The Calgary Underground Film Festival (CUFF) is a fresh new festival committed to the celebration of alternative vision showcasing independent, provocative and experimental films and videos. The festival will features works that defy convention in form, style, and content by screening a wide spectrum of contemporary works in a variety of categories: feature, documentary, animation, short, and experimental.
Founded in 2003, CUFF is a collective group of arts administrators, festival organizers, and media artists who saw a void in alternative film and video exhibition for Calgary film enthusiasts. Calgary's thriving and growing arts community earmarks for us the perfect opportunity to bring in something new, innovative and challenging. The underground film festival theme is something that, new to Calgary, only builds upon what other major cities around the world have already initiated.
| BRENDA
LIEBERMAN graduated with Arts & Cultural
Management in 1998. Since then, she has organized local benefit
concerts, worked as the Programming Coordinator for the Calgary
Society of Independent Filmmakers (CSIF) and is currently the festival
producer and programming coordinator forCalgary’s Fairy Tales
International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival. Additionally, Brenda
has been involved with several other Alberta film festivals in various
aspects and occasionally works on film sets through the Directors
Guild of Canada. |
BRIAN
BATISTA graduated with honors, a Board of
Governors Award and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Alberta College
of Art and Design. He has received numerous awards for his video
artworks, as well as shown in the Art Gallery of Calgary, National
film festivals and in local artist run centres. He teaches workshops
and classes and is an integral part of the development of EMMEDIA
Gallery & Production Society having held numerous different
staff positions over the last five years. In addition, Brian has
been the Technical Director of theCanmore Seven Minute Film Festival. |
| KARI
MCQUEEN graduated from the Alberta College
of Art & Design (ACAD) in 1992 with a diploma in drawing, and
completed her BFA in 1998. She was gallery educator at the Muttart
Public Art Gallery, and public programs coordinator for the Art
Gallery of Calgary. She is now Program Coordinator for EMMEDIA Gallery
& Production Society and co-coordinator of the Chevron Open
Minds Program at the Glenbow Museum. Kari is also an emerging media
artist, recently exhibiting video in
Alberta Scene Albertaine, the Red Deer District Museum, the
Allied Arts Council of Lethbridge, the Glenbow Museum, and in the
compilation Prairie Tales. |
JULIA
AIN BURNS was Operations Coordinator of the Quickdraw Animation
Society in Calgary and holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree with
a Film Major from Simon Fraser University. She has produced short
films which have been recognized at festivals and exhibitions and
has been known to associate with artists and art havens like the
Vancouver International Film Festival, Video In, and the Alberta
Media Arts Alliance. She likes moving pictures and is excited about
this opportunity to share the rare and unique. |
ANDRA
LOUIE has enthusiasm for adventure, whether in life or film. She
has travelled alone throughout South Eastern Asia, been an entrepreneur
in a small town entertainment cafe in the Rockies, challenged herself
winter camping in the Bugaboo Mountains while obtaining her Adventure
Tourism Certificate, taught sea kayaking off Salt Spring Island
and worked with teens to script live and video taped anti-violence
productions. A second year Public Relations student at Mount Royal
College, Andra loved working with the Calgary International Film
Festival, has a Friday morning arts show on CJSW radio and volunteered
at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2004. |
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