Telluride Mountain Film World Tour Returns to Savannah

Jan. 13, 2012 - PRLog -- SAVANNAH, GA-   For the third year, the Telluride Mountainfilm Festival World Tour returns to Savannah on Friday and Saturday, January 20-21.

Mountainfilm will premier a collection of award winning documentary films at the Trustee’s Theater on Broughton Street.  Short films will begin on Friday night at 7:00 pm.  

Family Films will debut on Saturday afternoon at 3:00 pm., followed by the finale at 7:00 pm.
Ticket prices are $10.00 for adults, and $5.00 for students and children, and can be purchased at the Scad Box Office (http://www.scadboxoffice.com) or in person.

Mountainfilm in Savannah is the travelling arm of a 32 year-old documentary film festival, which originated in Telluride, Colorado. Films were originally oriented toward mountain sports and life, but have evolved to a testimony of extraordinary human endeavors.

Films for the Savannah documentary film festival on Friday will include “Yelp (With Apologies to Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl”,  “Way Back Home,” “The Barber of Birmingham,” “On Assignment:  Jimmy Chin,” “Kadoma; Dark Side of the Lens”  and “Cold”.

Family films for Saturday afternoon at 3:00 p.m. will include “Amazonia,” “Skateistan,” “One Plastic Beach,” “The Shark Riddle,” “Tad Pole,” “Animal Beatbox” and “Mr. Happy Man.”

The evening portion of Saturday’s screenings will begin at 7:00 – 9:00 p.m. and will feature “Desert River,” “Chasing Water,” “Into Darkness,”  “With My Own Two Wheels,”  “The Fall Line” and “Towers of Ennedi.”

A synopsis of each film can be seen on  http://www.mountainfilm.org/tour.  

Mountainfilm on Tour has grown out of the traditional Memorial Day Weekend Film Festival in Telluride to engaging audiences all over the world - now reaching over 20,000 people in 70 locations and on five continents. Mountainfilm is dedicated to educating and inspiring audiences about issues that matter, cultures worth exploring, environments worth preserving and conversations worth sustaining.

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