The festival was started in 1974 by Bill and Stella Pence, Tom Luddy, and James Card of Eastman-Kodak Film Preserve. It is operated by the National Film Preserve. In 2007 the Pences retired. Julie Huntsinger and Gary Meyer were hired to run the festival with Tom Luddy. Huntsinger is Executive Director. In 2010, Telluride Film festival partnered with UCLA TFT. This partnership created FilmLab which was a program that focuses on the art and industry of filmmaking. This program is custom-designed for ten selected filmmaker graduates from UCLA. The partnership was further extended in 2012, the two partners created a mutually curated film program on UCLA's Westwood campus.
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Telluride Film Festival
Telluride Film Festival | History
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Principal photography took place in New Orleans, Louisiana
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A story of a New York State-born free African-American man who was kidnapped in Washington, D.C., by two conmen in 1841 and sold into slavery.
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During its marketing campaign, "12 Years a Slave" received unpaid endorsements by celebrities such as Kanye West and P. Diddy. In a video posted by Revolt, Combs urged viewers to see "12 Years a Slave" by stating: "This movie is very painful but very honest, and is a part of the healing process.
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Telluride Film Festival
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Founded in 2010, the Telluride Horror Show is Colorado's first and longest-running genre film festival. Films are shown in three theaters: the Palm, the Nugget Theater, and the historic Sheridan Opera House. Additional events include the Creepy Campfire Tales and book signing with an established author from the horror genre, the Pig Roast, the I Scream Social, the Killer Karaoke Party, and the Dread Central Horror Trivia competition.
Telluride Horror Show | History
The festival was started in 1974 by Bill and Stella Pence, Tom Luddy, and James Card of Eastman-Kodak Film Preserve. It is operated by the National Film Preserve. In 2007 the Pences retired. Julie Huntsinger and Gary Meyer were hired to run the festival with Tom Luddy. Huntsinger is Executive Director. In 2010, Telluride Film festival partnered with UCLA TFT. This partnership created FilmLab which was a program that focuses on the art and industry of filmmaking. This program is custom-designed for ten selected filmmaker graduates from UCLA. The partnership was further extended in 2012, the two partners created a mutually curated film program on UCLA's Westwood campus.
Telluride Film Festival | History
The bulk of the program is made up of new films, and there is an informal tradition that new films must be shown for the first time in North America to be eligible for the festival. Telluride is well-situated on the international film festival calendar for this: after the Cannes Film Festival, but just before the Toronto International Film Festival and the New York Film Festival. This insistence on premieres has led to Telluride's being associated with the discovery of a number of important new films and filmmakers. This is especially true of Michael Moore (whose first film "Roger and Me" showed there for the first time in 1989) and Robert Rodriguez (whose first feature "El Mariachi" got its first festival screening there in 1992).
Telluride Film Festival | Program
The Academy Film Archive houses the Telluride Film Festival Collection, which consists of conversations with iconic filmmakers, tributes, symposium and seminars dating back to 1978.
Telluride Film Festival | Archive
The Telluride Film Festival (TFF) is a film festival held annually in Telluride, Colorado during Labor Day weekend (the first Monday in September).
Telluride Film Festival | Introduction
Mountainfilm began in 1979 when Telluride was completing its transition from a hard-rock gold and silver mining community to a destination resort and ski town. Lito Tejada-Flores, after screening his adventure and mountaineering film "Fitzroy" at the Trento festival in Italy, and Bill Kees, a local climber and avid outdoorsman, inaugurated the event. Over three nights, at the historic Sheridan Opera House, they screened a dozen films about mountain sports, mountain cultures and mountain issues. During the daytime, audience members took to the mountains for adventure themselves. The first festivals attracted leading names in mountaineering and exploration: Royal Robbins, Yvon Chouinard, David Breashears and others.
Mountainfilm | The History of Mountainfilm
The Telluride Horror Show is a film festival that takes place in the mountain resort town of Telluride, Colorado. Over a three day weekend each mid-October, the festival exhibits horror, dark fantasy films, sci-fi films, and thriller films from around the world and attendees from all over the United States.
Telluride Horror Show | Introduction
(In fact, some of the so-called premieres screened at the Telluride Film Festival before TIFF.)
2010 Toronto International Film Festival | Introduction
This is a tribute to a large illuminated sign which says "Show" and sits outside of the Sheridan Opera House, the festival venue where the Silver Medallions are awarded. After serving guest director in 2001, Salman Rushdie wrote that, "It is extraordinarily exciting, in this age of the triumph of capitalism, to discover an event dedicated not to commerce but to love". Kenneth Turan, film critic of the "Los Angeles Times", wrote in 2002 that "the hothouse filmocentric universe Telluride creates over a Labor Day weekend has always been more a religion than anything as ordinary as a festival, complete with messianic believers and agnostic scoffers." Jeffrey Ruoff, a film historian at Dartmouth College, noted in 2015 that "Early buzz at Telluride opens the fall season of North American award speculation that climaxes with the Oscars."
