Since 1994, the Chicago Underground Film Festival has presented the
finest in new underground, experimental and documentary film and
video. In 2008 the festival entered into a partnership with
IFP/Chicago and in 2009 the festival moved to the state of the art
Gene Siskel Film Center. 2010 will mark another major change for the
festival as we move from our traditional fall dates to the spring.

2009 Chicago Underground Film Festival jury selected the following
works as festival winners. Our 2009 jury was comprised of Patrick
Friel (White Light Cinema/Onion City Film Festival), Adam Hart
(University of Chicago Experimental Film Club) and author and media
activist Anne Elizabeth Moore. Winning films were given one of a kind
hand-made trophies designed by Chicago artist Luke Breckon.

Best Narrative Feature: Blondes In The Jungle (Whitney Horne and Lev Kalman)
Best Narrative Short: All Ghost Women Play The Theremin (Jerzy Rose)
Best Documentary Feature: It Came From Kuchar! (Jennifer Kroot)
Best Documentary Short: Me Broni Ba (Akosua Adoma Owusu)
Best Experimental Film: Jaws (Sabine Gruffat)
Best Animation: Elfmädchen (Mirka Morales)
Made In Chicago Award: Somewhere Only We Know (Jesse Maclean)
Audience Award: American Radical- The Trials of Norman Finkelstein
(David Ridgen and Nicolas Rossier)