by Al Nigrin

originally published: 09/04/2026

Here is the New Jersey Film Festival Your Lips Never Left Mine Filmmaker Intro by Writer/Director Matthew Kozlark:

 

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 as the New Jersey Film Festival opener which is TODAY 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 much of the cast and crew will be at the screening to do a Q+A with the in-person audience!
Get more info and buy tickets here.

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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For more info on the Film festival go here: https://newjerseyfilmfestivalfall2026.eventive.org/welcome

 

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Albert Gabriel Nigrin is an award-winning experimental media artist whose work has been screened throughout the world. He is also a Cinema Studies Lecturer at Rutgers University, and the Executive Director/Curator of the Rutgers Film Co-op/New Jersey Media Arts Center, Inc.

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