The Moviate Underground Film Festival encompasses a 3-day film fest on the banks of the Susquehanna River in Harrisburg, PA, coinciding with the area's annual arts celebration: Artsfest, which brings in thousands of art and film enthusiasts who will attend multi-genre film screenings at multiple venues around the city.

We have a wide range of viewership and look for anything from quality narratives and comedies to spotlight animation, kids films or documentaries. Above all, we love anything super 8 or 16mm, underground, independent, avant-garde, personal, experimental, or any other form of creative filmmaking that challenges the masses and the stereotypical 'Hollywood' aesthetic. We show film and video creations made as a form of art, not as a means of making a profit at the expense of our culture.

WE LOVE TO PROJECT 16mm and Super8 films and prefer film prints over digital whenever possible.

Past filmmakers and speakers in attendance include:

John Waters (Hairspray, Pink Flamingos), Guy Maddin (Brand Upon the Brain) Bryan Lewis Saunders (Artist & Spoken Word Performer) Z'EV (Avant Garde Percussionist) Emily Hubley (Hedwig and the angry Inch, The Toe Tactic) Jem Cohen (Museum Hours, Benjamin Smoke) Sight Unseen (Baltimore Based Experimental Filmmakers) Lauri Faggioni (Science of Sleep, Iron and Wine) Richard Elfman (The Forbidden Zone), Adolfas Mekas (Hallelujah The Hills) L.M. Kit Carson (David Holzman's Diary, Paris Texas) Weird Paul!!! (YouTube Phenomena and indie musician) Frank Whaley (Swimming With Sharks, The Jimmy Show) Richard Kern (Cinema Transgression Filmmaker) The Trachtenburg Slide Show Players, Richard Edson (Stranger Than Paradise, Apartment #5C) Mark Bordtchard (American Movie, Coven), Clayton Patterson (Captured) David Redmon (Mardi Gras: Made in China), Mark Eaton and Johnn Swarr (Joe Kid on a Sting-Ray: The History of BMX), Helen Stickler (Stoked: The Rise and Fall of Gator), Kelly Baker aka The Angry Filmmaker (Bird Dog), and many others!

Attending filmmakers receive discounted hotel rates and admission to all events including any special speaking engagements or award ceremonies.