Here is the New Jersey Film Festival Spring 2025 Short Film Video Q+A #2 with Sylvia Director Hannah Zipperman, Help Yourself Director Hedvig Andersson, Embryo Directors Joy and Caleb Waldinger, and Crowboy Producer/Writer William Doan and Festival Director Al Nigrin.
Sylvia will be screening as part of Shorts Film Program #1 at the Spring 2025 New Jersey Film Festival on Friday, January 24, 2025 – Online for 24 Hours on this day and In-Person at 7PM. Help Yourself will be screening as part of Shorts Film Program #2 on Saturday, February 1, 2025 – Online for 24 Hours on this day and In-Person at 7PM! Crowboy and Embryo will be screening with The Storm and The Boats on Saturday, February 8, 2025 – Online for 24 Hours on this day and In-Person at 7PM.
For more info and tickets go here: https://watch.eventive.org/newjerseyfilmfestivalspring2025
Sylvia – Hannah Zipperman and Ezekiel Goodman (Leonia, New Jersey) A newly divorced woman decides to go after what she's always wanted. 2024; 7 min.
Help Yourself – Hedvig Andersson (United Kingdom) Andie, a desperate writer, abandons her family to finish a script in a flat she borrows from her colleague Diane. But Andie keeps getting interrupted by bizarre and hostile strangers who all have unfinished business with Diane. Andie’s quiet evening turns into a surreal vortex of emotional experiences and revelations. 2024; 14 min.
Embryo – Joy Waldinger (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) Sometimes a couple needs a little magic to start their family. This short film explores the stages of embryo development using non-traditional baby bump photos to celebrate growth and normalize different paths to parenthood! It documents the long and winding journey to parenthood via surrogacy and explores how to maintain a closeness to one’s child while they are in someone else’s uterus. 2024; 6 min.
Crowboy – Alexander S. White and Cynthia N. White (University Park, Pennsylvania) Crowboy is a contemporary parable about childhood loneliness. Captivated by a crow, a young boy embarks on a journey to return her lost feather. Though faced with challenges and self-doubt along the way, the child finds courage and comfort in new friendships that lead him to a place of inner connection. 2024; 5 min.
The 43rd Bi-Annual New Jersey Film Festival will be taking place on select Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays between January 24-February 21, 2025. The Festival will be a hybrid one as it will be presented online as well as doing in-person screenings at Rutgers University. All the films will be available virtually via Video on Demand for 24 hours on their show date. VoD start times are at 12 Midnight Eastern USA. Each General Admission Ticket or Festival Pass purchased is good for both the virtual and the in-person screenings. Plus, acclaimed singer-songwriter Renee Maskin will be doing an audio-visual concert on Friday, February 21 at 7PM! The in-person screenings and the Renee Maskin concert will be held in Voorhees Hall #105/Rutgers University, 71 Hamilton Street, New Brunswick, NJ beginning at 5PM or 7PM on their show date. General Admission Ticket=$15 Per Program; Festival All Access Pass=$100; In-Person Only Student Ticket=$10 Per Program.
For more info go here: https://newjerseyfilmfestivalspring2025.eventive.org/welcome
