The Big Muddy Film Festival returns to Carbondale, Illinois this February 24 – March 1. Browse through the films and pick up tickets via the festival’s main website. Explore independent cinema, storytelling and art around campus with friends.
The Chicago International Film Festival is the only other film festival in Illinois with a longer running history.
- A little over two dozen film festivals have a longer running history.
- 85 films are set to be screened at the Big Muddy Film Festival in 2015.
- Sunday, March 1 | 11:00 am – SIU Student Center. Best of the Fest — Big Muddy Film Festival Awards
Each year the festival provides independent voices a platform to express their points of view that may get lost in the mainstream media. In its 37th year, Big Muddy is among the oldest student-organized film festivals in the United States.
Tuesday, February 24
7:00 pm – SIU Student Center
Identities
This is not the End
What’s in a Name
Where is Elle Kari and What Happened to Noriko-San
Little White Lie
Wednesday, February 25
10:00 am – SIU Student Center
Documentary Shorts
Maria
february 28
N64Q: Born Free
Chapri
Maternity Test
1:00 pm – SIU Student Center
Documentary Shorts
Out of Deepwood
Penny
Off_line
Not Anymore: Story of Revolution
Sticky
3:00 pm – SIU Student Center
July the Twelfth 1984
John Michaels Award Showcase
In an Ideal World (Tied, 3rd Place)
6:00 pm – SIU Student Center
37th Annual Big Muddy Film Festival Opening Reception
7:00 pm – SIU Student Center
Hard-boiled Wonderland
Special screening of Prison Terminal (More information coming soon)
Thursday, February 26
10:00 am – SIU Student Center
Travelogues
A Queer Peace
No Love Lost
Signals: Where Do We Go From Here
Mototanaka Dérive
Real West
My Fatherland Vegas
Depending on Traffic
1:00 pm – SIU Student Center
Sci-Fi Shorts
Hat Trick
Into the Dark
The Place Where You Live
Nostalgic
A Beautiful View of Nothing
Five Minute Intermission
On the Mature Side (Adult Shorts)
Deadly
Lady and the Frog
Between Times
Coffee
C.T.R.L
Midnight Munchies
3:00 pm – SIU Student Center
John Michaels Award Showcase
(Tied, 3rd Place)
Crying Earth Rise Up
The Uprising
7:00 pm – SIU Student Center
Love, Etc
Flowers
M4m Seeks Love
Joy Kevin
Bread and Butter
10:00 pm – WDBX
Late Night Experimental Shorts
Oracle
Ocean
Sound of a Million Insects
NoCom
InkJet 3056A
All the Memory in the World
Friday, February 27
10:00 am – SIU Student Center
Potluck Shorts
Out There
Support the Troops
Seven Ways From Sunday
Champion
Carry On
The Looking Planet
Simorgh
The Mortal Flame
Re:Belief
Let go
Friday
Working Title
1:00 pm – SIU Student Center
World Cinema
Wallas on Velos
Zone 7
3:00 pm – SIU Student Center
John Michaels Award Showcase
2nd Place Winner
Arresting Power – Resisting Police Violence in Portland, Oregon
6:00 pm – Guyon Auditorium @ Morris Library
7:00 pm – SIU Student Center
Friday Night Fun
Shorts:
The Night Guardian
Henny’s Opus In B Minor
Ham Over Rice
My Kingdom
Myrna the Monster
Juror Presentation: Anna Margarita Albelo with Q&A after film
Whos Afraid of Vagina Wolf
7:30 pm – Guyon Auditorium @ Morris Library
Saturday, February 28
10:00 am – SIU Student Center
Saturday Morning Family Time
Zeke and the All-inclusive Cathouse
Treasure Nest
Lilly’s big day
Up in a Plane
Stressful Adventures of Boxhead and Roundhead
1:00 pm – SIU Student Center
Animation Hotline
Almost There (Q & A with directors after film)
3:00 pm – TBD
John Michaels Award Showcase
1st Place Winner
Finding the Gold Within (Q & A with director after film)
3:00 pm – SIU Student Center
Nowhere I’d Rather Be
Liar’s Dice
6:00 pm – Guyon Auditorium @ Morris Library
7:00 pm – SIU Student Center
Nocturne (Q & A with director after film)
5 Minute Intermission
Alexandria Leaving
6:00 pm – Guyon Auditorium @ Morris Library
Sunday, March 1
10:00 am – SIU Student Center
Girls Make Movies retrospective
11:00 am – SIU Student Center
Best of the Fest
Big Muddy Film Festival Awards
1:00 pm – SIU Student Center
Closing Reception
4:00pm – Location TBD
Sunday Night Feature & Shorts
(To be announced at a later date)