By Al Nigrin
originally published: 06/17/2017
Winners of the 2017 New Jersey International Film Festival Competition Announced!
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 22 finalists which were publicly screened at our Festival. The finalists were selected from 322 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
Emma – Juan Pablo Martinez (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Winner Best Documentary Film
Levinsky Park – Beth Kruvant (South Orange, New Jersey)
Winner Best Short Film
The Ravens – Jennifer Perrott (Annandale, New South Wales, Australia)
Winner Best Animation Film
First Bloom – Tingting Liu (Nanjing, Jiang Su Province, China)
Honorable Mention Winners:
Glowworm – Laina Barakat (Marlborough, New Hampshire)
Don’t Think About It – Niv Klainer (New York, New York)
Church – Stephen Bodossian (Franklin, New Jersey)
Seppuku – Daryn Wakasa (Montebello, California)
Second Nature – Michael Cross (Seattle, Washington)
Kedi – Ceyda Torun (Istanbul, Turkey)
One Eightieth of Zhang Tianyi – Shuhan Fan (Glendale, California)
Passaic – Douglas Underdahl (Millburn, New Jersey)
I Am Still Here– Mischa Marcus (Los Angeles, California)
Strawman – Tian Xie (Alhambra, California)
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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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