Mammoth Lakes Film Festival

The Civil Dead,” “Woman on the Outside,” “Tel Aviv” and “Eternal Spring” Receive  Top Jury Prizes

MLFF Winners Meital Ner and Director Marat Parkhomovsky

 

"Tel Aviv" - Meital Ner and Yotam Gotal

 

"The Civil Dead" - Lead Actor and Director Clay Tatum and Whitmer Thomas

 

The Mammoth Lakes Film Festival, held from May 25-29, screened over 90 feature and short films. Over $45,000 in awards and cash prizes were presented to the winners.

 

“This year’s festival will not only be remembered as a gathering of amazing filmmakers with truly remarkable stories to tell but brought us back together as a community,” said Shira Dubrovner, Festival Director and Founder. “We take great pride in taking showing films other festivals might not take a chance on. This year was no different. We consciously seek these culturally significant stories that are the voices of our future.”

 

Films winning the top awards from the jury included “The Civil Dead,” directed by Clay Tatum, written by Clay Tatum and Whitmer Thomas, for Best North American Narrative Feature; and “Tel Aviv,” directed and written by Marat Parkhomovsky, for Best International Narrative Feature. “Tel Aviv” also won the Audience Award for Best International Narrative Feature. The feature length documentary winners were “A Woman on the Outside,” directed by Zara Katz and Lisa Riordan Seville and written by Kiara C. Jones for Best North American Documentary; and“Eternal Spring,” directed by Jason Loftus, which also won the Audience Award for Best International Documentary. “The Pez Outlaw” won the Audience Award for Best N. American Documentary Feature, and “Kickin Knowledge” won the Audience Award for Best North American Narrative Feature.

 

The full list of Juried and Audience Awards is below:

 

Jury Awards

Best North American Narrative Feature: “The Civil Dead,” directed by Clay Tatum, written by Clay Tatum and Whitmer Thomas.

 

Best International Narrative Feature: “Tel Aviv,” Directed and written by Marat Parkhomovsky.

Best North American Documentary Feature: “A Woman on the Outside,” directed by Zara Katz and Lisa Riordan Seville.

Bravery Award for Documentary Feature: “Little Palestine (Diary of a Siege),” directed by Abdallah Al-Khatib.

Best International Documentary Feature: “Eternal Spring” directed by Jason Loftus

Best Screenplay: “Saw the Forest” by Patrick L. McConnell

Best N. American Narrative Short: “Birds,” directed by Katherine Propper

 Best International Narrative Short: “Be Somebody,” directed by Edelawit Hussien

Best Documentary Short: “Ali and His Miracle Sheep,” directed by Maythem Ridha

Best Animation Short: “The Fourth Wall,” directed by Mahboobeh Kalaee

Best Music Video: “Point and Kill” by Little Simz Featuring Obongjayar, directed by Ebeneza Blanche

 

Audience Awards

Best North American Narrative Feature: “Kickin Knowledge” directed and written by Adinan Kamanzi.

Best International Narrative Feature: “Tel Aviv,” directed and written by Marat Parkhomovsky.

Best North American Documentary Feature: “The Pez Outlaw,” directed by Bryan Storkel and Amy Bandlien Storkel.

Best International Documentary Feature: “Eternal Spring,” directed by Jason Loftus.

 

The 2022 Jury Members: Allison Amon (Producer), Kimberley Browning (Tribeca Film Festival & Hollywood Shorts), Sarah Crowe (Amazon), Sarah Diamond (Slamdance), Thouly Dosios (Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles), Riley Folsom (United Talent Agency), Caleb Hammond (MovieMaker Magazine), Malin Kan (AFI),  David Massey (Independent filmmaker), Scenery Samundra (Music Supervisor), Sandra Seeling-Lipski (Evolution Mallorca International Film Festival), Ana Souza (Sundance), Scott Steindorff (Producer), and Jacques Thelemaque (Filmmakers Alliance).

 

On Saturday, May 29, producer Scott Steindorff (Stone Village Pictures), Indican Pictures Shawn Hill, Zak Kline (Legendary Entertainment), Caleb Hammond (MovieMaker Magazine), Katie McCullough (Festival Formula) andfilmmaker David Massey participated in a panel moderated by Jacques Thelemaque (Founder of the Los Angeles Filmmakers Alliance), where they discussed “Kickstarting Your Career and Trends in Film Distribution.”

 

For information on the 9^th annual festival taking place in 2023, visit www.MammothLakesFilmFestival.com.

 

About the Mammoth Lakes Film Festival

The Mammoth Lakes Film Festival, held in the scenic and majestic setting of Mammoth Lakes in the Eastern Sierra region of California, brings together world-class cinema, emerging filmmakers, industry veterans, and audiences from around the world to celebrate films with thought-provoking vision. The Mammoth Lakes Film Festival is a non-profit 501 (c)3 under the Eastern Sierra Arts Alliance, which has contributed to the arts and culture of the area for the last 14 years through theatre and film festival programming. Visit www.MammothLakesFilmFestival.com for moreinformation or connect on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.

 

2022 Mammoth Lakes Film Festival Sponsors include Panavision, Tambour Foundation, LightIron, Slated,Mammoth Mountain Ski Area, Mono County, Mammoth Lakes Recreation, Visit Mammoth and more.

 

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