Serge Bromberg?s voice cuts through the blackness, an enamored whisper to a film unspooling before him as if it were a love only a pillowcase away.

For Australian director Peter Weir, the qualities that attract him to a certain film or script are hard to explain.

When Max Schuetz was 22 months old, he was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia ? a cancer of white blood cells that disrupts the function of bone marrow.

Kimani Maruge was an elderly Kenyan farmer ? impoverished, illiterate and carrying the scars of Colonial rule ? when the government of his country fulfilled a promise to offer free education for all in 2003.

As the Telluride Film Festival looks forward with first screenings and premieres of movies, the UCLA Film and Television Archive looks back to make sure moving images of yesteryears aren?t forgotten.

Most days, he goes to work and to school; at work, he?s a grant writer, and at school, he?s studying to be an urban planner.

A wilderness bill that would protect more than 60,000 acres here finds itself wandering a denser forest than it may protect: The 111th Congress.

Like any film festival, much of what goes down at the Telluride Film Festival does so sealed off from the outside world ? in the dark, womb-like theaters that are built all over town for the event.

Stan Garnett, the district attorney for Boulder County, has been eying the office of Colorado Attorney General for a few years.

New legislation regulating Colorado?s budding medical marijuana industry is leaving local dispensary owners and county officials in a grey area, as dispensaries try to meet a new requirement that they cultivate at least 70 percent of their cannabis on site or at an ?optional premises cultivation operation.?

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