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Winners of the 2016 New Jersey International Film Festival Competition


By Al Nigrin

originally published: 10/24/2016





Winners of the 2016 New Jersey International Film Festival Competition
All the works that were part of the New Jersey International Film Festival Competition were selected by a panel of judges including media professionals, journalists, students, and academics. These judges selected the 21 finalists which were publicly screened at our Festival. The finalists were selected from 366 works submitted by filmmakers from around the world. In addition, the judges chose the Prize Winners in conjunction with the Festival Director.
 
Grand Prize Winners:
 
Winner Best Feature Film
The Other Kids – Chris Brown (San Francisco, California) 
 
Winner Best Documentary Film 
Psychedelia – Pat Murphy (Brooklyn, New York) 
 
Winner Best Short Film 
The Suitor – Alvaro Congosto (Woodside, New York) 
 

Winner Best Animation Film 
A is for Aye-Aye: An Abecedarian Adventure – Augusta Palmer (Brooklyn, New York)  

 
Honorable Mention Winners:
H.O.M.E. – Daniel Maldonado (Queens, New York)
Kurdistan-Kurdistan – Bulent Gunduz (Antony, France) 
Occupy, Texas – Jeff Barry (New York, New York)
Twinsburg – Joe Garrity  (Oakland, California)
Roubado – Erica Watson (Los Angeles, California)

 
For More Information Contact:
Rutgers Film Co-op/New Jersey Media Arts Center
Rutgers University Program in Cinema Studies
72 Lipman Drive  (#018 Loree Hall - Douglass Campus)
New Brunswick, New Jersey, 08901-8525 U.S.A.
(732) 932-8482 phone; (732) 932-1935 fax; NJMAC@aol.com  e-mail; 
Web Site: www.njfilmfest.com



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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