Friday, February 5th, 2010, 8pm
The Screening Room
127 E. Congress St
Ticket: $5

We will be screening Herscell Gordon Lewis’ cult horror film “The Gore Gore Girls” at The Screening Room on Friday February 5th. This 1973 horror comedy grindhouse film kicks off the Arizona Underground Retro Cult Series, with more retro films to screen in the coming months. Don’t miss one of the most eccentric, bizarre, gore films Herschell Gordon Lewis has ever conceived or created! With unforgettable B-Movie performances by Frank Kress, as Abe Gentry the witty private eye, and Amy Farrell as smart alluring reporter Nancy Weston. Nothing Has Ever Stripped Your Nerves As Screamingly Raw As The Gore Gore Girls!

The dates of The Third Arizona Underground Film Festival will be September 20th thru the 25th. We will be starting to ask for submissions beginning in mid February. We are looking forward to another great year with more underground and cult films screened this year then last year, and more special guests to be announced.

We are also are in midst of our Arizona Underground Features Selection program. We will be having more screenings in February and special guests coming out as well.

Friday, January 15, 2010, 8pm
The Screening Room
127 E. Congress St
Ticket: $5

Arizona Underground Features Selection is proud to present Dominic Perez’s tense thriller “Evil Things” for a one time only screening. Evil Things has got festivals and fans calling it the slasher answer to Paranormal Activity, and one of the most frightening films in years. Shot like a found footage film, Evil Things is a voyeuristic look at how five collage students end up missing while out for a fun filled, albeit, secluded weekend in upstate New York. Playing at over 10 film festivals so far Evil Things makes its Arizona Premiere for one screening only on January 15th. This is a film not to miss.

One of the most gripping and frightening films I’ve seen all year! – Fatally-Yours
The footage made my skin crawl…The fear was a slow burn… The viewer is left vulnerable – Horrorview
Evil Things goes back to the basis of what scares us. – The Jaded Viewer

Arizona Underground Film Festival announces “The Arizona Underground Features Selection”. The Features Selection is a monthly screening that showcases the very best of underground and independent cinema from around the world. This will include festival premieres, past festival winners, and the best of retro-underground cinema. All films will be shown at The Screening Room 127 E. Congress St for $5 a ticket. Check back for the first screening that will happen January 15th.

We have heard your overwhelming demands for a second screening of Vampire Girl vs Frankenstein Girl, and now the date is set.
Friday December 4th at 8pm at The Screening Room(127 E. Congress). Tickets are $5. Catch it before its gone forever.

On Saturday December 5th at 9pm at The Screening Room we will be playing The Best of Arizona Underground Film Festival 2009 shorts. In case you missed some of the award winners, they will be shown for one night only, along with a few surprises, 11 films in all. Tickets are $5.
Here is the line-up.

My Cousin’s Keeper
Dir: Tom Woodruff
**Winner of Best Narrative Short 2009**

Fade In
Dir: Nickolas Duarte
**Official Selection AUFF 2009**

Excision
Dir: Richard Bates Jr.
**Winner of Best Horror Short 2008**

The Soil’s Soft Horizon
Dir: Adam Petke
**Winner of Best Experimental Short 2009**

Seven Corners
Dir: Todd Hemker
**Winner of Best Animated Short 2009**

Everything Burns
Dir: Aram Kouyoumdjian
**Winner of Best Music Video 2009**

If God Was A DJ
Dir: John Silverstone
**Official Selection AUFF 2008**

Severing the Soul
Dir: Barbara Klutinis
**Winner of Best Documentary Short 2009**

Creepy – Mission Creeps
Dir: Gene Torres
**Winner of Best Music Video 2008**

Kagamiko
Dir: Mathieu Arsenault
**Winner of Best Horror Short 2009**

I’ll Do It Til The Day I Die!
Dir: Dale Peterson, Coleman Weinberg
**Winner Best of Fest 2009**

I would like to thank everyone that came out this year to support underground/cult filmmaking. We saw some record breaking attendance for the screenings this year, and the audiences for all the screenings were excited to watch some great films. I want to thank the judges of this year’s films, John Silverstone, Ben Beeshaw, James Arnett, Margoth Murrin, Jason Decker, and Michael M. Hojjatie. The full list of award winners appears below, and congratulations to everyone and thank you to all the filmmakers who submitted and screened with us this year!

