SUFF snuffs sanity over four ferocious days

Surrender to forbidden pleasures, add a respectable mini-conference of obsessed academic minds, and you have a cineaste's spring festival.
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Image: Jonny Brugh in Mega Time Squad

The Sydney Underground Film Festival – starting tonight – is an antidote to the screen sector’s desperate hunt for ways to clip onto mainstream storytelling. It also reminds us that screen is not about getting audiences simply to believe they are really in the room during tussles between Good and Evil.

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David Tiley was the Editor of Screenhub from 2005 until he became Content Lead for Film in 2021 with a special interest in policy. He is a writer in screen media with a long career in educational programs, documentary, and government funding, with a side order in script editing. He values curiosity, humour and objectivity in support of Australian visions and the art of storytelling.