Sudbury’s Tiny Underground
Film Festival (STUFF)
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 traditional 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.
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 2024 are open on FilmFreeway to September 11.
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Saturday October 5 12:00 pm
Canadian / International Shorts
Sit back and take in the weird world of experimental film. Current and diverse works, selected from submissions from around the world.
- Stay Here – Amelia Mitchell
(12:00) CANADA
- My Shadow – Astra Silver Burke
(7:00) CANADA - Squirrel – Carl Knickerbocker
(2:00) CANADA
- Weak Signal – John Winn
(6:00) USA - Scatter Brain – Lorenza De Benedictis
(1:00) CANADA - Day 36 – Mackenzie Graham
(10:00) CANADA - Bulletmode – Marwan Zeid
(2:00) CANADA
- Skeuomorphs – Sally Walker-Hudecki a.k.a. Cinnamon
(17:00) CANADA - Final Disposition – Sergio Lazarte
(8:00) USA - Going Anywhen Again – Tommy Heffron
(4:00) USA
Saturday October 5 2:30 pm
ROUGH CUTS
Rough Cuts is a first of its kind at our festival. A full program dedicated to works in progress from Sudbury's emerging filmmakers. We want to provide a space for artists still sorting the kinks in their projects out. There is a noticeable gap in the filmmaking opportunities throughout the city and region, the goal of this program is to help our emerging filmmakers build up their skill set as well as form a community to bridge the gap.
Works submitted will be reviewed by Festival staff and if selected reviewed by a panel of local industry experts. The short film will then be featured in the program and shown Saturday October 5. After the program a moderated panel featuring the experts will occur and filmmakers will get the chance along with others to ask for feedback as well as general advice.
ROUGH CUTS INDUSTRY PANEL 3:30 pm
Moderated by: Isak Valliancourt
Featuring: Andreanna Germain, Dustin Moore (Moore Film and Sound), Bosmo (Here Kitty Kitty Productions)
Saturday October 5 4:30 pm
Artists To Watch
- Zoom Out – Alexandre Fishbein-Ouimette
(4:00) CANADA
- Polaris – Clayton Drake
(16:00) CANADA - Nodding Off in the Grass – Cullen Fraser-Ellott
(11:00) CANADA
- The Hindrance – David Chartier
(2:00) CANADA - Triage – David Rendall
(14:00) CANADA
- Numbers Men – Emma L.R. Hogg
(15:00) CANADA - Kick the Bucket List – Mars Morrison
(10:00) CANADA - Cupid’s Assist – Richard Barlow
(11:00) CANADA
ERASERHEAD
by David Lynch
Saturday October 5 7:00 pm
1977 | USA | Fantasy/Horror | 89 min.
David Lynch’s 1977 debut feature, Eraserhead, is both a lasting cult sensation and a work of extraordinary craft and beauty. With its mesmerizing black-and-white photography by Frederick Elmes and Herbert Cardwell, evocative sound design, and unforgettably enigmatic performance by Jack Nance, this visionary nocturnal odyssey continues to haunt American cinema like no other film.
Eraserhead is my most spiritual movie. No one understands when I say that, but it is.
SHE IS CONANN
by Bertrand Mandico
Saturday October 5 8:00pm
2023 | Luxembourg/France/Belgium | Fantasy | 105 min.
2023 Nominee Queer Palm at Cannes + 3 other nominations
Traveling through the abyss, underworld dog Rainer recounts the six lives of Conann, perpetually put to death by her own future, across eras, myths and ages. From her childhood, a slave of Sanja and her barbarian horde, to her accession to the summits of cruelty at the doors of our world.
... what I believe to be the height of barbarism; old age killing its own youth.
Panelists
ISAK VAILLANCOURT
Isak Vaillancourt is an award-winning director and multidisciplinary artist whose practice includes photography, filmmaking, arts-based programming, and digital communications.
As a creative, he relies on dynamic and vibrant imagery to explore the entanglement of identity and aesthetics from a lens of Black healing and decolonization. Through the unapologetic use of creativity* he recognizes that we can construct our own liberation through cultural creation. Isak’s documentary films have been featured in regional, national and international festivals.
BOSMO
Bosmo (they/them) is a freelance filmmaker/musician born in Sudbury, ON. In 2012, Bosmo launched Here Kitty Kitty Productions, in that time, they have produced over 100 music videos, as well expanded into documentary work and business videography. In 2017, Bosmo was awarded the Emerging Artist award in the Sudbury Mayor’s Celebration of the Arts for their video work, as well as their involvement in the arts community. Bosmo graduated from the Film & Television Production program at Humber College in 2015, receiving an advanced diploma and majoring in screenwriting, sound design and transmedia. Recently, Bosmo has shifted their focus from music video production, towards independent narrative film, and is currently in pre-production for the debut feature film.
ANDREANNE GERMAIN
DUSTIN MOORE
Dustin Moore is the owner of Moore Film and Sound, a recording studio and independent film production company in the heart of New Sudbury. He is an award winning songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, audio engineer, screenwriter, actor, director and producer, as well as an Information Technologist at NOSM University.
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