The New Haven Underground Film Festival Selection Committee has determined “round one” (of two) of its 2007 lineup. “We’ve been doing this long enough to see that things come in waves and, this year, of the hundreds of entries we received, the documentary standouts were about great Rock ‘n’ Roll and Hip Hop acts. So this year’s theme pretty much took care of itself,” said festival Co-Director, Michael Mongillo. “The Year of Rock” docs are: “Get Thrashed” (99 min.) traces ...

In its third annual incarnation, the New Haven Underground Film Festival will emerge in Hartford on Saturday, May 13, at the venerable Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art. “Connecticut’s only underground film festival is not going mainstream,” cautions Deborah Gaudet, Curator of Film and Theater at the Wadsworth Atheneum. “Yes, the museum is providing the New Haven Underground Film Festival with a proper theater and greater capacity. But more importantly, the Atheneum has a rich history of...