2012 Atlanta Underground Film Festival


The 9th Annual Atlanta Underground Film Festival (AUFF) will take place September 13 - 16, 2012 as part of the Independent Film Month. The Festival will be held at the Goat Farm Arts Center in Atlanta, Georgia.

Join us for nearly 100 short and feature films, including three days of animated shorts during our annual Animation Attack! 

Enter your film now! to the 2012 Atlanta Underground Film Festival!

2011 AUFF Awards



Best feature:
Snow on tha Bluff
Dir. Damon Russell


Best drama Feature
Moment of Truth: The Andy Meyers Story
dir. by Steven Crowley


BEST COMEDY FEATURE
Planet World
dir. Doug Manley


BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Cultures of Resistance
dir. by Iara Lee


BEST FOREIGN FEATURE
Film
dir. by Kerem Topuz


AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARD
Esposito
dir. by Matt Nunn


BEST SCREENPLAY
Currency
dir. by Brad Rosier


2011 Shorts:


BEST SHORT FILM
The Secret Friend
dir. by Flavio Alves


BEST SHORT SHORT
FELT
dir. by Blaise Cepis & Scott Carlson


BEST HORROR SHORT
Zombies And Assholes
dir. by Sean LoGrasso


BEST DRAMA SHORT
Mr. Whiskers
dir. by Elin Gronblom


Best Action Short
Dot Got Shot
dir. by Honey Lauren & Carlos Ramos Jr.


BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT
Crude Justice
dir. by John Ringstad


BEST FOREIGN SHORT
Espérame
dir. by Jeffrey de Chausse


BEST COMEDY SHORT
Some Things Are Worse Than Being Gay
dir. by Regine Richards


AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARD
Bob & Bob
dir. by Andrew Alonso


BEST EXPERIMENTAL SHORT
Winged
dir. by Jennifer Hardacker


BEST ANIMATED SHORT
Rumbleseat
dir by: Michael Roberts


BEST FOREIGN ANIMATED SHORT
Birdboy
dir. by Pedro Rivero


BEST LOCAL SHORT
Pinky Swear
dir. by Eli Joshua

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AUFF Press


AUFF Press:

Atlanta Underground Film Fest looks up to ask big questions..
Curt Holman, Creative Loafing 2009

Two indie film fests light up screens around the city...
Bert Osborne, Atlanta Journal-Constitution 2009

"From the Serious to the surreal, sci-fi to sideshow, the Atlanta Underground Film Festival offers short films the likes of which you probably won't see in the typical multiplex."
Jonathan Williams,
Atlanta Journal-Constitution 2008

"Who's afraid of experimental film? Not Eric Panter, who's directed the Atlanta Underground Film Festival for five years. The annual event devoted to edgy and emerging filmmakers proves that avant-garde and undiscovered needn't be mutally exclusive with fun."
Curt Holman,
Creative Loafing 2008

"The fourth annual Atlanta Underground Film Festival makes good use of the second word in the event's title. This is a fest that encourages artists to break boundaries, and moviegoers should arrive braced to often see challenging and edgy experimental films."
Bob Longino, Atlanta Journal-Constitution 2007

"For fours years running, Eric Panter has curated an Atlanta Underground Film Festival featuring the kind of oddball picks that fly below most mainstream film festivals' radar."
Felicia Feaster, 
Creative Loafing 2007

"Like the Navy Seals, the one thing the Atlanta Underground Film Festival (AUFF) always profits from is the element of surprise."
Felicia Feaster, 
Creative Loafing 2006

"As displayed by the Atlanta Underground Film Festival,  such off-the-radar fare includes gonzo documentaries, abstract experiments in form, and enigmatic, subtitled tales from foreign lands."
Curt Holman, 
Creative Loafing 2005

" Fans and filmmakers alike have long lamented the shortage of venues suitable for showcasing non-mainstream films in Atlanta, but with the emergence of the Atlanta Underground Film Festival, things will soon change."
Chad Radford, 
Creative Loafing 2004





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