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New Jersey Film Festival Spring 2018 Winners Announced!


By Al Nigrin

originally published: 02/16/2018




New Jersey Film Festival Spring 2018 Winners Announced!

All the works that were part of the New Jersey Film Festival Competition were selected by a panel of judges including media professionals, journalists, students, and academics. These judges selected the 23 finalists which were publicly screened at the Festival. The finalists were selected from 403 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

Starlit - AO  (Fishkill, New York)



Winner Best Documentary Film


Getting Naked: A Burlesque Story - James Lester  (Brooklyn, New York)



Winner Best Short Film

The Inescapable Arrival of Lazlo Petushki - Sven Werner (Glasgow, Scotland)

Winner Best Animated Film

Two Balloons - Mark Smith (Portland, Oregon)

Honorable Mention Winners

Pluto - Tiger Ji (East Natick, Massachusetts)

Breathless - Anaiis Cisco (Brooklyn, New York)

Word Is Bond - Sacha Jenkins (New York, New York)


The Lost Village - Roger Paradiso (Montclair, New Jersey)

Andover - Scott Perlman (Hollywood, California)

Little Red Giant, The Monster That I Was - Laura Harrison (Chicago, Illinois)

Bluefin
- John Hopkins  (Breadalbane, Prince Edward Island, Canada)

Two Strangers Who Meet Five Times - Marcus Markou (London, England)

Clasico - Eli Korn (Tel Aviv, Israel)

Dovere For Camden - Douglas Clayton (Lawrenceville, New Jersey)




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Rutgers University Program in Cinema Studies

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

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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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