Telluride Film Festival | Style
The Port Townsend Film Festival founders, Jim Ewing, Rocky Friedman, Jim Westall, and Linda Marie Yakush, were all veteran attendees of the Telluride Film Festival in Telluride, Colorado. That festival served as the model for the Port Townsend event. The PTFF founders also established an organizing committee consisting of Erik Andersson, Nancy Biery, Michael Harvey, Sherry Jones, Peter Simpson, and George Yakush.
Port Townsend Film Festival | Founders
The Telluride Film Festival is a film festival which was established in 1974 and is held annually in Telluride, Colorado during Labor Day weekend.
List of awards and nominations received by Jodie Foster | Telluride Film Festival
The historical mining town of Telluride sits nestled in a scenic box canyon at 8,750 feet, surrounded by 13,000 foot peaks, in the heart of the Rocky Mountains.
Telluride Jazz Festival | Introduction
The festival has also had the American premiere of films such as "My Dinner With Andre" (Louis Malle, 1981), "Stranger than Paradise" (Jim Jarmusch, 1984), "Blue Velvet" (David Lynch, 1986), "The Civil War" (Ken Burns, 1990), "The Crying Game" (Neil Jordan, 1992), "Mulholland Drive" (David Lynch, 2001), "Brokeback Mountain" (Ang Lee, 2005), "The Imitation Game" (Morten Tyldum, 2014), "Sully" (Clint Eastwood, 2016), "Moonlight" (Barry Jenkins, 2016), and "Lady Bird" (Greta Gerwig, 2017). Since 1995 a special medallion has also been presented annually, usually to a non-filmmaker who has had a major impact on American or international film culture. Past recipients include Milos Stehlik (founder of Facets Multi-Media), HBO, the French film magazine "Positif", Ted Turner, and Janus Films.
Telluride Film Festival | Program
Each festival also features three tributes. Each is awarded the Telluride Film Festival Silver Medallion. The 1974 tributes honored Francis Ford Coppola, Gloria Swanson and Leni Riefenstahl. Other tributees have included Lillian Gish, Penélope Cruz, Daniel Day-Lewis, Marion Cotillard, Catherine Deneuve, Gérard Depardieu, Clint Eastwood, Jodie Foster, Harvey Keitel, Ang Lee, David Lynch, Jack Nicholson, Peter O'Toole, Mickey Rooney, John Schlesinger, and Meryl Streep.
Telluride Film Festival | Silver Medallion
The town of Telluride had for many years held a Fourth of July Celebration which had its roots in the early mining days of Telluride, when miners would come from down from the mountains to party and meet up with old friends and meet some women. The celebration included a fireworks display operated by the local fire department. In 1972, the Telluride Ski Resort opened, and the Town of Telluride expanded the Celebration and advertised it widely in all the surrounding states. Among the new attendees were many who behaved badly, starting fights and causing damage; in response, the Town decided to call off the celebration for 1973.
Telluride Bluegrass Festival | History
A three-day film festival featuring movies fresh from Telluride Film Festival that, in the past, has hosted such films as "Capote", "Finding Neverland", and "Bob Dylan: No Direction Home".
The Music Hall (Portsmouth) | Telluride by the Sea
The Telluride Institute (TI) was founded in 1984 in the resort town of Telluride, Colorado, by John Lifton, Pamela Zoline, John Clute, John Naisbitt and Patricia Aburdene, authors of the "Megatrends" books, and Amory and Hunter Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute. The original mission of the Telluride Institute was to organize and promote the first Telluride Ideas Festival, 1985's "Reinventing Work." Participants included left-wing British politician Shirley Williams, the Juilliard String Quartet's Robert Mann and then-Senator Al Gore, Jr Since then, the Institute has held numerous Ideas Festivals, including 1988's "Perestroika," the first event in the United States to be co-sponsored by a domestic non-governmental organization and the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the USSR (the only political party permitted in the USSR at the time), and 1989's "Housing the Community," which inspired an ongoing effort by the local governments in the Telluride region to provide deed-restricted housing to the local workforce .
Telluride Institute | Introduction
The first Silver Medallions were awarded in 1974 at the 1st Telluride Film Festival. They are made of pure silver and the design has never changed, featuring the emblematic "SHOW" logo on their face. The presentation of the medallion is preceded by a clip reel, full feature and/or on stage interview. Traditionally, three Silver Medallions are given out each year, with a few exceptions where numerous people from a specific category were paid the honor. Since 1995, a fourth Silver Medallions has been awarded to a hero of cinema, a filmmaker, historian, critic, or organization dedicated to the celebration and preservation of film as an art.
Telluride Film Festival Silver Medallion | History of the Silver Medallion
Held every Memorial Day weekend since 1979, Mountainfilm is a documentary film festival that showcases nonfiction stories about environmental, cultural, climbing, political and social justice issues in Telluride, Colorado. In addition to documentaries, the festival also brings together world-class athletes, change makers and artists via interactive discussions, free community events, a gallery walk, an all-day symposium, outdoor programming and presentations. Mountainfilm aims to educate, inspire and motivate audiences. In 2000, Mountainfilm started touring its films and speakers internationally with Mountainfilm on Tour. Mountainfilm has since added Mountainfilm for Students, an educational component for schools across the country with free screenings of festival films that are supported by customized educational materials.
