The 15th annual Chicago Underground Film Festival gave the Narrative Feature award to Jim Finn’s The Juche Idea, plus awards to Song Sung Blue and more.

Jim Finn’s piece at CinemaScope, “Damn Dirty Apes: Dead Festivals in the USA,” is a great must read for the underground film crowd, but I have some issues.

The 15th Chicago Underground Film Festival is screening Craig Baldwin’s Mock Up on Mu, plus films by Lisa Barcy, Usama Alshaibi, Josh Koury and more.

Other Cinema’s Noel Lawrence travels up north to present four works by obscure and mostly forgotten underground auteur J.X. Williams. I’ve seen Psych-Burn.

Watch Jim Finn’s great short film called el moro that stars Fidel Castro and Leonard Nimoy’s classic “Bilbo Baggins” song.

Watch all five trailers commissioned for the last New York Underground Film Festival, made by Jim Finn, Peggy Awhwesh, Ben Coonley and Ewa Einhorn.

The last ever New York Underground Film Festival is screening films by James Fotopoulos, Jeff Krulik, Jim Finn, Martha Colburn, Josh Koury and more.

Ed Halter lists his favorite underground films of 2007, including the work of filmmakers Jim Finn, Sadie Benning, Oliver Laric, Shana Moulton and more.

The 10th Antimatter Underground Film Festival is screening films by Jeff Krulik, Julia Ostertag, Mike Rollo, Vanessa Renwick, Tony Gault, Peggy Ahwesh and more.

The 14th annual Chicago Underground Film Festival will be screening film Random Lunacy, plus films by Usama Alshaibi, Andrew Semans, James Fotopoulos and more.