

Winner Best Feature Film
Hole in the Head – Dean Kavanaugh (Wicklow, Ireland)

Winner Best Documentary Film
From Inside of Here – Bill Basquin (San Francisco, California)

Winner Best Short Film
This is the Rill Speaking – Gabriel Rodriguez-Fuller

Winner Best Animated Film
Out of Frame – Evan Bode (Syracuse, New York)

Winner Best Experimental Film
Breaking The Surface – John Evans, Ani Javian (New Brunswick, New Jersey)
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Honorable Mention Winners
#LookAtMe – Ken Kwek (Singapore)
Honor Student – Tamika Miller (Los Angeles, California)
Minnesota Mean – Dawn Mikkelson (Duluth, Minnesota)
June – Lauren Stevens (Los Angeles, California)

Festival Director’s Citations
Performances:
Yao (#LookAtMe)
Pam Oei (#LookAtMe)
John Curran (Hole in the Head)
Lynette Callaghan (Hole in the Head)
Hudson Yang (Honor Student)
Kelly Jenrette (Honor Student)
Direction:
Dean Kavanagh (Hole in the Head)
Tamika Miller (Honor Student)
Ken Kwek (#LookAtMe)
Bill Basquin (From Inside of Here)
Evan Bode (Out of Frame)
Cinematography:
Dean Kavanagh (Hole in the Head)
Russell Adam Morton (#LookAtMe)
Joshua Pausanos (Honor Student)
Screenplay:
Ken Kwek and Shane Mardjuki (#LookAtMe)
Tamika Miller and Joe Rechtman (Honor Student)
Dean Kavanagh (Hole in the Head)
Editing:
Rudolph Buitendach and Brian Zwiener (Honor Student)
Dean Kavanagh (Hole in the Head)
John Evans (Breaking The Surface)
Production Design:
Andy Phua (#LookAtMe)
Miranda Cristofani (Honor Student)
Evan Bode (Out of Frame)
Music:
Michael Wall (Breaking The Surface)
Joe Ng and Ting Si Hao (#LookAtMe)
Claude Foisy (Honor Student)
Evan Bode (Out of Frame)
Sponsors: The New Jersey Film Festival is funded and/or sponsored in part by The Rutgers Film Co-op/New Jersey Media Arts Center; The Rutgers University Program in Cinema Studies/School of Arts and Sciences; Middlesex County, a partner of the New Jersey State Council on the Arts - Funding has been provided by the Middlesex County Board of County Commissioners through a grant award from the Middlesex County Cultural and Arts Trust Fund; Grant funding has also been provided by the Middlesex County Board of County Commissioners - This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts; The Rutgers University Office of Summer and Winter Sessions; OVID/Icarus Films, The Rutgers University American Studies Department; Rutgers University School of Arts and Sciences Honors Program; The Rutgers University Zimmerli Art Museum; The Rutgers University Writer’s House; Pro 8mm; The Rutgers University Office of Disability Services, WRSU; New Jersey Stage; The Home News, The Asbury Park Press; New Brunswick City Center; The Rutgers University Office of Community Affairs; Design Ideas; Advanced Printing; Steven C. Schechter, Esq.; Share and Harris.
Information:
Al Nigrin, Executive Director/Curator, 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: [email protected] [email protected]
Website: www.njfilmfest.com






