From Emmy and Academy award winners to local filmmakers everyone agrees that the only place to be seen this October 1st-5th is at the 7th Annual Minneapolis Underground Film Festival.
Minneapolis, MN Monday, September 22nd 2014- With only a week to go before Minneapolis hosts it’s 7th annual showcase of cinema’s most provocative work, festival directors have released a list of some notable films they suggest not missing.
On October 2nd become a part of the one night only national screening of NaS: Time is Illmatic, which is a thrilling account of NaS’s evolution from a young street poet to a visionary M.C. Also on October 2nd at 9:30pm, Curio Shop: A Post Apocalyptic Acid Western is one not to miss. Directed by Minnesota native and two time Emmy award winner Eric S. Anderson and photographed by Academy award winning DP David Stump A.S.C, it is an incredible short film that starts as a rather whimsical and Mad Hatter-esque story about a watch maker who has no concept of time and slowly grows darker and more disturbing with each scene, descending through the looking glass to a place where characters transform and harden.
The Canal is about a cinema archivist who learns the dark past about the house his family lives in. Cataloguing a film-reel from 1902, he learns that his home was the site of a brutal series of murders. A shadowy figure of a man starts to appear to him and never wants him or his family to leave the house they have now become trapped in. Also be sure not to miss Ayiti Toma - The Land of the Living, Doomsdays, Hip-Hop Fellow, Bag Boy Lover Boy, Know How,FreeLoad, and Beck DeRobertis Presents: Super Freak: Short Films starring Beck DeRobertis all films and an event recommended by festival staff.
For short film fans, this year 70 short films will be screened over the five days of the film festival and many of the films you will see at this year’s fest are world and national premieres. The Minneapolis Underground Film Festival takes place October 1-5 at St. Anthony Main Theatre in Minneapolis.