8th Annual Mammoth Lakes Film Festival Announces Award Winners in “In Person” Film Festival Event

Mammoth Lakes, California (June 3, 2022) – The 8^th Annual Mammoth Lakes Film Festival (MLFF) announced this year’s juried and audience award winners at the Closing Night Award Ceremony in Mammoth Lakes on Sunday, May 29, 2022. The 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.

• $1,000 cash award, $10,000 Panavision Camera Rental Grant, $13,500 LightIron Postproduction Package and a Slated script and financial analysis bundle.
• Special Mention: For the Best Performance for Kit Zauhar in “Actual People”, Directed and written by Kit Zauhar.
• Special Mention for Best Cinematography in “The Noise of Engines” Directed by Phillippe Grégoire.

• $1,000 cash award

• $1,000 cash award

• $1,000 cash award
• Special Jury Mention for Bravery Award: “The Quiet Epidemic” directed by Lindsay Keys and Winslow Crane-Murdock

• $1,000 cash award

• $1,000 cash award and a Slated script and financial analysis bundle

• $500 cash award
• Special Jury Mention: “From Water Comes Melon,” directed by Micah Vassau

• $500 cash award
• Special Jury Mention: “Colony Collapse Disorder,” directed by Amos Holzman

• $500 cash award
• Special Mention to “Kak Iraj,” directed by Jamshid Farjvand
• Special Mention to “The Doll,” directed by Elahe Esmaili

• $500 cash award
• Special Mention to “Zoon,” directed by Jonathan Schwenk
• Special Mention to “Conversations With A Whale” directed by Anna Samo

• $500 cash award

• $1,000 cash award and $5,000 Panavision Camera Rental Grant

• $1,000 cash award

• $1,000 cash award

• $1,000 cash award

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.