Chicago Underground Film Festival (CUFF)

[caption id="attachment_1306" align="alignnone" width="560"]SOME GIRLS NEVER LEARN Jerzy Rose[/caption]

Jerzy Rose’s Some Girls Never Learn emerged the big winner of the 2011 Chicago Underground Film Festival picking up Audience Award in addition to the Made in Chicago Award. The film synopsis, ” A university has found the leg bone of Amelia Earhart. The diver responsible for the discovery is receiving mysterious messages from the famous dead pilot.  A high school science teacher travels to the underworld to bring back his girlfriend. Animals are arranging themselves into concentric circles and helium has escaped into the luminiferous aether.”

2011 Chicago Underground Film Festival Awards

Jury Awards:

Best Documentary (feature)
And Again – Adele Horne

Best Documentary (short)
History Minor – Ryan Garrett

Best Experimental:
Home Movie – John Price

Best Experimental:
Slow Action – Ben Rivers

Best Narrative (feature):
The Color Wheel – Alex Ross Perry

Best Narrative (feature):
Snow on tha Bluff – Damon Russell

Made in Chicago Award:
Some Girls Never Learn  – Jerzy Rose

Audience Award:
Some Girls Never Learn – Jerzy Rose

Honorable Mentions:
Young Bird Season – Nellie Kluz
Second Law: South Leh St. – Mike Gibisser
Chainsaw Found Jesus – Spencer Parsons
Devil’s Gate – Laura Kraning

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[caption id="attachment_1306" align="alignnone" width="560"]Some Girls Never Learn[/caption]

The 18th Chicago Underground Film Festival (CUFF) will open with the World Premiere of Chicago filmmaker, and School of the Art Institute of Chicago alum, Jerzy Rose’s first feature, “Some Girls Never Learn,” a humorous, absurd romp through time and space, the underworld and the stratosphere. Closing Night will bring Jeff Krulik and John Heyn back to Chicago to share the cult favorite “Heavy Metal Parking Lot” as an opener for their brand new feature documentary “Heavy Metal Picnic“

The festival runs June 2 – June 9, 2011 and all screenings will take place at the Gene Siskel Film Center of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 164 North State Street.

The Chicago Underground team also announced its jurors for the 2011 Festival:

Donald Harrison – Executive Director of the Ann Arbor Film Festival

Chi Jang Yin – Chinese-born media artist known for her conceptual, documentary work, which comments upon the state of Chinese culture, past and present

Ignatiy Vishnevetsky – one of the new co-hosts of “Ebert Presents At The Movies”

Irvine Welsh acclaimed and often controversial writer, his book Trainspotting was made into a 1996 film of the same name.

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