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Mixtape for Stom Sogo screens at the 2026 United States Super 8 Film + Digital Video Festival on Sunday, February 22!
by Penelope de la Cruz
published 2026-02-17

Mixtape for Stom Sogo doesn’t feel like a documentary trying to explain its subject. It feels more like someone sitting with unresolved thoughts and letting them unfold. Directed by Adrian Goycoolea, the film is framed around a response to the last email he received from his friend Stom Sogo before he died. This is not a biography or a structured story. It’s a conversation with someone who isn’t there anymore, full of hesitation, memories, and questions that don’t get answered.




 

New Release Review - "Send Help"

by Eric Hillis, TheMovieWaffler.com
published 2026-02-15

With Send Help, screenwriters Damian Shannon and Mark Swift have taken the basic setup of Lina Wertmuller's Swept Away (and its awful Madonna-starring, Guy Ritchie directed remake) and given it a gender swap. Here it's a lowly female employee who finds herself stranded on a desert island with her male boss. Much of Send Help explores the same class and sexual tensions as Wertmuller's film, but with Sam Raimi in the director's chair we know things are going to get a little crazy at some point. And, boy, do they!



By popular demand Freeing Juanita returns to the 2026 New Jersey Film Festival on Friday, February 20!

by Yuri Kim
published 2026-02-15

Freeing Juanita, directed by Sebastián Lasaosa Rogers, is not the kind of documentary you watch and walk away from unchanged. It stays with you long after the credits roll. At its heart, this is a film about one woman, wrongfully imprisoned. But as you watch it unfold, you realize it’s also about so much more: a broken immigration system, the erasure of Indigenous voices, and the extraordinary strength of family and community.



New Release Review - "The Secret Agent"

by Eric Hillis, TheMovieWaffler.com
published 2026-02-14

With Summer of Sam, Spike Lee suggested that in 1977 there was nowhere crazier than New York. With The Secret Agent, Kleber Mendonça Filho asks Lee to hold his beer. If you thought '77 NYC was something, wait till you experience the Brazil of that year. In opening text, Mendonça Filho describes that era in his nation's troubled history as "a time of great mischief," and The Secret Agent is a gleefully mischievous movie. Like several recent high profile South American films, including last year's Brazilian drama I'm Still Here, it is concerned with the corruption that was rife under the military dictatorship. But just as Lee did for the bankruptcy era Big Apple, Mendonça Filho displays a fond nostalgia for the energy that can be created by dangerous times. There is much in The Secret Agent that is shocking, and it reminds us of the evil that is allowed to flourish in corrupt societies, but it's also heart-poundingly thrilling.



2026 United States Super 8 Film + DV Festival Celebrates its 38th Anniversary!

by Al Nigrin
published 2026-02-14

Now in its 38th year, the United States Super 8mm Film + Digital Video Festival is the largest and longest running juried festival of its kind in North America. The festival encourages any genre (including animation, documentary, personal, narrative, and experimental) made on Super 8mm/8mm film, Hi 8mm/8mm, or digital video. The festival will be held Online and In-Person at Rutgers University on February 21+22, 2026.





2026 United States Super 8 Film & Digital Video Festival Video Panel

by Vic Fern
published 2026-02-12

Here is the 2026 United States Super 8 Film & Digital Video Festival Video Panel with Filmmakers A. Rosalie Chandler, Dan Lopez, Marco Mazzi, Alan Halls, David O. Rogers and Festival Director Al Nigrin.



Moving documentary Sum Function screens at the 2026 New Jersey Film Festival on Valentine's Day!

by Al Nigrin
published 2026-02-11

As a quadriplegic Marine veteran, the filmmaker set out to tell a story that is both deeply personal and universally resonant. Sum Function follows a group of friends, all living with severe physical disabilities, as they confront battles more personal than war itself—on and off the wheelchair rugby court. At its core, this is a film about resilience, connection, and the power of community in a world not built for us.



Don't miss Shorts Program #2 at the 2026 New Jersey Film Festival this Friday, February 13!

by Al Nigrin
published 2026-02-10

Don't miss Shorts Program #2 at the 2026 New Jersey Film Festival this Friday, February 13! Here is the line-up.



World's Best Short Films come to Algonquin Arts on March 7th

(MANASQUAN, NJ) -- Algonquin Arts Theatre hosts World's Best Short Films presented by Asbury Shorts on Saturday, March 7, 2026 at 8:00pm. Curated by Doug LeClaire, the event brings a fast-paced "Short Film Concert" screening featuring award-winning comedy, drama, and animation.



Filmmaker Kevin McLaughlin talks about his film "Riot: From Rebellion to Redemption" being screened on PBS

by Gary Wien
published 2026-02-09

Back in 2016, New Jersey Stage spoke with filmmaker Kevin McLaughlin about a film called Riot, which was starting to have screenings at film festivals. The film told the story of the Newark riots of 1967 and how the city spent 50 years trying to overcome that violent period of time.


 

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The Princess & The Frog – Popcorn & Pajamas Film Series

 Friday, February 20, 2026 @ 7:00pm
Hamilton Stage at Union County Performing Arts Center (UCPAC)
360 Hamilton Avenue, Rahway, NJ 07065



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US Super 8 + DV Fest: Speculations, Gilbert & George, Track, Light of Eons, Broken Token, Kway La Soul, they're taking my house, The Empty Frame, Les Amateurs – Online for 24 Hours and In-Person at 7PM!

 Saturday, February 21, 2026 @ 7:00pm
NJ Film Festival
71 Hamilton Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08901



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US Super 8 + DV Fest: Annie, wake up – Online for 24 Hours!

 Sunday, February 22, 2026 @ 12:00am
NJ Film Festival
71 Hamilton Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08901



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US Super 8 + DV Fest: A Mixtape for Stom – Online for 24 Hours and In-Person at 5PM!

 Sunday, February 22, 2026 @ 5:00pm
NJ Film Festival
71 Hamilton Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08901







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