

Winner Best Documentary Film=B.F. Skinner Plays Himself – Ted Kennedy (Ann Arbor, Michigan)
Winner Best Feature Film=ANDA – Jayendra Ganta (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
Winner Best Short Film=Self-Portrait – Samuel DeFrank (West Hollywood, California)
Winner Best Experimental Film=12th House - Ilona Laboy and Israel Laboy (New York, New York)
Winner Best Animated Film=Ball Lightning – Catriona Trina Baker (Sudbury, Massachusetts)

Honorable Mention Winners
Sun Ra: Do The Impossible – Christine Turner (New York, New York)
Don’t Look in The Dark – Samuel Freeman (Montclair, New Jersey)
Portrait of a Monastery – John Decker (Asbury Park, New Jersey)
Where The Rain Stops – Dojin Kim (Seoul, South Korea)
Festival Director’s Citations
Performances:
Peyton Michelle-Edwards (ANDA)
Rebi Paganini and Dennis Puglisi (Don’t Look in The Dark)
Annie P Abbott (Self-Portrait)
Direction:
Ted Kennedy (B.F. Skinner Plays Himself)
Jayendra Ganta (ANDA)
Samuel Freeman (Don’t Look in The Dark)
Samuel DeFrank (Self-Portrait)
Cinematography:
Matteo Bertoli (ANDA)
John Decker (Portrait of a Monastery)
Bettina Campomanes (Self-Portrait)
Editing:
Ted Kennedy (B.F. Skinner Plays Himself)
Samuel Freeman (Don’t Look in The Dark)
John Decker (Portrait of a Monastery)
Screenplay:
Jayendra Ganta and Caleb Bell-Jones (ANDA)
Samuel DeFrank (Self-Portrait)
Production Design:
Casey Williams (ANDA)
Ari Ward (Self-Portrait)
Ilona Laboy (12th House)
Music:
Monkeyscarf (ANDA)
Festival Sponsors:
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; Grant funding has also been provided by the Middlesex County Board of County Commissioners - This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts; The Rutgers University Office of Summer and Winter Sessions; OVID/Icarus Films, 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; Pro 8mm; 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.
Information:
Al Nigrin
Executive Director/Curator
New Jersey Film Festival
New Jersey Media Arts Center
Rutgers University Program in Cinema Studies
4170 Academic Building, 15 Seminary Place
New Brunswick, New Jersey, 08901-8525 U.S.A.
Email: [email protected] [email protected]
Website: www.njfilmfest.com






