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2021 New Jersey International Film Festival Winners Announced!

By Al Nigrin

originally published: 06/14/2021




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The 2021 New Jersey International Film Festival Competition has just concluded! 
We had a very good festival this year despite it being done virtually again. I want to thank the thousands of people who attended. We couldn't do what we do without such tremendous support!  

All the works that were part of the 2021 New Jersey International Film Festival Competition were selected by a panel of judges including media professionals, journalists, students, and academics. These judges selected the 25 finalists which were publicly screened at our Festival. The finalists were selected from 547 works submitted by filmmakers from around the world. Here are the Winners of the 2021 New Jersey International Film Festival:



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Best of Festival Winners

Best Feature Film: Bone Cage - Taylor Olson (Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada)

Best Documentary Film: Full Circle - Anne Via McCollough (Norfolk, Virgina)

Best Short Film: Space Case – Zachary T Scott (Austin, Texas)

Best Animated Film: First Light - Amy Lee Ketchum/Ellen Boscov (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)

Best Experimental Film: S T O P – Marieli Froehlich (Vienna, Austria)



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Honorable Mention Winners

The Heartland – Marquise Mays (Milwaukee, Wisconsin); Just Being Here – Matteo Moretti (Middlebury, Vermont): Stolen Fish - Gosia Juszczak (Madrid, Spain): Who the f... is Roger Rossmeisl? – Luc Quelin (Paris, France); Sweethurt – Tom Danger (Turramurra, NSW, Australia); The Dark Odyssey – Michael Lavine (Germantown, New York); Into the Light – Benjamin Schwartz (New York, New York); Two Little People – Xin Li (Melbourne, Australia); The Process of Recovering – Nora Mandray, Jonathan Bulette (Santa Monica, California)



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About the author:

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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