South Carolina Underground Film Festival

Experience the celebration of independent films from around the world at the 11th Annual South Carolina Underground Film Festival, where all genres of films have been welcomed with open arms since 2015.​

​Get ready for three action-packed days of indie films at SCUFF as fans and filmmakers come together to celebrate obscure and independent cinema.

Screening Schedule:

10:00 AM - Feature Film
 
Tonight and Maybe Tomorrow (78 mins/SC) - SOUTH CAROLINA PREMIERE - A party at the end of the world reunites two acquaintances. Taking the chance to finally have their first date, they and the rest of the party process their fears, regrets, and futures. Directed by Michael Smallwood.

12:00 PM – So Animated: Animation Shorts Block
 
Bwinky’s Little Big World of Love (3 mins/NC) - Bwinky happens upon earth and while exploring he comes across a cow. As their connection grows we get a look into her impending fate of which she is resigned to. Bwinky attempts to save her, and with some alien magic and love they launch into space and newfound freedom. Directed by Stacia Black

​FR<-O-+GGY STYLE (5 mins/OH) - Two frogs engage in a mating ritual, but they discover that their spawn may be more gender amphibious than they demand. Directed by Jonathan Riles

​Marginalia (3 mins/SC) - When a young monk gets creative in the scriptorium, things take an unexpected turn as his doodles come to life! Directed by Alex Gentemann

​Bark (17 mins/CA): - He stole her heart. She stole his dog. After a breakup, an obsessive woman steals her ex’s dog in a desperate attempt to reconnect. Bark twists love, revenge, and grief into a visually striking exploration of emotional chaos. Directed by Searit Kahsay Huluf
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In Half (24 mins/Spain) - Through a child's imagination it tells the journey of a man who after falling prey to his fears, he must cross a strange world, a universe full of magic, where he will be confronted with his own fears and conflicts from the past and where he must find solutions for the future to discover his self-identity. Directed by Jorge Morais Valle

​Illuminatus! (10 mins/IL) - A young reporter is recruited by a mad genius and his anarchist followers aboard a giant yellow submarine headed to the lost city of Atlantis. The crew plans to thwart an Illuminati conspiracy that runs absurdly deep. Based on the acid-tinged book trilogy by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson. Directed by Chris Kalis

1:30 PM - Feature Film
 
Freak Bikes (78 mins/CA) - EAST COAST PREMIERE - L.A. bicycle activist Jimmy Lizama travels to bike-friendly cities with his 12-year-old son, hoping to inspire him to imagine cities without cars. Directed by Ryan Mekenian

4:00 PM - Documentary Shorts Block

​The Endless Wave (5 mins/SC) - Professional wake surfer Evan Feierabend takes us through different aspects of the sport, exploring the craft and what it's like to compete. Directed by Anil Dhokai
 
Unlikely Mermaid (18 mins/FL) - Two Mermaid wannabes, Peggy and Lorraine, audition to be performers at Weeki Wachee, the Florida roadside tourist attraction that is older than Disney World. It’s never too late to dream or drown trying. Directed by Lorraine Portman

Once Upon A Wetland (16 mins/NC) - As restrictions tighten across the country, Durham, North Carolina preps for the annual Beaver Queen Pageant a campy, un-beaver-lievable celebration of LGBTQIA activism, environmental conservation, and outrageous critter cosplay. Directed by Elizabeth Miller-Derstine

F-A-K-E (23 mins/Ohio) -A lone man travels to universities bearing a message that the moon landings were staged and warning that the earth is not what it seems. Directed by Stephen Crompton

6:00 PM - Feature Film
 
The Misadventures of Vince & Hick (108 mins/CA) - SOUTH CAROLINA PREMIERE - A live action comic book crime odyssey that tells the Legend of your two new favorite bandits, Vince & Hick. The Winners of Slamdance 2018 Grand Jury Prize and Audience awards for their first feature film, "Rock Steady Row", return with their second feature. Directed by Trevor Stevens

8:30 PM - Made in the South: South Carolina Shorts Block 1
 
Snatch’D (5 mins/SC) - What looks like a perfectly normal informercial for a dating app turns out to be something much more sinister. Directed by Alex Raileanu
 
Safety First (5 mins/SC) - A comedy in which two people find different meanings in what it means to be a friend! What happens when you tell a friend to be safe, and they aren't? Directed by Barbara Zagrodnik
 
The Lemon Man (9 mins/SC) - In this gripping satirical thriller, citrus fueled chaos unfolds when one man's thirst spirals out of control into a deadly identity crisis. Directed by Jack Bergren

​SEEK (8 mins/SC) - Derek is a young adult who is a tying to find his way in life. He has a hard time stepping out because his father is a member of the church. So he seeks around trying to find answers. Directed by Xavier Gibson
 
My Boyfriend, My Prince (13 mins/SC) - Every step with Hawk is exactly how Arianna imagined it, perfect smiles, captions she could write herself, memories that never smudge. It’s the love story she’s been waiting for… until one dropped call breaks the spell and the seams begin to show. Directed by Mark A Williams
 
Rosa’s Dilemma (15 mins/SC) - Rosa finds herself in a whirlwind of emotions as she navigates an unexpected love triangle between her two coworkers at a fast food joint. Directed by Maya Simone

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