
Announcing the 2014 CUFF Award Winners!
The Chicago Underground Film Festival is proud to announce the award winners for CUFF 2014:
Jury Awards
What thrilled us the most about our award selections this year is the uneasy and near impossible categorization of the films we’ve chosen. This was a puzzling — in every good sense of that word — edition of the festival.
Best Picture
Dream Town – Adrian Briscoe
Best Animation
Another Song About the Sea – Jeremy Besoff
Best Experimental
Reckoning 3 – Kent Lambert
Best Short
A Million Miles Away – Jennifer Reeder
Best Looking Film
Red Luck – Mike Olenick
Best Rom Com
Home Near Water – Christopher Lange
Made in Chicago
Elle Lumme – Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
Best Documentary(-ish)
Shadow Zombie – Jorge Torres-Torres
Honorable Mentions
Salad Zone – Sarah Abu Abdallah
Historia Calamitatum (The Story of My Misfortunes), Part II: The Crying Game – Roger Beebe
When My Sorrow Died: The Legend of Armen Ra & the Theremin – Robert Nazar Arjoyan
Who Took Johnny – Michael Galinsky, Suki Hawley and David Beilinson
What I Love About Concrete – Katherine Dohan, Alanna Stewart
Buffalo Juggalos – Scott Cummings
Do Voices – Jesse Malmed
Burrow Cams – Sam Easterman
East of Hell – Matthieu Canaguier
Migraine and Michael: A Love Story – Adrian Goodman
American Arab – Usama Alshaibi
Audience Award
Master-Wind – Simon Quéheillard
Thanks to the jury, the filmmakers, GlitterGuts mobile photobooth, and everyone else who was a part of the 21st Annual Chicago Underground Film Festival!