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2025 New Jersey International Film Festival Filmmaker Interview with The Sandy Mack Experience Director Sarah Ann McCuiston


By Vic Fern

originally published: 05/31/2025

Al Nigrin, Executive Director & Curator of the New Jersey International Film Festival, sits down with Sarah Ann McCuiston, Director, Writer & Producer of The Sandy Mack Experience and her father & subject of the film, Sandy Mack, for a filmmaker interview at EBTV.

  

The documentary film The Sandy Mack Experience will be screening along with the short film Wrestle-Off on Saturday, May 31, 2025 – Online for 24 Hours and In-Person at 5PM in Voorhees Hall #105/Rutgers University, 71 Hamilton Street, New Brunswick, NJ. There will be a Q+A session with both directors after the in-person screening. Get more info here.

 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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