Mountainfilm | Introduction
As of 2015 the program is created by executive director Julie Huntsinger and founder and artistic director Tom Luddy, and one of the Telluride Film Festival guest directors, who change each year. These have included Errol Morris, Peter Bogdanovich, Bertrand Tavernier, Salman Rushdie, Don DeLillo, Peter Sellars, Stephen Sondheim, Buck Henry, and Michael Ondaatje. Each year, an artist is selected to produce the poster art for the festival. Those who have accepted the commission include Chuck Jones, David Salle, Doug and Mike Starn, Dottie Attie, Jim Dine, Ed Ruscha, Francesco Clemente, Dave McKean, and Gary Larson. The sole requirement for the poster is that the word SHOW be featured.
Telluride Film Festival | Style
The film was initially restored by Lobster Films, with a subsequent restoration done by Jeff Joseph in partnership with the UCLA Film Archive. The first official screening was at the Telluride Film Festival in September 2015, followed by a screening at the BFI London Film Festival in October 2015.
The Battle of the Century | Lost film status
Scott Brown and a small group of friends convinced the Town to let them organized the 1973 event. The traditional rowdy events were replaced with games in the park for children, a picnic and barbeque. A stage was built at the far end of Town Park, and after a parade and an afternoon of family fun, the Fall Creek Boys, a local bluegrass band, took the stage to entertain the crowd, followed by the traditional fireworks display. Encouraged by the success of the 1973 celebration, the first Telluride Bluegrass Festival was organized in Telluride in 1974 by John Herndon, J.B.
Telluride Bluegrass Festival | History
Tom Luddy (born 1943) is an American film producer and the co-founder of the Telluride Film Festival. He has a longtime association with the production company American Zoetrope. He has been a member of the jury at the 11th Moscow International Film Festival, the 38th Berlin International Film Festival and the 1993 Cannes Film Festival.
Tom Luddy | Introduction
Director Ron Mann and his partners at the first Telluride Mushroom Festival in Colorado, collect and consume mushrooms of every variety, particularly the aesthetic unappealing . Mushroom fans and fungi experts explore and investigate during the four-day festival. Gary Lincoff and mycologist Larry Evans lead a wild mushroom hunt.
Know Your Mushrooms | Plot
In February 2015, the first image of Teller was released. In May 2015, Open Road Films acquired distribution rights to the film. The film had its world premiere at the 43rd Annual Telluride Film Festival on September 2, 2016, before screening at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival. Originally, the film was scheduled to open in a limited release on November 4, 2016, before opening wide on November 23. In October 2016, the film was rescheduled to have a wide opening on November 18, 2016, forgoing a limited release.
Bleed for This | Release
1993's "TeleCommunity" spawned the InfoZone, a project which made Telluride the first small town in the United States not affiliated with a university or corporation to have direct dial-in to the Internet through a dedicated Internet POP tied to a pervasive community tele-computing network . Other luminaries who have attended the Ideas Festival include Soviet cultural ambassador Alexander Potemkin, novelist Edward Abbey, Rep. Newt Gingrich, Reagan strategist Lee Atwater, and Tom Hayden, the co-founder of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), along with several United States senators and governors from Colorado and neighboring states .
Telluride Institute | TeleCommunity
The first edition of the festival began on 20 of March of 1956 under the name of Semana de Cine Religioso de Valladolid with a goal of promoting Catholic moral values in conjunction with the celebration of Holy Week in Valladolid. For the first two years it was not competitive and no prizes were awarded. In 1958 the Don Bosco gold and silver awards and the Special Mention appeared, which the following year were replaced by the Lábaro and the Ciudad de Valladolid Award, respectively. The films to be shown were already selected according to quality and not quantity criteria, even if that meant having an insufficient number of films.
Valladolid International Film Festival | History
It's a destination festival in the middle of an ocean. It is similar to the Telluride Film Festival in this sense; Telluride is located in a tiny village in Colorado. Attendees travel through mountains if they wish to see the films. However, Maui Film Festival only mimics the early years of Telluride in the 1980s and 1990s when it was intimate and inexpensive. Now, it is a global festival; the tiny village has transformed into a posh resort; the ticket prices have sky-rocketed; it has commercialized as a result of its growth in size. Only time will tell if the Maui Film Festival will have the same fate.
Maui Film Festival | Program
"Men with Guns" was first presented at the Telluride Film Festival, Colorado, the weekend of August 29 - September 1, 1997. A few days later its international debut was at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 5, 1997. It opened in the United States on March 27, 1998. The film was featured at various international film festivals, including: the Deauville Film Festival, France; the Donostia-San Sebastián International Film Festival, Spain; the Edinburgh International Film Festival, Scotland; the Helsinki International Film Festival, Finland; the Reykjavik Film Festival, Iceland; and others.
Men with Guns | Exhibition
The Silver Medallion is an award given by the Telluride Film Festival in recognition of achievements in the film industry.
