3 Must-See Mountainfilm Flicks

May 28th, 2013 • BY Kate Siber

Every year, just as Telluride, Colorado, wakes up from its spring sleep, a storm of creativity arrives: Mountainfilm. For four days, filmmakers, journalists, professional athletes, artists, DJs, environmentalists, and Nobel laureates convene to watch films, listen to presentations, and clink pint glasses. What they all have in common is an earnest interest in social and environmental change, and the theme that seems to run through every event is: How do we make the world a better place?

It’s nearly impossible to emerge from the Mountainfilm in Telluride festival uninspired. This year, Kevin Pearce, the snowboarder and Shaun White rival who catastrophically smashed his head, introduced a film about his recovery and the power of will and acceptance. Author and climate activist Bill McKibben spoke about the growing movement called divestment and why it works. Enric Sala, a marine ecologist and National Geographic explorer, spoke about creating marine reserves, and Lynsey Addario, a prize-winning photojournalist, showed her work on women confronting political or natural disasters across the globe.

And, of course, dozens of films screened in Telluride’s town park and its tiny, Victorian theaters. Though the Mountainfilm festival wrapped up yesterday, it goes on tour in a matter of weeks, hitting cities from Chattanooga, Tennessee to Lander, Wyoming. Here are just a few of our favorite films, which you can catch at a tour stop or an independent theater soon:

1. High and Hallowed: Everest 1963

In 1963, a team of mountaineers set out to put an American on the summit of Everest for the first time. Their story is one of the great epics of mountaineering history—a tale of unbelievable luck and perseverance that inspired generations of climbers. This film, presented by Eddie Bauer, includes interviews with some of the surviving mountaineers, edge-of-your-seat footage from the 1963 expedition, and real historic radio recordings, plus footage from a commemorative expedition that tried—and failed—to follow the hair-raising West Ridge route the 1963 athletes pioneered.

High and Hallowed: 1963 – Official Trailer – Premiering at MountainFilm in Telluride from High & Hallowed on Vimeo.

2. Climate of Doubt

Climate change skeptics may be small in number, but they have accomplished spectacular and improbable success. This small minority has changed the debate on climate change, introducing doubt over a topic that 97% of scientists agree upon and stalling meaningful legislation on the most pressing environmental issue of our era. Written by reporter John Hockenberry and producer Catherine Upin, this is a scary and important documentary originally aired on PBS’s Frontline.

Watch Climate of Doubt on PBS. See more from FRONTLINE.

3. Which Way is the Front Line from Here? The Life and Time of Tim Hetherington

Brit Tim Hetherington was an unusual war photojournalist. Though he captured moments of violence in combat, he largely focused on quieter—but no less powerful—moments: a soldier sleeping, a woman saying goodbye to her husband, a serene portrait of a horrifically maimed civilian. He was a humanist, which is perhaps why the tragedy of his death in Libya in 2011 reverberated even beyond the news community. “Which Way is the Front Line from Here?” is a tribute to Hetherington by author Sebastian Junger, who produced the 2010 movie “Restrepo” with him. The film is a moving portrait of an exceptional human being as well as a musing on the nature of war and the journalist’s role within it. At times sentimental, it’s an unusual mixture: It not only makes you think, it makes you feel deeply, both for Hetherington and his subjects.

Which Way Is The Front Line From Here? The Life… by HBO

 

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