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Alvaro Congosto’s thrilling film The Suitor Premieres at the 2016 New Jersey International Film Festival on Saturday, June 18!


By Al Nigrin

originally published: 10/24/2016




Alvaro Congosto’s thrilling film The Suitor Premieres at the 2016 New Jersey International Film Festival on Saturday, June 18! 

Here is a video interview with The Suitor Director Alvaro Congosto:

Here is more info on this screening:

The Suitor Alvaro Congosto (Woodside, New York) A thrilling romance set during the night that Orson Welles broadcast The War of the Worlds in 1938, and announced that Martians had landed in Grover’s Mill, New Jersey, causing mass panic. 2016; 12 min. With an introduction and Q+A session with Director Alvaro Congosto!




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Twinsburg – Joe Garrity  (Oakland, California) Jerry is sentimental about his fading twin identity, and decides to reunite with his reluctant brother Paul for a weekend of revelry at the world’s largest congregation of twins. 2016; 16 min.

Roubado – Erica Watson (Los Angeles, California) This short tells the story of an introverted Afro-Portuguese teen growing up in the south of France.  As he suffers his parents' recent breakup, the only solace he can muster is his penchant for photography.  When his mother's new live-in boyfriend crosses the line, his eyes are opened to the world and he can no longer hide behind the viewfinder of his vintage camera. In French and Portuguese, subtitled. 2015; 18 min.

Mai (Never) – Giulio Poidomani (Noci, Italy) When Claudia decides to travel to a small town in Sicily to get back together with her ex-girlfriend, she finds herself abandoned in a town she doesn't know. Wandering around town, she meets Sandro, who questions all of her beliefs. In Italian, subtitled. 2015; 20 min. With an introduction and Q+A session with Director Giulio Poidomani and Producer Isabella Roberto!

H.O.M.E. – Daniel Maldonado (Queens, New York) The debut feature film from writer/director Daniel Maldonado, H.O.M.E. is a meditation on urban communication, alienation, and serendipitous encounters told through the lens of a disconnected city in constant motion.  Two stories play out in parallel to one another:  the first concerns a missing young man with Asperger’s Syndrome who seeks refuge in the labyrinthine subway tunnels of New York City. The other follows an Ecuadorian driver who offers a ride to a stranded Chinese woman desperate to get home to her sick child. Two tracks, in one city, where everyone ultimately wants to find a home.  In Spanish and English, subtitled. 2016; 72 min. With an introduction and Q+A session with Director Daniel Maldonado!

Saturday, June 18, 2016 at 7:00 p.m.


Voorhees Hall #105/Rutgers University


71 Hamilton Street, New Brunswick, New Jersey


$12=General; $10=Students+Seniors; $9=Rutgers Film Co-op Friends


Information: (848) 932-8482;
www.njfilmfest.com

Jimmy John’s of New Brunswick and Capitol Corn & Confections will be providing free food prior to all New Jersey International Film Festival  Screenings!

 




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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