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Mountain Film Festival
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Ocean Lover
bean
Okay, this had to be in the one of the films. Good thing I didn't read this before dinner! 
Miss Kitty
Meow
I admit it...I did have to cover my eyes at times and I think I even got up and walked around during boodog. But make no mistake, most of us live in a bubble and have no idea how the rest of the world lives. Those films always make you think and I believe if just one stays with you and changes your ways, the festival was a great success. My husband and I were blown away about the water film. You will never leave a tap on again after watching that.
John R
needs to get out more
Jimmy mentioned this from the stage at least once that I heard, that the theme of Mountainfilm this year was Mongolia. So, we got a lot of submissions of film from/about Mongolia. We do not solicit certain film, nor do we make film, we take what is submitted. Sometimes the content is eye opening(or closing), but this is the way things are done where the film was shot. Remember the african bushman who tracked his prey on foot for an entire day, killed it, dressed it, cooked and dried it, to take back to his village? This is reality, and are unable and unwilling to censor it. It would not be fair to the film maker or to our audience.
You, our audience have been extremely supportive since we started coming down here and we thank you for that. The Mountainfilm experience should be taken as a whole, not in parts, and we tailor it for you in that fashion. There may be parts you love, and parts you aren't too keen on. We hope so. One of our goals is to get our audience to think, and sometimes thinking makes people uncomfortable. If so, we've done out job. We crave your feedback, good or bad, so we can know you better, and use that knowledge to make the next year's presentation that much better, based on what we get submitted.
As for the food preperation practices in Mongolia, that's life, there. We have hunters here, that kill their own food, with arrows and firearms. That meat is being dressed somewhere. As is the NY strip steak that is purchased at Publix. Any meat eater cannot be naive enough not to know where there food originates from. It too is being disected somewhere before it gets to their plate. Most just don't care to think about it.
Next year's topic for Mountainfilm is energy, so please walk, bike, or drive your Prius to the event. no SUV's allowed
This topic is quite hot and more and more films are being prepared by those treehuggers out there to show you what's really going on, so be ready.
Thanks so much for your support. We love knowing that you guys have such a great time with us, and think it's the coolest thing on 30A, ever. Know that we challenge ourselves to keep having it as the coolest thing, ans are striving every year to make it better.
You, our audience have been extremely supportive since we started coming down here and we thank you for that. The Mountainfilm experience should be taken as a whole, not in parts, and we tailor it for you in that fashion. There may be parts you love, and parts you aren't too keen on. We hope so. One of our goals is to get our audience to think, and sometimes thinking makes people uncomfortable. If so, we've done out job. We crave your feedback, good or bad, so we can know you better, and use that knowledge to make the next year's presentation that much better, based on what we get submitted.
As for the food preperation practices in Mongolia, that's life, there. We have hunters here, that kill their own food, with arrows and firearms. That meat is being dressed somewhere. As is the NY strip steak that is purchased at Publix. Any meat eater cannot be naive enough not to know where there food originates from. It too is being disected somewhere before it gets to their plate. Most just don't care to think about it.
Next year's topic for Mountainfilm is energy, so please walk, bike, or drive your Prius to the event. no SUV's allowed
This topic is quite hot and more and more films are being prepared by those treehuggers out there to show you what's really going on, so be ready.Thanks so much for your support. We love knowing that you guys have such a great time with us, and think it's the coolest thing on 30A, ever. Know that we challenge ourselves to keep having it as the coolest thing, ans are striving every year to make it better.
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Beachmom
Beach Fanatic
"Kids that Rip" was about amazing kids surfing, biking, snowboarding etc. These kids were enjoying life every minute,(I don't know how their moms don't have a heart attack!!) They were not pushing buttons on a screen for fun, they were doing it. I loved it!
As for the "Boodog", that may be a little too "southern" for me!!
flyforfun
Beach Fanatic
All I can say about this years festavial, is that they just did not seem as good as previous years. I think its because St. Joe is previewing the films now, and not allowing any that has any off colored language or comments to be viewed. I guess that is good in order to maintain the "Worlds Greatest Family Resort", however I must the "off colored" ones, cause they seem to be more humerous. Maybe the need to have G-rated one night and PG-13 the next night. Otherwise I am going to have to start flying to CO for the real festival.
flyforfun
Beach Fanatic
As for the "Boodog", that may be a little too "southern" for me!!
What do you mean too southern? My grand-ma from NY taught me how to do that when I was kid with my neighbors cat!
Miss Kitty
Meow
All I can say about this years festavial, is that they just did not seem as good as previous years. I think its because St. Joe is previewing the films now, and not allowing any that has any off colored language or comments to be viewed. I guess that is good in order to maintain the "Worlds Greatest Family Resort", however I must the "off colored" ones, cause they seem to be more humerous. Maybe the need to have G-rated one night and PG-13 the next night. Otherwise I am going to have to start flying to CO for the real festival.
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John R
needs to get out more
All I can say about this years festavial, is that they just did not seem as good as previous years. I think its because St. Joe is previewing the films now, and not allowing any that has any off colored language or comments to be viewed. I guess that is good in order to maintain the "Worlds Greatest Family Resort", however I must the "off colored" ones, cause they seem to be more humerous. Maybe the need to have G-rated one night and PG-13 the next night. Otherwise I am going to have to start flying to CO for the real festival.
flyforfun, sorry you feel that way, i thought the films this year were great, but i'm a little biased.
with regards to watercolor screening the films, you are wrong. jimmy and i screened the films, and i don't remember anyone from watercolor being present.
let me know if you do indeed come to telluride for the home festival, i'd love to see people from 'here' out there. and, i want to fly right seat for the trip.
jr
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flyforfun
Beach Fanatic
Well I guess the rumor I heard was incorrect then. Someone who use to work at Watercolor had informed me that there had been numerous complaints about the language used in previous flicks, and were asked to clean things up. Which I think is good since WC is the Worlds #1 Family Resort. I guess this years flicks did not seem as funny and colorful as years past. Since my little bird can only fly up to 14,000 feet , I am not sure I can navigate around all those higher mountain passes with out flying into one. Mountain flying in a small plane takes a lot of experience, something you don't get just flying around Florida and lower Alabama. I do know small planes do land there, but the weather conditions have to be really good and one has to have really good knowledge of the mountain passes. So we would have to go on one of the big birds. Maybe we should get a group of folks together and go to the big show next year?
