The San Francisco Underground Short Film Festival 2025

MEDIA MELTDOWN is a Bay Area queer art and event production collective that celebrates cult movies, weirdo pop culture, and forgotten media. Media Meltdown has been hosting cult film screenings with theaters such as the the Roxie Theater, Alamo Drafthouse New Mission, the Balboa Theater, and the New Parkway Theater since 2019, and now hosts Media Meltdown Movie Madhouse, their underground film series, every third Sunday at the 4 Star Theater in the Richmond District of San Francisco. Outside movie theaters, Media Meltdown is known for their immersive live parties, their innovative digital drag series, their drag pumpkin patch pop-up, and their successful series of interactive plays,Select Thine Own Journey. Media Meltdown also programs and hosts the San Francisco Underground Short Film Festival, beginning in 2025.

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The San Francisco Underground Short Film Festival returns to the Bay Area to celebrate locally-made cinematic mayhem!

4 Star Theater

TICKETS ARE CURRENTLY OFFSALE.A small portion may be available at the door tonight, first come first serve. The San Francisco Underground Short Film Festival returns to the Bay Area to celebrate locally-made cinematic mayhem!Founded by Peaches Christ &amp; Vinsantos in 2003 at the Bridge Theatre, partially as a showcase for their own short films that weren’t getting traction at “legitimate” festivals, the SFUSFF ran under their care for six years until 2008. After Vinsantos moved to New Orleans, Peaches and fellow film programmer Sam Sharkland wanted to see the fest continue and so revived it in 2011 at the Victoria Theatre where it ran until 2015. Now, after 10 years, the festival has found a new home at the 4 Star Theater under the care of Piranha Psychotronica and Kafka X, the maniacal minds behind Media Meltdown Movie Madhouse.The San Francisco Underground Short Film Festival exists to celebrate local, independent filmmaking. We proudly champion the overlooked and underrated, the avant-garde and the alternative, the outrageous, the oddball, and the outlandish. We'll be presenting the silly, subversive, surreal, and strange from all Bay Area filmmakers! From bizarro B-films to midnight movie trash, expect the weirdest and wildest the Bay has to offer, with the night kicking off with our lighter fare and getting darker and more freaky as the evening goes on. Cinematic weirdos - you have found the festival for you! * Festival Pass tickets can be selected under any time slot!*PROGRAM 1 (5pm-7pm)A Small Fragment of a Day That Belongs To 20 Years Ago (Dominic Angerame)Enlow Show: Smurf N' Turf (Zack Enlow, Justin Lewis)Fancy Phone Numbers (Sequinette)hum (McGillis)Leon's Fury (Elijah Jabez Roberts)Painted Ones (Julia Nacario)Play Fight! (Katrina Cecilia Larne)Strawberry Boy Forever (Alyssa Valdivia)The Cool Film Idea.mp4 (John Angelo Martin Serrano)The Veil (Lauren R Melton)The Job Interview from Hell (Spencer Born, Gilles Bovon)Welcome to the Tenderloin (Paul Ghusar, James Morehead)Live Entertainment - Mommy Mommy PROGRAM 2 (7:30pm-9:30pm)DRIP (Eryn Wilson)El Ratón Pérez (Camila Montero, Leo Pickard)Ivan's Death (Daniel Sherwood)Joy's Coffee (Billie Austin)Onions (Daria Lugina)QUACK QUACK (Celina Jade de Leon)Scary Stories to Tell By The Campfire: The Red Spot (Dave Haaz-Baroque)Set It On Fire (Morty Tillman)Stellacast Transmission PT.1 Subconscious Vision (Uel Renteria)The Compatibility Index (Colin H. Johnson)Who Ate Cookie? (Jacob Edward Kubik)XXXTRAVAGANZA (Reaghan Mulligan)Live Entertainment - Dollii PROGRAM 3 (10pm-12am)BCUPS (Vinsantos DeFonte)Buscando Hojas De Maíz (Angela Zamora)Butter Bean - Belly Ache (Arius Ziaee, Dave Merson Hess)Camp Baloney (Siyu Song, Niño Ellington)NARTHEX (Max Rock)Return of the Näcken (Cassandra Sechler)sewn piece (Laura Cohen)SMOOTH (Sepi Mashiahof)The Department (Irina Chernikova)The Ninth Life (Nicholas White-Spenik)Troubled Connexxxions (E'Niyah Wilson)Woah (Christian Umanzor)Live Entertainment - Luismi Munster Lineup is subject to change.Parking is limited so plan to arrive early, take a car, or ride public transit! There are plenty of excellent restaurants within a few blocks of the theater. Questions or accessibility needs? Email us at MediaMeltdownSF@gmail.com!Event poster by @raebiezvaccine

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