The Moviate Underground Film Festival is an annual event dedicated to exhibiting avant garde, experimental, outsider, and truly independent film and video. We seek work from a range of artistic expressions - from fiction to nonfiction - that exists and thrives despite consumer capitalism and market-based cinema. Moviate is fundamentally media-agnostic, yet we enthusiastically support and encourage the exhibition of analog film. We offer discounted submission fees for works produced on celluloid, as well as extra incentives for those exhibiting on Super8 and 16mm.
MUFF is programmed by Moviate, a non-profit media arts organization dedicated to exhibiting independent and underground film and video in Harrisburg, PA and surrounding areas. Our volunteer-based curatorial collective is artist-run and we organize year-round programming as well as the annual festival.
Past filmmakers and speakers in attendance include:
John Waters
Todd Solondz
Crispin Glover
Guy Maddin
Lauren Wolkstein
Skizz Cyzyk
Carter Stevens
Bryan Lewis Saunders
Z'EV
Emily Hubley
Jem Cohen
Sight Unseen
Laura Faggioni
Richard Elfman
Adolfas Mekas
L.M. Kit Carson
Weird Paul!!!
Frank Whaley
Richard Kern
The Trachtenburg Slide Show Players
The Cast & Crew of John Waters' "Desperate Living"
Richard Edson
Mark Borchardt
Clayton Patterson
David Redmon
Mark Eaton and Johnn Swarr
Helen Stickler
Kelly Baker aka The Angry Filmmaker
and many others!
Attending filmmakers receive admission to all events including any special speaking engagements.
Moviate Underground Film Festival
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