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If you haven’t read The Golden Spruce by John Vaillant, rush out the door today and get a copy. It’s amazing. And while you’re at it, you might as well grab his new book, The Tiger, which hits book stores TODAY.
And while you’re at it, you should come and see John Vaillant read sections from the gripping non-fiction account of an enormous bloodthirsty tiger that stalked a man IN PERSON. John will be joining us for Mountainfilm in Aspen on Friday evening. Buy tickets here.
Brad Pitt has already optioned the book. When the film (directed by Darren Aronofsky and written by Guillermo Arriaga , the Academy Award-nominated screenwriter of Babel) hits the screens, you can say you heard about it here first.
In the recent edition of Pitch, we mentioned John Harlin’s expedition. As it turns out, John was evacuated about a month ago.
Arlene Burns sent us the following note:
john harlin fell 9 days into his swiss borderline hike/climb, was very lucky to live but broke both feet and was helicopter evacuated from the face (about a month ago)
he intends to continue the journey next year (if his wife lets him!)
Join Mountainfilm in Aspen at the Wheeler Opera House next week for Mountain Summit! We’ve got a weekend full of programs and events, a distillation of the annual festival in Telluride.
The opening film is Gasland, with director Josh Fox in person.
Buy tickets for Gasland here or link to the entire program here.
When Outside Magazine was putting together a list of the top 25 documentary films for their upcoming September issue, they couldn’t help but select a sidebar of the most awesome schlock films of all time, as well.
You can probably guess the top of the list.
Check out the entire list, complete with trailers, here.
While the sidebar only made it into their blog, the full list of Outside’s greatest docs — which Mountainfilm helped edit — will be published soon, and available to grab early at Mountain Summit: Mountainfilm in Aspen.
Mountainfilm is saddened to announce the death of Wes Skiles, the enormously talented underwater photographer whose luminous photographs of Blue Holes graced the Silver Bell Gallery in 2010. Working with scientist Kenny Broad, Wes saw a world we could only imagine and only when he brought us his stellar photographs did we begin to understand what he had seen. We were lucky to have him in Telluride for the festival this year and very much hoped he’d be back again and again.
Wes Skiles
Please honor his work by getting this month’s National Geographic, which has his photos on the cover, like the one below.
Chimney Vortex, photograph by Wes Skiles
You can read more about his life and work here.
If you want to support spine surgery for Prudence Mabhena, featured in the film Music by Prudence, we have gotten some information from Rick Hodes:
A photo of Prudence performing at Mountainfilm. ©Jennifer Koskinen
The cost of spine surgery alone would probably be in the area of $7500-$10,500. I don’t know how much hand surgery might cost. With airfare, plus the cost of housing and her attendants, we’re probably talking about $18,000- $20,000.
Anyone who wants to help Prudence can donate to JDC and we’ll take care of the rest. It is tax-deductible and the easiest way to do this is to go to my website: Rickhodes.org then click on donate.
The donor has to click on “CHECK HERE IF THIS GIFT IS A TRIBUTE TO SOMEONE.” They should type in “Prudence”, so it goes to the right budget line.
100% of funds designated to Prudence will reach her, no cuts are taken out along-the-way.
All my best,
Rick
William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe, an award winner at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival and an official selection at Mountainfilm this year, has its American broadcast premiere tonight, Tuesday, June 22, at 10 PM on PBS, kicking off POV’s 2010 season.
Visit the POV website to learn more about this film, click through a multimedia timeline of Kunstler’s career, watch an exclusive extended interview with the filmmakers, check local listings and the 2010 TV schedule. William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe will also be streaming online on the POV website in its entirety from Wednesday, June 23 through September 21, 2010.
Restrepo will be opening in theaters across the country this Friday, June 25th.
As you may know, the film business is precarious and the movie now needs your support at this critical time to reach as many people as possible.
Join their Facebook page, or check out the Restrepo web site.
We just got a note from Josh Fox, the director of Gasland. If you didn’t get a chance to see the film at the festival, it will be premiering on HBO next week.
From Josh:
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Dear friends,
In one week, America will tune in to HBO to see what happens when we allow gas drilling companies to run rampant in our towns. Gasland premires on HBO at 9:00 P.M. EDT on June 21st. Host a house party that night! We’ve got a toolkit for you, a new ultra-phenomenal website (going live this week), a “spark” (an embeddable mini-website), and this fantastic new trailer.
Please join us on Facebook and Twitter and tell your friends to sign up for our monthly e-mails here; we promise not to spam or sell addresses.
Stop the insanity,
Josh Fox
Director, GASLAND
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Here’s an additional 16-second teaser from the film:
Photo by The Joy Trip Project
We wrapped up Mountainfilm 2010 with a huge picnic and our awards ceremony yesterday afternoon. With so many great films we knew it would be hard to nail just a few down to hand out awards to. It’s important to recognize all the excellent films that were shown throughout the weekend, as well as the support of all of our festival goers. This festival certainly wouldn’t be the same without the energy and emotion of all of our attendees. So a big thank you to everyone who came out!
Now for our winners:
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