Narrative Feature
Modern Love is Automatic
Dir: Zach Clark

Narrative Short
My Cousin’s Keeper
Dir: Tom Woodruff Jr.

Horror Feature
Evil Angel
Dir: Richard Dutcher

Horror Short
Kagamiko
Dir: Mathieu Arsenault

Exploitation
Run! Bitch Run!
Dir: Joseph Guzman

Documentary Feature
Oh My God! Its Harrod Blank!
Dir: David Silberberg

Documentary Short
Severing The Soul
Dir: Barbara Klutinis

Experimental
The Soil’s Soft Horizon
Dir: Adam Petke

Animation
Seven Corners
Dir: Todd Hemker

Music Video
Everything Burns
Dir: Aram Kouyoumdjian

Best of Fest
I’ll Do It Til The Day I Die!
Dir: Dale Peterson, Coleman Weinberg

Audience Award
La Funcionaria Asesina a.k.a. The Slayer Bureaucrat
Dir: Sergio Kardenas

Special Jury Award
Someone’s Knocking at the Door
Dir: Chad Ferrin
Honorable Mention: Doctor “S” Battles The Sex Crazed Reefer Zombies
Dir: Bryan Ortiz

Director’s Choice Awards
Cigarette Girl
Dir: Michael McCarthy

The complete 2009 schedule for the Arizona Underground Film Festival is now posted, and available through B-Side. You can browse descriptions of the films, create your own personalized schedule, share events with your friends, and rate films after you’ve seen them!

We are proud that we are bringing the very best of underground/cult cinema to Tucson, and we hope to see you at this year’s screenings!

The 2nd Annual Arizona Underground Film Festival will kickoff Nov 2nd with Zack Clark’s Modern Love is Automatic (official selection at SXSW, and Winner of Best of Fest Feature at BUFF) playing with the world premiere of the extraordinary local film Tigers at The Screening Room.

Closing the fest will be the appearance of William Forsythe in support of The Arizona Underground Film Festival at The Loft Cinema with a Q&A and an autograph session after a special screening of “The Devil’s Rejects” in which Forsythe offers up a memorably intense performance as Sheriff John Quincy Wydell. The last film to screen at the festival on Saturday Nov 7th is the provocative documentary by Jens Hoffman 9 to 5 Days of Porn at The Screening Room.

Other films include the very gory and twisted Japanese film Vampire Girl Vs Frankenstein Girl by special effects expert Yoshihiro Nishimura of Tokyo Gore Police fame. Chad Ferrin’s new grindhouse horror film Someone’s Knocking at the Door including a Q&A with star Noah Segan(Brick, Cabin Fever 2) is being called one the most depraved films of the 21st century.

Also screening will be Ving Rhames new horror thriller Evil Angel. Our new Exploitation category comes out swinging this inaugural year with the premiere of Run! Bitch Run! An exploitation film like no other, and we just found out it just got banned in New Zealand!

Mike McCarthy’s new film will light up the screen with killing for a smoke Cigarette Girl, also Matthew Garrett’s 3 shocking New Jersey tales in Morris County, and a throwback to 50’s drive-in horror movies with Doctor “S” Battles The Sex Crazed Reefer Zombies

As well as other feature films, we also have some excellent shorts that will be embracing the screens with some of the features, and a shorts block that includes the best of underground cinema. With over 50 films spread out over 6 days, the Arizona Underground Film Festival will happen Nov. 2nd to 7th. The schedule will be up by Oct. 15th, and there will be more info coming soon as we secure more guests and events.

Our call for entries are now closed for the 2009 Arizona Underground Film Festival. We would like to thank the filmmmakers for submitting their films for consideration, and in the next two weeks we will be making our final decisions with over 50 films set to play over 6 days at this year’s festival. Accepted filmmakers will be notified of their selection status by October 10, 2009 at the latest, and the schedule will be posted by October 15th.

William Forsythe will be a special guest at this year’s Arizona Underground Film Festival.

He has starred in such films as The Devil’s Rejects, Raising Arizona, and Halloween, and he will be here for a special screening, Q&A, and an autograph session.
More details to be posted in the coming weeks.