Telluride Film Festival

The Telluride Film Festival was started in 1974 by Bill Pence and Tom Luddy in the town of Telluride, Colorado. It is operated by the National Film Preserve, LTD a non-profit organization based in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. It is held annually over Labor Day weekend each year.

Festival Trivia

Each year, a small painting is applied to the sidewalk outside the Sheridan Hotel to commemorate the near fatality of festival director Tom Luddy.

Related Topics:
Sheridan Hotel - Tom Luddy

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The festival operations/production department is unofficially known as Vespucci Pictures, who's slogan is "Save a buck, make a buck."

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There is a festival super hero; bike riding Cookie Boy.

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