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Fall 2022 New Jersey Film Festival Winners Announced!

By Al Nigrin

originally published: 10/10/2022


All the works that were part of the Fall 2022 New Jersey Film Festival Competition were selected by a panel of judges including media professionals, journalists, students, and academics. These judges selected the 18 finalists which were publicly screened at our Festival. The finalists were selected from 421 works submitted by filmmakers from around the world. In addition, the judges chose the Prize Winners in conjunction with the Festival Director.



Best of Festival Winners

Winner Best Feature Film = Soldier Island – Charly + Eriel Santagado (Metuchen, New Jersey)

Winner Best Documentary Film = The Sun Rises in the East – Tayo Giwa + Cynthia Gordy Giwa (Brooklyn, New York)

Winner Best Short Film = The House - Liang-Chun Lin (Los Angeles, California)

Winner Best Animated Film = Panta Rei (everything is in flux) – KWA (Fishers, Indiana)

Winner Best Experimental Film = Howl - Martin Del Carpio (New York, New York)

Honorable Mention Winners

A Crack In The Mountain - Alastair Evans (Tokyo, Japan)

Little Satchmo – John Alexander (Clearwater, Florida)

Commodity Trading: Dies Irae – M. Woods (Evanston, Illinois)

Urania Leilus – Andrew Serban (New York, New York)

Sign the Show: Deaf Culture, Access & Entertainment – Cat Brewer (Las Vegas, Nevada)

Rebuilt from Broken Glass – Larry Hanover (Voorhees, New Jersey)




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Information:

New Jersey Film Festival

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.

[email protected]

www.njfilmfest.com



 

About the author:

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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