The Arizona Underground Film Festival announces its 5th annual competition celebrating filmmakers with defiantly independent visions. The festival will take place September 21st to the 29th 2012, 9 days of films, bands, and parties. We will have competitions for the best feature and short for Narrative, Horror, Experimental, Animation, Documentaries, Exploitation, Best of Fest, and Audience Award. For more info click on Submissions.

On Friday November 11th 8pm at The Screening Room 127 E. Congress, we will be presenting an encore screening of this year’s Audience Award Winner /AFK.

/afk explores the relationship between online gamers and the games that they play. It examines the evolution of the World of Warcraft from its infancy to its non-existent conclusion and beyond, into the world of obsession. Through the lives of several key characters, it shows the joys associated with online games, and offers a objective look at some of its inherent trappings. /afk seeks to create a dialog about gamers in an attempt to bring understanding to the online gaming phenomenon and the 12 million gamers behind the World of Warcraft; the most successful MMO of all time. In doing so, one might assert that gaming can no sooner be understood than that of any other form of addiction: if it’s an addiction at all.

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The 4th annual Arizona Underground Film Festival is now over. Thanks to everyone involved, staff, filmmakers, and the audience for supporting great cinema, and for making it the most successful year yet. See you next year, when we mark our 5th festival!

Best of the Fest
Some Guy Who Kills People

Best Narrative
The Sandman

Best Narrative Short
Facing Rupert

Best Exploitation
Dear God No!

Best Horror Feature
The Bunny Game

Best Horror Short
Good Morning, Beautiful

Best Documentary Feature
Of Dolls and Murder

Best Documentary Short
We Are All Cylons

Best Experimental Feature
The Beast Pageant

Best Experimental Short
Hansel and Gretel

Best Animation
Niche

Audience Award
/AFK

Director’s Award
The Selling

The full schedule for the 4th Annual Arizona Underground Film Festival is now online! Click on our schedule link for films and to buy tickets for each film. We still have a few festival passes left, and this is the best deal for the die hard cinephile, or someone that wants to see a bit of everything at this year’s festival.

Tickets will be selling fast, so its best to get your tickets early and online. If a show does not sell out online, we will have tickets available at the door an hour before the screening.
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SOME GUY WHO KILLS PEOPLE

From Executive Producer John Landis, who brought us such films as American Werewolf in London and Blues Brothers brings us a very unique horror comedy. Some Guy Who Kills People is about Ken Boyd, a lonely man fresh out of the loony bin, who sets out to kill those he deems responsible for his miserable life. Director Perez contrasts violent gore with light-hearted family moments that makes for a very unique comedy that you aren’t likely to get anywhere else.
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