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New Jersey Film Festival Fall 2015 Competition Winners Announced!


By Al Nigrin

originally published: 10/11/2015


New Jersey Film Festival Fall 2015 Competition Winners Announced!

All the works that were part of the Spring 2015 New Jersey 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 392 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 

All in Time - Chris Fetchko and Marina Donahue (Summit, New Jersey) 

Winner Best Documentary Film 

Angel of Nanjing - Jordan Horowitz and Frank Ferendo (Providence, Rhode Island)




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Winner Best Short Film 

The Cart - Patrik Eriksson (Lodz, Poland) 

Winner Best Animation Film

Däwit - David Jansen & Sophie Biesenbach (Hamburg, Germany)

Honorable Mention Winners

Rosehill - Brigitta Wagner (Haworth, New Jersey) 

Foster Dog - Lisa Alonso Vear (Brooklyn, New York) 

It Plays Like Love- Jeremy Waltman and Adam Lucas (Young Harris, Georgia)

Right Footed - Nick Spark (Los Angeles, California) 

The Moment: Bonnaroo - Reuben Meltzer (Cairnlea, Victoria, Australia) 

Lords of BSV - Maria Soccor (Union, New Jersey)

For More Information Contact:

New Jersey Film Festival,

Rutgers Film Co-op/New Jersey Media Arts Center

Rutgers University Program in Cinema Studies

72 Lipman Drive (#018 Loree Hall - Douglass Campus)

New Brunswick, New Jersey, 08901-8525 U.S.A.

(848) 932-8482 phone; (732) 932-1935 fax; [email protected] e-mail; 

Web Site: 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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