New Jersey Film Festival Fall 2022

The 41st Bi-Annual Festival will take place on select Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays between September 9-October 16. The Festival will be a hybrid one as we will be presenting it online and doing select in-person screenings at Rutgers University. All the films will be available via Video on Demand for 24 hours on their show date. Each ticket or Festival Pass purchased is good for both virtual and in-person screenings. The in-person screenings will be held in Voorhees Hall #105/Rutgers University, 71 Hamilton Street, New Brunswick, NJ beginning at 7 PM on their show date. There will also be special Filmmaker Introductions and Q+A Sessions available for many of the films. Tickets: $15=Per Program; Festival All Access Pass=$100.

All the works being screened are part of the Fall 2022 New Jersey Film Festival Competition and were selected by a panel of judges including media professionals, journalists, students, and academics. These judges selected the 18 finalists which will be publicly screened at our Festival. The finalists were selected from over 421 works submitted by filmmakers worldwide. In addition, the judges will choose the Prize Winners in conjunction with the Festival Director. Prize winners will be announced after the competition screenings on October 10, 2022.

You can see the Festival line-up, schedule and more info at these links:

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Film Premieres: 18 films will have their New Jersey or Area Premiere (Middlesex County) screenings as part of the Fall 2022 New Jersey Film Festival. Some of these are: Tayo Giwa’s documentary The Sun Rises in The East which chronicles the birth, rise and legacy of The East, a pan-African cultural organization founded in 1969 by teens and young adults in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn; M. Woods crazy experimental feature Commodity Trading: Dies Irae; Martin Del Carpio and Martin Gerigk’s experimental collage film Howl; Brian Jame’s passionate Argentine Tango dance fantasy Cabeco; Charly Santagado’s Soldier Island -- a feature length screen dance loosely based on the best-selling murder mystery novel And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie; John Alexander’s Little Satchmo – a documentary on Louis Armstrong and his daughter; Alastair Evan’s beautifully shot and scored environmental documentary A Crack In The Mountain; Kasey Vincent’s The Hauntings of New Hope – a short documentary profiling one of the most haunted locations in Pennsylvania; a series of gripping short films by Liang-Chun Lin, KWA, Andrew Serban, Chuanfa Wan; Judy Drosd’s most short film Joey Skaggs: Metamorphosis, Cockroach Miracle Cure which is part of a series of oral histories on the notorious activist and prankster Joey Skaggs; Cat Brewer’s Sign the Show: Deaf Culture, Access & Entertainment which brings together entertainers, the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (HOH) community, and American Sign Language (ASL) interpreters to discuss accessibility; Michelle Dragun’s short documentary film Saving Strays which is about her sister who details her emotional journey of saving stray cats in New Brunswick, New Jersey; Tymofii Biniukov’s short drama Frontier which was shot in the last days before the full-scale Russian-Ukrainian war; Larry Hanover’s heartfelt Holocaust documentary Rebuilt from Broken Glass and Haruo Inoue’s Vertigo – a documentary on Jonas Mekas, the poet deemed the godfather of American avant-garde cinema.

You can see the Festival line-up, schedule and more info at these links:

https://newjerseyfilmfestivalfall2022.eventive.org/welcome

https://newjerseyfilmfestivalfall2022.eventive.org/schedule

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Special Guest Appearances by Directors, Artists, and Actors:

This June we are pleased to announce many virtual and live and in-person special guest appearances by film directors, producers, and actors at the 2022 New Jersey International Film Festival!

Best of Summer 2022 New Jersey International Film Festival Program:

We will also be screening many of the prize-winning films of this past June’s 2022 New Jersey International Film Festival on October 15 and 16.

These include: James Camali’s The Mental State which won Best Feature; Anthony Scalia’s Bendix: Site Unseen which was an Honorable Mention winner; Miida Chu’s Eureka which won Best Short; Joni Whitworth and Sam Tam Ham’s Self Defense which won Best Animation and Paul Sestakov’s Composition which won Best Short.

Sponsors: The New Jersey Film Festival is funded and/or sponsored in part by The Rutgers Film Co-op/New Jersey Media Arts Center; The Rutgers University Program in Cinema Studies/School of Arts and Sciences; Middlesex County, a partner of the New Jersey State Council on the Arts - Funding has been provided by the Middlesex County Board of County Commissioners through a grant award from the Middlesex County Cultural and Arts Trust Fund; The Rutgers University Office of Summer and Winter Sessions; OVID/Icarus Films, The Rutgers University American Studies Department; Rutgers University School of Arts and Sciences Honors Program; The Rutgers University Zimmerli Art Museum; The Rutgers University Writer’s House; The Rutgers University Office of Disability Services, WRSU; New Jersey Stage; The Home News, The Asbury Park Press; New Brunswick City Center; The Rutgers University Office of Community Affairs; Design Ideas; Advanced Printing; Steven C. Schechter, Esq.; Share and Harris.

Information:

Professor Albert Nigrin,

Executive Director/Curator,

New Jersey Film Festival,

Rutgers Film Co-op/New Jersey Media Arts Center

Rutgers University Program in Cinema Studies

4170 Academic Building, 15 Seminary Place

New Brunswick, New Jersey, 08901-8525 U.S.A.

Festival Director (908) 239-3481 (848) 932-8482 Festival Office; Email:

NJMAC12@gmail.com NJMAC@aol.com

Websites: www.njfilmfest.com

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