Win free tickets!
19 March 2009
Throughout the festival, we’ll be giving away a pair of comp tickets each day to a random subscriber on our mailing list. The winner each day can pick up two tickets at the hospitality table at the Kendall and the pair can be used towards any screening(s).
If you aren’t already subscribed to our mailing list, sign up for a chance to win!
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BUFF pre-party redux
13 March 2009
Tomorrow night (March 14) we’ll be celebrating this year’s festival with (another!) pre-party from 6-8pm at Good Vibrations in Brookline (enter through the rear at 308-A Harvard Street).
You can see a sexy sneak peak of Bad Biology, our opening night flick, as well as preview of 9to5 - Days in Porn, a titillating and fascinating doc on the porn industry. Enter to win BUFF t-shirts and opening night passes! Good Vibrations is offering 15% off DVDs all evening to put you in the movie-watching mood!
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BUFF pre-party at Space 242
12 March 2009
BUFF is having a pre-party tonight at Space 242 in the South End from 6-8pm. We’ll be screening selected trailers and shorts from this year’s festival. There will be plenty of swag and assorted giveaways throughout the evening. If you’d like to attend, RSVP at info@bostonunderground.org.
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Sex and Drugs Trivia
6 March 2009
BUFF is co-sponsoring this week’s Sex and Drugs Trivia Sunday night at the Savant Project at 1625 Tremont Street in Mission Hill. Come join the Savant Project and registered sex therapist Oh Megan to learn more about everyone’s favorite subjects! Prizes include passes to Centerfolds and tickets to this year’s Boston Underground Film Festival. We’ll be screening some related sex and drugs selections from BUFF 2009. Don’t miss it!
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New York Spawned a Monster
27 February 2009
If you’re looking for something to do tonight, our monthly screening event is going down at Space 242 in the South End from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. with animators Patrick Smith and Ben Levin present to screen some of their work. You can get the full scoop on our home page and RSVP for the event!
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BUFF announces 2009 judges
26 February 2009
We’re proud to announce our 2009 festival jury: Miranda Banks, Johnny Butane, Shaula Clark, Ned Hinkle, and Karim Hussain. The jury will be awarding prizes for Best of Fest Feature, Best of Fest Short, Most Effectively Offensive, and a Special Jury Prize.
Our jury is as eclectic as our festival. Miranda Banks hails from academia, Johnny Butane writes about horror movies at Dread Central, Shaula Clark works for the Boston Phoenix, Ned Hinkle programs the Brattle Theatre, and Karim Hussain is the director/screenwriter of last year’s BUFF award-winner La Belle Bête. You can read more about them on our festival info page.
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LIVE from the NYPL
25 February 2009
For all our loyal BUFF army miles and miles away in New York City, official 2009 BUFF short selection “‘Charlie Rose’ by Samuel Beckett” will be screening tomorrow (February 26) as part of the New York Public Library’s public program series Live from the NYPL. Tomorrow night’s event—“Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy”—features Stanford University’s Lawrence Lessig, cultural historian Steven Johnson, and artist Shepard Fairey. Tickets are sold out, but some may be available on standby at the door!
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We're excited
24 February 2009
Yes, we’re very excited. This year’s lineup is looking very cool. We’ll have the full schedule available soon, but here are the titles of some shorts programs to tease and tantalize you about some of the the strange little treasures concealed within: People Are Animals Too, Midnight Transgressions, Psychedelicinema, Illustrated Oddities, J. Cannibal’s Tapas of Terror, and more! Don’t these little morsels just get you salivating? Soon, my hungry friends. Soon.
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Fangoria #281
20 February 2009
Bad Biology and Plague Town — both official selections at BUFF 2009 — are featured in this month’s Fangoria, a special issue devoted to extreme horror. It’s great to see some of our favorite disgusting little films getting the love and attention they deserve!
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Film Festival Secrets! For free!
19 February 2009
Film festival guru and Stomp Tokyo founder Chris Holland just wrote a book called Film Festival Secrets, and he’s giving it away as a free download at his website. The print edition retails for $24.95, so this is a great deal!
All filmmakers, first-timers and seasoned veterans alike, should read this if they are thinking of submitting to a festival. This book “will help you select the right festivals for your film, prepare your festival screener, save money on festival fees, create marketing collateral, and craft a screening sell out plan.”
It’s free, so you’ve got nothing to lose checking it out, and it’s pretty much guaranteed to help you step up your game.
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