GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KKCO) - The Telluride Film Festival will be back in town starting Friday, August 29, and ending September 1. The festival will include over sixty feature films, short films, and revival programs, and more than thirty countries will be represented in the films. The festival will also include tributes, conversations, panels, student programs, and festivities.
Popular names in attendance this weekend include Oprah Winfrey, Jeremy Allen White, Ethan Hawke, Emma Stone, George Clooney, Adam Sandler, Jodie Foster, and more.
KKCO got an exclusive interview with the director of Sallie's Ashes, a documentary airing Sunday, August 31, at the festival. Director Brennan Robideaux gave us an inside look at what it's like to have your film play at one of the most prestigious festivals in America.
"I don't want to be cliché about it, but it's all my dreams come true. This is my second major film, and this is all I've ever wanted. A film festival of this prestige to recognize the work and allow us to show it to an audience in theaters," said Robideaux.
Robideaux's film, Sallie's Ashes, follows a group of Alabama grandmothers who fight for the removal of a toxic coal ash pit that threatens the waters of their beloved Mobile Bay.