We are pleased to announce the following titles for the Calgary Underground Film Festival.

Besides three days of screenings to be hosted at The Venue, there will also be live bands and DJ's after the late show. All evening screenings will be at 7:00PM and 9:30PM, with Saturday afternoon matinées at 1:00PM and 3:00PM.

7:00 PM - Tamala 2010
Directed & written by Trees of Life (TOL)
Japan | 92 Min 2002
Character Design: toL & Kentauro Nemoto, 3D CG by Michiro Tsutsumoto & Kenji 
Okada Music: trees of life
Winner - Best Animation Feature - 2003 Fantasia International Film Festival; Canadian Premier - 2003 Images Festival (Toronto).

Tamala 2010 brings new meaning to Hello Kitty. Tamala begins with a series of seeming unrelated scenes as the story follows the one year old anti - animé punk cat. The plot thickens with the introduction of an ancient cat cult, Catty & Co., threats of world domination, love, and the mysteries of Tamala herself. More

9:30 PM - Cowards Bend the Knee
Directed by Guy Maddin
Canada | 68 Min 2003
With:Darcy Fehr, Melissa Dionisio, Amy Stewart, Tara Birtwhistle, Louis Negin.

Cowards Bend the Knee started life as a peepshow installation commissioned for the Power Plant Gallery (Toronto), and has shown at the Rotterdam Film Festival in January 2003. It is now being released in theaters as an hour-long video feature. More

After the screening: 2 bands - FalconHawk + TBA

7:00 PM - Piggie
Director: Alison Bagnall
USA | 98 minutes 2003

A paean to inappropriate behavior, Piggie tells the story of Fannie Pogue, a pony-tailed wild child who has grown up without a mother and with little influence from her father on the family farm in upstate New York. Attracted to wild animals alive or dead, Fannie is somewhere between young and inexperienced and what used to be called "not quite right." More

9:30 PM - Five Sides of a Coin
Director: Paul Kell
Canada | 2003 70 Min.

Exploding the myth that Hip-Hop is merely 'rap music,' Five Sides of a Coin is an in-depth look at the worldwide phenomenon of Hip-Hop. Today Hip-Hop is a multi-billion dollar industry and a socially relevant culture. More

After the Screening: DJs TBA

1:00 PM - Shorts Package

Heroin - Jon Joffe
Foo-Foo Dust - Gina Levy & Eric Johnson
Neighbours - Farrah Alladin
Untitled (Displacement Series #2) - Pavitra Wickramasinghe
Gretchen and the Night Danger - Steve Collins
Alien - Chris J Melnychuk
Panic Attack - Brett Ingram More

3:00 PM - Monster Road
Director: Brett Ingram
USA | 80 Min
Winner - Best Documentary - 2004 Slamdance Film

Monster Road explores the dazzling and fantastic worlds of legendary underground clay animator Bruce Bickford. Tracing the origins of Bickford's wildly unique sensibility, the film journeys back to his childhood during the paranoia of the Cold War and examines his relationship with his father, George, a retired aerospace engineer who is facing the onset of Alzheimer's Disease. Along with a glimpse into the world of a true visionary, the film reveals a story that, like childhood itself, is at once scary and funny, sad and baffling. More

7:00p.m. - Old Breed
Director: Ashley Fester
Canada | 2002, 13 min
Director in Attendance

Deirdre sets out to find her family - but they don't want to be found. She persists, and everyone who embarked on the quest will pay the price. From the award-winning director of Celluloid Horror. More

Celluloid Horror (Feature)
Director: Ashley Fester
Canada | 98 min

So you wanna start a film festival? Let the irrepressible Kier-la Janisse show you how. The CineMuerte International Film Festival is the internationally acclaimed result of one woman’s unbridled passion for shocking film. With no experience and little money, she created an annual nine-day celebration of films selected to “corrupt your mind and assault your senses.” More

9:30 PM - Love Object
Director: Robert Parigi
USA | 91 Min.
Producers: Brett Ingram, Jim Haverkamp
Music: Shark Request

“An unnerving character-driven horror film with pointed metaphorical commentary on how technology has contributed to the depersonalization of even our most private lives.” —Philadelphia Film Festival

Uhhhh… sure, okay. That’s certainly one way to describe Robert Parigi’s Love Object. But we have no desire to beat you with the art stick—this is the Valentine’s Day midnight movie. I prefer to describe Love Object as a unique love triangle with a sick and twisted soul...more

After the Screening: two bands - TBA

Art on the Installment Plan - CUFF at the AGC April 15- May 8