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Your Lips Never Left Mine New Jersey Film Festival Video Q+A

by Vic Fern

originally published: 09/03/2026

Here is the Your Lips Never Left Mine Fall 2026 New Jersey Film Festival Video Q+A with Writer/Director Matthew Kozlark, Producer/Editor/Sound Designer Felicia Ricci, Lead Actor Cassandra Due, and Festival Director Albert Nigrin.

Your Lips Never Left Mine – Matthew Kozlark (Ridgefield, Connecticut)
A young woman is hired by a finance couple to tutor their son at their summer lake house and finds herself increasingly enmeshed in the undisclosed darkness of their past. 2026; 91 min.

Your Lips Never Left screens on opening night of the New Jersey Film Festival on Friday, September 4, 2026 – – Online for 24 Hours on this date and In-Person at 7PM in Voorhees Hall #105/Rutgers University, 71 Hamilton Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08901! Writer/Director Matthew Kozlark, Producer/Editor/Sound Designer Felicia Ricci, and some of the cast and crew will be at the screening to do a Q+A with the in-person audience!
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The 45th Bi-annual New Jersey Film Festival will be taking place between September 4-October 4, 2026. The Festival will be a hybrid 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 shows when both are offered. We will also be offering an Audio-Visual Concert featuring Hanging Coats and Lawns as well as two FREE Filmmaking Workshops! The in-person screenings, the filmmaking workshops and the AV Concert will be held in Voorhees Hall #105/Rutgers University, 71 Hamilton Street, New Brunswick, NJ beginning at 1PM, 5PM or 7PM on their show date. General Admission Ticket=$15 Per Program; Festival All Access Pass=$100; In-Person Only Student Ticket=$10 Per Program. The Filmmaking Workshops are FREE and open to the public but have limited seating and require advance registration. To register email us at [email protected]





 

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George Street Playhouse presents The Unexpected 3rd

There are multiple performances including:

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@ 7:30pm

New Brunswick Performing Arts Center (NBPAC)
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