By Al Nigrin
originally published: 02/17/2020

New Jersey Film Festival Spring 2020 Winners Announced!

All the works that were part of the Spring 2020 New Jersey Film Festival Competition were selected by a panel of judges including media professionals, journalists, students, and academics. These judges selected the 27 finalists which were publicly screened at our Festival. The finalists were selected from 611 works submitted by filmmakers from around the world. In addition, the judges chose the Prize Winners in conjunction with the Festival Director. Here are the Winners.

Grand Prize Winners



Best Feature Film : Strive – Robert Rippberger (Los Angeles, California)



Best Documentary Film: Work Songs – Mark Street (Brooklyn, New York)



Best Short Film: The Seahorse Trainer – Ricardo Bonisoli and Babak Bina (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada)



Best Animation Film: Daughter – Daria Kashcheeva  (Prague, Czech Republic)

Honorable Mention Winners

Textile Workers – Andrea Nappi and Juno Roome  (Queens, New York)

For Hope – James Rees and Jay Thomas (New York, New York)

Two – Vasilios Papaioannu (Syracuse, New York)

Smoke -n- Suds – George  Nicholas (Mamaroneck, New York)

The Twelve Thousand – Eric Davis and Randy Watson (Langley, British Colombia, Canada)

Lab Dog – Noemi Durivou (Glendale, California)

Bailaora – Rubin Stein (Madrid, Spain)

Pacarrete – Allan Deberton (Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil)

Tevye’s Daughters – Vladimir Lert (Kyiv, Ukraine)



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

NJMAC12@gmail.com, NJMAC@aol.com;

www.njfilmfest.com

 

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Albert Gabriel Nigrin is an award-winning experimental media artist whose work has been screened on all five continents. 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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