Celebrating Indomitable Spirit
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December 24, 2007
This coming Wednesday night, the filmmakers Charlie & Willie Ebersol (Ithuteng, MF ‘05) will be hosting a special MF screening of their new doc on snowboarding/skateboarding phenom Shaun White, titled Don’t Look Down.
Shaun White
The Skateboarder’s Journal blog picked up the Telluride Watch story about the upcoming screening.
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December 24, 2007
Here are a few reviews about David’s film Hard As Nails, which premiered on HBO last week:
“Although no actual Christians are harmed in the making of these makeshift passion plays…” read more from the New York Times.
“The film, directed with equal doses of editorial intelligence and compassion by David Holbrook…” read more from the New York Sun.
Justin Fatica is “nuts for sure but has somehow also managed to attract a following that’s nearly as fanatical as is he…” read more from the Hollywood Reporter.
Happy Holidays!
December 20, 2007
I ran across this article in the BBC today about a family in Scotland trying out a “locavore” diet. (Locavore—a combination of “local” and “omnivore”—refers to a person who only eats food sourced within a certain radius of where they live, usually 100 miles.) Those of you who attended our Moving Mountains Symposium on Energy last year will remember our attempt at a locavore lunch—which had mixed success. (Buffalo burgers and brats were good, I hear, but in general the meal was said to be a bit…bland…)
On an average trip to the grocery last week, I bought pineapple from Thailand, tuna from Hawaii and peppers from Ecuador. A locavore argues that our current system of food distribution isn’t sustainable, not to mention that it does little to promote local economic growth. But what would happen if we limited ourselves to only regionally produced food? Right off the bat, you’re left with much less diversity.
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Elk—our winter locavore diet in Colorado.
In the winter, our options in Colorado would be severely limited. Visions of sugar plums dance in our heads, but we couldn’t get sugar or plums here. (The closest plums are grown is the Northeastern US.) Chesnuts roasting on the fire? Nope. (Bolivia.) For egg nog, we’d have to leave out the vanilla, nutmeg, sugar (Mexico, Indonesia, Carribean)…and the rum.
So it is possible to eat a truly locavore diet? Is it even desirable? Transporting food thousands of miles is not a new concept. We associate Italian food with tomatoes, for example, but tomatoes were a New World transplant to Italy in the 1500s. Like your Thai food spicy? There is not a single species of pepper native to Thailand.
I certainly identify with the desire to live a more sustainable life, but where do we draw the line?
Posted by Emily Long
December 17, 2007
I wanted my first post on the MF blog to be a little more thoughtful. You know, introducing myself and explaining my vision for the festival. Instead I am going to do just a little bit of self-promoting as a film that I directed premieres on HBO tonight called Hard As Nails. (Click here for more info.)
Justin Fatica, unordained Catholic minister
The film played at MF this past year and actually won the Student Award which was really nice.
I promise my next post will have something a little more MF-relevant. In the meantime, you can also check out this piece I wrote for the Huffington Post about Film Festivals (it mentions MF).
Posted by David Holbrooke
Editor’s Note: Read David’s newest Huff Post article about the making of the film here.
December 14, 2007
A composite still from the film King Lines. Photo by Corey Rich
The past six weeks have seen some major action for King Lines, the climbing film about Chris Sharma that Mountainfilm presented in Telluride this September. First, they won Best Climbing Film at Banff, then the grand prize at Kendal (in the UK). Now, they have been profiled on Apple’s web site for their facility with Mac computers and Final Cut editing software. Click here to read the full article.
Posted by Emily Long
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