downtown New Brunswick. D.A.
Pennebaker, who is a huge fan of
our festival, came three different
times to present Monterey Pop,
Moon over Broadway, and Don’t
Look Back. I also loved when
Paul Morrissey, Director of Andy
Warhol’s Chelsea Girls came two
different times to present his incredible film. More recently I really enjoyed when Steve Tozzi,
Director of Riot on the Dance
Floor (a documentary about the
infamous music venue in Trenton)
came to premiere his film last
January.”
In addition to being a Cinema
Studies Lecturer at Rutgers
University, Nigrin is an awardwinning experimental media
artist with work that has been
screened on all five continents.
He understands the value of filmmakers being able to meet and
learn from others in their craft.
In fact, the New Jersey Film Festival is very much designed with
the filmmaker in mind.
“As a filmmaker who has also
submitted to hundreds of film
festivals, I know how it feels to
be rejected and accepted,” he
A sold out Riot on the Dance Floor (left) & Todd Solondz (right)
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