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2008 mountainfilm jury

The Mountainfilm Prize Jury

Adrian Belic

Adrian Belic began making films in elementary school with his brother Roko. The brothers’ first commercial documentary, Genghis Blues, was winner of the 1999 Sundance Audience Award, nominated for an Academy Award Nomination and, of course, a memorable hit at Mountainfilm. Adrian’s latest project—Beyond the Call, a feature documentary about three Americans who travel to the world’s war zones delivering lifesaving humanitarian aid—has won awards at festivals across the world, including Best of Festival at Mountainfilm 2006. We hope he brings his moustache to Mountainfilm this year.

Jeanmarie Condon

Jeanmarie Condon has made many award-winning documentaries for ABC News and is now a senior producer at Nightline. She believes documentary filmmakers "hold up a mirror to society, documenting its frustrations, exploring its faults, calling for justice, clarifying its present and preserving its sense of history." Of her work as a journalist, Jeanmarie says, “I do this work above all because I believe that it is our ability to empathize with one another that, even in our darkest hours, continues to save us." This is her first time attending Mountainfilm.

Susan Saint James

Susan Saint James has had a memorable film and television career (McMillan and Wife, Kate and Allie, Love at First Bite), but we know her here in Telluride more as a neighbor and good friend to Mountainfilm. We also know her as the mother of five great kids. Two of which, Charlie and Willie Ebersol, will show their second film—Don’t Look Down—at Mountainfilm this year.

The Charlie Fowler Award Jury

Brad Wieners

Brad Wieners is the editor of Men's Journal. He was formerly executive editor of National Geographic Adventure and senior editor at Outside. He is co-creator of two books: Burning Man and Reality Check: Here's the Real Future, a survey of technologies promised in popular culture. His travels have taken him to Alaska, Amsterdam, Arctic Norway, Argentina and a number of other regions that don't begin with the first letter of the alphabet. He lives with his family in Nyack, New York, and looks forward to rowing on the Hudson this summer.

Hilaree O'Neill

Hilaree O’Neill is a skiing and adventure globetrotter. As a ski mountaineer, she has climbed and skied in such places as India, Russia, China and Tibet, Mongolia, Alaska, Canada, the Isle of South Georgia, Bolivia, Argentina and Chile. As a North Face athlete, she’s worked on adventure films with Warren Miller, NBC and the Outdoor Life Network. For the past seven years, when not traveling around the world, Hilaree has called Telluride home.

Majka Burhardt

Majka Burhardt is a writer, climber and guide who lives in Boulder, Colorado. Her latest book is Vertical Ethiopia: Climbing Toward Possibility in the Horn of Africa. Majka’s non-fiction writing has appeared in various magazines, including Men’s Health, Climbing, The Explorers Journal, Women’s Adventure and the Patagonia catalogue. She is currently finishing her first novel.