Hollywood Don't Surf!
 is a 2011 documentary film that premiered in the 2010 Cannes Film Festival while a work in progress and held its North American premiere at the 2011 Telluride Film Festival, where it was presented to a packed park at the Abel Gance Outdoor theater by actress Daryl Hannah.
Life Itself is a 2014 American biographical documentary film about film critic Roger Ebert, directed by Steve James and produced by Zak Piper, Steve James and Garrett Basch.
 The film is based on Ebert's 2011 memoir of the same name.
 It premiered at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival and was an official selection at the 67th Cannes Film Festival.
 The 41st Telluride Film Festival hosted a special screening of the film on August 28, 2014.
 Magnolia Pictures released the film theatrically in the United States and simultaneously via video on demand platforms on July 4, 2014.
"The Artist" is a 2011 French romantic comedy–drama film directed by Michel Hazanavicius, starring Jean Dujardin and Bérénice Bejo.
 The film is set in Hollywood between 1927 and 1932 and focuses on a declining film star (Dujardin) and a rising actress (Bejo), as silent cinema falls out of fashion and is replaced by the talkies.
 The film premiered at the 64th Cannes Film Festival on 15 May 2011, where Dujardin won the Best Actor Award.
 It was released in France on 12 October 2011.
 Following successful screenings at the Telluride Film Festival, the Toronto International Film Festival, and the New York Film Festival, "The Artist" was released on 23 November 2011 in the United States.
 The film earned a worldwide box office total of more than $133 million.
 Rotten Tomatoes, a review aggregator, surveyed 275 reviews and judged 97% to be positive.
Youssou N'Dour: I Bring What I Love is a 2008 documentary film directed by filmmaker Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi that chronicles Senegalese icon Youssou N'Dour as he releases his Grammy Award-winning album "Egypt" and works to promote a more tolerant view of Islam.
 The film features musical superstar/activists Bono and Peter Gabriel.
 The documentary screened at festivals internationally including the Telluride Film Festival and Toronto International Film Festival in 2008, winning numerous audience awards as well the Special Jury Prize at the Middle East International Film Festival in 2008 and a nomination for the Pare Lorentz Award at the International Documentary Association Awards in 2009.
 The film premiered in New York City as the opening night of Brooklyn Academy of Music's Muslim Voices: Arts & Ideas Festival in 2009, and opened in theaters in the US and internationally to much acclaim.
 The film's soundtrack was released by Nonesuch Records in 2010.
The Palace is a 2011 Cypriot-Australian short film co-production, written and directed by Anthony Maras, that enjoyed its international premiere at the 2011 Telluride Film Festival and won 'Best Short Fiction Film' and 'Best Screenplay in a Short Film' in the 2012 Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards.
The Telluride Film Festival is a film festival in Telluride, Colorado, U.S., over Labor Day Weekend in September of each year.
Tom Luddy (born 1943) is an American film producer and the co-founder of the Telluride Film Festival.
 He has been a member of the jury at the 11th Moscow International Film Festival, the 38th Berlin International Film Festival and the 1993 Cannes Film Festival.
The Guest Director position is held by a different individual each year who is invited by the Telluride Film Festival Directors to join them in the creation of the festival program.
 The guest director serves as a key collaborator in all of the festival's programming decisions, bringing new ideas and, quite often, overlooked films to Telluride.
 Below is a list of each guest director followed by the films the director specifically chose to highlight.
Daryl Christine Hannah (born December 3, 1960) is an American film actress.
Gariné Torossian is an Armenian-Canadian filmmaker.
 Her works include "Stone, Time, Touch" which won best documentary at the Warsaw International Film Festival in 2007.
Her films have screened at MoMa, the Telluride Film Festival (Colorado), Lux Cinema (London), the Jerusalem Film Festival, the Warsaw International Film Festival, Berlinale, and a host of cinematheques, including those in Berlin, Edmonton, Ottawa, Winnipeg and Vancouver.
 Her debut short, Visions (1992), was part of a retrospective at Centre Pompidou when she was 22.
 Her subsequent shorts were screened at New York Museum of Modern Art Cineprobe when she was 25.
 Torossian's work has been broadcast on Arte France, Documentary Channel (Canada), Bravo Canada, Sundance Channel (USA), SBS (Australia) and WTN (Canada).
 Her films focus on notions of memory, longing and identity, underlined by her diverse and comprehensive filmography.

Question:  What is the nationality of the actress who presented Hollywood [Blank] Surf! at the 2011 Telluride Film Festival?
Answer: American