Telluride Film Festival

The Nugget Project

Telluride Film Festival has purchased the Nugget Building & Theater, a historic Telluride landmark, and is investing to ensure it becomes an even greater benefit to the community as a vibrant, living place for film education, cultivating future film lovers, nurturing great film artists, and film itself.

Here’s to watching and loving great movies!

Renovation work includes structural reinforcement and stabilization of historic walls and foundations, employee housing + retail, improved office spaces, newly constructed lodging to accommodate artist-in-residence called “The Luddy House” named after TFF co-founder Tom Luddy, a rooftop cultural event space, and a state-of-the-art Nugget Theater upgrade in partnership with Dolby and Meyer Sound that will reopen to the public when the project is complete.

As a new hub for TFF’s local educational programming and national fellowship and residency programs, the project will also honor the organization’s founding traditions by celebrating the power of great directors; championing the traditions and history of cinema and cinema-going auteurs; the importance of film criticism, preservation and discussion; and the essential conviviality of coming together to watch movies around the silver screen.

To laugh, cry and swoon together in a dark room is bliss. There is nothing quite like the anticipation of a good movie—thus, to secure a permanent home for this joy, to preserve and foster this unique art form, is imperative - understanding that film literacy is as profound and important as any other form.

Invest in The Nugget Project capital campaign to keep the light of film on for many generations to come!

For more information on The Nugget Project, please email nuggetproject@telluridefilmfestival.org

About Your Donation

The Telluride Film Festival is presented by the National Film Preserve, Ltd., a non-profit 501(c)(3) arts and educational organization.