The Melbourne Underground Film Festival (M.U.F.F.) is a cutting edge premiere showcase for Independent cinema in the Southern Hemisphere. It is known for its radical, adventurous and iconoclastic programming decisions and for its support for different voices in the Independent and Underground film and video practitioners worldwide. The festival focuses on both Australian and International cinema and is a vocal critic of the staid and failing Australian Film Industry.
M.U.F.F. plays many shorts (about 35) in Mini M.U.F.F. every year and a lot of features in its MUFF Neu section. Overall we play about 50 new works each year, plus an exciting array of documentaries and curated retrospectives.
M.U.F.F. is an essential cutting edge forum for new cinema that will look beyond production values, and find the hidden talent within. M.U.F.F. has been the launching board and incubator for many talented filmmakers including the likes of James Wan, Scott Ryan, Jenna Fisher, Jim VanBebber, Bruce LaBruce, Peter Christopherson, Stuart Simpson, Shannon Young, Kel Dolen, Steven Kastrissios, Ivan Kavanagh, Mark Savage, Anna Brownfield, Patrick Hughes, Jeremey DeCeglie, Gregory Pakis and many, many others.
M.U.F.F. awards cutting-edge films every year with the "M.U.F.F. AWARDS" that select winners both locally and Internationally from shorts and feature categories.