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
 
Battersea (90 mins/OH): SOUTH CAROLINA PREMIERE - Siblings reconvene at their childhood home, where they spend a precarious weekend drinking and talking. Directed by T.J. Sandella

12:00 PM - THE LAB: Experimental Shorts Block

​Still Water (7 mins/TN) - 1961. A bloodied young woman and her boyfriend are dragged to the river's edge for a baptism. As the cold water rises, so do the sinister forces that threaten to drown them all in terror. Directed by Spenser Fritz
 
Micro-Short (6 mins/NY) - A woman hypnotized by her microwave finds out how far she'll go to satiate its hunger. Directed by Beth Fletcher
 
The End in Slow Motion (13 mins/NY) - A woman develops heightened awareness of the cruel world outside of an unnervingly calm house, as the threat of apocalypse stokes chaos. Directed by Joshua Kaufman
 
BORGLESQUE (7 mins/NV) - A greedy burlesque club owner hires a mad scientist to resurrect his most profitable girl, but this she-borg refuses to be an object of men’s desires. Directed by G. Wilson

1:30 PM - Feature Film

​Don’t Say Earth (80 mins/NC) - FILM FESTIVAL PREMIERE - A man wakes up in an escape pod with no idea how or why he’s trapped inside. He must find a way out before he runs out of air. Directed by Ben Carland

3:30 PM - Out Of This World: Sci-Fi Shorts Block

​A Darker Place: Cases from the DCA (26 mins/VA) - A team of elite D.C.A. special forces operatives becomes the prey of a rogue anomaly, trapped inside a nightmarish dimension where reality bends to the creature’s will. Directed by Rowan Kelley

Emily’s Mountain (22 mins/Israel) - Emily celebrates her 6th birthday on a magical trip with her family and is slowly exposed to the horrifying reality that her parents are trying to conceal from her using modern technology and entertainment systems. Directed by Tal Somech

Tachyon Deliverance (21 mins/GA) - A leather-jacketed, anxiety-ridden food delivery driver is hired to transport a precious cargo across space. Directed by Connor Wright

5:30 PM - Feature Film

​FIRST DRAFTS: The Outcasts (90 mins/SC) - SOUTH CAROLINA PREMIERE - What if you rediscovered the script you wrote when you were 12? And what if you performed it with real actors, without changing a word? In this unique comedy, actors faithfully bring their director's hilariously bad childhood script to life, while their "Teacher" Michael Smallwood uproariously reacts to the chaos. Directed by Michelle Iannantuono

7:30 PM - Made in the South: South Carolina Shorts Block 2

​The Other Within (19 mins/SC) - Rosie's relationship with Piper is costing her friends and having deadly consequences, but maybe that's exactly what she wants. Directed by Collins Abbott White

Carolina Rain (17 mins/SC) - A depression era teen and his older sister escape to the Carolina woods to find freedom from their abusive uncle after murdering one of his johns. Directed by Scott Allan Pardue

Behind Closed Doors (25 mins/SC) - A genre-bending coming-of-age thriller following an anxiety-ridden teenager going to a high school house party to try and find connection, but an unexpected connection finds him instead. Directed by Eugene Rocco Utley

​Toreador (6 mins/SC) - A bullfighter faces himself to renter the ring after a devastating goring. Directed by Chad Henderson

9:00 PM - SCUFFY Awards

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