FeltSoul Media–the film production company owned by Telluride-based Ben Knight and Denver-based Travis Rummel–took home the coveted Audience Award yesterday afternoon at the 30th annual Telluride Mountainfilm festival, for their film Red Gold, about the fight to save Bristol Bay Alaska and its legendary sockeye salmon run.

According to Mountainfilm officials, some distributors think the audience award is a much better harbinger of success for a film than a juried award. Red Gold tells the story of a proposed gold mine at the headwaters of Bristol Bay, Alaska, and how the impact of the mine could effect the sportfishing, commercial fishing, and very lifeblood of the region.

FeltSoul previously produced the movie “The Hatch”–about the famed salmonfly hatch on Colorado’s Gunnison River and Running Down the Man, about chasing roosterfish with a fly rod along the coast of southern Baja. For more info, visit www.feltsoulmedia.com