Telluride Film Festival Articles
Telluride 2009: Academy's $50,000 Grant
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has awarded a $50,000 grant to underwrite the 2009 edition of the Telluride Film Festival’s Guest Director program, which this year will feature Alexander Payne, among whose credits are Election, About Schmidt, and Sideways. This is the second consecutive year that the Academy has funded the program. In 2008, the festival’s guest director was Slovenian political philosopher [...]