Telluride Film Festival
Genre: All genreThis compact four-day festival, set in a former mining town, is very much a film-focused event where audiences talk about filmmaking as an ‘art’ not a business and is held on the annual Labor Day weekend. Although concentrating mainly on features, Telluride also presents three programs of short films (the Great Expectations program focuses specifically on short feature-length films). A unique trait of this festival is that the film line-up is never revealed until the first day of screenings.
Note: This is a non-competitive festival.
Sections
- The Show
- Shorts Section
- Student Prints
- Calling Cards
- Great Expectations
- Backlot
Tips for Attendees
‘Someone said to us that there are no prizes at Telluride but if your film gets a TBA slot (extra screening programmed out of strong response) then that is the prize. Our films got three!’
‘At each screening we delivered an introductory or concluding talk, which garnered very strong and affirmative responses from our audience and festival hosts.’
‘Telluride was an excellent event for us to pick up on our significant US profiling as a filmmaking team. It is such a small and contained festival that social events were easily reached between screening commitments and we were able to meet many key industry people at these events.’
Awards
2021 - Won - Power of the Dog, The - Silver Medallion Award - Jane Campion
2006 - Won - Ten Canoes - Silver Medallion Award - Rolf De Heer
1997 - Won - Human Race, The - Triumph of the Spirit Award
1993 - Won - Everest - Sea To Summit - Best Mountaineering Film - Mountainfilm '93
Screenings
2025 - Golden Spurtle, The
2024 - Memoir of a Snail
2024 - Better Man
2023 - Royal Hotel, The
2022 - Carmen
2021 - Power of the Dog, The
2021 - River
2020 - Peeps
2019 - Australian Dream, The
2017 - Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow
2015 - Only the Dead
2015 - Wake in Fright
2015 - Face of Ukraine, The: Casting Oksana Baiul
2015 - Sherpa
2014 - Writer and Three Script Editors Walk Into a Bar, A
2013 - Tracks
2012 - Sapphires, The
2012 - On Borrowed Time
2012 - Barn Owl
2012 - Boo!
2012 - Rain
2011 - First Interview, The
2011 - Palace, The
2010 - Love Song of Iskra Prufrock, The
2010 - Deeper Than Yesterday
2010 - Plumber, The
2009 - Samson & Delilah
2009 - Making Samson & Delilah
2009 - Bright Star
2009 - Miscreants of Taliwood, The
2008 - Father
2008 - I Love Sarah Jane
2008 - Twelve Canoes
2007 - Spider
2007 - Story of the Kelly Gang, The
2006 - Jindabyne
2006 - Ten Canoes
2006 - Carmichael and Shane
2006 - Burst
2005 - Monster
2005 - Black and White World, A
2005 - Pirate
2003 - Projectionist, The
2003 - Alexandra's Project
2003 - Japanese Story
2003 - Forest, The
2003 - Flat
2002 - Rabbit-Proof Fence
2002 - Shh
2002 - Stump
2002 - Roundabout
2002 - Bing
2002 - Only Person in the World, The
2002 - Dog's Day
2001 - Lantana
2001 - Inja
2001 - INAFLASH
2000 - Tears
2000 - My Bed Your Bed
2000 - My Colour, Your Kind
2000 - Chopper
2000 - Innocence
2000 - better than sex
2000 - Yolngu Boy
2000 - My Mother My Son
1999 - Help Me
1999 - Rise
1999 - Little Echo Lost
1999 - Me Myself I
1998 - Fetch
1998 - Dance Me to My Song
1997 - Rust Bucket
1997 - Titsiana Booberini
1997 - Human Race, The
1996 - Payback
1996 - This Film is a Dog
1996 - Rats in the Ranks
1996 - Lilian's Story
1995 - Swinger
1995 - Hayride to Hell
1995 - Cup, The
1994 - Memories and Dreams
1994 - Gap, The
1994 - Muriel's Wedding
1994 - Eternity
1993 - Piano, The
1993 - Everest - Sea To Summit
1992 - Strictly Ballroom
1991 - Woman's Tale, A
- Website:
- www.telluridefilmfestival.com/
- Email:
- [email protected]
- Start:
- 29/08/2025
- End:
- 1/09/2025