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The Storm & The Boats New Jersey Film Festival Filmmaker Video Interview


By Vic Fern

originally published: 02/08/2025




Al Nigrin, Executive Director and Curator of the New Jersey Film Festival, sits down with Jody Small, Producer, Writer & Director of The Storm & The Boats, in a filmmaker interview at EBTV.

The Storm & The Boats screens with the two shorts Joy Waldinger’s Embryo and Alexander S. White and Cynthia N. White’s Crowboy at the Spring 2025 New Jersey Film Festival on Saturday, February 8. All these filmmakers will be present to do a Q+A after the screening. There will also be a panel discussion on The Storm and The Boats. The film will be Online for 24 Hours on this show date. Due to the Winter Storm that will hit New Jersey on Saturday, February 8 this screening  has been moved to on-line only. Tickets are available for purchase here.

The 43rd Bi-Annual New Jersey Film Festival will be taking place on select Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays between January 24-March 2, 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 and there will be a special benefit in-person screening of the film Bucha on March 2 at 5PM! 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=$120; Bucha Benefit Screening=$20; In-Person Only Student Ticket=$10 Per Program.  

For more info go here: 
https://newjerseyfilmfestivalspring2025.eventive.org/welcome

 

 

 




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