Mammoth Film Festival

MAMMOTH LAKES, CA — The Mammoth Film Festival selection committee has announced the lineup of films for the 3rd Annual Mammoth Film Festival. The announcement was made by MFF Program Director Brian Hammers at the official announcement ceremony, held at Side Door Cafe in Mammoth Lakes. The films accepted into the festival were chosen out of hundreds of submitted films from around the world. Except for Screening Series selections, films will compete in a variety of genre contests, including MFF’s traditional elimination-style feature film tournament.

The 3rd Annual Mammoth Film Festival will take place December 9 to 13, 2009, in Mammoth Lakes, California. Winners will be announced at the Festival Awards Party on December 13, where nine awards will be presented: Best Documentary Short Film; Best Narrative Short Film; Best Green Film; Best Extreme Sports Film; four Best in Category awards to feature film finalists in documentary, foreign, drama, and comedy/musical; and the festival’s top award, Best Picture, for the top overall feature film.

A full listing of films, film desctriptions, and screening times, as well as information on lodging and passes for the festival, will be available on the official website at www.mammothfilmfestival.com.

Films accepted into the 2009 Mammoth Film Festival:

Feature Film Tournament
In/Significant Others
Carried Away
Chicago Overcoat
Easier With Practice
Ready Or Not
16 To Life
Bottleworld
Before We Close
My Run
9000 Needles
A Message From The East
A Sea Change
Bitter/Sweet
I’m Not Harry Jenson

Green Film Competition
Obvious Luxury Rife with Responsible Subterfuge
Dive!
Generations
Cost of Living
Meltdown In Tibet
Climate Change: How Do We Know?

Extreme Sports Film Competition
Beyond Midnight: The Grand Traverse
Mind of the Demon: The Larry Linkogle Story
Second Nature
The Arena
Sheer Bliss
Axel Naglich: Mount St. Elias

Short Film Competition – Documentary
Changing The Truth
Ways On Wheels
The Sealed Orders of Liv Ullmann
A Drop in the Bucket
Beyond Limits
On The Grind

Short Film Competition – Narrative
Kilo
Lizard
In Fidelity
Cart
True Beauty This Night
Help
Underwear
Around The Block
Scavenger
Ugly
The Heart of Things
Leave Me
For a Fistful of Snow
Banana Bread
Deadspiel
Trolley Boy
Viko
Purge
Pawn
Old Days
The One Last Time
Porcelain & Diamonds
Mistaken
Adelaide
Whose Dog Is It Anyway?
Planet Sun
The Unknown

Screening Series
Rock Slyde
Floored
Running to the Limits
The Making of the Nutcracker

About Mammoth Film Festival

Mammoth Film Festival is an annual international winter film festival in Mammoth Lakes, California, home of the Mammoth Mountain ski resort. In 2009, MovieMaker, the world’s best-selling independent movie magazine, named the Mammoth Film Festival to its list of Top 25 Festivals. The Festival includes four film competitions and nine awards, and accepts a broad range of entries in feature, short, green, and extreme sports film categories. The main Feature Film competition is a trademark elimination-style tournament.

With over 1.5 million annual skier visits, Mammoth Mountain is currently the third most frequented resort in the United States. Along with world-class skiing, the town of Mammoth Lakes also offers premiere dining, accommodations, and resort activities.

www.mammothfilmfestival.com

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