Call for submissions for the 2010 Arizona Underground Film Festival are now underway! Submit your shorts and features in the categories of Narrative, Horror, Documentary, Experimental, Animation, and Exploitation! We are now an 8 day festival, with screenings in both Tucson and Phoenix, and we are looking to include 75 films in this year’s festival. Click on our submission page for more info. Earlybird Deadline is April 17th, and The Arizona Underground Film Festival is now an IMDb Qualifying Festival. So by submitting your film through withoutabox you will become IMDb Qualifying, granting all eligible film submissions a no-hassle title page on IMDb.com.

Friday, February 26th, 2010, 8pm
The Screening Room
127 E. Congress St
Ticket: $5

We are proud to present as part of our Arizona Underground Features Selection the Arizona Premiere of Four Roses on Friday February 26th 8pm at The Screening Room (127 E. Congress). Four Roses has been one of the most talked about underground films of the year winning Best Foriegn Feature Drama at the Atlanta Underground Film Festival, and playing at numerous film festivals around the world. Now Four Roses will be playing Tucson, AZ for a one time only exclusive engagement screening. It’s a provocative, black & white drama exploring themes of isolation, love, and being. As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
www.fourrosesmovie.com

Friday, February 12th, 2010, 8pm
The Screening Room
127 E. Congress St
Ticket: $5

Winner of Best Narrative at the 2009 Arizona Underground Film Festival, Modern Love is Automatic is back for an encore screening this Friday at The Screening Room. Modern Love is Automatic revolves around the life of a nurse named Lorraine Schultz, played by Melodie Sisk who finds herself in a mental state of boredom, a very existential place, searching for something more to life. This leads her to explore a second secret life, moonlighting as a dominatrix. She has a strange but very telling relationship with her roommate Adrian, played with the perfect amount of innocence and quirkiness by Maggie Ross. Modern Love is Automatic is a film that is full of surprises, humor, and just the right amount of heart. Don’t miss encore, and final screening of this cult underground film!

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!