Chicago Underground Film Festival

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Founded in 1994, the Chicago Underground Film Festival (popularly known by the acronym CUFF) occurs each August at various venues in Chicago, Illinois in the USA. The festival's stated goal is "to focus on the artistic, 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". While the festival has always explored the many different definitions of underground film, in its early years the festival's programming consisted mainly of low-budget b-movies and films in the tradition of the Cinema of Transgression but more recently moved its to focus more toward experimental and avant-garde films and videos and documentaries.

2005 CHICAGO UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL WINNERS

Narrative Feature: WHO KILLED COCK ROBIN? Director Travis Wilkerson

Narrative Short: WANNABE Director Frances Bathory

Documentary Feature: THE WILL OF DEAN SNIDER Director Jamie Kibben

Documentary Short: NEW SCHOOL UNION DIARY Director Joel Schlemowitz

Experimental: KOSMOS Director Thorsten Fleisch

Animation: CONE EATER Director Takashi Murata

"Made In Chicago": LAND MARKED/MARQUETTE Director Thomas Comerford

Audience Award: USO JUSTO Director Coleman Miller

Special Jury Prizes:

A FAMILY FINDS ENTERTAINMENT Director Ryan Trecartin

AMERICA'S BIGGEST DICK Director Bryan Boyce

2006 CHICAGO UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL WINNERS

Narrative Feature: BULLDOG IN THE WHITEHOUSE Director Todd Verow

Narrative Short: PAUL AND THE BADGER EPISODE #1 Director Paul Tarrago

Documentary Feature: NICE BOMBS Director Usama Alshaibi

Documentary Short: IN LOVING MEMORY Director Robert Todd

Experimental: S A V E Director Roger Bebee

Animation: HOW SHE SLEPT AT NIGHT Director Lili Carre

Music Video: SABBIA Director Kate McCabe

"Made In Chicago" Award: A LOVER'S DISCOURSE Director Tim Kinsella

Audience Award: DANIELSON: A FAMILY MOVIE Director JL Aronson

Special Jury Prizes:

THE WILD CONDITION Director Rolf Belgum

ANIMAL MOTHER Director Jasmine Way

JEAN GENET IN CHICAGO Director Frederic Moffet

[edit] External links

Official Chicago Underground Film Festival website [1]