For 39 years the Thomas Edison
Black Maria Film Festival has been
advancing the unique creativity
and power of the short form. The
Festival was founded in 1981 and
is named for Thomas Edison’s orig-
inal West Orange, New Jersey film
studio, whose resemblance to the
familiar black-box shaped police
paddy wagons sparked the nick-
name “Black Maria.” The Festival is
an international juried competition
open to all filmmakers across the
globe. The online includes shorts
in animation, documentary, experi-
mental, and narrative categories.
These film shorts are avail-
able online for the first time ever
thanks to the generosity of Princ-
eton University and The Lewis
Center for the Arts at Princeton,
NJ State Council on the Arts, the
Charles Edison Fund, the Hud-
son County Office of Cultural
and Heritage Affairs and Tourism,
the Hoboken Historical Museum,
WithumSmith+Brown, Lowenstein
Sandler LLP, Monster Remotes, Big
Sky Edit, the NBA, Citrin Cooper-
man, Tarter Krinsky & Drogin
LLP, Fairleigh Dickinson University,
corporations and private donors.
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