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    Sedona Filmmakers’ Award-Winning Documentary Will Air on PBS Stations Nationwide in April

    Forever Wild Is the Story of How Telluride Citizens Saved Its Valley from Developers
    March 25, 2022No Comments
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    Sedona Internatonal Film FestivalSedona News – Forever Wild, an award-winning documentary about how the citizens of Telluride, Colo., united to save the open land surrounding their town from a billionaire developer, will be seen by a national audience when the film airs on PBS stations in nearly 90 of the nation’s top 100 markets throughout the month of April.

    In Arizona, Forever Wild will air on PBS8 (KAET-TV) in Phoenix on Saturday, April 23 at 6 p.m. and in Tucson on KUAT on Sunday, April 17 at 3 p.m.

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    The film from executive producer Ron Melmon, a filmmaker since the late 1960s, and director Bryan Reinhart, whose work includes a documentary about the making of the film Hoosiers, both Sedona residents, chronicles an environmental and demographic triumph after an out-of-town developer plotted to turn 600 acres of pristine valley floor into a mammoth lake and golf resort by manipulating local politicians and press. That is, until a small group of citizens united the residents, rallied the community and fought for the land.

    Through community events and generous donations of time and money, the town of Telluride raised $50 million in three months to take the developer to court. The Colorado Supreme Court declared that Telluride had the constitutional right to condemn land outside its borders and preserve it from development…forever.

    “I was so inspired by the residents’ ability to come together and protect the land that I wanted to share their story to show others they can do it in their community,” Melmon said. “Now that message will reach into potentially millions of homes in cities across the country thanks to PBS.”

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    PBS stations nationwide have scheduled nearly 900 broadcasts of Forever Wild, which won the Audience Choice Award at the Eugene Environmental Film Festival and the Audience Impact Award at the Sedona International Film Festival, both in 2019, among other honors. The film also was honored for Best Cinematography at the Lyons International Film Festival and Best Documentary Editing at the Colorado International Film Festival.

    In his review on BroadwayWorld.com, critic Herb Paine described Forever Wild as “an exhilarating and inspiring account of a community’s courage and self-sacrifice in order to preserve one of those very special places on the American landscape as accessible to all.”

    Joining Melmon and Reinhart on the Forever Wild team were cinematographer Jim Hurst, whose camerawork was featured in the Oscar-winning Free Solo for National Geographic and editor Christopher Johnson, who has edited documentaries for Netflix, NBC, the Sundance Channel and the Emmy-winning Sonic Sea for the Discovery Channel.

    Forever Wild is produced by the Telluride Project, LLC, a team of creative activists dedicated to promoting environmental preservation and utilizing their collective talents to catalyze change.

    For more information about Forever Wild, visit foreverwildmovie.com.

     

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