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Sex, Dogs and Porn at the SUFF
SUFF Announces Winners of Its Third Annual Festival
The Sydney Underground Film Festival, which took place at The Factory Theatre Marrickville from September 10 -13, wrapped up with its award ceremony on Sunday night. The evening was a packed affair with the recipients winning several prizes, including the coveted recycled faux-Oscar trophy.
The big winners in the feature film categories were Life with Ashley by Chris Butler and Porndogs: The Adventures Of Sadie by Greg Blatman. Butler won the Intimacy Feature Film Award for his documentary about life with his teenage sister Ashley, and her sexual obsessions and endeavours. Blatman's Porndogs - the hilarious mock-porno about the Labrador Sadie and her sexual exploits in the city - took out the Taboo Feature Film Award.
Short films featured in the Cinexperiment, Reality Bites, Comedy Corner, Love/Sick, Re-Animation, Titillations, Recycled Cinema, and Christ Kid You're a Weirdo sessions, won the remainder of the awards.
Gurpreet Singh won the Intimacy Short Film Award for her poignant story about 84 year-old Mr. Dogra in Dogra Shahab. Marina Lutz won Porndogs' equivalent in the short film form for The Marina Experiment - a documentary composed of video, audio and photographs she took from her father's collection.
Other winners included Paul Turano's I Covered My Eyes for the Recycled Cinema Award, Lash by Elka Kerkhofs and Fyre by Maia Sinclair-Ferguson tying for the Unique Aesthetic Award, and Kitty Green's film about young girls mimicking the sensuality of kittens, Split, taking out the Provocative Film Award. David Hansen's Blowback - a story about Northern Territory Indigenous leaders sending a task force to prevent the rise of child abuse in Sydney - won the Political Film Award.
Since its inception, the Sydney Underground Film Festival prides itself on being a platform to exhibit alternative, experimental films by budding Australian filmmakers. This year was no different with over 120 films delving into varying stories about sex, intimacy, women's bodies, death, suicide and Indigenous Australians.