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The complete schedule for the 2009 Boston Underground Film Festival is now available through B-Side. You can browse descriptions of the films, create your own personalized schedule, share events with your friends, and rate films after you've seen them!
General Admission: $8 | Individual tickets will be available for purchase at the box office for all screenings.
Festival Pass: $75 | Includes admission to all screenings, plus parties (with free food and booze!). Passes are available at the box office or through our secure online checkout.
Budget Pass: $25 | Includes admission to all screenings March 23-26 (Monday-Thursday). Passes are available at the box office or through our secure online checkout.
If you order a pass online, you can pick it up at the hospitality table located at the Kendall Square Cinema during the festival. The hospitality table will open one hour before the first screening each day and close 30 minutes after the start of the final screening. On Thursday, March 19 it will be open 5-9:00pm. Budget passes will not be available for pick up until March 23.
Kendall Square Cinema | One Kendall Square, Cambridge, MA
A mix of arthouse and modern cinema, the Kendall Square Cinema is Boston Underground’s home base this year! It is easily accessible by the subway (the “T”) or you can get validated parking in the Kendall Square Parking Garage for $2.70 for four hours. There is also limited area street parking. Map it!
Brattle Theatre | 40 Brattle Street, Cambridge, MA
One of the best independent theaters in the area, the beloved Brattle Theatre is located in the heart of Harvard Square. There is validated garage parking and limited street parking (not recommended). The best way to get there is to take the MBTA’s Red Line to the Harvard Square stop. Map it!
The Sheraton Commander, located right in Harvard Square, is our preferred partner hotel, offering a special rate of $149/night. With festival parties happening just around the corner and films screening at the Brattle Theatre all weekend, this is a great location if you want to be in the midst of the festival activity. Most of our filmmakers and VIPs will be staying here, so you can rub elbows with other festival attendees!
MBTA
BUFF recommends taking the "T” (MBTA), Greater Boston’s mass transit system. It’s relatively cheap and you won’t have to worry about the nefarious meter maids. Fares are usually $2 one-way; you can charge up a Charlie Pass with any dollar amount at the automated machines inside the T stations. Helpful hint for those of you driving in: if you're coming into town for the day, park at the Alewife T Station on the Red Line, then ride inbound to Kendall Square or Harvard Square. NOTE THAT THE T STOPS RUNNING AT ABOUT 12:45 IN MOST AREAS.
Taxi
Another option is riding the city’s cabs. It can be expensive, but if you find yourself at one of our awesome midnight showings, it can be the best (and only) choice of getting back to your digs. Listed below are local cabs for getting around.
Star Taxi | (617) 876-8888
Cambridge Checker Cab | (617) 497-1500
Ambassador Brattle Cab | (617) 492-1100
Top Cab Association | (617) 266-4800
Chill-Out First-Class Cab | (617) 212-3763
Zipcar
Zipcar is a cool way to get around town if you need to, but you must be a member. Better than a traditional car rental agency, Zipcar membership includes gas and insurance.
Miranda Banksis an Assistant Professor in the Department of Visual & Media Arts at Emerson College. Before she moved to Boston this past fall, she spent two years teaching at USC in the School of Cinematic Arts. Her research focuses on creative and craft guilds and unions, and on genre films & TV. She is co-editor of the forthcoming book Production Studies: Cultural Studies of Media Industries. She worked in programming for the American Cinematheque and curated the Hammer Museum’s summer film series in 2007.
Johnny Butane is the senior editor for Dread Central, one of the biggest horror sites on the web. He got his start nearly a decade ago working for a now-defunct site called Creature Corner before moving on to bigger and better things. His knowledge in horror is quite extensive, but you'd be amazed at the number of movies he still has yet to see. This is the first time he's officially been asked to judge films, though technically he's been doing it on Dread Central for years!
Shaula Clark got her start in Boston alt-weekly journalism in 2001 by reporting on the (now-defunct) midnight-movie promoters Make Them Look for the Weekly Dig, where she eventually worked her way up from intern to managing editor. She now indulges her love for indie cinema as the events editor for the Boston Phoenix. Her favorite film is Blade Runner, closely followed by The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and Gummo. Having recently achieved her lifelong dream of meeting Joel Hodgson and Trace Beaulieu of Mystery Science Theater 3000, Shaula's new goal is to track down a recording of Ruth Page's psychedelic ballet version of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. If you have any leads on this (or if you have any local events you'd like to plug), drop her a line at sclark@phx.com.
Ned Hinkle is the Creative Director at the Brattle Theatre in Harvard Square. He brings to the Brattle ten years of programming and event logistics experience from both the film and music industries. After three years in the music business, Ned's first love, film, called him back and he began working for Beacon Cinema Group, then the company that operated and programmed the Brattle Theatre. In 2001, after five years with Beacon Cinema Group, Ned founded the Brattle Film Foundation with Ivy Moylan and took over the lease of the Brattle Theatre. Ned has taken all of his experience and brought it to the foundation as Creative Director where he works on all programming, marketing and special events.
Karim Hussain is a filmmaker specializing in arthouse and genre films. His first feature was the explicit and arty Subconscious Cruelty (2000), followed by the short The City Without Windows (2001), which played over 40 film festivals and was nominated for the Quebec equivalent of an Academy Award. He then directed the feature Ascension (2003), which won the New Visions Award at the Sitges International Film Festival, and followed with La Belle Bete (2006), winner of the Director's Choice Award for Best Feature at BUFF 2008. He co-wrote Nacho Cerda's The Abandoned (2006) and has worked as a cinematographer on projects such as Gilles Paquet-Brenner's Walled In (2009). He was a programmer for Montreal's Fantasia Film Festival from 1997-2001.
Bios and pics coming soon for our other jury members, Miranda Banks, Shaula Clark, and Ned Hinkle.
