Oct. 15: Come celebrate the release of the Cinemad: Almanac 2009 DVD with a screening of select short films, plus drinks and appetizers.

The 12th annual Antimatter Film Festival features great experimental films by Martha Colburn, Clint Enns, Damon Packard, Leslie Supnet, and more.

Film journalist and festival programmer Mike Plante has collected an amazing array of short films for his Cinemad Almanac.

The 16th annual Chicago Underground Film Festival will run on Sept. 10-17 at the Gene Siskel Film Center and screen films by Usama Alshaibi and more.

The 21st annual Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival is a five-day event of great films, including ones by Ken Jacobs, Kerry Laitala and more.

Lunchfilm is an ambitious and fun short film project organized by film journalist Mike Plante and includes work by Martha Colburn, David Fenster and more.

Echo Park Film Center presents an underground film screening of Lunchfilm, a series of short movies commissioned by film journalist Mike Plante.

The Cinefamily hosts this special screening of underground films curated by movie journalist Mike Plante, who has collected these short films for a new DVD.

This year the PDX Film Festival, which is run by Peripheral Produce distributors, will roll out films by Vanessa Renwick, James Fotopoulos and Brett Kashmere.

The New York Underground Film Festival is the granddaddy of all the underground fests and they’re 14th year has films by Usama Alshaibi, Jim Finn and Mr. Young.