Telluride Film Festival Silver Medallion | Introduction
There were recent mining activity in the area and the only remains of the old site are scant ruins.
Telluride, Nevada | History
& Helen Matiotti, Kooster McAllister, and Fred Shellman, who played in the Fall Creek Boys. That year the festival attracted approximately 1000 participants.
Telluride Bluegrass Festival | History
As of 2018 the festival web site is no longer existent and the festival may no longer be held.
First Look Film Festival | Introduction
The film premiered at the Telluride Film Festival on September 1, 2018. It was then screened at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 10, 2018, where it received wider press coverage.
Meeting Gorbachev | Release
The 39th Telluride Film Festival in 2013 was dedicated to her.
Jan Sharp | Legacy
When first established, the festival was organized as a national short film festival with national and local categories but with its sixth installation, local categories were removed.
Filmsaaz | History
"Eraserhead" was also screened as part of the 1978 BFI London Film Festival, and the 1986 Telluride Film Festival.
Eraserhead | Box office
The festival began in 1976 at a then-independent cinema, the Moore Egyptian Theater, under the direction of managers Jim Duncan, Dan Ireland, and Darryl Macdonald. The first SIFF featured "Hedda," with Glenda Jackson, Louis Malle’s "Black Moon," Luis Bunuel’s "Phantom of Liberty." The Rocky Horror Picture Show was the unnamed secret "sneak preview." The Third Festival in 1978 was the first under the direction of Rajeeve Gupta. It doubled the number of films, and increased the audience by 50% over the Second festival. The first five festivals were held at The Moore Egyptian. Currently the Moore Theatre is back under its earlier name and functioning as a concert venue.
Seattle International Film Festival | History
The First Look Film Festival is a film festival held in Denver, Colorado which screens short films from college students. It was started in 2001 by Wade Gardner and Joshua Weinberg, two film students at the University of Colorado Denver. The festival grew from only screening local Colorado films into an international festival which has screened films from over 20 countries. In 2008 the festival was merged with the Starz Denver Film Festival which is held in October. As of 2008 the First Look Student Film Festival is the First Look Student Film Section of the Starz Denver Film Festival.
First Look Film Festival | Introduction
The Guest Director position is held by a different individual each year who is invited by the Telluride Film Festival Directors to join them in the creation of the festival program. The guest director serves as a key collaborator in all of the festival's programming decisions, bringing new ideas and, quite often, overlooked films to Telluride. Below is a list of each guest director followed by the films the director specifically chose to highlight.
Telluride film festival guest directors | Introduction
The 2007 First Look Film Festival was held April 19–22, 2008, at the Starz FilmCenter in Denver, Colorado.
First Look Film Festival | 2007 Festival Details
The Telluride Historic District encompasses a significant portion of the developed area of the former mining boom town of Telluride, Colorado. Telluride was founded in 1878, and was a major metals mining center until 1913. The historic district covers of downtown Telluride and surrounding residential areas, as well as Lone Tree Cemetery, the town's first cemetery. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1961 for its well-preserved late boom-town architecture.
Telluride Historic District | Introduction
The 11th Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) took place in Toronto, Ontario, Canada between September 4 and September 13, 1986. "The Decline of the American Empire" by Denys Arcand was selected as the opening film. It won People's Choice Award at the festival and later got nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at Oscars.
1986 Toronto International Film Festival | Introduction
Henderson recalls "There were no red carpets and no television cameras out front. We did a ribbon cutting with Dick Lamm (then governor). When we got inside it was a full house at the Old Centre theater, which was demolished before the next year's festival. (The Centre sat 1,200.). "Most notably, the weather was ominous - cloudy and cool. The opening-night party was at a private house and it was an invitational affair. When we got there, a cold rain was falling. We woke up the next morning, and there was a foot of wet snow on the ground, but it was springtime and by the end of the day, it was beautiful.
Denver Film Festival | History
"Terrifier" premiered at the Telluride Horror Show Film Festival in October 2016 before being picked up by Dread Central Presents and Epic Pictures for a limited theatrical release in March 2018.
Terrifier | Introduction
It had its world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival on August 30, 2019. It screened at the New York Film Festival on September 28, 2019. Although it was released in four theaters in the United States on March 6, 2020, the film was pulled from release by its distributor on March 15, 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The film was released for purchase on VOD platforms on July 10, 2020 and became available to rent on July 21, 2020. It is scheduled to receive a full, nationwide theatrical release later in 2020.
First Cow | Release
"The Unknown Known" was screened in the main competition section at the 70th Venice International Film Festival, and premiered at the Telluride Film Festival on August 29, 2013.
The Unknown Known | Release
The first Maryland Film Festival screening took place Thursday, April 22, 1999, with an Opening Night presentation of Barry Levinson's documentary "Diner Guys" (about the real-life inspirations for his first feature film, "Diner") at the historic Senator Theatre. Full programming began April 23, 1999, using all five screens of the historic Charles Theatre. These screenings were the first public use of the newly renovated Charles, which had expanded from one to five screens. In 2002, the festival dedicated its Opening Night to a collection of short films, and has done so each year since 2004.
