The Telluride Mountain Film on Tour was hosted at the Gryphon Theatre over the weekend.
Screening movies at 7 p.m. both days free for the public.
The Haub School of Environment and Natural Resources contacted The Telluride Mountain Film Festival several years ago and films have been screening in the Gryphon Theatre since.
The Telluride Mountain Film on tour started in 1999 as part of the growing Mountain Film Festival of Telluride. The main Mountain Film Festival spans over Telluride and Mountain Village while there are screenings that take the festival films to theaters across the country and internationally. This allows access to large and diverse new audiences that would otherwise have no window into the various filmmakers’ work helping with the mission statement of Mountain Films.
“Our mission is to share the message and vision of each filmmaker to as vast an audience as we can. Our mission is dedicated to educating, inspiring and motivating audiences about issues that matter, cultures worth exploring, environments worth preserving, and adventures worth pursuing and conversations worth sustaining,” said Director of Mountain Film on Tour Henry Lystad. “If we can inspire members of the audience to take some sort of action that betters their lives, the world around them or simply think further about the issues that we presented, then we feel we have completed our task.”
The screening of Mountain Films on Tour at the Gryphon Theater showed the view of many different activities and mountain ranges. From exploration, conservation, hiking, rock climbing, to athletic endeavors each film had a common thing and that them was the mountains. Each film was taken from the perspective of a different film director. The theme of the movies although are to inspire people to go out and enjoy the outdoors as well as educate them on the experience.
“We are just a tiny part of why more and more people are enjoying the outdoors. To educate people about what they can do with their experience is really our goal,” said Lystad. “We continue to grow, as a festival, both physically and spiritually each year, so we both affect attendees, and are affected ourselves by soaking in the educational experiences from our special guests and films.”
