The 2026 Baton Rouge Underground Film Festival

The Line up Thursday, August 27:

*You must have a Gala ticket or Festival Pass to attend any Thursday Activities.

6:00pm: Opening Gala

8:30pm: Screening of Sex, Lies, and Videotape.

10:00pm: BRUFF After Party, Hotel Indigo

Friday, August 28:

Films:

12:00pm: Public Access

1:30pm: In the Studio Theatre: Animation and Puppetry Shorts, and Music Videos

3:00pm: Shorts Block

6:00pm: West of Greatness

6:00pm: In the Studio Theatre: Student LA Shorts

9:00pm: Cramps! A Period Piece

Workshops and Panels:

1:30pm: HV Workshop: Wrapbook Panel

3:30pm: Studio Theatre: State of the Film Industry in Louisiana w/ Film Louisiana

5:00pm: HV Workshop: NOVAC Workshop - The Visual Language of Film with Reyna Hope

8:30pm: Studio Theatre: A Staged Reading by Bailey Wax and Gray Fagan

10:00pm: PJ After Party: 4th Floor River Terrace

Saturday, August 29:

Films: (No films in the Studio Theatre today)

11:00am: Long Louisiana Shorts

1:30pm: Genre Shorts

7:30pm: She's the He

10:30pm: Peeping Todd

Workshops and Panels:

11:00am: HV Workshop: Workshop tbd

12:30pm: Studio Theatre: Mastracola/Buffalo Panel

2:30pm: Studio Theatre: In Conversation with Grace Gibson

3:30pm: HV Workshop: Speed Networking

5:00pm: Main Stage: InDepth Live! With Mark Mangini (tickets sold separately)

7:30pm: Studio Theatre: Indie Filmmaker Panel: Nate Tape; Mercy, Mercy, Me; West of Greatness; Cramps

10:00pm: After Party at Mother’s

Sunday, August 30:

Films:

10:30am: Louisiana Genre Shorts

12:30pm: Studio Theatre: Louisiana Shorts

1:30pm: Mercy, Mercy, me

4:30pm: Three Colors

5:30pm: Studio Theatre: It Needs Eyes

8:00pm: BRUFF Awards

Workshops and Panels:

11:30am: HV Workshop: Film USA Panel

2:30pm: HV Workshop: Casey Shaw Workshop

3:30pm: Studio Theatre: NOVAC Workforce Panel/Engagement #3

10:00pm: After Party Closing - Studio Theatre, Tattoos in the HV Workshop