About the Festival

The 2007 Sydney Underground Film Festival will take place from Friday 7th September
to Monday 10th September in Sydney’s swanky new event space, The Factory Theatre.

The festival programs a high calibre of independent and experimental films and is
organised by a committed group of filmmakers, who understand the need for a
sustainable and thriving alternative film culture.

The Sydney Underground Film Festival provides a platform for exhibition, exposure and critical discussion. The organisers are devoted to renewing local interest in independent
and experimental film as part of an international underground film culture.

The Sydney Underground Film Festival is dedicated to nurturing an alternative film
culture through the promotion of independent and experimental films. The festival
seeks to support filmmakers who operate outside established film industry
infrastructures, by providing a platform for exhibition, exposure and critical discussion.

Our philosophy is formed from an understanding that every established film industry
thrives against a subversive force. Historically, it has always been the marginal
movements in film culture, which eventually influences mainstream film forms.
Opposition is a necessary tension that promotes growth and artistic diversity in all film cultures and subcultures. Sadly, the Australian film industry has very little resistance
against established commercial and regulated film production.

So in stating this, our intention is to promote a culture of resistance, simply by
nurturing artistic diversity and experimentation in film, rather than maintaining an adversarial position against established infrastructures (as much as we may disagree
with them). We believe that discussion, dialectic and diversity is the means by which
the Australian film industry can be strengthened and sustained.

Please click here to read our Festival Integrity Statement

Stefan Popescu and Katherine Berger, Feb 07

Sydney Underground Film Festival
PO Box 202
Summer Hill
N.S.W 2130
Australia