Atlanta Underground Film Festival Online

Atlanta Underground Film Festival Online

Watch some of our favorite films of the year right here from August 10-24

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  • Big City Pizza

    Big City Pizza
    Directed by Dusty Saunders

    As tension rises in the big city for the Omniball Championship, Boney, a skeleton pizza delivery man starts his shift. Animated entirely from Boney’s POV in one continuous, unbroken take, we follow his delivery route where every stop is weirder than the ...

  • THE MISADVENTURES OF VINCE & HICK

    THE MISADVENTURES OF VINCE & HICK
    Directed by Trevor Stevens

    A live action comic book crime odyssey that tells the Legend of your two new favorite bandits. The Winners of Slamdance 2018 Grand Jury Prize and Audience awards for their first feature film, "Rock Steady Row", return with their second...

  • Matched

    Matched
    Directed by Elvira Ibragimova

    Ex-playwright turned elite matchmaker Diana is plagued by medical bills and on the brink of losing her job. Desperate, she uses her wealthy clients' lists of impossible romantic demands as casting breakdowns, hires her broke actor friends to portray these “d...

  • Prom Party Massacre

    Prom Party Massacre
    Directed by Jordan Gustafson

    In a genre-bending musical full of teenage rebels, poodle skirts, and betrayal, a young gay man tries to woo his crush with a swinging prom party - but when popular kids start turning up dead, the partygoers discover a slasher killer amongst the s...

  • Potential Side Effects

    Potential Side Effects
    Directed by Bennett Solomon

    A young trumpet player must juggle preparation for her college admission while trying to earn back the money her father gambled away.

  • We are not the same ( No somos iguales)

    We are not the same ( No somos iguales)
    Directed by Jesús Castillo

    A gay teenager wants to audition for a transvestite character in a play, however, he is afraid that the uninformed society will think that he is like the character, or even that he wants to be a woman.

  • Good Mourning

    Good Mourning
    Directed by Paulina Knaak

  • Mr. Oak

    Mr. Oak
    Directed by Callum McKean

    When Jacob learns his best friend, Mr. Oak the golden doodle, won’t be by his side forever, he sets out to turn each day into an unforgettable adventure.

  • LOCKDOWN

    Directed by Melanie van Betten Jeffcoat

    Inspired by real events, Lockdown follows a mother who arrives to pick up her daughter from school and suddenly finds herself trapped in a terrifying fight for survival. Without relying on graphic violence, the film creates tension through uncertainty, fea...

  • Trigger

    Directed by James Jones

    Driven by a mother’s desperation, Lyala Smith is coerced into unspeakable acts by the elusive Trevor—leaving it to renowned psychiatrist Landon Smith to piece together her fractured mind and uncover a terrifying secret.

  • The Lights Between

    Directed by Anett Castro

    The Lights Between is an indie romance short film about two lifelong friends, a small town state fair, and the quiet moments that change everything. Violet and Theo have known each other forever. On a fall night filled with neon lights, powdered donuts, and half said fee...

  • Threadbeat Dad

    Threadbeat Dad
    Directed by Crystal Jin Kim

    An estranged hospice custodian fears the idea of an undignified death. He goes to bed in a suit every night in case he should die in his sleep, grows increasingly fashionable, and rockets into ludicrous fame.

  • ONLINE PANEL : Blockbuster Action on an Indie Budget

    Stunts are always featured in movie trailers and add that wow factor to any show. Can blockbuster action be apart of independent films on a budget? Learn what the process is for incorporating stunts into projects of any budget and how to tailor the action in your script, plan stunts in pre-prod...

  • The Four Noble Truths

    The Four Noble Truths
    Directed by Asha Alaji-Sharif, Chris Lee Huot

    A short documentary that explores the relationship between religion and mental illness, as we learn about Maeta’s journey with schizophrenia, his sexuality and his family.

  • Into The Light

    Directed by Mikey Corker

    Into The Light follows two young South African surfers whose dreams offer a way out of poverty, addiction, and hardship. As they overcome the lasting effects of apartheid and fight for a better future, they discover that surfing is more than a sport. It's a path to hope,...

  • SKINERGY

    SKINERGY
    Directed by Will Custer

    Micah, a young and successful yet spiritually adrift tattoo artist, feels confined by the limitations of human flesh as his canvas. When mysterious forces intervene, he is drawn toward the creation of his magnum opus.

