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New Jersey Film Festival Fall 2021 Zero Gravity Filmmaker Video Q+A


By Al Nigrin

originally published: 09/24/2021


 

Here is the New Jersey Film Festival Fall 2021 Q+A with Zero Gravity Director Thomas Verrette, Festival Jurors Amit Bachani, Hamsa Hasan and Festival Director Al Nigrin:



Zero Gravity – Thomas Verrette (Los Angeles, California) A diverse group of middle-school students go on the journey of a lifetime when they compete in a nationwide competition sponsored by MIT to code satellites aboard the International Space Station. 2021; 74 min.

Zero Gravity Show date: Friday, September 24, 2021.

More Info and Tickets are available here


The Fall 2021 New Jersey Film Festival -- which will be taking place on the Fridays and Sundays between September 10 and October 10 -- will be a hybrid one this Fall as we will be presenting the Festival online as well as doing live screenings at Rutgers University. All the films will be available virtually via Video on Demand for 24 hours on their show date. Each ticket or Festival Pass purchased is good for the live and virtual screenings. The live screenings will be held in Voorhees Hall #105/Rutgers University, 71 Hamilton Street, New Brunswick, NJ beginning at 7PM for each program on their show date. Ticket buyers will also have special access to Filmmaker Introductions and Q+A Sessions for many of the films.  Tickets: $15=Per Program; Festival All Access Pass=$100.

To buy tickets go here: https://watch.eventive.org/newjerseyfilmfestivalfall2021

 



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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