Mammoth Film Festival Hosts Successful 5th Annual Festival Brought Out All The Stars from Dylan Sprouse and Barbara Palvin to Jamie Chung and Bryan Greenberg, Emile Hirsch, Shia LeBeouf, Aja Naomi King, and Many More

Carlos Lacayo
6 min readMar 14, 2023
Dylan Sprouse and Barbara Palvin. Photo Credit: Shutterstock

Despite record-breaking snowfall and blizzard conditions, the annual Mammoth Film Festival in Mammoth Lakes, California, hosted incredible talent, screened a wide range of amazing films and survived two snowstorms during its 2023 festival, held March 2–6th. With over 84 films, five days of programming, 22 international features and 14 world premieres, the festival did not let the weather stop them from a successful and buzzed about run including four films sold to date from the festival marketplace, led by Bad Hombres to Screen Media.

The international festival in its 5th year, founded in 2018 by Tanner Beard, Tomik Mansoori, Alex Chando and Theo Dumont, kicked off with the screening of Lucas Needs An Agent starring High School Musical’s Lucas Grabeel, alongside Corbin Bleu, Sasha Clements and Katie Leclerc. Following the short debut was the highly anticipated film Padre Pio starring Shia LeBeouf and directed by Abel Ferrara. Due to the weather conditions, Shia and Abel were not able to make the screening, but surprised the audience with a video introduction. The film, which first…

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Carlos Lacayo

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