Underground Film, Surrealism, Dada, Pop Art, Abstract Expressionism, Minimalism, Psychedelia, Found Footage, Cinema Verte', Documentary, Film Noir, Structuralism, Found Footage, Punk Rock, Electronic Music, Hip Hop, Folk Music, Cinema of Transgression, Hippies, Yippies, Freedom Fighters, Video Art, Grad School Dropouts, Grad School Graduates, Pop Culture, Hollywood, Midnight Movies, Indie Films, Cable Access, Tabloid TV, Silent Films, Life, Death, Sex, Violence, Drugs, Rock & Roll, Black Metal, Video Games, George Bush, Paris Hilton, Spike, Mike, Slackers, Dykes, B-Movies, Blockbusters, "The Kids", You, Me, everyone and everything
Directors
George & Mike Kuchar, Stan Brakhage, Jack Smith, John Waters, Jim Jarmusch, Jon Moritsugu, Craig Baldwin, James Fotopoulos, Bela Tarr, Todd Haynes, Todd Verow, Guiseppe Andrews, Jim Sikora, Danny Plotnick, Michael Snow, DA Pennebacker, Sarah Jacobson, Sam Green and Bill Siegel, Michael Galinsky & Suki Hawley, Jim Finn, Goddard, Fassbinder, Welles, Cassavetes, Douglas Sirk, Jim Trainor, Richard Kern, Martha Colburn, Bryan Boyce, Jennet Thomas, Matt McCormick, Andy Warhol, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Doris Wishman, Nick Zedd, Kenneth Anger
Awards
Festivals
Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival, Chicago International Film Festival, Images Festival, Views from the Avant Garde, Video Mundi, Oberhausen International Short Film Festival, Media City, Avanto, Impakt, Cinematexas, PDX Fest, FLEX Fest, New York Underground Film Festival, MIXNYC, Image Forum Fest, Res Fest, Rotterdam, Berlin
Professional Affiliations
IFP, AIVF
Chicago Underground Film Festival's Interests
General
Underground, Experimental and Independent Films and Videos that don't suck.
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Music
people who've played at CUFF parties include:The Wesley Willis Fiasco, Big Chief, Moe Tucker, The Chamber Strings, The Demoliotion Doll Rods, Chris Brokaw, Plastic Crimewave
Playing at CUFF parties this year : Bobby Conn and the Glass Gypsies, Roommate, Mucca Pazza, The Deatholz!, The Goblins, M.O.T.O., Weird Paul, Beirut, The Midwest Hackers
The Office Ambience:
Movies
2006 features: Nice Bombs, LOL, Bulldog in the Whitehouse, Danielson : A Family Movie, Treasures of Long Gone John, Sabbia, The Tailenders, The Monks: Transatlantic Feedback, Weird Paul: A Lo Fidelity Documentary, Transposition of The Great Vessels, Dance Party USA, High Score, Palestine Song, Shattered, The Maryland Trilogy, Dangerous Men, Making Waves, Lay Down Tracks, Valley Girl (2002), The Wild Condition, The Traveler. Complete shedule online at http://www.cuff.org
Heroes
Kennth Anger
Doris Wishman
Stan Brakhage
John Waters
Paul Morrissey
Andy Warhol
Tony Conrad
Jack Smith
Richard Kern
James Fotopoulos
Todd Verow
Esther Bell
Sarah Jacobson
Jeff Krulik
About me: Founded in 1993, The Chicago Underground Film Festival (CUFF) is a year-round organization dedicated to the work of film and video makers with defiantly independent visions. Unlike many other "independent" film events our goal is not to imitate old guard, market-driven events such as Sundance but Instead to focus on the artistc, aesthetic and fun side of independent filmmaking. CUFF promotes works that dissent radically in form, content and technique from both the tired conventions of Hollywood and the increasingly stagnant IndieWood mainstream. visit WWW.CUFF.ORG
Who I'd like to meet: Film and videomakers with defiantly independent visions. audienes who like to think and be entertained.Sponsors who want to help make this happen.
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I think that a lot of people get lost in Hollywood. They become enticed with false glamour and empty promises; they lose track of their dreams. In the end, you find these folks, who are sometimes... sadly your friends - living this hazy self-destructive existence. The problem is that people just don't like to talk about this tragic aspect of cinema. They just want to hear about the winners. This is why I made this film. - Anthony Rivero Stabley
As we gear up for the fall and Halloween, I just wanted to invite you to the premiere of my vampire suspense thriller: "The Union".
We are meeting at Founder's Park in Centerville, Utah and please invite any and everyone. Here is the poster to print out and email them to everyone you know. This is for potential development for a feature film that we build awareness and get everyone there. Hope you see you there.
Again, this event is for everyone, potentially provide networking for nation-wide filmmakers, producers, and industry people - to gather and talk about their projects, meet talent, producers, and if anything, meet the cast and crew, and everyone can visit, chill, and have a good time.
Please come and invite the family and all your friends, and again, please email and get the word out and have all your friends do the same. This well-made, Hollywood quality short film is a unique vampire suspense drama/thriller no one will want to miss!!
International Short Film Festival Psarokokalo 2009 01 - 09 February 2009, Athens, Greece
Invitation to participate The 3rd International Short Film Festival PSAROKOKALO is organized by the Non Profit Organisation Psarokokalo, which invites you to participate. You can play an active role in promoting this newly established institution by sending us your fiction, documentary or animated short film. The festival will take place from the 1st till the 8th of February in Athens. The festival aims to present to the public new productions of audiovisual work that seek new solutions in matters of picture, rhythm and narration by using new and older technologies. The festival’s program includes projections from filmmakers from Greece and all over the world as well as audiovisual galleries and lots of happenings.
CONDITIONS:
Each participant should fill in and sign the entry form. If the entry form is filled in and sent by e-mail, the director or producer must also send a signed copy by mail. All films must have English subtitles. Each director can participate with more than one film, but has to declare the category for each of the films. Applications should reach the Festival premises by November 15, 2008. The final copies of the DVDs should reach the Festival premises by December 1ST , 2008. The order in which the films will be projected and the program of the Festival is arranged by the Festival’s Director, depending on the technical particularities, the duration and the grouping of the films.
Please send a DVD copy of the film for the pre - selection and in case that your film will be at the final selection it will be projected. The Festival Committee would like to keep the DVDs of films submitted for selection for its archives and invites film representatives to give their permission for this in the entry forms. If permission is not given, the DVDs will be returned to the address specified on the entry form after viewing.
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