The Telluride Film Festival (TFF) is an international educational event celebrating excellence in the art of film. It exists to provide a stimulating annual gathering, open to everyone, in which the lovers and creators of cinema come together to see and discuss the most interesting work of the past and present.
The generous grant from GGF helps support the Telluride Film Festival Student Symposium, an educational program that brings undergraduate and graduate students from around the world to participate in the annual, in-person Telluride Film Festival. The Symposium gives students the opportunity to meet with cinema greats in an intimate setting, with skilled faculty who act as gentle guides, allowing students to lead the dialogue, thereby providing an unmatched interactive experience.
The GGF grant enables TFF to provide a full-ride scholarship to an incoming Symposium student from an GGF partner college or university to attend the Festival in Telluride, CO over Labor Day weekend. The scholarship covers all expenses including travel, lodging, pass, and student stipend. As the Festival works to include students from all backgrounds, the scholarship is invaluable for students from under-served communities to obtain resources that enable them to partake in this life-changing opportunity.
