P.S. If you’ve already submitted a film, and are waiting for confirmation of receipt of your materials, please be patient. We’re working through submissions, and updating the WAB website as quickly as we can. Thank you!

Best Picture – Tontine Massacre

Best Drama – Tontine Massacre
Best Documentary – Fast Women
Best Comedy – 10 Years Later

Best Narrative Short – Butterfly Circus
Best Green Film – How To Boil a Frog
Best Extreme Sports Film – Race Across The Sky
Best Faith-Based Film – Jesus Freaks

Best Director – Joshua Weigel (Butterfly Circus)
Best Actor – Fred Stoller (Fred & Vinnie)
Best Actress – Malerie Grady (Sissy)

Congratulations to the winners, and thank you to all our filmmakers! More news and pictures from the event will be posted in the coming days…

Happy Holidays!

Friday:
8 a.m. Registration Opens (located at The Village Lodge)
9:50 a.m. Finding God in the City of Angels, 116 mins, FBF (Jennifer Jessum)
12 p.m. The Worlds Tallest Man, 50 mins, DOC (Stuart Clarke)
1 p.m. The Potential Inside, 96 mins, DRA (Scotty Curlee)
2:45 p.m. His Name is Bob, 79 mins, FBF (Lisa Johnson & J. Sebastian Lee)
4:15 p.m. Watch Out for Slick, 95 mins, COM (Herb Linsey)
6 p.m. Shorts Program A, 78 mins
7:30 p.m. North (Mark C Smith) & Rev: A Buried Treasure (Vance Shaw), EXT 64 mins
8:45 p.m. 10 Years Later, 97 mins, COM (Aaron Metchik)
9:30 p.m. Tontine Massacre, 80 mins, DRA (Ezna Sands)

Saturday:
9 a.m. How to Boil a Frog (Jon Cooksey) & A Walk in the Clouds (Doug McMains ), GRN 98 mins
10:45 a.m. Jeremy (Brian Faye) & Crazy Diamond (Hanny Lee), FBF 41 mins
12 p.m. Race Across the Sky, 74 mins, EXT
1:30 p.m. Jesus Freaks, 96 mins, FBF (Chad Cobb)
3:30 p.m. Fred & Vinnie, 90 mins, COM (Steve Skrovan)
5:15 p.m. Fast Women, 97 mins, DOC (George Delalis)
7 p.m. Shorts Program B, 78 mins
8:30 p.m. Play Again, 80 mins, DOC (Tonje Schei)

Sunday:
Morning Awards Presentation

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Shorts Program A – Friday:
Midlife (22m, Michael Swingler)
Trials of Kenneth (23m, Will Brown Hernández )
Quarters (18 m, Drew Mylrea)
Chase Thompson, A Film by Chase Thompson (12m, Vincent Lin)
Temple of Light (4m, Bill Levinson )

Shorts Program B – Saturday:
The Butterfly Circus (20m, Joshua Weigel)
Sissy (22m, Bonnie Root)
Not Evelyn Cho (10m, Sunday Boling)
3 Things (19m, Gary Ravenscroft)
Weirdo (4 m, Audrey Najar)

Both properties offer excellent accomodations, however we recommend The Village Lodge as it is where registration is located, and it is closer to the screenings, as well as downtown Mammoth Lakes. Check out the Travel & Lodging page for more details and links.

Without further ado………here are this year’s films!

Tontine Massacre (Drama)
The Potential Inside (Drama)
Fast Women (Documentary)
Play Again (Documentary)
The World’s Tallest Man: Still Growing (Documentary)
Fred & Vinnie (Comedy)
Watch Out for Slick (Comedy)
10 Years Later (Comedy)
Finding God in the City of Angels (Faith)
His Name Is Bob (Faith)
Jeremy (Faith)
Jesus Freaks (Faith)
Crazy Diamond (Faith))
North (Extreme Sports)
Rev: A Buried Treasure (Extreme Sports)
Race Across the Sky (Extreme Sports)
How to Boil a Frog (Green)
Walk in the Clouds (Green)
Weirdo (Short)
Quarters (Short)
Sissy (Short)
Midlife (Short)
3 Things (Short)
Not Evelyn Cho (Short)
Chase Thompson, a film by Chase Thompson (Short)
The Butterfly Circus (Short)
The Trials of Kenneth (Short)
Temple of Light (Short)

Congratulations to you, the Official Selections of the 2010 Mammoth Film Festival. Individual filmmakers will be contacted via email with further details over the next few days. A screening schedule is under construction, and will be posted here when available. We are also working on a discount deal for lodging in Mammoth during the festival for those who would like to attend, more details to come.

Thank you to everyone for their patience with the selection process. And thank you to EVERYONE who submitted a film! We know how arduous and involved just making a film can be, and we are always pleasantly surprised by how difficult it is to make these final choices when presented with so much great film work!

Once the announcement has been made, we will also begin posting details about the event, such as lodging discounts, screening schedules, etc., as well as information about the Mammoth area.

Thanks! More to come…….

(For those who have already submitted, or will submit, please note that we do batch check-ins on Withoutabox, usually when received films enter the review process. If you have submitted a film, and the status on Withoutabox has not been updated, this does not necessarily mean that the film has not been received, just that it has not been added to a review batch yet. Postal tracking is a good solution if you are concerned about package transit; and remember that deadlines are based on the postmark date, not the received by date.)

Don’t forget that in addition to our traditional categories, we host specialty competitions for Green films, Extreme Sports (Action Sports?…Adventure Sports?…) films, and Faith-based films. All three of these genres are especially notable, the first two because of their relevance to Mammoth, and general popularity; and the latter because of the rising social emphasis on faith-based content in entertainment.

We are always impressed with the great work coming from independent filmmakers today, and we look forward to announcing our 2010 film lineup in early November!