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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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 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
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 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 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 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
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
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
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
(In fact, some of the so-called premieres screened at the Telluride Film Festival before TIFF.)
2010 Toronto International Film Festival | Introduction
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
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
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 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
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
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 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
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
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
& 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
The 39th Telluride Film Festival in 2013 was dedicated to her.
Jan Sharp | Legacy
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
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
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
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
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
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
There were recent mining activity in the area and the only remains of the old site are scant ruins.
Telluride, Nevada | History
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 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
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
In 1981, the festival moved to Park City, Utah, and changed the dates from September to January. The move from late summer to midwinter was done by the executive director Susan Barrell with the cooperation of Hollywood director Sydney Pollack, who suggested that running a film festival in a ski resort during winter would draw more attention from Hollywood. It was called the US Film and Video Festival.
Sundance Film Festival | 1981: US Film and Video Festival
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
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
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
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
Located in the legendary outdoor venue in the mountain town of Telluride, Colorado, the 42nd Telluride Jazz Festival, August 3–5, 2018, celebrates the cultural tradition, modern styles and cutting edge progression of the American Jazz art form delivering an aesthetic experience. Event organizers SBG Productions bring a new era to the Telluride Jazz Festival, showcasing three days and nights of jazz, funk, soul, folk and gospel, with a goal of community engagement and student education. A musically-charged local culture accompanied by a wide variety of special events including interactive artist performances, children's activities, late night club shows, on-site camping, outdoor recreation, jazz art walk, historical walking tours, and much more will round out the weekend celebration.
Telluride Jazz Festival | Introduction
New Monsoon: Clay Brasher – package design, package concept Cookie Marenco – editing, mastering
Live at the Telluride Bluegrass Festival | Personnel
"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
As of 2018 the festival web site is no longer existent and the festival may no longer be held.
First Look 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 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
Dan Sandowsky, Telluride's emcee for twenty nine years, has written a book about the festival. It is entitled "Telluride Bluegrass Festival — 40 Years of Festivation".
Telluride Bluegrass Festival | Book
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 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 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
Juried (competition)
Disposable Film Festival | See also
Over the course of more than 30 years, notable performers have included Muddy Waters, Dizzy Gillespie, Glenn Miller Orchestra, Chick Corea, Etta James, Herbie Hancock, Spyro Gyra, John Scofield, John Medeski, Ozomatli, Karl Denson, Jimmy Herring, Bill Frisell Trio, The Greyboy Allstars, Charlie Hunter, Doug Lawrence (jazz) and many more.
Telluride Jazz Festival | Acts
It became one of the venues of the festival.
Tribeca 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
The Tallgrass Film Festival is an annual film festival held in Wichita, Kansas, specializing in independent films. It was founded in 2003 by Timothy Gruver. Gruver was raised in Wichita. He studied filmmaking at Brigham Young University. After college, Gruver worked for the animation wing of Steven Spielberg's DreamWorks studio. Gruver had worked for other film festivals and modeled Tallgrass after the Telluride Film Festival. Tallgrass is operated by the non-profit organization Tallgrass Film Association. There were 190 features and shorts screened in 2012.
Tallgrass Film Festival | Introduction
Telluride Foundation is a non-profit organization which functions in the Telluride region, including three counties in southwest Colorado. The Foundation was established in 2000, and operates initiatives, makes grants, and invests in communities.
Telluride Foundation | 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
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 15th Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) took place in Toronto, Canada between September 6 and September 15, 1990. Gerald Pratley introduced "Cinematheque Ontario" now known as TIFF Cinematheque at the festival, when the festival assumed management of the Ontario Film Institute.
1990 Toronto International Film Festival | Introduction
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 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
The 14th Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) took place in Toronto, Ontario, Canada between September 7 and September 16, 1989. "In Country" by Norman Jewison was selected as the opening film.
1989 Toronto International Film Festival | Introduction
A year later, it was placed on the register.
