The Denver Underground Film Festival began in 1997 at The Bug theater as a
showcase for independent filmmakers from Colorado and beyond. Through the 
following years DUFF continued its tradition of presenting challenging and 
fascinating films at other great microcinemas and theaters in Denver,
including Camille Bird's Theatre Du Quirque and Richard Sanchez's 
1896 Film Gallery, both of which sadly closed down.

In 2007 DUFF found a new home at the prestigious Starz Film Center, 
home of Denver's own International Film Festival and the Denver Film Society. 
2008 marks the second edition of DUFF at the Starz Film Center.  

Other credits for DUFF include a memorable evening in the summer of 1998 with
one of the greatest independent filmmakers of all time, Stan Brakhage. 
With a generous grant from the National Endowment for the Arts 
through The Bug Theater, a three day festival titled "Stan Brakhage: A 
Retrospective" was curated including one film per every decade of Stan's career 
per evening. Stan attended on the first evening and delighted the audience with 
anecdotes and technical advice for young independent filmmakers. In many ways
Stan is the intellectual and artistic father of the Denver Underground Film 
Festival. Through his Sunday night film parlors at CU Boulder in the 1990's
he managed to gather and inspire a generation of independent filmmakers and film 
festival organizers that continues the tradition of making and presenting 
independent films in Colorado and throughout the world, including DUFF Director 
Eduardo E. Mendez Taylor, The Experimental Film Festival director Chris May and 
filmmaker Michael Lauter of Clandestcine Films.

Stan Brakhage passed away on March 9, 2003. Please take some time to read his
biography at