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Melbourne Underground Film Festival ()

Deadlines

13 Jan 2023
Call for entries

20 May 2023
Early deadline

30 Sep 2023
Standard deadline

10 Oct 2023
Late deadline

10 Oct 2023
Festival closed

10 Nov 2023
Notification date

08 Dec 2023
16 Dec 2023

Address

-, 3182, St Kilda, AU, Australia

Festival description

Short film festival

Feature film festival

Festival requirements

Film festival

Fiction

Documentary

Animation

Fantastic

Terror

Experimental

Music Video

Other

Any Genre

Any Theme

Has submission fees

International Festival

Physical Location

Production date: Any

Production countries: Any

Shooting countries: Any

Director nationalities: Any

Debut Films

School projects

Short Films

Feature Films

Languages
English

Subtitles
English

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Festival description (Edition: )

Festival start: 08 December 2023 Festival end: 16 December 2023

The Melbourne Underground Film Festival (M.U.F.F.) is a cutting edge premiere showcase for Independent cinema from around the world. It is known for its radical, adventurous and iconoclastic programming decisions, in addition to its support of different voices from independent, alternative, underground and student filmmakers worldwide. The festival focuses on both Australian and International cinema. M.U.F.F. plays many shorts every year and a lot of features, plus an exciting array of documentaries and curated retrospectives. M.U.F.F. is an essential forum for new cinema that will look beyond production values, and find the hidden talent within. M.U.F.F. has been the launching board and incubator for many talented and famous filmmakers including James Wan, Scott Ryan, Jenna Fisher, Jim VanBebber, Bruce LaBruce, Peter Christopherson, Stuart Simpson, Shannon Young, Kel Dolen, Steven Kastrissios, Ivan Kavanagh, Mark Savage, Anna Brownfield, Patrick Hughes, Jeremey DeCeglie, Gregory Pakis and many, many others.

Prizes and qualifications

M.U.F.F. awards many local and international films every year with its annual "M.U.F.F. AWARDS". Winners are selected from both the SHORT FILM and FEATURE FILM sections!

Rules

Please do not send original material or masters for preview or screening. The Melbourne Underground Film Festival will not return preview or screening discs.

The Melbourne Underground Film Festival will screen films off DVD, Blu Ray, USB Drives and high resolution .mov / .mp4 digital files only (in any format from around the world). No other formats are accepted.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS

We confirm that you have granted The Melbourne Underground Film Festival the right to publicly exhibit your film and that The Melbourne Underground Film Festival will take all care but no responsibility for your film whilst in the possession of the Festival. We also confirm that if accepted into the festival you grant The Melbourne Underground Film Festival the right to publicly promote your film in all festival promotional materials, as appropriate. You also confirm that all necessary permissions have been obtained to enter this film in the Festival and that the film does not infringe the rights including copyright of any third party.

International Shorts

Short Films 45'<

Fee

-8%

Early 25$ 23$ 20 May 23

Standard 45$ 41.4$ 30 Sep 23

Late 55$ 50.6$ 10 Oct 23

Submissions deadline
10 Oct 23

Save up
3.6$

Submit

International Feature Films

Feature Films

Fee

-8%

Early 25$ 23$ 20 May 23

Standard 45$ 41.4$ 30 Sep 23

Late 55$ 50.6$ 10 Oct 23

Submissions deadline
10 Oct 23

Save up
3.6$

Submit

Australian Shorts

Short Films 45'<

Fee

-8%

Early 25$ 23$ 20 May 23

Standard 45$ 41.4$ 30 Sep 23

Late 55$ 50.6$ 10 Oct 23

Submissions deadline
10 Oct 23

Save up
3.6$

Submit

Shorts from Australia. All short will be accepted regardless of content.

Australian Feature Film

Feature Films

Fee

-8%

Early 25$ 23$ 20 May 23

Standard 45$ 41.4$ 30 Sep 23

Late 55$ 50.6$ 10 Oct 23

Submissions deadline
10 Oct 23

Save up
3.6$

Submit

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