Mammoth Film Festival

Describing our Feature Film Tournament as “American Idol for Moviemakers,” MovieMaker magazine just honored the Mammoth Film Festival by naming us to their 2009 List of Top 25 Festivals worth entering.

MovieMaker, the world’s best-selling independent movie magazine, searched festivals across all of North America to come up with this list, so we’re especially proud to be included.

Here’s what they wrote:

If you’ve ever longed to be on “American Idol for Moviemakers,” here’s your chance. A young festival rapidly growing in recognition and praise, MFF hosts a unique, elimination-style movie tournament where the audience chooses the winner. In 2007, its first year, the audience chose especially wisely by selecting Jon Dunham’s Spirit of the Marathon as its winner; the film went on to gross $1 million theatrically in just two nights. With the event set in Mammoth Lakes, an hour flight from L.A., and home to Mammoth Mountain Ski Area, it’s also a chance for Hollywood types to get away from it all–if only for the day.

Thank you, MovieMaker!

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