On Thursday, February 3 seasoned filmmakers Tanner Beard and Tomik Mansoori lead the 4th Annual Mammoth Film Festival in Mammoth Lakes, California.
The festival took place over four days and featured over 90 films across the Feature, Documentary, Short and Episodic categories. For the first time ever, a music video category debuted and was judged by award winning director, Andrew Sandler. The festival strives to showcase the work of numerous talented filmmakers, established actors and incredible newcomers across diverse backgrounds. “We’re filmmakers making a festival for filmmakers and we know what that means,” states founder and President of Mammoth Film Festival Tanner Beard.
While there are several festivals, its quite clear that The Mammoth Film Festival is unique and keeps getting better each year with numerous talent coming to showcase their work, support friends and take in the stunning views of Mammoth Lakes. The festival presented by Marina Studios and Compelling Pictures with partners such as Resorts World Las Vegas, Zouk Group, Volcom, Think: NFT, Mou and PATH Water is held at Minaret Cinemas along with a variety of venues throughout the town. Day one of the festival’s world premieres and special screenings kicked off with some very familiar faces including Kate Bosworth, Ashely Greene Khoury, Nina Dobrev, Skeet Ulrich, Emile Hirsch, and many others. Actor, Nina Dobrev famously known for her roles in The Vampire Diaries, Love Hard, The Perks of Being a Wallflower and many more switched it up and decided to work behind the camera as she made her directorial debut for the film, The One. Opening night also premiered the film, The Immaculate Room starring Emile Hirsch.
Actor & Director Nina Dobrev poses at Mammoth Film Festival 2022
“It’s important to us that when filmmakers submit to us, they know that their movies can be bought and sold here – you have a real chance of taking your film to next level,” Beard explained and that was precisely the energy that followed throughout the rest of the weekend. Filmmakers felt the genuine appreciation of their craft and while attendees worked as hard as they played, the ultimate prize was knowing that their work had been respected and could potentially spring them to an even bigger audience.