The EIGHTH Annual Miami Underground Film Festival is coming to Miami in 2025! ☠️

The eighth annual MUFF will feature weird shorts, music videos, The Circle-Jerk Awards, and the long-awaited return of several favorite filmmakers from the past seven years.

Our evening will begin with a most eclectic and bizarre variety of local shorts, docs, animation, and music videos projected on the big screen, and end with the Circle-Jerk Awards ceremony.

18+ Entry | 21+ To Drink

EVENT DATE AND LOCATION SUBJECT TO CHANGE

Unique prizes await you at the irreverent Circle-Jerk Awards.

☠️ ENTRY IS ONLY OPEN TO FLORIDA FILMMAKERS. IF YOU AREN'T FROM FLORIDA, DO NOT SUBMIT TO THE MUFF! ☠️

We accept narrative shorts, music videos, short documentaries, and animation. Keep 'em short, people are ADHD AF in Miami.

To reiterate: you must be from Florida to submit. There are wonderful filmmakers all over the world, but The MUFF is *EXCLUSIVELY* a showcase for Florida filmmakers. IF YOU ARE NOT FROM FLORIDA, DO NOT SUBMIT. YOUR ENTRY WILL BE AUTOMATICALLY REJECTED. (It's nothing personal--unless you submit anyway after reading this; then you're absolutely a contrarian jerk who can't follow directions and we will justifiably mock you from within our judges' chambers. YOU know who you are. Seriously, knock it off!)

Submitters are encouraged to attend to receive their award.

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  • Thank you so much for showing my film. I wish I could have made the festival in person. I appreciate you showing my work and supporting an outsider artist. Thank you so much!

    October 2024
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    Response from festival:

    We're sorry you couldn't make it. "Size King" got one of the biggest responses at the festival this year!

  • charges accepted filmmakers additional for tickets after paying to submit, no email response back

    October 2024
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    Response from festival:

    Are you sure you aren't thinking of a different festival?

    We did not charge you to submit; we have never charged any fees to submit to the Miami Underground Film Festival. Our only requirement to submit is that the film was produced in Florida and/or made by Floridians, as we are a showcase for Florida film talent.

  • One of the most dishonest and terrible festival I've ever seen. Not only charge the visitor, but the creators too for getting access to the festival. But the location and projection was messed up, my shortfilm had the color altered, and the "event" last 3 hours and the seat was painful and very nasty. For being 7 YEARS already looks like an amateur show. AWFUL EXPERIENCE.

    October 2024
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    Response from festival:

    We're sorry to hear you didn't enjoy our underground film festival.

    This year we had our venue taken away from us at the last minute, but were able to secure The Villain Theater as a replacement. We were very happy with the new location and thought the show came out well despite the initial setback.

    We are not sure what you mean about the projection, as it looked correct to us and nobody else mentioned any issues. We did not alter the color of any entries, we only normalized sound levels to ensure the speakers would not get blown out; everything else remained the same.

    As far as charging admission to the festival, this is standard for any public event to cover the costs of producing it. We did not charge any submission fees and we provided discount ticket codes to all chosen participants in the festival.

    We put on this festival as a labor of love for the Florida film community. We do not make massive profits from this, we merely charge admission to pay for the expenses (marketing, printing costs, venue fees, etc.) of putting on the event.

  • Megan Morrison

    Always an honor to be a part of this festival! Thank you!

    October 2023
  • Miles Stanley

    This film festival was perhaps one of the best festivals I have been in, I am glad my music video was selected.

    It was a memorable time and I highly recommend entering

    October 2023
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    Response from festival:

    Thanks, Miles! We're always pleased to screen your music videos at the MUFF. Hopefully we'll see you again next year!