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New Jersey Film Festival Fall 2016 Screening this Sunday!!


By Al Nigrin

originally published: 10/24/2016


New Jersey Film Festival Fall 2016 Screening this Sunday!!



Best of the Summer 2016 New Jersey International Film Festival - Part 2

A is for Aye-Aye: An Abecedarian Adventure – Augusta Palmer (Brooklyn, New York)  

Iris, a curious, precocious and somewhat jaded nine-year-old New Yorker, is on a quest to find a space to exercise her imagination in the real world. Wandering down Fifth Avenue, she spies the New York Public Library, walks through its doors, and then finds her way to the wondrous Picture Collection, an archive of over a million images. As she pulls a few images from the files, an engraving of an aye-aye suddenly springs to life and takes Iris - and the audience - on a transformative, animated journey. 2016; 14 min. With an introduction and Q+A session with Director Augusta Palmer!  Best Animation Winner!


The Other Kids – Chris Brown (San Francisco, California) 

The Other Kids follows six teenagers as they struggle through their final days of high school in the small, gold rush town of Sonora, CA. This unique and moving film is a hybrid mix of documentary and fiction, and emerged via a collaboration between the filmmaker and the teenagers who crafted and improvised the various stories. Impending graduation and adulthood brings each of these 17-year-olds to the edge of an emotional precipice. When safety nets prove illusory, it’s up to each of them to find a way to save themselves – and each other. 2016; 95 min. Best Feature Winner!

Sunday, October 23, 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




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Jimmy John’s of New Brunswick will be providing free food prior to all New Jersey 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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