Sudbury’s Tiny Underground
Film Festival (STUFF)
Sudbury's Tiny Underground Film Festival is Sudbury Indie Cinema’s latest edition to the film festival scene in Sudbury, Ontario.
STUFF’s inaugural festival will run Saturday September 24th, 2022 @ the Indie, 162 Mackenzie St.
STUFF is for cinephiles, yes - and supporters of Northerners being the key creatives in independent film.
Like our friends at UP HERE FEST like to say: “Keep it weird, Sudbury…” STUFF will incline towards films which don’t follow a tradition structure, or films which are subversive, wild and weird.
We showcase low and no-budget artist-driven film projects from Northerners (all genres considered), as well as experimental, animation, avant-garde from the best.
Given, Sudbury Ontario Canada is a mining giant: also under consideration are films that incorporate mining themes. Rather than exploit natural resources, STUFF will explore the "underground" from a worker, community, or environmental perspective, with at least one feature per STUFF edition.
Sudbury's Tiny Underground Film Festival proudly accepts entries on FilmFreeway, the world's #1 way to enter film festivals and creative contests. Submissions of short films for STUFF 2022 are open on FilmFreeway to September 9th. SUBMIT HERE
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FILM STUFF EPISODE 1
Host Beth Mairs speaks with Sylvain Lavigne and Valerie Buhagiar
HEAR EPISODE 1 HERE
FILM STUFF EPISODE 2
Interviews with the organizers of SICK, and interview with the director and doc subject of THE END OF WONDERLAND, playing at STUFF
HEAR EPISODE 2 HERE
FILM STUFF EPISODE 3
Interview with 2 local filmmakers who are selected for STUFF: Andreanne Germain, and Jayson Stewart.
HEAR EPISODE 3 HERE
FILM STUFF EPISODE 4
HEAR EPISODE 4 HERE
Saturday September 24, 2022
Canadian Experimental Shorts Programme
12:00pm
From Michael Snow’s Wavelengths to more current and diverse works, sit back and take in the weird world of experimental film.
Live conversations with filmmakers follow the programme. 91 min.
- Wavelengths - Michael Snow
- Retrace - Darlene Naponse
- Traces - Christina Zeidler
- Tell Us The Truth, Josephine
A Bitter Immigrant Story
- Valerie Buhagiar - Spirit Workers Union - Bob Kotyk
- Diggin’ A Hole - David Bragg
- Dissos - Steven Elford
- Fluid Bound - Rob Fata
- A Nice Big Zero for You - Lisa Morris
- Fevered - Tracey Peters
Northern Ontario Premiere
THE END OF WONDERLAND
2:15pm - 4:00pm
by Laurence Turcotte-Fraser
Courtesy of Artemis Films and F3M. Live Filmmaker Q&A after the premiere.
SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 24, 2022
Local Filmakers’ Shorts Programme
4:30pm
Northern Ontario filmmakers and video artists were invited to submit their no-low budget artist-driven shorts. This programme is 90 minutes followed by live discussion with some of the key creatives.
- The Philanthropist - Jayson Stewart
- Last First Kiss - Richard Barlow
- And Again - Joseph Schleps
- fuck - Emily Schooley
- Lucy’s Haunting - Bryanna Vachon
- Paint - Daniel Patrick Brousseau
- Veracitum - Dustin Moore, Brandon Burkley
- Blood In The Bay Sharks in Lake Nipissing - Philip St. George
- NOVA - Andreanne Germaine
- dadbOdd Season 3 - Eric Miron
SOUTERRAIN/UNDERGROUND
6:30 - 8:00pm
par/by Sophie Dupuis
Courtesy of Axia Films. Sponsored by USW Local 2020
12 wins/nominations including a win at Cinefest 2021 for Outstanding French Language Feature Film
An arthouse disaster movie from Quebec: a naturalistic, character-driven drama about what it might truly look like if a mineral mine exploded, trapping five workers underground. It’s the second feature from French-Canadian director Sophie Dupuis, who herself grew up in a mining family … Dupuis is brilliant on the dynamics in men’s relationships.
– THE GUARDIAN
Maxime est un jeune valdorien qui travaille dans une mine d’or. À travers plusieurs difficultés qu’il traverse dans sa vie, il remettra en question sa définition de la masculinité. Et c’est dans la forte fraternité qui unit tous ces collègues de la mine qu’il trouvera le support nécessaire pour surmonter un sentiment de culpabilité tenace qui l'empêche d'atteindre le bonheur. Jusqu’au jour où une explosion éclate sous terre. Faisant partie de la mission de sauvetage, Maxime descend dans l’antre de la mine avec la ferme intention de ramener chacun de ses collègues vivants à la surface.
An exploration of male relationship dynamics through the perspective of a group of gold miners in rural Quebec. Maxime is a miner, sharing his time with his girlfriend and his childhood friend, Julien, disabled after a car accident caused by Maxime. He wants to redeem himself but Julien’s father, who also works at the mine, cannot forgive him. One day, an explosion resounds underground and Maxime heads down, desperate to save his colleagues.
TALES FROM GIMLI HOSPITAL REDUX
8:20 - 9:30pm
by Guy Maddin
Remastered 4K version. Courtesy of Films We Like
Tales brims over with gleeful affection for dated film conventions. Maddin also satirizes the Icelandic diaspora’s valorization of hardship and suffering — characters literally wash their face with hay — and takes aim at ludicrous social conventions. At the heart of the film is the implicit critique that pop art, and movies especially, aren’t actually designed to deal with the more sinister, bleaker events in life. A memorable start to a truly memorable career.
– STEVE GRAVESTOCK, TIFF
Tales from the Gimli Hospital Redux is the 4k restoration (including the replacement of a long-lost scene) of the 1988 cult classic about blistering lust and seething envy during a 19th-century epidemic ravaging Gimli, a small Icelandic-Canadian fishing village on the shores on Lake Winnipeg.
Guy Maddin’s 1988 debut feature, Tales from the Gimli Hospital Redux, established the motifs and methods that would distinguish the director’s singular career. Using tricks and techniques usually associated with silent or early sound films (including irises, multiple superimposed images, chiaroscuro), Tales highlights the surreal absurdity of old filmmaking and storytelling conventions
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