Telluride House | Building
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 Telluride region was shaped over millions of years by changes in the climate and various rock formations. Originally an inland sea, the area was underwater until a mountain building episode called the Laramie Orogeny pushed up the land 70 million years ago. Following that episode a period of volcanic activity added to the mass of these mountains as well as enriching them with minerals and heavy metals. Gold was first discovered in the Telluride region in 1858, and the fledgling mining camp was founded under the name Columbia in 1878. Due to post office confusion with another mining camp called Columbia in California, Telluride was forced to change its name by the U.S.
Telluride Ski Resort | Before skiing
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
In 2010, the festival expanded its eligibility of Rocky Mountain states to be as defined by the U.S. Library of Congress, which includes the additional states of Arizona, Nevada, and Idaho. The festival included an actor and studio class with two professional acting coaches: Paul Neal Rohr of the Rohrering Success Radio Hour, and Patrick Sheridan of the Emerging Filmmakers Project. The studio class was taught by Teresa Garcia, a Colorado film producer and CRFF organizer, and Laffrey Witbrod of the Colorado Film School. Extra equipment was supplied by Light Services Inc, of Denver. The script reading session, hosted by Mark Mook, a Colorado actor and CRFF organizer, read portions the two winning screenplays employing local actors.
Castle Rock Film Festival | History
After the 1998 Festival, due to liability issues, CineVic and the Festival became separate societies.
Victoria Film Festival | Festival History
One of the features of the festival is a band contest. Twelve bands are given slots in the competition. Judges rate the bands and the top four go to the main stage to compete before the crowd. Past winners include:
Telluride Bluegrass Festival | Band contest
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 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
The history of the festival can be traced back to the Soviet era when in 1990 organized his “Festival of Un-bought Cinema” in Podolsk, Moscow Region. It was an attempt to support national film production and distribution in the time of social, political and economic turmoil in the USSR when film financing (up until then provided by the state) was reduced and national distribution network had collapsed. In 1991 the festival got its nowadays name “Kinotavr” and was relocated to Sochi. In 1994 it already consisted of two parts: the Open Russian Film Festival (ORFF) and the International Film Festival (IFF), registered with the International Federation of Associations of Film Producers (FIAPF).
Kinotavr | History
The festival was founded in 1976 at the Windsor Arms Hotel by Bill Marshall, Henk Van der Kolk and Dusty Cohl. Beginning as a collection of the best-regarded films from film festivals around the world, it had an inaugural attendance of 35,000. Ironically, however, Hollywood studios withdrew their submissions from TIFF due to concerns that Toronto audiences would be too parochial for their products. In 1978, the decision was made to replace the name "Festival of Festivals" with "Toronto International Film Festival" as well as a move to a new location for the festival, moving from the Harbour Castle Hotel to the Plaza II, and also a new director, with Wayne Clark replacing Marshall.
Toronto International Film Festival | History
Telluride Bluegrass Festival is an annual music festival in Telluride, Colorado hosted by Planet Bluegrass. Although traditionally the festival focuses on bluegrass music, it often features music from a variety of related genres.
Telluride Bluegrass Festival | Introduction
Before 1993 the festival didn't have a director,the function was introduced in 1993.
Manaki Brothers Film Festival | List of Festival Directors
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
Founded in 1977, the Dunedin manifestation of the Festival presented a highlights package of 75 features, plus short films, at the Regent Theatre. Founded along with the Dunedin event in 1977, the Christchurch Festival presented substantially the same programme.
New Zealand International Film Festival | Dunedin and Christchurch
The Callatis Festival began in 1999 and has expanded ever since.
Callatis Festival | History
The 2008 Toronto International Film Festival, (TIFF) was held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. This 33rd annual festival was from September 4 to September 13, 2008. The opening night gala was the World War I romantic epic "Passchendaele" from Canadian director Paul Gross.
2008 Toronto International Film Festival | Introduction
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
One of Tell's many performances was the Bamboozle Left festival in Pomona, California on October 14, 2006.
William Tell (musician) | Biography
The Galway African Film Festival was established in 2008.
