37th Telluride Wrap Report
Written by: FFT Webmaster | September 7th, 2010
Telluride, CO – The 37th Telluride Film Festival ended Labor Day, presented by the National Film Preserve. Two surprise “Sneak Previews” joined the previously announced list of twenty-four feature films that played in the Festival’s main program; thirteen documentaries in the Backlot program; twenty-five new short films; and six revivals selected by Guest Director Michael Ondaatje. Telluride Film Festival’s celebration of art and film, set amongst the beauty of the Rockies, opened Friday, September 3 and closed today, September 6, 2010.
The following unannounced Sneak Previews screened at the 37th Telluride Film Festival:
127 HOURS (d. Danny Boyl, U.S., 2010)
BLACK SWAN (d. Darren Aronofsky, U.S., 2010)
Participating in seminars and panels ranging from cinema to culture to nature, and everything in between were Festival guests: Olivier Assayas, Danny Boyle, Claudia Cardinale, Lavinia Currier, Shlomi Eldar,Charles Ferguson, Colin Firth, James Franco, Stephen Frears, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Werner Herzog, Tom Hooper, Kazuo Ishiguro, Ben Mankiewicz, Lesley Manville, Greil Marcus, Errol Morris, Michael Ondaatje, Aron Ralston, Geoffrey Rush, Peter Sellars, Bertrand Tavernier and Peter Weir.
Additional attending Festival guests and program participants include:
Ehud Bleiberg, Serge Bromberg, James Bruce, Ken Burns, Justin Chadwick, Lee Chang-dong, Mark Cousins, Jake Eberts, Ralph Eggleston, Michelangelo Frammartino Sasha Waters Freyer, Andrew Garfield, Alex Garland, Ed Harris, Naomie Harris, Jan-Christopher Horak, Dennis Jakob, Harutyun Khachatryan, Kent Jones, Stanton Kaye, Bob Last, Richard Leacock, Phillip Lopate, Audrey Marrs, Kris Marshall, Craig McCall, Todd McCarthy, Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra, Carey Mulligan, Alexander Nanau, Bill Plympton, Edgar Ramirez, Kirill Razlogov, Mark Romanek, Judith Rosenberg, Teri Schwartz, Florin Serban, Fernando Trueba, Paolo Cherchi Usai, Sami van Ingen, Denis Villeneuve, Jane Weiner and Jon Wilkman.
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