Maryland Film Festival | Festival history
The inaugural flagship event was held in 2007 over Memorial Day Weekend at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center. The inaugural GI Film Festival San Diego event was held in October 2015 with the British film Kilo Two Bravo as the opening night film.
GI Film Festival | History
The Temescal Street Cinema is a film festival that takes place weekly in the summer in the Temescal neighborhood of Oakland, California in the United States. It showcases films by San Francisco Bay Area filmmakers. The festival started in 2008. It was founded by Suzanne L’Heureux and Catarina Negrin. Films are projected onto the exterior wall of the Bank of the West building on Telegraph Avenue. Live music is performed before the films are shown. Films shown include "The Waiting Room". Approximately 200 people attend the showings. Questions and answer sessions are held with the filmmakers after the viewing. The festival underwent a funding crisis in 2011.
Temescal Street Cinema | Introduction
This was a non-competitive section. The following films were under Special Screening section:
1st Diorama International Film Festival &amp; Market | Special Screenings
In 2003, she was awarded the Telluride Tech Festival Award of Technology at Telluride, Colorado, along with Sir Arthur C. Clarke.
Gale Anne Hurd | Film career
It was re-released as "We the Living" in 1986. The new version of "We the Living" premiered at the Telluride Film Festival in Colorado in 1986 — the first public showing of the film outside of Italy since World War II. Soon after, it was released in theaters throughout the US, Canada, and overseas. Today, a two-disc DVD of the film is sold by Duncan Scott Productions.
We the Living (film) | Revision and re-release
Gold was first discovered in Colorado near present-day Denver, setting off the Pike's Peak gold rush of 1858. The Smuggler gold vein above Telluride, and placer gold in the San Miguel River, were discovered in 1875. John Fallon made the first claim in Marshal Basin above Telluride in 1875 and early settlement of Telluride followed. The town itself was founded in 1878. Telluride was originally named "Columbia", but due to confusion with Columbia, California, the name was changed by the post office in 1887. The town was named after valuable ore compounds of the chemical element tellurium, a metalloid element which forms natural tellurides, the most notable of which are telluride ores of gold and silver.
Telluride, Colorado | Mining days
QT Fest started in 1997 at the Dobie Theater near the University of Texas. The event moved to the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema Downtown for QT3, where it remained until the site's closure in 2007. After QT 5 in 2001, there was a hiatus before QT 6 in 2005.
Quentin Tarantino Film Festival | Lineup listings
The first festival was held on May 4, 1978, and featured such films as "Annie Hall", "The Fury", "Close Encounters of the Third Kind", "The Hills Have Eyes" and "Pretty Baby". The festival kicked off with a 90-minute clip compilation from Warner Bros. titled ‘The Movies That Made Us.’ The festival was originally conceived and founded by Peter Warren, Ph.D., then a professor of mathematics at the University of Denver and by Irene Clurman, then the art critic for the Rocky Mountain News. The first artistic director was Ron Hecht, the manager of the Vogue theatre. In the early years, Ron Henderson served as marketing director and subsequently as artistic director.
Denver Film Festival | History
[in 1996] because of the cult following. Bravo says it's the most popular film they've shown in the New York area. [The film was also shown] at the Telluride Film Festival. All [of] the people who run the festival are members of The Wanderers fan club, all wear Wanderers jackets, and [they] know every line in the film. They show the film at least twice a year up there [in Colorado]. There were about 1000 people outside, under the mountains and watching the film. It was a great night.
The Wanderers (1979 film) | Legacy
Cultural activities like concerts and theatre plays, which started to take place in the 1950s at the historical Aspendos Amphitheatre, formed the cornerstone of the Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival of today. These events held in the summer months under the honorary patronage of Dr. Avni Tolunay, found ever increasing interest from people and became traditional at the beginning of the 1960s. In 1963, the festivities turned into a film festival with the initiation Dr. Avni Tolunay, who became the mayor of Antalya that year. As the logo of the film festival chosen was an orange, the most important symbol of the region, along with sea, historical elements and the Venus statue.
International Antalya Film Festival | History
A third of the ninety ticketed screenings sold out. An earlier independently-financed Adelaide Film Festival had been held from 1959 to 1980.
2003 Adelaide Film Festival | Introduction
Organization of the first film festival in 2001 was motivated by the faculty's new possibility of digital video processing and students' interest in making their own films. The fourth year of festival (2004) was promoted and sponsored for the first time. The beginning of festival was connected with the release of 10th anniversary of Faculty of Informatics DVD. The fifth year (2005) was attended by more than 500 visitors.
Film Festival of Faculty of Informatics | History
The film debuted at the 2001 Telluride Film Festival. Prior to its initial limited release in New York City and Los Angeles, it was shown at the Los Angeles Film Festival, the Toronto International Film Festival, and the Tribeca Film Festival. In its widest release, the film played on only 175 screens in the US. It grossed $4,210,379 domestically and $485,402 in foreign markets for a total worldwide box office of $4,695,781.
