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2020 United States Super 8 Film + Digital Video Festival Award Winners Announced!


By Al Nigrin

originally published: 02/24/2020




Still from Emil Minasyan’s The Heist

2020 United States Super 8 Film + Digital Video Festival Award Winners

Best of the Festival

The Heist – Emil Minasyan (Amarillo, Texas)


The Last Resort – Lance Lucero (Denver, Colorado)

Keg Warmer – Timothy Amatulli and Joe Saulenas  (Glen Rock, New Jersey)



Still from Timothy Amatulli and Joe Saulenas’s Keg Warmer

Audience Prize

The Last Resort – Lance Lucero (Denver, Colorado)



Still from Lance Lucero's The Last Resort




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Honorable Mention

House of Joy – Robert Uehlin (Portland, Oregon)

In Our Nature – Sara Leavitt (Brooklyn, New York)

Love, By Nature – Jason Sklaver (Los Angeles, California)


corruption – Jason Ewert (Bemidji, Minnesota)

Metamorphosis – Fernanda Parrado (Brooklyn, New York)

Spring II – Ed Carter (Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts)

Richard Nixon: Getaway Driver – Kevin Lonano (Atlanta, Georgia)

A Collection of Eccentricities – David Finkelstein (Brooklyn, New York)

Still from Ed Carter’s Spring II

Still from Karmen Kreti's Tariler Traders

Sponsors: The 2020 United States Super 8 Film & Digital Video Festival, which is part of the New Jersey Film Festival is funded and 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 Board of Chosen Freeholders through a grant provided by New Jersey State Council on the Arts / Department of State, a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts; The Rutgers University Confucius Institute; Rutgers University School of Arts and Sciences Honors Program; Jungle Software;  The Rutgers University American Studies Department; The Rutgers University Office of Disability Services; The Rutgers University Spanish and Portuguese Department; The Rutgers University Writer’s House; The Rutgers University Department of African, Middle Eastern, and South Asian Languages and Literatures Department; The Rutgers University Department of German, Russian and East European Languages and Literatures; Johnson & Johnson; Pro 8mm; WCTC/WMGQ; WRSU; The Home News Tribune; The Asbury Park Press; New Jersey Stage; New Brunswick City Market; The Rutgers University Office of Community Affairs; The Rutgers University Digital Classroom Services Office; Design Ideas; Advanced Printing; Steven C. Schechter, Esq.; Share and Harris.

Information: www.njfilmfest.com/super8.html

 



Albert Gabriel Nigrin is an award-winning experimental media artist whose work has been screened throughout the world. 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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