New Jersey Film Festival Spring 2013 Competition Winners Announced

New Jersey Film Festival Spring 2013 Competition Winners Announced
All the works that were part of the Spring 2013 New Jersey Film Festival Competition were selected by a panel of judges including media professionals, journalists, students, and academics. These judges selected the 23 finalists which were publicly screened at our Festival. The finalists were selected from 311 works submitted by filmmakers from around the world. In addition, the judges chose the Prize Winners in conjunction with the Festival Director.  

Winner Best Feature FilmThe Last Day of August - Craig DiFolco (Sunnyside, New York)

Winner Best Documentary FilmSet for Life - Sam Newman and Susan Sipprelle (Englewood, New Jersey)

Winner Best Animated Film
Animation Hotline – Dustin Grella (New York, New York)

Winner Best Experimental Film
Retrocognition - Eric Patrick  (Evanston, Illinois)

Winner Best Short Film
A House, A Home - Daniel Fickle and Mark Smith (Portland, Oregon)

Winner Best Student Film
Olivia - Ana García Abad (Toluca Lake, California)

Honorable Mention Winners
Lost Child: Sayon's Journey - Janet Gardner (Princeton, New Jersey)
Starting from Scratch - James Huang (Beverly Hills, California)
Beauty and the Breast - Liliana Komorowska  (Montreal, Canada)
Legacy - Adam Floeck (Metuchen, New Jersey)
Under the Apple Box - Ellie Fox (Vancouver, Canada)
Treeman - Claire Ying-chin Wang (Syracuse, New York)
The Suffering Grasses – Iara Lee (San Francisco, California)    

For More Information Contact:
Rutgers Film Co-op/New Jersey Media Arts Center
Rutgers University Program in Cinema Studies
72 Lipman Drive  (#018 Loree Hall - Douglass Campus)
New Brunswick, New Jersey, 08901-8525 U.S.A.
(848) 932-8482 phone; (732) 932-1935 fax; NJMAC@aol.com  e-mail;
Web Site: www.njfilmfest.com