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.

The new Arizona Underground Film Festival website is now up! Brought to you by the good guys at Brink Media. Hit some buttons, look around, more content to be posted in the coming days.

The LATE Deadline is September 10th. That is the postmark date for Submissions. If you don’t get your film in on time, don’t worry we have one last Deadline. The WAB Extended Deadline, which is September 25th. Click on submissions link for more info.