Lovely &amp; Amazing | Production
The Telluride Institute has expanded to include many other projects since its inception. Between 1988 and 1991, it held four "Composer-to-Composer" festivals, in which major composers from around the world, including John Cage, John Adams, Terry Riley, Ge Gan-ru, Laurie Anderson and Tom Ze, met for several days of private discussions followed by a weekend of public performances. Composer-to-Composer bred a spin-off: Charles Amirkhanian, co-director with John Lifton, launched the annual Other Minds festival in San Francisco, California in 1993. 2005 saw the eleventh Other Minds festival take place . Another element of the TI’s arts program was the Radio Futures project, which over five years saw more than 75 original radio plays performed on Telluride’s community radio station, KOTO .
Telluride Institute | Other projects
The first annual Big Mountain Short Film Festival was held on October 20–22, 2006 at the Ohakune Cinema on Goldfinch Street in Ohakune. It was co-founded by filmmakers Jeff Bollow and Bret Gibson as a way to encourage and inspire filmmaking in New Zealand. From the beginning, the Big Mountain Short Film Festival was conceived as an entirely free event, both for filmmakers submitting their films, and for audiences attending the festival.
Big Mountain Short Film Festival | History
The following people were on the jury for International Shorts Competition section:
1st Diorama International Film Festival &amp; Market | International Shorts Competition Jury
In 1979, a Short Film Week was organised by the Clermont-Ferrand University Film Society. This event was repeated in 1980 and 1981, and was enthusiastically received. In 1982, the Festival became competitive, with a jury attributing awards to films selected from the recent French short film production. International films were shown in special programs highlighting a particular theme, genre, country or region of the world. The audience was also presented with tributes to the great short film makers of the past and present. In 1986, the first Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Market was organized, with the intention to raise the economic profile of the short films.
Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival | History
The Bentley Film Festival first started on December 3, 1993, in Kansas City, Missouri. It is a project that is funded by Independent Filmmaker's Coalition of Kansas City. The IFC requires contestants to use Super 8 mm film and Bentley Cameras (hence the name) so that everyone has an equal opportunity to show their work. The contestants are required to have a three-minute, unedited, and undeveloped film which incorporates original and creative work.
Bentley Film Festival | History
The movie "The Hateful Eight" by Quentin Tarantino conducted its principal photography on December 8, 2014, in Colorado on the Schmid Ranch near Telluride. The "Kia Telluride" is named after the town.
Telluride, Colorado | In popular culture
The festival was founded in 2006 after Kermode was asked to help start a festival when appearing at Shetland's Wordplay book festival. When the festival was founded there were no cinemas in Shetland, so screenings were held in a variety of venues across the islands including the Lerwick livestock market, a bus shelter in Unst, village halls and the Garrison Theatre. Since 2012 the festival has been hosted by the purpose built cinema and arts venue Mareel.
Screenplay Film Festival | History
The film was set to have its world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival in September 2020, prior to its cancellation due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Its world premiere was then at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 13, 2020.
Concrete Cowboy | Release
Filmstock Film Festival was founded in 2009 by Jeremy K Clayton and Ryan M Pierson. It screens award-winning films in four states in America: Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado and Utah. The festival mission states... "In 2009, Filmstock was founded to bring a voice to short filmmakers, and to put their visions on the screen. Over the years it has come to celebrate the beauty and artistic freedom found in the short film format, and the creativity that can exist therein, and has attracted a supportive community of filmmakers and audience members alike. Now, in 2013, Filmstock will continue its mission by connecting filmmakers with audience members from the American Southwest, playing award-winning films in the four states of Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado and Utah!"
Filmstock Film Festival | Introduction
The Castle Rock Film Festival started in April 2009 with its first festival screening dates being September 11–13, 2009. It attracted a collection of films and screen plays from its original 5 Rocky Mountain states (Colorado, Montana, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming). The festival accepted films (short, student, and feature), feature screenplays, trailers and actor reels. Its first night was dubbed "Trailer Park" in which movie trailers and actor reels were played. Additional movie related entertainment was provided by an appearance by the 501st Legion. Awards were presented by Randy Reed (Mayor of Castle Rock, Colorado) and Laura Grey (Colorado Film, TV and Media) for the categories of feature (first place "The Heart of Texas", runner up "My Life as a Baby Boomer"), best short (first place "The Shaman's Apprentice", runner up "Quillions"), best student (first place "Shell Shock", runner up "Fast Girls, Slow Bikes") and best screenplay (first place "The Bit", runner up "Wrong Place, Wrong Time").
Castle Rock Film Festival | History
Although gold telluride minerals were never actually found in the mountains near Telluride, the area's mines were rich in zinc, lead, copper, silver, and ores which contained gold in other forms. Telluride began slowly because of its isolated location. In 1881, a toll road was opened by Otto Mears which allowed wagons to go where only pack mules could go before. This increased the number of people in Telluride, but it was still expensive to get gold-rich ore out of the valley. In June 1889, Butch Cassidy, before becoming associated with his gang, "the wild bunch", robbed the San Miguel Valley Bank in Telluride.
