Join Us For The 10th Annual South Carolina Underground Film Festival

Schedule Of Events

10:00 AM - Feature Film

Delicate Arch (CA/1 hr 25 mins) - Four college kids with fracturing relationships take a camping trip to Southern Utah in order to escape an ecological disaster up North. Alone in the desert, they begin to suspect that their reality might not be as it seems and soon realize they’re being watched. Directed by Matt Warren

12:00 PM – The Lab: Experimental Shorts Block

The Shed (MN/11 mins) - A young girl must protect her two younger brothers from her father who has been possessed. Directed by Nathan Block

Gravitation (SC/10 mins) - Composer Nolan Stolz performs the 2020 “COVID” version of his composition Gravitation, an open instrumentation piece for any 5 to 8 performers. Instead of having several musicians unsafely “uncomfortably crowd around one another” on stage like in the original version, this “COVID” version was performed by a single musician overdubbing all of the parts. Directed by Nolan Stolz​

Catamaran (NY/9 mins) - Freya the Jackal and her husband Jericho are top tier assassins vacationing aboard their luxury yacht when they are ambushed by Freya's rival, Darla, and her army of scuba mercenaries. Directed by Joseph Rocco Plescia
First Refusal (NY/8 mins) - In the surreal world of First Refusal, we follow the emotional journey of a young girl who grapples with grief, forced to confront the pain of loss head-on. Directed by Courtney Sanello

Little Lillith (CA/7 mins) - A high ranking senior officer is debriefed on a top secret program.. Directed by Jamison Forkenbrock
Chimera (UK/8 mins) - A woman receives experimental therapy for trauma and begins to suspect that she’s been a patient a lot longer than she’s being told. Directed by Neil West

​1:30 PM - Feature Film

Britney Lost Her Phone (CA/1 hr 39 mins) - In 1802, a family's life will change forever when they stumble upon an iPhone. Directed by Vito Trabucco

4:00 PM - Drama Shorts Block

Not Him (NY/15 mins) - When her husband turns strange and violent, a wife becomes convinced he is possessed. But will anyone believe her? Directed by Sarah Young

The Coyote Sisters (CA/10 mins) - In the winter of 1883, two hare-brained sisters must figure out how to move a fiendishly heavy corpse after an accident involving a bearskin and their daddy’s rifle. Directed by  Autumn Harrison and Tory LeClair

Gulf Shores (LA/9 mins) - On a quiet Friday night, an impulsive woman tries to convince her more methodical wife to take a spontaneous trip to the beach. What begins as an innocent request eventually escalates into a full-blown argument which tests the limits of their marriage. Directed by Chase Haislip

Ada and the Doc (GA/15 mins) - In 1927 southern Louisiana, subversive housewife Ada LeBoeuf is put on trial alongside her alleged lover for the grisly murder of her husband in one of the most explosive sex-murder trials ever reported. Directed by Matison LeBlanc

The Blue-Eyed Boy & Mister Death (NC/19 mins) - Losing a loved one is never easy. Losing a parent can be even harder. Will Cummings had a hole in his heart shaped like his Dad that he tried to fill after the Cancer took him-yet nothing seemed to work. But what if every great once in a cosmic while, on the rarest of occasions, Death felt bad for being a ****, and gave you one last chance to say those words that you thought no one would ever get to hear? What if you could hear that familiar voice just one more time? What would you say? Directed by Jaysen Phillip Buterin

6:00 PM - Feature Film

A Song For Imogene (NC/1 hr 45 mins) - After discovering she is pregnant by her abusive boyfriend, a fallen-away musician must decide between freeing herself or remaining a relic of her drive-by Southern town. A Song For Imogene is a gritty, female-driven independent drama set against the grueling landscape of the American rural South that explores issues around abuse, pregnancy trauma, and the female bid for independence. Directed by Erika Arlee

8:00 PM - So Animated - Animation Shorts Block

Teaser Trailer (FL/3 mins) - A fast-paced, off-the-wall, cosmic horror-comedy that satirizes modern action movie marketing. Directed by JJ Gibson
With (PA/3 mins) - A kick high school basketball team takes a stand against their sexist principal to get the name they deserve. Directed by Delia Morchesky

Crystal Galaxy Enforcers (NJ/4 mins) - Flying through space in a crystal ship, Modnar encounters an annoying nemesis. Directed by Kirk Howle

112 Steps (SC/5 mins) - A South Carolina low country ghost story of a lighthouse keeper and his daughter. Directed by James J Sidletsky and Bryanna C Cantrell

One Happy Customer (CA/6 mins) - Set in the red-light district of a heightened world that mischievously blends live action and animation. Directed by Watts

Yellowstone 88 - Song of Fire (CA/5 mins) - In the summer of 1988 dry lightning sparked a fire in the parched and drought ridden landscape of Yellowstone Park, igniting a blaze that would scorch over 1.5 million perimeter acres of the park. Directed by Jerry van de Beek and Betsy De Fries

We Cool? (SC/8 mins) - Through bad dates and bong rips, a flamboyant queer bird attempts to salvage a night that keeps going from bad to worse. Directed by Yizhen Hou

A Clay Zombies Christmas (OH/22 mins) - When Chad meets a young man who doesn’t believe in Santa Claus, he decides to help spread some Christmas cheer-even if it is the Claypocalypse! Directed by Jake Jolley

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