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​New Jersey Film Festival Fall 2016 Winners Announced!


By Al Nigrin

originally published: 10/24/2016




New Jersey Film Festival Fall 2016 Winners Announced!

There are still a handful of screenings left for the Fall 2016 New Jersey Film Festival but the Competition part ended last weekend. 

All the works that were part of the Fall 2016 New Jersey Film Festival Competition were selected by a panel of judges including media professionals, journalists, students, and academics. These judges selected the 22 finalists which were publicly screened at our Festival. The finalists were selected from 388 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 

Peelers - Sevé Schelenz (Vancouver, Canada)

Winner Best Documentary Film 

Eva Hesse – Marcie Begleiter (New York, New York)




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Winner Best Short Film 

Tenderness- Emilia Zielonka (Gydnia, Poland)

Honorable Mention Winners

Artemis - Heather Freeman (Charlotte. North Carolina)

Safia: Make Them Wheels Roll - Sam Tremayne (Canberra, Australia) 

Gandhiji My Mentor - Nilay Dave (Kendall Park, New Jersey)

The Lockpicker - Randall Okita (Toronto, Canada)

After Adderall - Stephen Elliot (New York, New York) 

You’re Just Projecting - Marinah Janello (Boston, Massachusetts)

Racing The Sunrise - Amy Russo (Los Angeles, California)

C.I.T. - Cara Consilvio (Cranford, New Jersey)

A Ticking Time Bomb - Tamara and Thomas Balsamides (Montvale, New Jersey)

Il Nostro Ultimo (Our Last) - Ludovico Di Martino (Rome, Italy)

For More Information Contact:

New Jersey Film Festival

Rutgers Film Co-op/New Jersey Media Arts Center

Rutgers University Program in Cinema Studies 

4170 Academic Building, 15 Seminary Place

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

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

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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