By Al Nigrin
originally published: 05/30/2017

New Jersey Film Festival Spring 2017 Winners Announced!

All the works that were part of the Spring 2017 New Jersey Film Festival Competition were selected by a panel of judges including media professionals, journalists, students, and academics. These judges selected the 14 finalists which were publicly screened at our Festival. The finalists were selected from 284 works submitted by filmmakers from around the world. In addition, the judges chose the Prize Winners in conjunction with the Festival Director.

Winner Best Feature Film 

Gelo - Luis & Gonçalo Galvão Teles (Lisbon, Portugal)

Winner Best Documentary Film 

Art of the Prank - Andrea Marini (Winter Park, Florida)  

Winner Best Short Film 

Bad Tidings - Daniel Natale (Red Bank, New Jersey)

Honorable Mention Winners

Knights of New Jersey - Michael Hadley (Montclair, New Jersey)

The Northlander - Benjamin Ross Hayden (Calgary, Canada) 

Craving Cuba - Zuzelin Martin Lynch (San Anselmo, California) 

Schizophrenia - Yuri Muraoka (Tokyo, Japan)

The Sara Spencer Washington Story - Royston Scott (New York, New York)

…With God Against Man… - Seymon Pinkahasov (Brooklyn, New York) 

River Blue: Can Fashion Save the Planet? - David Mcilvride and Roger Williams (Vancouver, Canada)

 

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Albert Gabriel Nigrin is an award-winning experimental media artist whose work has been screened on all five continents. He is also a Cinema Studies Lecturer at Rutgers University, and the Executive Director/Curator of the Rutgers Film Co-op/New Jersey Media Arts Center, Inc.

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