Telluride Film Festival

September, Labor Day weekend

A three-day celebration of the silver screen in Telluride, Colo., the Telluride Film Festival features free outdoor showings in Elks Park with the audience bundled in blankets and sleeping bags. The festival attracts celebrity film makers, actors, and film scholars from all over the globe for national and international premieres and viewings of experimental filmmaking, retrospectives, and tributes.

CONTACTS:
Telluride Film Festival
800 Jones S.
Berkeley, CA 94710
510-665-9494; fax: 510-665-9589
www.telluridefilmfestival.org

SOURCES:
GdUSFest-1984, p. 28
(c)

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