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The Arizona Underground Film Festival keeps picking and screening the best in world extreme cinema and their fourth annual edition, which will run Sep. 16-24 in Tucson is no exception, compiling outrageous cult epics from countries such as Japan, Switzerland and Cuba; as well as some local nastiness produced in the fest’s own backyard.

The fest opens with Jack Perez’s Some Guy Who Kills People, a comedy thriller executive produced by John Landis and starring Kevin Corrigan as a loser who gets sadistic revenge on those he feels have wronged him.

While the opening night film is a big name affair, Auff is also celebrating local freaky film fare with films such as the film noir Sweet Love and Deadly, directed by Paul Clinco; and the horror comedy Dick Night, directed by Andy Viner.

From elsewhere around the U.S., there’s the fest’s annual celebration of extreme cinema,...

Is it a revelation or a revolution? It’s both! The Revelation Perth International Film Festival is tackling the theme of “Revolution” when its 13th annual edition begins violating Australia on July 8-18. Get set for 11 days filled French zombies, Belgian cowboys, outer space outlaws, Beat poets, cat ladies, gospel musicians and other revolutionaries.

Actually, one of the main features of the festival this year is a slew of music documentaries, mostly spotlighting both American and Australian music. On the U.S. side of things there’s Wheedle’s Groove, a look at the history of Seattle funk; Rejoice and Shout, which examines gospel music’s impact on African-American culture — and vice versa; Tom Dicillo’s Doors documentary When You’re Strange; plus The Family Jams and 72 Musicians. And, from Australia, there’s Megan Simpson-Hubberman’s classic concert film The Night of the Triffids.

There’s lots more than music docs,...

"Mississippi Damned," Tina Mabry's portrait of a poor Mississippi family, won the grand jury award for outstanding dramatic feature at Outfest, the 27th Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Film Festival. Nacho G. Velilla's "Chef's Special" won the audience award for dramatic feature.

Laura Harring in "Drool" and Derrick L. Middleton in "Rivers Wash Over Me" won grand jury acting awards.

The screenwriting trophy was given to E.E. Cassidy for "We Are the Mods" which was also the audience award winner for first U.S. dramatic feature.

Here are more award winners:

"On These Shoulders We Stand" directed by Glenne McElhinney -- The Special Programming Award for Freedom

"Greek Pete" by writer-director Andrew Haigh -- The Special Programming Award for Artistic Achievement

"College Boys Live" a documentary by George O'Donnell -- The Special Programming Award for Emerging Talent

"Get Happy" by Mark Payne -- Audience Award for Documentary Short...

Tina Mabry's "Mississippi Damned," a portrait of a poor Mississippi family, won the grand jury award for outstanding dramatic feature at Outfest, the 27th Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, which concluded Sunday.

Nicole Opper's "Off and Running" was named outstanding documentary feature, and Stian Kristiansen's "The Man Who Loved Yngve" earned the jury prize for international dramatic feature.

Jury awards also were presented to Laura Herring, actress in a feature, for "Drool"; Derrick L. Middleton, actor in a feature, for "Rivers Wash Over Me"; screenwriter E.E. Cassidy, "We Are the Mods"; "First and Loveliss," directed by Shaun Kadlec and Deb Tullman, documentary short; and "The Bath," directed by Lee Mi-rang, dramatic short.

Cassidy's "Mods," about a high school girl infatuated with mod culture, also earned two audience awards: for first U.S. dramatic feature film and soundtrack.

Other audience award winners were "Chef's Special," directed by Nacho G. Velilla,...

Editor’S Note: This is part of a collection of interviews with the filmmakers from Outfest 2009’s “Four In Focus” selection, which features work from four first time directors We Are The Mods, directed by E.E. Cassidy As described by the festival: “Naive high school student Sadie sees the world through her 35mm camera. When she becomes infatuated with eccentric mod chick Nico, Sadie finds inspiration in Nico’s world and emerges as …...

Outfest 2009 kicked off this weekend, beginning ten days of celebrating Lgbt cinema in Los Angeles. The 27th edition of the festival brings 181 films from 25 countries - four of which were selected as Outfest’s “Four In Focus,” a special designation for the festival’s most promising directorial debuts. Nancy Kissam’s “Drool”, H.P. Mendoza’s “Fruit Fly”, Jason Bushman’s “Hollywood, je t’aime” and E.E. Cassidy’s “We Are The Mods,” are the chosen …...

Outfest 2009 kicked off this weekend, beginning ten days of celebrating Lgbt cinema in Los Angeles. The 27th edition of the festival brings 181 films from 25 countries - four of which were selected as Outfest’s “Four In Focus,” a special designation for the festival’s most promising directorial debuts. Nancy Kissam’s “Drool”, H.P. Mendoza’s “Fruit Fly”, Jason Bushman’s “Hollywood, je t’aime” and E.E. Cassidy’s “We Are The Mods,” are the chosen …...

While I know very little about the mod subculture which originated in London in the late 50s and peaked in the 60s, I do love this trailer. A bit slow to start, it's well shot and of course very fashionable. Believe it or not it's an American film by E.E. Cassidy whose breaking out her feature length debut and it's looks nothing short of spectacular. Special thanks to reader loem for the heads up!

Sadie’s art is her photography. Nico’s art is her life. Together they explore Britain’s 60’s mod culture of music, fashion, drugs and vintage scooters in contemporary Los Angeles. Sadie observes the world through the lens of her 35 mm camera, but everything changes when she meets Nico, the new “mod” girl who was born with Milroy’s disease that causes her to have abnormal swelling in her foot. Nico doesn’t hide her disability,...

• Apart from the monthly (and damn expensive) Cahiers du Cinema and Sight & Sound I receive, if there is one issue that I look forward to wearing out the inside pages is Filmmaker Magazine's annual summer issue. Seeing that Ioncinema.com heavily favors and caters to the indie film biz, this list of 25 names/faces of upcoming indie talent serves as guide to help indentify those who'll we'll come in contact with in the years and festivals to come.  Now in its tenth edition, I get a kick out of seeing whose work I'm already familiar with and then there are the names that ring a bell, thanks to trade news items or positive buzz on the fest circuit, and finally, there are tons of young artists with inspiring early career track records who I've got zero clue existed. With today's announcement, the magazine's online version had an alumni rundown

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