; and WHERE EAGLES DARE (d. Brian G. Hutton, U.S., 1968) from a print courtesy of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Backlot, Telluride’s intimate screening room featuring behind-the-scenes movies and portraits of artists, musicians and filmmakers, will screen the following nine programs:

• BERTOLUCCI ON BERTOLUCCI (d. Walter Fasano, Luca Guadagnino, Italy, 2013)

• FORBIDDEN FILMS (d. Felix Moeller, Germany, 2014)

• HOW TO SMELL A ROSE (d. Les Blank, Gina Leibrecht, U.S.-France, 2014)

• I STOP TIME (d. Gunilla Bresky, Sweden-Russia, 2014)

• KEEP ON KEEPIN’ ON (d. Alan Hicks, U.S., 2014)

• MAGICIAN (d. Chuck Workman, U.S., 2014)

• NIGHT WILL FALL (d. André Singer, U.K.-U.S.-Israel, 2014)

• SEYMOUR: AN INTRODUCTION (d. Ethan Hawke, U.S., 2014)

• SOCIALISM (d. Peter von Bagh, Finland, 2014)

“When we finish putting together the program there is a moment of absolute joy,” said Telluride Film Festival executive director Julie Huntsinger. “We never know what the film world will bring us when we set out each year, but with incredible gratitude to the filmmakers and artists and satisfaction in knowing we have screened everything imaginable, we are once again thrilled to present the absolute best in new American and world cinema and treasured films from the past. We hope our audience will be as inspired as we are. “

Telluride Film Festival annually celebrates heroes of cinema who preserve, honor and present great movies. The 2014 Special Medallion goes to Cineteca di Bologna and Gian Luca Farinelli for the significant role played in film restoration and preservation of film culture. JOYFUL LAUGHTER, Mario Monicelli’s masterpiece from 1960 is a recent example of Bologna’s restorative work and will screen as part of the program.

Telluride Film Festival’s SHOWcase for Shorts features fourteen short films chosen to precede select feature films; Filmmakers of Tomorrow includes three programs: Student Prints, Great Expectations, and Calling Cards from eighteen emerging filmmakers.

Telluride Film Festival’s Talking Heads programs allow attendees to go behind the scenes with the Festival’s special guests. Six Conversations take place between Festival guests and the audience about cinema and culture, and three outdoor Noon Seminars feature a panel of Festival guests discussing a wide range of film topics. These programs are free and open to the public.

Various Festivities will take place throughout the Festival including Book Signings with Cheryl Strayed (Wild), Maziar Bahari (Then They Came for Me), Sayed Kashua (Dancing Arabs), Werner Herzog (A Guide for the Perplexed), and Ted Hope (Hope for Film); Quincy Jones presents: Justin Kauflin in Concert, music from KEEP ON KEEPIN’ ON; and Behind the Scenes: Feast and Lava where makers of Disney’s FEAST and Pixar’s LAVA share their inspiration behind and creation of two memorable animation films.

Corporate support at Telluride Film Festival plays an essential role in the life of the Festival and underscores the Festival’s commitment to quality, adventure and distinction in the art of cinema. TFF is privileged to collaborate with some of the world’s most renowned consumer and entertainment brands, including Turner Classic Movies, EY, Audible.com, Film Finances, Inc., Meyer Sound, Bombardier Business Aircraft, The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group and Universal Studios; and excited to welcome new partners Blu Homes, Peter G. Dodge Foundation, Vimeo, Speck-- each of which are aligned with a unique feature of the festival. Equally, Telluride Film Festival is extremely proud of its committed relationships with UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, Americas Film Conservancy, London Hotels: NYC & West Hollywood, Dolby, Teatulia, Telluride Alpine Lodging, New Sheridan Hotel, The Hollywood Reporter, Cinedigm, Boston Light and Sound, Land Rover North America, Canon, Dell, Novo Coffee and Time Warner Cable Business Class.

Huntsinger comments, “We simply could not present Telluride Film Festival without the generous support of our sponsors, who believe in what we do and back us meaningfully and repeatedly. “

The 41st Telluride Film Festival’s program will be posted in its entirety here at Noon Thursday, August 28, 2014.

2015 Passes Sold Out

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Passes for the 2015 Festival are sold out!

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TFF 42 Guest Director Rachel Kushner

Fri, 17 Apr 2015 00:00:00 +0000

We are proud to announce our 2015 Guest Director Rachel Kushner. The award-winning author is set to select a series of films to present at the 42nd Telluride Film Festival running over Labor Day Weekend, September 4-7, 2015.

Festival organizers annually select one of the world’s great film enthusiasts to join them in the creation of the Festival’s program lineup. The Guest Director serves as a key collaborator in the Festival’s programming decisions, bringing new ideas and overlooked films to Telluride. In keeping with Telluride Film Festival tradition, Kushner’s film selections, along with the rest of the Telluride lineup will be kept secret until Opening Day.

Also, in a rare co-presentation between Telluride Film Festival and San Francisco International Film Festival, Kushner is set to present the 1970 film WANDA on Saturday, April 25 at the historic Castro Theatre. Kushner will be in appearance at the 58th SFIFF to introduce this remarkable film by writer-director Barbara Loden. WANDA screened at the 2005 Telluride Film Festival as Guest Director Don DeLillo’s selection. For SFIFF screening information, and other Festival co-presentation details, please visit www.sffs.org.

