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2023 United States Super 8 Film + Digital Video Festival Award Winners Announced!

By Al Nigrin

originally published: 02/21/2023




Still from Reclamation

Here below are the winners of the 2023 United States Super 8 Film & DV Festival. We had a nice Festival over the last weekend. Many thanks to Phil and Rhonda Vigeant as well as Jaclyn Melo of Pro 8mm for sponsoring our Festival again and providing the prizes for the Best of Festival winners.

Best of the Festival

Triboro – Nate Dorr (Brooklyn, New York)

Reclamation - Jennifer M Hardacker (Forest Grove, Oregon)



Still from Sam Now

Honorable Mention

A Potters Field – Zev Aaron (Brooklyn, New York)

Exponentials - Khalil Charif and Cristina Amiran (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) 

Once I passed – Martin Gerigk (Krefeld, Germany)


From Above - John Heins (Broomfield, Colorado)

Sam Now – Reed Harkness (Seattle, Washington)

Scum Show - MaLo Sutra Fish and Marie-Laure Cros (Paris, France)

Spontaneous Artifacts – David Finkelstein (Brooklyn, New York)

The 2023 United States Super 8 Film & Digital Video Festival, which is part of the Spring 2023 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; The Rutgers University Office of Summer and Winter Sessions; OVID/Icarus Films; Pro8mm;  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; 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.




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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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