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2016 United States Super 8 Film + Digital Video Festival Award Winners Announced!


By Al Nigrin

originally published: 02/22/2016



The Rutgers Film Co-op/New Jersey Media Arts Center and the Rutgers University Program In Cinema Studies present the 28th Annual

2016 United States Super 8 Film + Digital Video Festival Award Winners Announced!

Best of the Festival

Picnic – Jure Pavlovic (Zagreb, Croatia)

Nuthouse Drawings - Jim Hollenbaugh (Lancaster, Pennsylvania)

Audience Choice

Dinner Date – Ricardo Charlie Liriano (Bronx, New York)

Honorable Mention

Eduardo - Michael Stevantoni  (Campbell River, British Columbia, Canada)

The Tutor – Grant Johnson (Park City, Utah)

Again – Daniel Macarone (Westfield, New Jersey)

Dark Light - Gina Guerrieri (New York, New York)

Rust Belt Driven - Alexander Hope (Easton, Pennsylvania)

#filmforever – Michael McGuirk (Brooklyn, New York)


NO SIGNAL – David Ellis (Ellisville, Massachusetts)

The 2016 United States Super 8 Film + Digital Video Festival, which is part of the New Jersey Film Festival Spring 2016 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 Cultural and Heritage Commission/Board of Chosen Freeholders and the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts; The Rutgers University Centers for Global Advancement and International Affairs (GAIA Centers); The Rutgers University Office of Academic Engagement and Programming; Confucius Institute of Rutgers University;  The Rutgers University American Studies Department; Rutgers University School of Arts and Sciences Honors Program; The Rutgers Office of Undergraduate Academic Affairs; Johnson & Johnson; Pro 8mm; Jungle Software; Jimmy Johns of New Brunswick, Dunkin’ Donuts; WCTC/WMGQ; WRSU; The Home News Tribune; New Brunswick City Market; The Rutgers University Office of Community Affairs; The Rutgers University Digital Classroom Services Department; Design Ideas; Advanced Printing; Steven C. Schechter, Esq.; Share and Harris.

For more information call the Rutgers Film Co-op/NJMAC at 848-932-8482 or go to  www.njfilmfest.com




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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