What do you get when you toss award-winning documentaries, artists, activists and adventurers all into Aspen’s ? The second annual , a four-day celebration of film, adventure and advocacy.
A slightly downsized version of , the festival co-sponsored by ϳԹ, the Aspen event kicks off next Thursday with , director Josh Fox's investigation into the impact of drilling for natural gas, and Eastern Rises, a fly-fishing misadventure on Russia's grizzly- and salmon-choked Kamchatka peninsula.
Speakers include John Vaillant, author of the The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival and Tom Shadyac, director of the autobiographical film , about Shadyac's search for happiness and meaning among the glamour and glitz of Hollywood.
Tickets cost $99 for an all-event pass, $36 for a four-punch pass, and $12 for a single ticket. .
Check out the forthcoming September issue of ϳԹ for our first-ever documentary canon, guest-edited by MountainFilm festival director David Holbrooke.
–Erin Beresini