October 13; 7–10 PM
in the Charmaine and Maurice Kaplan Theater
Tickets: $12 (in advance) or
$15 (at the door)

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Red Gold
Ben Knight & Travis Rummel

MOUNTAINFILM Festival
A collaboration with REI

The curtain’s rising for an evening of award-winning, exhilarating, and provocative films from around the world. Telluride’s MOUNTAINFILM Festival includes short and long pieces about adventure sports, cultures, and remarkable people. These films illustrate the world we live in and the one we’d like to live in.

Monday, October 13; 7–10 PM
$12 in advance; $15 at the door
Charmaine and Maurice Kaplan Theater
Register now!

Film List:

• Mountainfilm Intro
  Mountainfilm Trailers


• Play Gravity: Chugach (52 minutes)
  Samuel Gyger
  Film Trailer


• Losing the Elephants (23 minutes)
  

Losing the Elephants Peck Euwer

• End of the Affair (3 minutes)
  Simon Gee and John Houlihan


• Shikashika (11 minutes)
  Stephen Hyde
  


• The Job (4 minutes)
  Jonathan Browning
  


• I Met the Walrus (5 minutes)
  Josh Raskin


• Red Gold (60 minutes)
  Ben Knight and Travis Rummel
  Film Trailer
  At the headwaters of the Kvichak and Nushagak Rivers in Bristol Bay, Alaska—the two largest remaining sockeye salmon runs on the planet—mining companies Northern Dynasty and Anglo American have proposed to extract what may prove to be the richest deposit of gold and copper in the world, perhaps worth as much as $600 billion. Talented Telluride filmmakers Ben Knight and Travis Rummel (previously at Mountainfilm with The Hatch and Running Down the Man) spent more than two months in Bristol Bay, documenting the tension between native fishermen who oppose the dam and mine officials who say they will build a “clean” mine that will leave the salmon’s habitat untouched. Mountainfilm is thrilled to host the world premiere of this exquisite film that goes beyond the conflict, offering a portrait of a unique way of life that wouldn’t exist if the salmon don't return with Bristol Bay’s tide. —Emily Long

Please note that these films may appear in a different order and are subject to change.

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