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Winners of Fall 2021 New Jersey Film Festival Announced!


By Al Nigrin

originally published: 10/11/2021




We had a very good hybrid festival this year. I want to thank the thousands of people who attended our Festival live and/or online. Below is a list of the Winners of the Fall 2021 New Jersey Film Festival.




New Jersey Film Festival Fall 2021 
Grand Prize Winners

Winner Best Feature Film Into Schrodinger’s Box - Nasim Naghavi, Amir Ganjavie (Maple, Canada)

Winner Best Documentary Film The Dirt Whisperer - Giorgio Litt (Atlanta, Georgia)

Winner Best Short Film Swim to Steven - Amy French (Los Angeles, California)

Winner Best Animated Film Invention in C Major - Richard D. Lopez (North Haledon, New Jersey)

Winner Best Experimental Film The Dark Forest - Martin Del Carpio (New York, New York)



Honorable Mention Winners


The Nine O'clock Whistle – Willa Cofield (Plainfield, New Jersey)

Ailleurs Partout (Elsewhere Everywhere) - Vivianne Perelmutter and Isabelle Ingold (Paris, France)

Parenthesis – Vasilios Papaioannu (Washington, D.C.)

Zero Gravity – Thomas Verrette (Los Angeles, California)

Painting Class – Yifei Song (Shanghai, China)

Ela: Breaking Boundaries – Swapna Kurup (Dubai, United Arab Emirates
)


 



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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