Rivercity Underground Film Festival

San Antonio, Texas, United States, North America

Category

Feature, Short

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Rivercity Underground Film Festival

San Antonio, Texas, United States, North America

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About the festival

Rivercity Underground Film Festival (RUFF) has recently made changes as we continue to learn and grow with the idea that it is our privilege to serve the independent filmmaker and their works.
RUFF focus on avant-garde, art-house, independent and no/low budget film-making, this event will take place the 1st weekend of December in San Antonio, Texas.
Our program provides a venue for filmmakers to reinvent and explore new approaches, to foster new forms of media art and to build an audience for such work. We aim to present a wide range of work exploring the many definitions and interpretations of the concept of “underground”.
We’re looking for films made with passion, obsession and drive; films that go beyond expectations and genre; films, video and audio projects that strive to push the boundaries of accepted form and content. A strong sense of authorship is a must.

While we tend to stride to be a little outside the box when awarding filmmakers by opening up to several different genres and categories we will try our best to at least find the few diamonds in the rough in the following categories:

Best Movie
Best Director
Best Male Role
Best Female Role
Best Cinematography
Best Editing
Best Sound Design
Best Student Film Highschool/College

All winners receive a unique certificate designed for the festival and festival laurel.

Official selections will receive festival laurel

About

Rivercity Underground Film Festival (RUFF) has recently made changes as we continue to learn and grow with the idea that it is our privilege to serve the independent filmmaker and their works.
RUFF focus on avant-garde, art-house, independent and no/low budget film-making, this event will take place the 1st weekend of December in San Antonio, Texas.
Our program provides a venue for filmmakers to reinvent and explore new approaches, to foster new forms of media art and to build an audience for such work. We aim to present a wide range of work exploring the many definitions and interpretations of the concept of “underground”.
We’re looking for films made with passion, obsession and drive; films that go beyond expectations and genre; films, video and audio projects that strive to push the boundaries of accepted form and content. A strong sense of authorship is a must.

While we tend to stride to be a little outside the box when awarding filmmakers by opening up to several different genres and categories we will try our best to at least find the few diamonds in the rough in the following categories:

Best Movie
Best Director
Best Male Role
Best Female Role
Best Cinematography
Best Editing
Best Sound Design
Best Student Film Highschool/College

All winners receive a unique certificate designed for the festival and festival laurel.

Official selections will receive festival laurel

Awards & Winners

There are no winners yet for this festival

Terms and rules

-Work must be the original work of the submitted.

-Rivercity Underground Film Festival reserves the right to change the programming at anytime.

-All genres considered.

-All non-English movies with dialogues or voice over must include English subtitles.

-Work completed by film students in high school and college must email copy of student ID or transcript of current school year to rivercityundergroundff@yahoo.com to fully qualified for category.

-We reserve the right to refuse to screen any submission deemed by the festival to be offensive, violent or racist.

-The 2020 festival is for films produced January 2018 or after.

-Judges decisions are Final.

Ratings & Reviews

Categories and fees

Features Films: Narrative and Documentary
Early Bird (1st January, 2020) $20
Regular (1st June, 2020) $25
Late (1st November, 2020) $30

Anything over 45 mins (in all genres)

Short Films: Narrative and Documentary
Early Bird (1st January, 2020) $20
Regular (1st June, 2020) $25
Late (1st November, 2020) $30

Anything under 44 mins (in all genres)

College Student Feature Films
Early Bird (1st January, 2020) $5
Regular (1st June, 2020) $10
Late (1st November, 2020) $15

College student films with total running time over 45 min. Student films must have been done while in school and an ID/transcrip of enrolement for that time must be submitted inorder to fully qualify.

College Student Short Films
Early Bird (1st January, 2020) $5
Regular (1st June, 2020) $10
Late (1st November, 2020) $15

College student films with a total running time less than 45 min. Student films must have been done while in school and a student ID/transcript of enrollment for that time must be provided inorder to fully qualify.

Highschool Student Short Films
Early Bird (1st January, 2020) $0
Regular (1st June, 2020) $0
Late (1st November, 2020) $5

Highschool student films with total running times of 45 min or less. Student films must be done while in school and a school ID/transcript of enrollement during that time must be provided inorder to fully qualify.

Highschool Student Feature Films
Early Bird (1st January, 2020) $0
Regular (1st June, 2020) $0
Late (1st November, 2020) $5

Highschool student films wih total running time over 45 min. Student films must have been done while in school, a school ID/transcript of enrollement during that time must be provided inorder to fully qualify.

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