Milwaukee Underground Film Festival

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Submissions for the 2023 Milwaukee Underground Film Festival are OPEN!!

What we’re looking for:

1. We’re looking for underground, unique, independent, artist-made, subversive, weird, strange, avant-garde, experimental, non-traditional films and videos!
2. This festival focuses on short films, 20 minutes or less. Longer films may be considered, but we focus on shorts programs.
3. The form is up to you: we’ll watch and show any type of moving image project: narrative, documentary, experimental, animation, essay, or other new media forms.

Submissions Open: October 31, 2022
Final deadline: February 1, 2023

Submission Fees:
$5 for students
$10 regular submissions

Student Organizers Prepare for the Milwaukee Underground Film Festival

MUFF 2022 was a blast! We got off to a great start with our promo event at Cactus Club, where we screened student work selected by UWM Film faculty. Over our three-day festival, April 14-16, we screened 43 short films, showed 4 video installations, and experienced an expanded cinema performance by Sara Sowell. 19 of those artists joined us to enjoy the screenings and participate in Q&As. We were also privileged to be joined by our jurors: UWM’s own Portia Cobb as well as Erma Fiend who gave a fascinating presentation on their practice as a digital artist. This year we had the best attended MUFF to date with an audience of 142 on our opening night as well as high turnout at all our other programs. Congratulations to Two Sisters (2021) by Magdalena Bermudez, which won this year’s audience award. We want to thank everyone who submitted work, came out to watch these wonderful programs, or supported MUFF in any other way. See you again next year! 

We have a handful of wonderful awards this year!

1. Our Jurors (Erma Fiend & Portia Cobb) will select 3 Jury Awards
2. After the success of our Audience Award in the Fall, we’ll be doing it again this year!
3. Kodak is donating film stock for the Kodak Filmmaker Award! The jury will select the winner by choosing one of the filmmakers who worked in 16mm or Super 8 this year. Thank you, Kodak Film Lab, Atlanta!

Join us at Cactus Club on April 4th for a screening of several weird, wonderful and wild UWM film student films chosen by department faculty! Doors open at 6pm and screening starts at 7pm. Cactus Club location: 2496 S Wentworth Ave.  Click here for more info!

For more details click on the Promo Event under MUFF 2022 menu tab!