Get off your duff and submit to the Denver Underground Film Festival. The deadline is fast approaching: July 31. So, you got about a month. Either visit the DUFF homepage or go direct to their “Entry” page. (Their site uses frames, so best to go to the homepage and nose around.)

The festival will run August 17-21 in the Mile High City. Their mission statement:

The Denver Underground Film Festival is open to independent filmmakers from the United States and all over the world. DUFF is interested in films that explore the boundaries of film in both content and technique. DUFF offers unlimited freedom of sight and sound for the underground filmmaker to challenge the expectations of the mainstream perspective.

And they do offer awards in the following categories:

Narrative Short
Narrative Feature
Experimental Short
Experimental Feature
Documentary
Music Video
Animation

More info at the official DUFF site.