Telluride, Colorado | Mining days
The 4th Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) took place in Toronto, Ontario, Canada between September 6 and September 15, 1979. Due to overcrowding in the prior year, the Gala presentations were moved from the 700-seat Towne Cinema to the 1,600-seat Elgin Theatre. The People's Choice Award was awarded to "Best Boy" by Ira Wohl, which later won Oscar for Best Documentary Feature.
1979 Toronto International Film Festival | Introduction
The Festival has its origins in the Kairi Film Festival, a one-off event that took place over three days in November 2002 in Port of Spain. The first Trinidad and Tobago film festival took place in 2006, and was supported by the Trinidad & Tobago Film Company, a state enterprise. Films screened included "Sistagod", directed by Trinidadian filmmaker Yao Ramesar, and the documentary "Calypso Dreams". In 2007 the Festival expanded to its current length, and included, for the first time, screenings outside of Port of Spain, including Tobago. The Festival opened with Trinidadian filmmaker Frances-Anne Solomon's Canadian feature film "A Winter Tale".
Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival | History
"Trial by Fire" had its world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival on August 31, 2018. Shortly after, Roadside Attractions acquired distribution rights to the film and scheduled it for release on May 17, 2019.
Trial by Fire (2018 film) | Release
Starting in 1960, the festival was renamed Semana Internacional de Cine Religioso y de Valores Humanos (the International Week of Religious Cinema and Human Values) and the theme of the films was expanded, accepting those in which human and committed values prevailed. That year the Golden Spike also began to be awarded, alongside the existing prizes and (since 1961) the San Gregorio Prize. In 1973 the festival adopted its current name, due to the progressive increase in the films in competition and increased interest from producers. The following year the Lábaro disappeared and the Espiga became the main award. Subsequently, the awards for best actor and actress (1979), best screenplay (1984), best first film (1989), the Jury (1991) and the best new director (1992), among others, were introduced.
Valladolid International Film Festival | History
The event was started when founders noticed a lack of film festivals in the area, after having only student-made films from the Confederation College film festival and a single festival held by the Lakehead University Film Society. The first Northwest Film Fest was held at the Paramount Theatre and attracted 2300 patrons. It would be held in the following years at the Oldeon Victoria and later, the Cumberland Cinema Centre, which allowed organizers to expand the lineup to 18 titles.
Northwest Film Fest | History
Based in Park City, Utah, the Nodance Film Festival was founded as an alternative to the Sundance Film Festival and celebrates the alternative digital film culture, with an emphasis on first-time filmmakers and digital filmmaking. Held annually in Park City, Utah, it is the world's first DVD-projected film festival. In 2003, it was sold to actor/director Forest Whitaker, and is currently on hiatus pending relaunch. It ran for six years, while also hosting a screenplay competition, online program, and traveling roadshow.
Nodance Film Festival | Introduction
The film premiered at the 40th Telluride Film Festival on September 2, 2013. It was an official selection of the Hamptons International Film Festival on October 12, 2013 and Berlin International Film Festival on February 10, 2014. It opened theatrically in the US on April 4, 2014.
The Galapagos Affair | Release
It was then restored in a year-long digital restoration. "Hungry Hoboes" re-debuted in at the Telluride Film Festival, on September 2, 2012, as part of a special animation shorts program presented by leading film historian and restoration expert Serge Bromberg.
Hungry Hoboes | Introduction
The idea was floated in 2012 by a group of non-profit organisations and the first edition was held in early 2013 under the name ‘Indian Season’. It was rechristened to its present name in 2015. The first edition of the Festival was held in 2013. An Audience Choice Award was instituted in the fourth edition, in 2016. A jury award was added for the sixth edition, in 2018. Starting from the seven edition, in 2019, the critics choice award would be set up the Film Critics Circle of India. The festival was founded by Frédérique Lien Vanessa Bianchi.
Toulouse Indian Film Festival | History
It became one of the venues of the festival.
Tribeca Film Festival | History
In 1979 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Bridal Veil Falls (Telluride) | Electric power generation
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the 2020 Taipei Film Festival was the first in-person film festival to be held that year worldwide.
Taipei Film Festival | History
In the festival's inaugural year, the feature film Audience Prize was awarded to Vincent Pereira for his 1997 film A Better Place, one of the lesser known View Askew Productions films, produced by Kevin Smith and Scott Mosier. A Better Place screened out of jury competition, in the curated block, but was chosen by the audience as their favorite feature of the festival. Filmmaker Zach Daulton, of Ohio, was awarded the short film Audience Prize for his film 'Mayfield.'
Oil Valley Film Festival | History
The film had its U.S. debut at The Valley Film Festival on November 12, 2011. The film was first televised in the U.S. on Showtime on April 23, 2012.
Few Options | Exhibition
The film had its world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival on September 1, 2018. It also screened at the Toronto International Film Festival, first for the press and industry on September 8, 2018, and then for the public on September 11, 12, and 15. The film was initially scheduled for release on September 28, 2018, but was pushed back to November 2, 2018.
