Cover Art: Lamiai ©2024 Albert Gabriel Nigrin featuring Yazmin Omana
Welcome to the Spring 2025 New Jersey Film Festival!
The 43rd Bi-Annual New Jersey Film Festival will be taking place on select Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays between and January 24-February 16, 2025. The Festival will be a hybrid one as we will be presenting it online as well as doing 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 screenings. Plus, we are very proud to announce that acclaimed electronic music artist Jim Haynes will be doing an audio-visual concert on Friday, October 18, 2024 at 7PM! The in-person screenings and the Jim Haynes 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=$100; In-Person Only Student Ticket=$10 Per Program. General Admission Jim Haynes Concert Ticket=$25.
To buy tickets go here: https://watch.eventive.org/newjerseyfilmfestivalspring2025
Information:
New Jersey Film Festival
Rutgers Film Co-op/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.
Phone: (908) 239-3481
Email: NJMAC12@gmail.com, NJMAC@aol.com
Web Site: http://njfilmfest.com/
All the works that we are screening are part of the Spring 2025 New Jersey Film Festival Competition and were selected by a panel of judges including media professionals, journalists, students, and academics. These judges selected the 24 finalists which will be publicly screened at our Festival. The finalists were selected from over 677 works submitted by filmmakers from around the world. In addition, the judges will choose the prize winners in conjunction with the Festival Director. Prize winners will be announced after the screenings on February 16 via our social media sites.
The New Jersey Film Festival is curated by Albert Gabriel Nigrin.
Live Screenings Info, Location, Directions and Parking:
Voorhees Hall #105/Rutgers University, 71 Hamilton Street, New Brunswick, NJ = Take the NJ Turnpike to Exit 9 and then take Route 18N (New Brunswick direction) and go for 2 1/2 miles to the College Avenue Campus/George Street exit (immediately after the Route 27S exit). Make a left at the light at the end of the exit ramp onto George Street, then go to the next light and make a right onto Hamilton Street. Voorhees Hall is adjacent to the Zimmerli Art Museum at 71 Hamilton Street. New Jersey Film Festival patrons can park in Rutgers Lots #1 (next to Kirkpatrick Chapel) and #16 (next to Murray and Milledoler Halls).
A map and directions can also be accessed online here:
https://scheduling.rutgers.edu/ecosystem-for-learning/study-spaces/voorhees-hall-lobby
Note: Parking in the lots listed above are only for visitors to the University.
Faculty, staff, and students must park only in the lots they are authorized to park in.
Visitor vehicles must be registered prior to parking at the link below: https://rudots.nupark.com/v2/portal/eventregister/8927dba1-508a-4fca-9214-8bf07da62a99#/events/registration/
Sponsors:
The Spring 2025 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 Office of Disability Services; The Rutgers University Office of Summer and Winter Sessions; OVID/Icarus Films; Pro 8mm; The Rutgers University American Studies Department; Rutgers University Writer's House; Rutgers University School of Arts and Sciences Honors Program; The Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers; WRSU; New Jersey Stage; The Asbury Park Press; New Brunswick City Center; The Rutgers University SEBS Honors Program; ArtPride New Jersey; Steven C. Schechter, Esq.; Share and Harris.
Staff:
Executive Director/Curator: Albert Gabriel Nigrin
Assistant Director: Anita LaBelle
House Managers: Jesse Einhorn, Morgan Kalmbach
Volunteers/Interns: Trevor Adams, Diego Arellano, Catalina Chapman, Penelope de la Cruz, Vic Fern, Mo Foster, Joshua Fuller, Emma Hackbarth, Yuri Kim, Anthony Lee, Anran Li, Steve Maygers, Meaghan Mooney, Evelyn Reese, Jay Santiago, Matt Smyntek, Katie Zhang
Advisors: Bob Brodsky, Victoria Connor, Matthew Maginley, Dr. Susan Martin-Marquez, Dr. Daniel Nigrin, Prajesh Patel, Dr. Meheli Sen, and Toni Treadway
Board of Trustees: Dr. Irene Fizer, Bill Harris, Albert Gabriel Nigrin, and Steven C. Schechter, Esq.