"Rachel was a natural choice as the 42nd TFF Guest Director,” said Telluride Film Festival executive director Julie Huntsinger. “Our audience will be as grateful as Tom and I have been to listen to her thoughts and insight and see the outstanding film choices she has made. We actually owe a huge debt of thanks to our past Guest Director Michael Ondaatje for urging us to work with her."

Rachel Kushner is the author of The Flamethrowers, which was a finalist for the 2013 National Book Award, the Folio Prize, the James Tait Black Prize, and on almost every Best Book list, including the New York Times Top Five Novels of 2013. Kushner’s debut novel, Telex from Cuba, was a finalist for the 2008 National Book Award and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, winner of the California Book Award, and a New York Times bestseller and Notable Book. Kushner is the only writer ever to be nominated for a National Book Award in Fiction for both a first and second novel. She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2013. Her fiction and essays have appeared in the New Yorker, Harper’s, the New York Times Magazine, the Paris Review, Artforum and Bookforum. A slim volume of her early work, The Strange Case of Rachel K, was published in the spring of 2015. She lives in Los Angeles.

"Telluride has an incredible history and reputation, and I’ve long known of it as a unique entity that makes a place for writers--one more aspect of this exceptional film festival in the Colorado 'Alps,'” said Kushner. “It still feels a bit dreamlike to me that I have been given this privilege to be a guest director — to indulge my love of cinema, to share with the world films I’ve long loved, and to work with the great Tom Luddy and the great Julie Huntsinger and their extended family of kindred souls.”

Past Guest Directors include Guy Maddin, Caetano Veloso, Michael Ondaatje, Alexander Payne, Salman Rushdie, Peter Bogdanovich, B. Ruby Rich, Phillip Lopate, Errol Morris, Bertrand Tavernier, John Boorman, John Simon, Buck Henry, Laurie Anderson, Stephen Sondheim, G. Cabrera Infante, Peter Sellars, Don DeLillo, J.P. Gorin, Edith Kramer and Slavoj Zizek.

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TFF 42 Poster Artist 2015 Laurent Durieux

Wed, 03 Jun 2015 00:00:00 +0000

42nd Telluride Film Festival presented by National Film Preserve LTD., proudly announces illustrator Laurent Durieux as its 2015 poster artist. Telluride Film Festival’s prestigious annual gathering for film industry insiders, cinema enthusiasts, filmmakers and critics takes place every Labor Day weekend in the picturesque town of Telluride, Colorado. The 42nd edition of TFF will run September 4 – 7, 2015.

Laurent Durieux was born in 1970 in Waterloo, 20 km from Brussels in Belgium. Laurent has been an illustrator and a graphic designer for over 20 years, and when he isn't teaching graphic design, he spends his time creating posters for movies, old and recent. In 2010, he directed his first short animated movie titled HELLVILLE for Canal+ France produced by renowned French director Jean-Jacques Beineix (BETTY BLUE, DIVA, IP5). Laurent has since taken part in many shows in Belgium, France and in the USA. Laurent's posters can be found in several prestigious cinema related institutions such as the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Hollywood and the Cinémathèque Française in Paris, France, as well as many worldwide private collections. After his first retrospective exhibition in France last year, Laurent has been invited to present his work in an individual exhibition, which will be held at the Cultural Centre De Warande in Turnhout, Belgium this June 2015.

“It’s a great honor for me to have been asked to design this year's poster for the Telluride Film Festival,” said Laurent Durieux. “To be associated with so many great names of graphic design and fine arts is, on its own, something I will cherish for a very long time. I am a big cinema enthusiast too and as such, it certainly was a thrill to work on a poster for a film festival of this calibre. My image for the poster is a tribute to the work of the great Edward Hopper whose work, like mine, is very cinematic. I came up with what I hope to be my own take of his painting, New York Movie (1939), by giving it a surreal twist and a dash of modernity. The way Hopper used shadows and lights has had a big influence on my work in general and he certainly has on this poster. I love nature too and so, naturally, I look forward to attending the festival and discover all the wonderful things this place has to offer!”

“We first noticed Laurent’s work when he created the art for Criterion Collection,” commented Telluride Film Festival executive director Julie Huntsinger. “DVD jacket and one-sheet design is an art-form unto itself; capturing the mood of the film with one image. Laurent has done the same with this year’s poster. He’s managed to conjure the feeling and atmosphere of Telluride Film Festival with one breathtaking shot. It’s simply stunning.”

Laurent Durieux joins a prestigious list of artists who have shared their talents with Telluride Film Festival. Past poster artists include Christian Marclay, Dean Tavoularis, Ed Ruscha, John Mansfield, Julian Schnabel, Dottie Attie, Doug and Mike Starn, David Lance Goines, Chuck Jones, David Salle, Alexis Smith, Jim Dine, Seymour Chwast, Frederic Amat, Francesco Clemente, Dave McKean, Gary Larson, Chip Kidd, John Canemaker, Mark Stock, Laurie Anderson, William Wegman, Ralph Eggleston, Maira Kalman and Dave Eggers.

42nd Telluride Film Festival posters will be available for purchase throughout the four-day Festival and are also available now via our online store here.