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Hoboken Historical Museum Hosts the 2022 Thomas Edison Film Festival

Published by New Jersey Stage

originally published: 02/22/2022

(HOBOKEN, NJ) -- The Hoboken Historical Museum hosts The Thomas Edison Film Festival (formerly The Black Maria Film Festival) on  Saturday, February 26 at 7:00pm. This year's line up of seven short films features work by American, French and British filmmakers. 

The program has a total running time of 65 minutes and the films' styles run the gamut from documentaries and experimental, to narrative and animation. Thomas Edison Film Festival Executive Director Jane Steuerwald is your host for this artful evening.

Tickets are $20 and include refreshments. Seating is limited and pre-purchase is highly recommended. Masks are required. Tickets are available for purchase online.

Films include: My Brother is Deaf – Documentary – 10 min. by Peter Hoffman Kimball, Bethesda, MD, US

A Parisian Circus – Documentary – 11 min. by Hugo Besson, Paris, France




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Alone beneath the Northern Lights – Experimental – 7 min. by Valentin Boitel-Denyset, Paris, France

Timeline – Experimental – 5 min. by Osbert Parker, London, England, UK

Fulcrum – Animation – 8 min. by Timothy David Orme, Monterey, CA, US

Dawn – Documentary – 4 min. by Timon Birkhofer, Pasadena, CA, US

Charon – Narrative – 16 min. by Yannick Karcher, Strasbourg, France

The Hoboken Historical Museum is located at 1301 Hudson Street in Hoboken, New Jersey. Click here for transportation and parking information.

For over 40 years the Thomas Edison Film Festival (formerly known as the Black Maria Film Festival) has been advancing the unique creativity and power of the short form. The festival passionately embraces its mission to promote innovation and advocate for independent filmmakers through a juried international competition celebrating all genres and hybrids from filmmakers around the world. Thomas Edison Film Festival (TEFF) is a socially conscious, modern, fiercely independent traveling festival for short film. We reach out to diverse audiences with provocative, timely, edgy, and compelling new works by both accomplished and emerging filmmakers

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EVENT PREVIEWS

(NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ) -- The 45th Bi-Annual New Jersey Film Festival will be taking place between September 4 - October 4, 2026. As they have been doing the last few years, the festival will be presented as a hybrid with select in-person screenings at Rutgers University and most of the films available virtually via Video on Demand for 24 hours on their show date. The festival also be offering an Audio-Visual Concert featuring the bands Lawns and Hanging Coats as well as two FREE Filmmaking Workshops.
 

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