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The WGBO Story New Jersey Film Festival Spring 2021 Video Q+A


By Al Nigrin

originally published: 01/29/2021


Here is the The WBGO Story New Jersey Film Festival Spring 2021 Video Q+A with Director Chris Daniel, Asbury Park Press Entertainment Writer Alex Biese, Festival Juror Ashley Terer and Festival Director Al Nigrin. The Chris Daniel documentary on on the legendary Jazz Radio Station screens at the New Jersey Film Festival on Saturday, January 30, 2021.

Here is more info on this screening:

The WBGO Story...Bright Moments from Newark to the World – Chris Daniel (Tinton Falls, New Jersey) This documentary tells the story of how a group of urban leaders and community activist looking to make a positive change in Newark, NJ came together in the 70’s after the Newark riots, to create WBGO, New Jersey’s first public radio station. It will tell how this small radio station owned by the Newark Board of Education was turned into a powerful cultural force heard throughout the northern Jersey/New York City region that now reaches millions of Jazz listeners around the world. The documentary features interviews and stories from people who helped launch the station, including its founder, Bob Ottenhoff and Mrs. Dorthaan Kirk (widow of the great multi-instrumentalist Rahsaan Roland Kirk), who was key in helping WBGO grow to where it is now. 2020; 55 min.

Saturday, January 30, 2021 - $12=General

Film will be available on VOD (Video On Demand) for 24 hours on Saturday, January 30, 2021.

To buy tickets for this screening go here.


Information: (848) 932-8482; www.njfilmfest.com

Click here for the complete festival schedule.



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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