Founded in 1994, the New York Underground Film Festival occurs each March at Anthology Film Archives in New York City. It is noted for documentary and experimental film programming, and has occasionally courted controversy, particularly in its early years. Some of these have included: premiering a documentary about NAMBLA in 1994; premiering a film by Mike White in 1995 that accused Quentin Tarantino of plagiarism; being protested by Reverend Fred Phelps in 2002 (apparently for not choosing to show a film about Phelps); and premiering a theatrical version of Brad Neely's Harry Potter parody "Wizard People, Dear Readers," which eventually led to action by Warner Brothers to supress future theatrical performances of the work. Nevertheless, though the festival has remained a small affair, and has little value as a market, its programming has attained a certain prestige, especially among younger or more experimental filmmakers.
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