Saturday, July 16, FilmOneFest returns to Atlantic Highlands. "We're working hard to make FilmOneFest 2011 'leap' with unexpected moments, new experiences, and beautiful filmmaking," says co-Director Robert O'Connor of New Jersey's only one-minute film festival. FilmOneFest offers succinct, exciting minutes by local, national, and international filmmakers, films that capture the essence of an artist's vision in just 60 seconds. And it's not just film – this out...

By Maria Esteves – May 18, 2011 GO FOR IT! is a powerful and provocative inner city story based on Carmen (Aimee Garcia), a teenager’s decision whether to pursue her God given dance talent in a university or not. This film explores the competitiveness in the art of dance, student’s academic challenges in a learning environment, economic and social depravity of inner city life. Interview with GO FOR IT! filmmaker Carmen Marron. GO FOR IT!, director Carmen Marron | Feature Drama | ...

The East End Film Festival and Camden Crawl join together to take over London later this year... There will be no better place to be than the EEFF - Camden Crawl event this May Bank Holiday weekend As part of our ten year anniversary celebrations in 2011, the East End Film Festival is pleased to announce a collaboration with the Camden Crawl, winner of Best Metropolitan Festival at the 2010 Festival Awards. With both festivals celebrating being a decade old, and having admired the ...

The 8th Annual Garden State Film Festival March 25th-28th. www.gsff.org The films are selected, the schedule is up on the website, and the anticipation is rising as the 8th annual Garden State Film Festival prepares to return to Asbury Park and the surrounding area. This year films will be shown in seven venues in Asbury Park and Deal. Advance tickets are on sale now! So mark your calendars as GSFF only happens once a year. It's a non-stop weekend, packed with a special fr...

The Downbeach Film Festival Presents the Inaugural Atlantic City Cinefest – October 16-18With a name reflecting its move from Margate and Ventnor to Atlantic City, the 2009 Downbeach Film Festival presents the Atlantic City Cinefest. The three day event will offer a diverse selection independent feature films, shorts and documentaries of varying genres, many of them from New Jersey filmmakers. The festival opens with the East Coast Premiere of the Atlantic City-based Ice Grill, USA co-directed...

Celebrated Police Captain turned multi award-winning filmmaker Donna Roman (D.R.) Hernandez today announced that her latest film "Newark Street Preachers" has been selected for exhibition at the New York International Independent Film and Video Festival (NYIIFVF). Tickets are selling very fast for this urban crime feature documentary, which makes its world debut on Saturday September 20th at 4pm at the City Cinemas Village East, 181 2nd Ave. & 12th Street in Manhattan. Written, pro...

Celebrated Police Captain turned multi award-winning filmmaker Donna Roman (D.R.) Hernandez today announced that her latest film ”Newark Street Preachers” has been selected for exhibition at the New York International Independent Film and Video Festival (NYIIFVF). Tickets are selling very fast for this urban crime feature documentary, which makes its world debut on Saturday September 20th at 4pm at the City Cinemas Village East, 181 2nd Ave. & 12th Street in Manhattan. Written, produced and...

Director-writer Kevin Smith will be honored August 9 at a retrospective during the inaugural Downbeach Film Festival (DBFF), August 8 to 10. New Jersey native Smith will speak about his career and hold a Q & A with the audience in the Screening Room at Resorts Atlantic City. The festival will also award Smith the Lifesaver Award for lifetime achievement to date for such films as Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Dogma, Chasing Amy and Clerks. The festival kicks off August 8 with a slate of films i...

The sixth annual Garden State Film Festival (GSFF) showcasing film, video and animated works by independent filmmakers, will roll out the “red carpet” and light up the sky from April 4 – April 6 in Asbury Park. Attending this year’s event are notables including: Danny Aiello, Chris Costello, Chip Cronkite, Joe Gruschecky, Budd Schulberg, Paul Sorvino, Sean Stone, Brian Thompson, Michael Uslan, and Montel Williams among others. This year’s honorees include novelist and Oscar-winning s...

The sixth annual Garden State Film Festival (GSFF) showcasing film, video and animated works by independent filmmakers, will roll out the “red carpet” and light up the sky from April 4 – April 6 in Asbury Park. Attending this year’s event are notables including: Danny Aiello, Chris Costello, Chip Cronkite, Joe Gruschecky, Budd Schulberg, Paul Sorvino, Sean Stone, Brian Thompson, Michael Uslan, and Montel Williams among others.This year’s honorees include novelist and Oscar-winning scre...

The Trenton Film Society (TFS) seeks an accomplished leader to oversee production of independent film events and programs in the historic core of Trenton, New Jersey’s capital city.  The Trenton Film Society is a non-profit organization whose mission is to bring audiences and filmmakers together to better enjoy the art of filmmaking, with a focus on new work.   Founded in 2003, the TFS is currently in the midst of organizing the 5th Annual Trenton Film Festival which will screen approximate...

This Wednesday night at 10PM (EST), MOVIE GEEKS UNITED! will feature new interviews with the makers of "The Shark Is Still Working" and "Your Mommy Kills Animals".  We will also replay an earlier interview with Anthony Giacchino, director of the upcoming New York City release "The Camden 28" and John Swinglish, an original member of the protest group. Below is a director's statement with Mr. Giacchino discussing the film and the cause. Director's Statem...

In August of 1971, discontent with the raging war in Vietnam was bleeding over into the streets of cities and towns across America.  Out of this chaos came the Camden 28, an anti-war protest group largely made up of conscientious objectors from the Catholic left.  They set out to break into a New Jersey draft board office and destroy as many records as they could.  This was their attempt to strike a fierce, practical blow to the system that set young men off to a foreign land to die.  Little...

Thursday, February 8------Hoboken, New Jersey, directly across the Hudson River from Manhattan, is famous for three things: the site where the American pasttime of baseball was invented; the birthplace of legendary crooner Frank Sinatra; and the location for the 1950s film classic ON THE WATERFRONT, directed by Elia Kazan and starring Marlon Brando, in the role that won him his first Oscar. This historical waterfront town was once a bastion of working class families, visiting sailors and tough ...

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The Stockholm International Film Festival officially closed November 25th with a screening of "E! Audience Award winner," The Station Agent. Tipped as the favorite of the festival, the film lived up to its reputation from beginning to end. It is not hard to understand why the film won the hearts of the Stockholm audience. The area where the story takes place in Newfoundland NJ is a little like a small Swedish town, set far away from everything, where people speak slowly, and savor their words i...