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2007 Mountainfilm awards

Best of Festival

“Edge of Eden: Living with Grizzlies”

Mountain Culture Award

“Nine Winters Old”

Festival Director’s Pick

“Loop”

Best Action Film

“Roam”

Best Climbing Film

“First Ascent”

Best Adventure Film

“Coast to Coast”

Spirit and Advocacy Award

“Our Life, Our Land”

Man and Nature Award

“Conflict Tiger”

Spirit of Place Award

“Light at the Edge of the World: The Science of the Mind”

Cash Awards:

Manfrotto® Environmental Award:

“Building the Future — Energy”

Finlandia® Natural Purity Award
Honoring the Best Film on River and Water Conservation:

“Exploring the Mother of Waters: Source to Sea on Mekong”

The Charlie Fowler Climbing Film Award:

“E11”

Must-See Films:

Category: Indomitable Spirit

“Row Hard No Excuses”

“Granny D Goes to Washington”

“Crawl Walk Run”

“Conviction” 

Category: Wake-Up Call

“Sharkwater”

“Everything’s Cool”

“A Crude Awakening”

Special Jury Award:

“God Grew Tired of Us” & “Aerialist”

Kidz Kino Awards

Most Entertaining Nature Film:

“Ride of the Mergansers”

Best Animated Film:

“Badgered”

Best Photography in a Nature Film:

“Safari”

Kids choice award:

“Rita”

Student Rendezvous Program Award:

“Hard As Nails”

People’s Choice Award:

“Our Life, Our Land”

(Tied for second were “Running Down the Man” and “Loop”)

Awards Artist

The award artist for Mountainfilm 2007 is Richard Arnold. He has created bas-releif in bronze of the Eiger summit with two climbers on top adapted from a photograph by festival gallery artist Thomas Ulrich. Richard lives in Telluride and is a climber, ski instructor, flyfisherman and sculptor. His work can be viewed at www.arnoldtelluridestudio.com

The Charlie Fowler Climbing Film Award

Based on an idea by Charlie’s sister Ginny and her husband Maurie, Mountainfilm in Telluride is honored to announce the establishment of an annual Charlie Fowler Climbing Film Award. The cash award of $1,000 will be initiated at the 2007 Festival and will be announced by Charlie’s sister at the Closing Picnic & Awards Ceremony at Telluride Town Park on May 28, 2007. The goal is to make the award self-sustaining for as long as Mountainfilm projectors roll, supported wholly through accrued donations. The film selected to receive the award would express a love for documenting remote exploration and climbing, exhibit an adventurous flair for filmmaking, and would include but not be limited to either first ascent attempts or a strong cultural thread throughout the piece. The hope is that the award will afford the winning filmmaker the opportunity to continue making climbing films, a cinematic genre that Charlie was very much a part of, either as the main talent or simply as part of the crew.
 
This yearly tribute to a former member of the Mountainfilm Board of Directors and Advisory Board member until his death, a humanitarian, and one of the finest mountaineers in the world aligns with Mountainfilm’s idea that friends, adventure, passion,and powerful ideas are worth sustaining.

To contribute, send a check to:

The Charlie Fowler Climbing Film Award
c/o Mountainfilm in Telluride
PO Box 1088
Telluride CO 81435