About the Festival

The Allegany Arts Council is excited to announce the inaugural Mountain Maryland Film Festival, scheduled to take place November 8-9, 2024!

In anticipation of our upcoming initiative, MusicTown Maryland, the inaugural festival will focus on a musical theme in 2024, featuring screenings of well-known films along with a shorts competition, inviting filmmakers to submit works 15 minutes or less for cash prizes.

Admission includes entry to all films, the shorts block and awards program, and the late night trivia and dance party. A cash bar will be available onsite.

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Meet the Jurors

Ty DeMartino

Ty DeMartino is an award-winning playwright and screenwriter residing in Frostburg, Md. For the stage, Ty penned the book to the country jukebox musical Ticket to Nashville and later wrote the film adaptation (A Nashville Wish). Ty was named “Playwright of the Year” by The Baltimore City Paper for his political work The Blessed Mothers of War. His father-son drama, Finding Fossils, was named Best Production of the Baltimore Playwrights Festival and was later produced by The Road Theatre in Hollywood where it was honored as “Outstanding Production” by Stage Scene L.A.

For the screen and TV, Ty wrote the short film, The Exhibit, which was an official selection of the 2024 IndieX Film Fest, as well as the features Tulsa (co-writer, 2020 ICFF “Best Feature/Audience Award”), The Pledge and A Christmas Tree Miracle. He has recently written scripts for two episodic TV projects for GKg Productions in Los Angeles and Pryor Entertainment in Atlanta.

Griffin Detrick

Griffin Detrick is a 2005 graduate of Bishop Walsh School, and a 2010 graduate of Frostburg State University where he majored in accounting. He is a Certified Public Accountant licensed in the state of Maryland. Griffin has helped produce several short films in the Baltimore film community, one of which he wrote and directed and was accepted into several film festivals.

He also serves as Treasurer for AHEC West and is a co-founder of the Western MD Chapter of Toastmasters International.

In his downtime, he enjoys hanging out with friends, his wife Karen, and their three rescue dogs, Barney and Lady, and Grover.

Dave Romero

Dave Romero is an engineer by training and an artist by worldview. After two decades in the semiconductor industry as an engineer and strategic marketing executive, in 2001 Dave launched his production company, Vibrant Image Productions.

His small production team works with companies, non-profits, and government to communicate their stories and big ideas through a creative fusion of visual media including, but not limited to film.