By Al Nigrin

originally published: 02/17/2020







New Jersey Film Festival Spring 2020 Winners Announced!



All the works that were part of the Spring 2020 New Jersey Film Festival Competition were selected by a panel of judges including media professionals, journalists, students, and academics. These judges selected the 27 finalists which were publicly screened at our Festival. The finalists were selected from 611 works submitted by filmmakers from around the world. In addition, the judges chose the Prize Winners in conjunction with the Festival Director. Here are the Winners.

Grand Prize Winners







Best Feature Film : Strive – Robert Rippberger (Los Angeles, California)







Best Documentary Film: Work Songs – Mark Street (Brooklyn, New York)







Best Short Film: The Seahorse Trainer – Ricardo Bonisoli and Babak Bina (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada)







Best Animation Film: Daughter – Daria Kashcheeva (Prague, Czech Republic)





Honorable Mention Winners



Textile Workers – Andrea Nappi and Juno Roome (Queens, New York)



For Hope – James Rees and Jay Thomas (New York, New York)



Two – Vasilios Papaioannu (Syracuse, New York)



Smoke -n- Suds – George Nicholas (Mamaroneck, New York)



The Twelve Thousand – Eric Davis and Randy Watson (Langley, British Colombia, Canada)



Lab Dog – Noemi Durivou (Glendale, California)



Bailaora – Rubin Stein (Madrid, Spain)



Pacarrete – Allan Deberton (Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil)



Tevye’s Daughters – Vladimir Lert (Kyiv, Ukraine)







For More Information Contact :



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.



(848) 932-8482



NJMAC12@gmail.com, NJMAC@aol.com;



www.njfilmfest.com





