Selecting films for an underground film festival comes with a more open perspective than festival programmers usually imagine. Katherine Berger, Festival Director of the 9th Sydney Underground Film Festival, wants films with an edge.”[…] just look at our past programming and know we aren’t the one to program your polite, heartfelt Bambi pic!’ We talked […]
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6 Attempts at Defining ‘Underground’ with the CHICAGO UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL
MovieMaker Magazine just listed the Chicago Underground Film Festival as one of the coolest underground film festivals in the world*. Artistic Director Bryan Wendorf didn’t want to define the word ‘underground’. That made us even more curious so we tried it anyways. Is your film ‘underground’ enough to submit… DEADLINE • 15 December 2013 1. […]
KARLOVY VARY
Today we spoke to Karel Och, Artistic Director of the 48th KARLOVY VARY INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL DEADLINE • 29 March 2013 This year we have a special program called ‘Imagina’ and it focuses on films which, if I wanted to simplify, I would call them experimental but let’s say films with a highly unusual narrative – something […]