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Pass Pick Up Reminder: Remember to pick up your pass at the Festival Box Office located in Brigadoon Plaza. Still need a pass? You may purchase online until Monday August 30th. After that, any of our remaining pass levels will be available in this same location conveniently located at the base of the gondola across from the Brigadoon tent.
TFF 37 Guest Director Michael Ondaatje
"How does one choose only six films to represent a love of the art of cinema? One ends up one-handed, with only a portion of the meal. I chose a remarkable first film by one of my favourite directors; an early-forgotten two-hander; a sentimental favourite; a masterpiece of documentary and also a couple of smaller films - lesser known, more local films that were so quickly forgotten after their release. I've ended up with seven films. And one will have to fall away. But for now, let us leave all seven here, on the table." - Michael Ondaatje
Telluride Film Festival, presented by National Film Preserve LTD., is proud to announce its 2010 Guest Director, Michael Ondaatje. The celebrated writer has been invited to select a series of films to present at the 37th Telluride Film Festival. The Guest Director program is sponsored by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Michael Ondaatje, best known as a novelist and author of The English Patient, has a body of work also encompassing memoir, poetry, music and film. He published a volume of memoir, entitled Running in the Family, in 1983. His collections of poetry include There’s a Trick With a Knife I’m Learning To Do (1979); The Collected Works of Billy the Kid: Left Handed Poems (1981); The Cinnamon Peeler: Selected Poems (1989); and Handwriting: Poems (1998). His first novel, Coming Through Slaughter (1976), is a fictional portrait of jazz musician Buddy Bolden. The English Patient (1992) won the Booker Prize for Fiction and was made into an Academy Award-winning film in 1996. In 2000, Ondaatje was awarded the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize, the Prix Medicis, the Governor General’s Award for Fiction, and the Giller Prize for his novel Anil's Ghost. Ondaatje’s most recent non-fiction work is The Conversations: Walter Murch & the Art of Editing Film (2002). His latest novel is entitled Divisadero (2007). He has directed two documentaries, Sons of Poetry (1970) and The Clinton Special: A Film About The Farm Show (1971).
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