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New Jersey Film Festival Fall 2019 Winners Announced!

By Al Nigrin

originally published: 02/16/2019




New Jersey Film Festival Fall 2019 Winners Announced!

All the works that were part of the Spring 2019 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 546 works submitted by filmmakers from around the world. In addition, the judges chose the Prize Winners in conjunction with the Festival Director.



Best of Festival

Winner Best Feature Film = 
Here We Are – David Bellarosa (Austin, Texas)

Winner Best Documentary Film = Diary of Rooftop Water Towers – 
Nobuyuki Asai (New York, New York)

Winner Best Short Film = Mimi Vang Olsen:  Pet Portraitist – Anthony Maranville (Los Angeles, California)

Honorable Mention Winners

The Bug – Dean Cameron (Burbank, California)

Everything's Fine: A Panic Attack in D Major – Zack Morrison (East Brunswick, New Jersey)

How They Got Over – Robert Clem (Stone Ridge, New York)

Harls – Kenzie Sutton (Millburn, New Jersey)

The Shepherd Sings A Song – Andrew Ni (Princeton, New Jersey)

Quakers: The Quiet Revolutionaries – Janet Gardner (Princeton, New Jersey)

A Girl Named C – Emily Kassie(New York, New York)

Vermont Fancy   Kathleen Dougherty Huxley (Brooklyn, New York)

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; [email protected], [email protected]; www.njfilmfest.com




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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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