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2025 New Jersey International Film Festival Broken Pieces Filmmaker Q+A

By Vic Fern

originally published: 05/19/2025


Here is the 2025 New Jersey International Film Festival Broken Pieces Filmmaker Q+A featuring Director Justin Ho, Producer James Orfanos, Lead Actor Elisha Jachetti and NJIFF Director Al Nigrin. Broken Pieces will be screening along with the short film Chambers Street on Saturday, May 31, 2025 – Online for 24 Hours and In-Person at 7PM. Get more info here.

Chambers Street – Scott Dempsey Keenan (Brooklyn, New York) A young man, shadowed by the ghost of his ex-girlfriend, spirals into the loss of the relationship. 2024; 8 min

Broken Pieces – Justin Ho (Old Bridge, New Jersey) One day in NYC the lives of five people cross paths with each other in unexpected ways, revealing the subtle yet important interconnectedness of their lives as they grapple with their own issues and try to make sense of the chaos that surrounds them. Love is a complicated and messy thing, and sometimes it takes being broken to find the pieces that fit. 2024; 83 min.




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The 30th annual New Jersey International Film Festival will be taking place between May 30-June 13, 2025. The Festival will be a hybrid one as we will be presenting it online as well as doing select 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 when both are offered. Plus, we are very proud to announce that acclaimed singer-songwriter Mike Kovacs will be doing an audio-visual concert on Friday, June 13 at 7PM! The in-person screenings and the Mike Kovacs 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; In-Person Only Student Ticket=$10 Per Program.

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