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Missed It: 2008 Miami Underground Film Festival

By Mike Everleth ⋅ March 11, 2008

Miami Underground Film Festival

Well, I guess the 2008 underground film festival season officially started back on March 5-9 when the Miami Underground Film Festival held their most recent edition. I missed all news about this coming up. That’s why things are underground — you miss some things once in awhile.

Kind of pointless to put up the official schedule like a normally do at this point. So first, I’m going to list this year’s award winners, then just list what else screened sans my normally witty and pithy descriptions. (Ok, more pithy than witty.) Here are the winners, then:

Best Actor
Oscar Diaz – Full Circle, Mysteries of the Opposite Sex

Best Actress
Patricia Rae – P.J., dir. Russ Emanuel

Best Feature
Under the Snow, dirs. Candela Figueira and Maitena Muruzabal

Best Short
Silenci

Best Horror
(Spek.ter)

Best Short – Home Cookin
Pencil Fighting: The Life and Times of Team Balderdash

Best Foreign Film
Marta’s Sex Tape, dir. Anthony Rivero Stabley (Read the underground movie review.)

Best Documentary
Monster Camp, dir. Cullen Hoback

Best Director
The Night in the Life of Doris Dolores, dir. Bob Moricz

Here’s what also screened. Director names added where I could find one on the MUFF site. And I’m really glad to see Confusions of an Unmarried Couple in the list.

Features:

Confusions of an Unmarried Couple, dirs. Brett and Jason Butler (Read the underground movie review.)
Craig, dir. Kim Sonderholm
Palace of Stains, dir. Bob Moricz
Tribute This!, dir. Mick McCleery
Building Empire, dir. Jambe Davdar
The Double Born, dir. Tony Randel

Shorts:

The Palomino Club, dir. David Gittlin
Dodo Rings
The Green Balloon
The Lesson
Honey I’m Not Home
Spree All the Way to Mexico
Phone Sex Grandma
Showdown
All Night Long
Trannymals go to Court
The Creatures from Outerspace
Box Ball
Pit & the Pendulum
Cyn
The Essential Man
Salome
Perfect Red