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Arizona / Film Festivals / Movies
by Chris Coffel · Published October 17, 2010 · Last modified October 18, 2010
For the past three years the Arizona Underground Film Festival has rapidly been growing both in and outside of Arizona as a top-notch underground cult film festival. The non-profit festival allows truly independent artists...
Amexica, from writer/director Ron Krauss, was hands down the best short film I screened at the 2010 Arizona Underground Film Festival–and in no way is this a slight to the other films there. Amexica...
ABC Death is an animated short from director/writer Brett Walker. The film is about a man named Allen who, while taking a stroll through the city, hears someone eerily singing the ABC’s. Allen tries...
Arizona / Film Festivals / Movies
by Chris Coffel · Published October 11, 2010 · Last modified October 14, 2010
Kink ‘N’ Kill is a short film from director Diego Ibarrola and was written by Ibarrola along with Brendon Reed and Jason Reed. The short film is about a sick, twisted news reporter that...
Misguided Sympathies of Flowers is supposed to be about isolation. It’s supposed to be about how a mentally ill homeless woman deals with being alone. It’s supposed to be dramatic and disturbing. At least...
Arizona / Film Festivals / Movies
by Chris Coffel · Published September 30, 2010 · Last modified October 1, 2010
Care directed by Erika Gronek was the one documentary piece I screened as part of the Celluloid in the Sun Showcase at the AZ Underground Film Fest and it was an interesting doc to...
Arizona / Film Festivals / Movies
by Chris Coffel · Published September 29, 2010 · Last modified October 1, 2010
One of two animation shorts I saw at the Arizona Underground Film Festival was The Villikon Chronicles: Return to Mayhem. The three minute short, written by Bryan Kinnaird and directed by Rebecca Friedman, is...
Arizona / Film Festivals / Movies
by Chris Coffel · Published September 28, 2010 · Last modified October 1, 2010
You ever wonder what’s in those huge underground tunnels you see around town? You know the ones. You can often find them under a bridge or overpass. I always thought they were bum tunnels....
Arizona / Film Festivals / Movies
by Chris Coffel · Published September 27, 2010 · Last modified September 28, 2010
It’s bad luck to kill a coyote. It’s really bad luck to kill a coyote if you’re a college kid trespassing on sacred Native American soil with three of your college buddies. This is...
Arizona / Film Festivals / Movies
by Chris Coffel · Published April 12, 2010 · Last modified May 13, 2011
This past Thursday the Phoenix Film Festival kicked off their 10th Anniversary at the Harkins Scottsdale 101 in Phoenix, Arizona. Over the past ten years the Phoenix Film Festival has given many Phoenicians the...