Mountain Film Continued

The best thing about Mountain Film is that it is a film festival about real things and if you attend the festival, you have the opportunity to meet people involved in a wide range of issues. Many years ago I attended the London Film Festival. I had a blast and saw a lot of movies, a few stars, and while one film I saw was based on the truths of human trafficing, it was still a fictional film about fictional characters living fictional lives. That's what's so great about the movies- you have a chance to escape. Mountain Film offers you an opportunity to do more than just escape, it gives you the chance to travel to places you never thought possible. Today I saw Samsara. It is an amazing film about the journey of three climbers attempting to climb the impossible Meru- a peak in Inda's Vindhya Mountain range. The unique thing about Samsara is that it literally takes you to where no video camera and only a handful of people have ever been before. It was filmed by one of the climbers, Renan Ozturk, and he as well as his other partners in this climb, Conrad Anker and Jimmy Chin are at the festival happy to answer questions and mingle with a probably less adventurous crowd. The opportunity to meet people who are passionate about important issues, activists in these issues, and capture them on film. In the case of Samsara, the Mountain Film Festival in Telluride gives festival goers the opportunity to meet world class climbers. If you still don't have any plans for memorial day weekend, come to the Telluride Mountain Film Festival.