  • Climate Control

    Climate Control
    Directed by Sarah Lasley

    A director making a documentary about fossil fuel extraction is consistently subverted by an AI agent that wants to tell a generic love story.

  • Taste Her Fruit Bless the Whore

    Taste Her Fruit Bless the Whore
    Directed by Diana Mulan Zhu

    The film is a queer sex positive retelling of the mythological trope where women are punished for transgressive gluttony of eating forbidden fruit. Persephone, Chang’e, Eve and many others in both Western and Eastern myths have been cu...

  • Three Days in Tlaquepaque

    Three Days in Tlaquepaque
    Directed by Duncan Analco

    As the winter grows harsh, a woman pens a letter to a lover who has yet to write back.

  • Pawns

    Pawns
    Directed by Dale Robert Kutzera

    A soldier trudges across a desolate battlefield. A shell rockets overhead and explodes in the distance. Reveal that this soldier is a pawn and the battlefield is loosely divided into light and dark squares. This scout brings back news that the "enemy" is not...

  • Happy Birthday, America

    Directed by Neil Ira Needleman

    On Independence Day, America's birthday, I was thinking about an immigrant friend who had to self-deport because Trump's ICE stormtroopers had become a living nightmare.

  • 35 Days

    Directed by Heidi Kumao

    “35 Days” is an experimental, stop motion animation about what happens when a coalition of strangers answers the call to locate a missing cat during the pandemic lockdown of 2020.

  • Red, White, Blue & Yellow

    Red, White, Blue & Yellow
    Directed by Jason Kushner

    An Atlanta-based community of immigrant Ukrainian women band together to hold neighborhood culture festivals focusing on folk art, food, and music in an effort to collect donations and help support their home country against Russian invaders.

  • My Grandfather: The Zookeeper

    My Grandfather: The Zookeeper
    Directed by Josiah Olmstead

    My Grandfather, The Zookeeper tells the story of seven pioneers who helped connect zoos across America, laying the foundation for modern animal care and conservation. Through rare behind the scenes access and personal stories, the film ce...

  • No Evil

    No Evil
    Directed by Sophia Peaslee

    A tryptic surreal short film using the three tenants of the adage “Hear no Evil, See no Evil and Speak no Evil” to illustrate different demons we all face, from addiction to self doubt.

    website:
    https://www.sassyspaceman.com/projects/noevil

  • Bird Flu

    Directed by Ethan Monte

    A young man is visited by two strange birds who lead him through an intense transformation.

  • The Pastor's Daughter

    The Pastor's Daughter
    Directed by Timothy Hall

    After the death of a Southern preacher, his ne'er-do-well daughter returns home to collect her inheritance.

  • God Country

    God Country
    Directed by Matthew Thomas Laughter

    Benjamin Marsh, laid-off and over-extended, won't have the money to give his boyfriend the life he deserves. But after his estranged mother's death, he must return to his backward hometown of Whitehope to receive his inheritance. But Pastor Deanan,...

  • What's In your Bag?

    What's In your Bag?
    Directed by Béla Baptiste

    What begins as a routine celebrity interview quickly spirals into chaos when an actress pulls an ASP baton from her purse and violently attacks the host. This dark satire shatters the illusion of polished internet culture, turning a familiar format i...

  • Broken Beak

    Broken Beak
    Directed by Christian Carroll

    After the murder of her uncle, activist Māori photographer Emma returns from NYC to New Zealand to claim her inheritance. Once home she begins to have visions of a mythical monster called Broken Beak and as more family members die, Emma feels compelled t...

  • Brian Won't Wear Condoms

    Brian Won't Wear Condoms
    Directed by Genna Edwards - 11 min.

    An alternative contraceptive procedure tests the relationship between a wellness influencer and her skeptical best friend.

  • Stack

    Stack
    Directed by Randolph Buffington

    On the eve of Father’s Day, a bricklayer-preacher named Stack juggles two job sites and one Sunday sermon — all within 48 hours. Set in Cleveland, this short film captures the rhythm of faith, fatherhood, and the quiet grind that holds a family together.

  • Night Shift at Ned's

    Night Shift at Ned's
    Directed by Hagen Mattingly

    A seasoned waitress starts a new job at an overnight diner in the deep south, and learns new meaning to the term "customers from Hell."