Melbourne Underground Film Festival
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The Melbourne Underground Film Festival (also known as MUFF) was formed out of disagreements over the content and running of the Melbourne International Film Festival. When director Richard Wolstencroft's film Pearls Before Swine was not accepted by the Melbourne International Film Festival, Wolstencroft claimed it was because his film was too confrontational for the predictable tastes of MIFF. As a response, Wolstencroft launched MUFF in 2000 as an alternative film festival, featuring mostly adult, genre, controversial, avant garde, political, sexual or artistic concepts. International Guests of MUFF have included Bruce LaBruce, Lloyd Kaufman, William Lustig, Ron Jeremy, American film director Chris Folino, Michael Tierney, Peter Christopherson, Jim Van Bebber and Geretta Geretta.
In 2006 MUFF screened the documentary "Damon and Hunter: Doing it Together", in defiance of the Australia Office of Film and Literature Classification (OFLC).
In 2007 the OFLC retaliated, banning seven films from the festival, including: "70k", "Schulmädchen-Report: Was Eltern nicht für möglich halten" (aka "The Schoolgirl Report"), "Sex Wish", "The Farmer’s Daughter", "Ashley & Kisha: Finding the Right Fit", "Whore", and "60 Second Relief".
