Chicago Underground Film Festival
Name of Festival: Chicago Underground Film Festival
Since: 1993
When: March 6 - 10, 2013
Where: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Website: cuff.org/
About the Festival: "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."
18th Annual Chicago Underground Film Festival Awards
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Jerzy Rose's Some Girls Never Learn emerged the big winner of the 2011 Chicago Underground Film Festival picking up Audience Award in addition to the Made in Chicago Award. The film synopsis, " A university has found the leg bone of Amelia Earhart. The diver responsible for the discovery is receiving mysterious messages from the famous dead pilot. A high school science teacher travels to the underworld to bring back his girlfriend. Animals are arranging themselves into concentric circles and helium has escaped into the luminiferous aether."
2011 Chicago Underground Film Festival Awards
Jury Awards:
Best Documentary (feature)
And Again – Adele Horne
Best Documentary (short)
History Minor – Ryan Garrett
Best Experimental:
Home Movie – John Price
Best Experimental:
Slow Action – Ben Rivers
Best Narrative (feature):
The Color Wheel – Alex Ross Perry
Best Narrative (feature):
Snow on tha Bluff – Damon Russell
Made in Chicago Award:
Some Girls Never Learn – Jerzy Rose
Audience Award:
Some Girls Never Learn – Jerzy Rose
Honorable Mentions:
Young Bird Season – Nellie Kluz
Second Law: South Leh St. – Mike Gibisser
Chainsaw Found Jesus – Spencer Parsons
Devil’s Gate – Laura Kraning
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18th Chicago Underground Film Festival Announces Opening and Closing Night Films + Jury
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The 18th Chicago Underground Film Festival (CUFF) will open with the World Premiere of Chicago filmmaker, and School of the Art Institute of Chicago alum, Jerzy Rose’s first feature, “Some Girls Never Learn,” a humorous, absurd romp through time and space, the underworld and the stratosphere. Closing Night will bring Jeff Krulik and John Heyn back to Chicago to share the cult favorite “Heavy Metal Parking Lot” as an opener for their brand new feature documentary “Heavy Metal Picnic“
The festival runs June 2 – June 9, 2011 and all screenings will take place at the Gene Siskel Film Center of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 164 North State Street.
The Chicago Underground team also announced its jurors for the 2011 Festival:
Donald Harrison - Executive Director of the Ann Arbor Film Festival
Chi Jang Yin - Chinese-born media artist known for her conceptual, documentary work, which comments upon the state of Chinese culture, past and present
Ignatiy Vishnevetsky - one of the new co-hosts of “Ebert Presents At The Movies"
Irvine Welsh acclaimed and often controversial writer, his book Trainspotting was made into a 1996 film of the same name.