Boy Erased | Release
In addition to its four regional Emmy Awards, the film has also been honoured at the Telluride Film Festival, and received the American Film Festival Blue Ribbon, and a CINE Golden Eagle. The film was funded by the D.C. Community Humanities Council.
Miles of Smiles, Years of Struggle | Introduction
Telluride's history begins with the discovery of silver in the area in 1875, resulting in the creation of a large mining camp, which was incorporated in 1878. The city's importance as a mining center was cemented by the construction of a wagon road in 1882 and the arrival of the railroad in 1890, facilitating the transport of the mined ores to smelters further east. The arrival of the railroad also spurred a construction boom, resulting in much of the historic architecture seen in the city today. The historic district includes most of Colorado Street, which serves as the city's main commercial avenue.
Telluride Historic District | Description and history
The Super 8 short films "Avándaro" produced by Gutiérrez y Prieto of Cablevision and directed by Alfredo Gurrola and "Tinta Blanca en Avándaro" produced by Raul Candiani of Peliculas Candiani and directed by Humberto Rubalcaba were the only films exclusively about the first festival. They were exhibited at international film festivals and theaters in 1972. Other movies, which partially used footage of the festival, were the Cinematográfica Marco Polo film "La verdadera vocación de Magdalena" produced by Anuar Badin and directed by Jaime Humberto Hermosillo and the Super 8 films "The year of the rat" by Enrique Escalona and "La segunda primera matriz" by Alfredo Gurrola.
Festival Rock y Ruedas de Avándaro | Introduction
The NYFF's first programmer, Richard Roud, was recruited by Lincoln Center President William Schuman in 1962. Boston-born Roud was 33 years old at the time and based in London where he worked as a film critic for "The Guardian" and programmed the London Film Festival. Though Roud maintained his home base in London, he recruited Amos Vogel of the legendary Cinema 16 film club as his New York-based co-programmer. The first edition of the festival opened on September 10, 1963 with Luis Buñuel's "The Exterminating Angel". In 1966, Roud and Vogel formed the festival's first selection committee, consisting of Arthur Knight and Andrew Sarris; Susan Sontag was added the next year.
New York Film Festival | Founding the Festival and Richard Roud
The 1st annual Venice International Film Festival was held between 6 and 21 August 1932. "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" was the first film to be screened at the festival. No official prizes were awarded, so an audience referendum took place to determine the winners.
1st Venice International Film Festival | Introduction
"Starred Up" premiered at the Telluride Film Festival, before screening at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival on 9 September 2013, where it opened the official sidebar section, Special Presentations, sparking both acclaim and praise, the London Film Festival on 10 October, the Les Arcs International Film Festival on 15 December, the International Film Festival Rotterdam on 24 January 2014, and the Tribeca Film Festival. On 8 October 2013, Fox Searchlight Pictures acquired the distribution rights to "Starred Up" in the United Kingdom shortly after the screenings at the Telluride Film Festival and the Toronto International Film Festival. On 7 November 2013, Tribeca Film picked up the North American distribution rights to "Starred Up", with a planned 2014 theatrical release.
Starred Up | Release
It premiered at the FilmFest DC International Film Festival, and was shown at over 25 other film festivals.
The First Basket | Film festivals
It folded The Taos Talking Picture Festival in 2003. The original Taos Talking Pictures is not connected to and bears no resemblance to Taos Talking Pictures, Ltd., which is a for-profit operation.
Taos Talking Pictures Film Festival | Introduction
The 2005 Bangkok International Film Festival started on January 13 and ran until January 24. The Golden Kinnaree Awards were announced on January 21.
2005 Bangkok International Film Festival | Introduction
After the 1998 Festival, due to liability issues, CineVic and the Festival became separate societies.
Victoria Film Festival | Festival History
Jay Cornelius helped Leake set up the first festival by recruiting people that he knew from his previous job as a film instructor. There were over 148 volunteers that helped pull off the first Portland Film Festival. These volunteers helped with a wide range of activities from directing music, operations, other volunteers, and social media, to helping with legal advising, talking photos, and more. The first film festival was held from August 27 through September 1, 2013 and featured networking events, workshops, a beer garden, and food carts. 83 films were shown in the inaugural festival and over 600 were submitted for consideration at the festival.
Portland Film Festival | History
The Festival organisers were also concerned that the local police had not made sufficient provision for their patrons' safety. However, they praised the police for their handling of the security for the 2013 Festival.
Q! Film Festival | History
The 1st FotoFilm Tijuana Festival took place from 14 to 17 July 2017, in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico. As stated by its CEO, Julio Rodríguez, the first edition of the festival, held at the Tijuana Cultural Center, had 30 different activities, 41 speakers, 180 featured artists, and 22,000 attendees. The official selection for short films was divided in two fields: "Desde el Norte" ("From the North") including four short films by Mexican directors based on Baja California; and "Jukebox Visual", for short films sent through an open call for filmmakers posted on the FilmFreeway website. The feature films included in the main program were selected by the festival film programmer.
2017 FotoFilm Tijuana | Introduction