Galway African Film Festival | History
"International Toruń Film Festival TOFFI" was held from 18 to 22 October 2006. There were now two separate competitions organised for features and shorts. American production "We Go Way Back" by Lynn Shelton won the Golden Angel for best feature film. The Golden Angel for short was awarded to "Emilka płacze" by Rafał Kapeliński, which also received the FLISAK Award. Special Jury Prize and Critic Award of Zygmunt Kałużyński was won by the Slovenian film "Odgrobadogroba" by Jan Cvitkovic.
Tofifest | International Toruń Film Festival TOFFI 2006
In October 1977, Mark Fishkin and fellow film buffs Rita Cahill and Lois Cole organized a three-day film festival. It featured three film tributes, Francis Ford Coppola's "The Rain People" and George Lucas' "Filmmaker". "We did a very innovative program that I would not be embarrassed to repeat today," Fishkin said. The first official festival took place in August 1978.
Mill Valley Film Festival | History
Mossuril Film Festival - website
Mossuril District | Introduction
The 3rd Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) took place in Toronto, Ontario, Canada between September 14 and September 21, 1978. It showcased 85 films, the lowest number of films in the festival's history. "In Praise of Older Women" directed by George Kaczender was selected as the opening film. When the Ontario Film Review Board objected to a 40-second scene between Marilyn Lightstone and Tom Berenger, co-producer of the film Robert Lantos cut the scene for the theatrical run. Despite that, some of the TIFF staff managed to smuggle original uncut version of the film and run it into the theatre.
1978 Toronto International Film Festival | Introduction
"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
In 2017, Teitelbaum was awarded the distinction of Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres de la "République Française"
Cinemania (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
Influenced by the experience of Australian film makers with the Edinburgh Film Festival since 1947 and the festival connected with the annual meeting of the Australian Council of Film Societies held at Olinda in the Dandenong Ranges, Victoria in 1952, later Melbourne International Film Festival, a committee sprang from the Film Users Association of New South Wales to establish a film festival in Sydney. The committee included Alan Stout, Professor of Philosophy at The University of Sydney, filmmakers John Heyer and John Kingsford Smith, and Federation of Film Societies secretary David Donaldson. Under the direction of Donaldson, the inaugural festival opened on 11 June 1954 and was held over four days, with screenings at Sydney University.
Sydney Film Festival | History
The 6th Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) took place in Toronto, Ontario, Canada between September 10 and September 19, 1981. The festival screened films from more than twenty different countries. "Ticket to Heaven", a Canadian film, was selected as the opening film. Another Canadian film, "Threshold", was chosen as the closing film. The People's Choice Award was awarded to "Chariots of Fire", directed by Hugh Hudson; the film later won an Oscar for Best Picture. The Canadian documentary "Not a Love Story", about the pornography industry, was also featured at the festival. Initially it was banned by the Ontario Censor Board, but later they allowed a single screening of film during the festival.
1981 Toronto International Film Festival | Introduction
The 22nd Toronto International Film Festival ran from September 4 to September 13, 1997. This festival was notable for the introduction of the Masters programme to TIFF.
1997 Toronto International Film Festival | Introduction
In 1966 there was a military coup d'état in Argentina; in 1968 and 1970 the "Instituto de Cine" took charge of the festival.
Mar del Plata International Film Festival | History
"Shattered" also screened at the Aspen ShortsFest, Telluride Mountainfilm Festival, Kendal Mountain Festival, Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival, Adventure Awards Days, 5Point Film Festival, New Zealand Mountain Film Festival, INKAFEST Mountain Film Festival, Fontana Arts Festival, Adventure Movie Awards, Coldsmoke Winter Film, and Fernie Mountain Film Festival.
Tyler Stableford | Documentary films
"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 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
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
The film received the Best of Festival Award from the Blue Oceans Film Festival, an Audience Choice Award from the Flagstaff Mountain Film Festival, the Best Documentary Audience Award from the Ashland Independent Film Festival, the Audience Choice Award from Mountainfilm in Telluride, and second place Audience Award at the Wild & Scenic Film Festival.
Bag It (film) | Reception
The categories awarded at the third edition were: Feature films Short films
Festival de Cine Entre Largos y Cortos de Oriente | Past categories
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
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