MUFF Summary
by Richard Wolstencroft
24 years of MUFF!

2024 celebrates 24 years of the Melbourne Underground Film Festival.

The Melbourne Underground Film Festival (MUFF) first debuted in July of 2000, and has been a cutting edge premiere showcase for Independent cinema for 24 years. It is known for its radical, adventurous and iconoclastic programming decisions and for its support for different voices in the Independent and Underground film and video practitioners worldwide. The festival focuses on both Australian and International cinema and is a vocal critic of the staid and endlessly failing Australian Film Industry.

MUFF plays many shorts (about 40) in our shorts section every year and a lot of features in its MUFF Neu section. Overall we play about 45 new works each year, plus an exciting array of documentaries and curated retrospectives. MUFF has been cancelled and vilified over it's free speech stance and for it's tireless support and advocacy for the Freedom and bodily autonomy movements

Now in it's 24th year, MUFF is an essential cutting edge forum for new cinema that will look beyond production values, and find the hidden talent within. MUFF has been the launching board and incubator for many talented filmmakers including the likes of James Wan, Patrick Hughes, Scott Ryan, Jenna Fisher, Jim VanBebber, Bruce LaBruce, Stuart Simpson, Addison Heath, Shannon Young, Kel Dolen, Steven Kastrissios, Ivan Kavanagh, Jon Hewitt, Mark Savage, Anna Brownfield, Jeremey DeCeglie, Gregory Pakis, Christoper Lee Sun, Paul Moder, Bronny Lane, Michael Tierney, Geretta Geretta and many, many others.

Join us in December 2024 at The Black Sheep Hawthorne and celebrate MUFF in its 24th year.

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