The 4th annual Minneapolis Underground Film Festival, which is now open for submissions, is mixing things up a little bit this year. The fest has appointed a new Director, Mark Hanson, to inject some new blood into the proceedings. And if there’s something Muff usually likes, it’s a little blood with their cinema.
It’s not known yet what new visions Hanson will bring to the table, but Muff has previously been known to enjoy the exploitation side of underground filmmaking, as one can tell from last year’s lineup, which included gruesome and spooky fare such as Drew Bolduc and Dan Nelson‘s over-the-top offensive The Taint.
The fest also screened the female vampire film Camilla Hyde, directed by Dave de Vries; John Ervin’s Vixen Highway, Carlos Atanes‘ Maximum Shame and Bill Cooper’s Hunting Buddies. But, they also screened lighter documentaries such as Michael Peterson...
It’s not known yet what new visions Hanson will bring to the table, but Muff has previously been known to enjoy the exploitation side of underground filmmaking, as one can tell from last year’s lineup, which included gruesome and spooky fare such as Drew Bolduc and Dan Nelson‘s over-the-top offensive The Taint.
The fest also screened the female vampire film Camilla Hyde, directed by Dave de Vries; John Ervin’s Vixen Highway, Carlos Atanes‘ Maximum Shame and Bill Cooper’s Hunting Buddies. But, they also screened lighter documentaries such as Michael Peterson...
- 8/3/2011
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
As the holiday season begins to ramp up, the 3rd annual Minneapolis Underground Film Festival is going to be spreading some naughty cheer on Dec. 3-5 for a weekend packed with over 16 feature films, several short films, parties and more.
While there are tons of great films to see at the festival, Bad Lit is especially excited by a trio of features that will be screening. First up is a rare U.S. screening of Spanish avant-garde filmmaker Carlos Atanes‘ third feature film Maximum Shame, an intense and surreal journey into an alternate reality on the verge of the destruction of the entire universe. The film combines philosophical ranting, verbal and physical torture, and singing! What more could you ask for?
Another international film that will be playing comes from just over the northern border. It’s Michael Peterson‘s wickedly entertaining Eddies: The Documentary, a truly inspiring film about...
While there are tons of great films to see at the festival, Bad Lit is especially excited by a trio of features that will be screening. First up is a rare U.S. screening of Spanish avant-garde filmmaker Carlos Atanes‘ third feature film Maximum Shame, an intense and surreal journey into an alternate reality on the verge of the destruction of the entire universe. The film combines philosophical ranting, verbal and physical torture, and singing! What more could you ask for?
Another international film that will be playing comes from just over the northern border. It’s Michael Peterson‘s wickedly entertaining Eddies: The Documentary, a truly inspiring film about...
- 11/29/2010
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
There exists, in every one of us, a tiny creative spark that once ignited can explode out of our heads, hearts and hands into an unstoppable force to be reckoned with. All of our passions, all of our dreams and all of our desires come bursting out with an intense ferocity to create a work of art that is the ultimate expression of who we are as human beings.
In Calgary, the fuel that ignites that spark in its residents is beer. Glorious, delicious, refreshing beer.
This is not to imply that Calgary is filled with drunks. But, in that fair city, there exits the Eddies, a special award given out annually by the Big Rock Brewery to amateur and professional filmmakers who are invited to submit short films promoting the brewery’s ales, lagers, and stouts.
While unknown just about everywhere else, in Calgary and the surrounding region the Eddies are an absolute phenomenon.
In Calgary, the fuel that ignites that spark in its residents is beer. Glorious, delicious, refreshing beer.
This is not to imply that Calgary is filled with drunks. But, in that fair city, there exits the Eddies, a special award given out annually by the Big Rock Brewery to amateur and professional filmmakers who are invited to submit short films promoting the brewery’s ales, lagers, and stouts.
While unknown just about everywhere else, in Calgary and the surrounding region the Eddies are an absolute phenomenon.
- 3/16/2010
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
The first ever Detroit Independent Film Festival has given its Best Documentary award — to a film produced outside of Michigan — Eddies: The Documentary by Calgary filmmaker Michael Peterson. Eddies chronicles the journey of several Canadian filmmakers as they compete in the Big Rock Brewery’s annual filmmaking competition, which is an event relatively unknown outside of Calgary, but is a prodigious affair in the region.
As of this writing, I haven’t posted my review of Eddies on Bad Lit yet, but I’ve seen it and it’s a really wonderful documentary about everyday, creative folks really getting into the spirit of filmmaking — even for what are just essentially short beer commercials. I’ve previously reviewed three short fictional films by Peterson, who’s a great talent out of Canada.
The Detroit Independent Film Festival ran back on March 2-7 at the Burton Film Theatre and screened close to...
As of this writing, I haven’t posted my review of Eddies on Bad Lit yet, but I’ve seen it and it’s a really wonderful documentary about everyday, creative folks really getting into the spirit of filmmaking — even for what are just essentially short beer commercials. I’ve previously reviewed three short fictional films by Peterson, who’s a great talent out of Canada.
The Detroit Independent Film Festival ran back on March 2-7 at the Burton Film Theatre and screened close to...
- 3/14/2010
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
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