Friday-September 3-Voorhees Hall #105-7PM $10; $9; $8

Sunset to Sunset - Kent Hayward
In a city known for its obsession with cars, one man with a Super-8 camera walks across Los Angeles, coming face to face with the metropolis instead of watching it blur by through a windshield. 2010; 3 min.


PING - Jason Oshman
An animated short about two robots who escape from their prison and find a magical place of peace and happiness. 2010; 9 min. With an in-person appearance by director Jason Oshman!

Wasting Daylight - Joe Parker
A man creates a non-profit activist group to fight Daylight Saving Time. 2010; 19 min. With an in-person appearance by director Joe Parker!


Beijing Punk - Shaun Jefford
The underground punk music scene in China centers around a Beijing club called D-22, a magnet and a cross roads for young Chinese musicians with the urge to rebel. This enthrallingfeature-length documentary reveals a hidden world throbbing and thrashing below the surface of the state-controlled Chinese media. Taking a small film crew, Australian filmmaker ShaunJefford tracks this subterranean music scene through the back alleys and streets of Beijing. Subject to state suspicion, punk rock in China should not exist at all, but it emerges in this film as an explosive and vibrant counterculture. 2010; 71 min.

Saturday-September 4-Voorhees Hall #105-7PM $10; $9; $8

A Long Haul  - Nathaniel Kramer
A Long Haul is a finely realized documentary about a charter boat captain on the East End of Long Island struggling in the face of a bad economy, high fuel prices, and depleted fish populations. He is forced to moonlight as a captain on a broken-down commercial fishing trawler to make ends meet. With a sense of desperation, he sets sail on a three-day trip to net squid. The boat has not been used in months and has become riddled with mechanical problems. As an ordinary fishing venture takes on the quality of an epic sea story, the captain and his crew face sleep deprivation, rough seas, and the more difficult task of finding a way to survive. 2010; 44 min.


Yankeeland: In the Shadow of the Stadium - Michael Gartland and Robert Weiss
This delightful and insightful documentary focuses on the final year of the old Yankee Stadium and on the people who bring the stadium to life. It is the story of a Little League organizer and former Major League prospect who fell victim to the streets in his youth, but stayed in the neighborhood to help the next generation achieve their dreams. It is the story of store owners who saw their business dwindle after the new stadium was constructed. It is the story of one of the poorest congressional districts in the U.S. and the richest sports franchise on the globe.  Above all, it is the story of neighbors who grew up with Yankee Stadium and have witnessed drastic changes since the ballpark first opened in the 1920s. 2010; 88 min. With an in-person appearance by director Michael Gartland and/or Robert Weiss!

Sunday-September 5-Voorhees Hall #105-7PM $10/$9/$8

Memories - Brian Kaufman
In this touching animation short one person tries to forestall the inevitable. 2010; 11 min. With an in-person appearance by director Brian Kaufman!


Promised Lands - Susan Sontag
Susan Sontag’s Promised Lands, her long unseen and only documentary film, has been re-released and will be screened in a new digital copy.  Filming in Israel during the final days and immediate aftermath of the 1973 Yom Kippur War, Sontagscrutinizes with startling clarity and nuance the ongoing Arab-Israeli conflict and the growing divisions among Jews over the question of Palestinian sovereignty.  The film is structured as an antiphony between two sets of images. The first consists of observational sequences detailing moments from modern Israel. Intercut throughout are conversations with two intellectuals: writer Yoram Kaniuk, a supporter of Palestinian rights who sees Israel shifting from its socialist roots to an American-style commercial culture, and physicist Yuval Ne’eman, who argues that anti-Semitism in the Arabic world can only be countered with force. Stanley Kauffmann wrote that this film presents “not a struggle between truth and falsehood but between two opposing, partial truths.” 1974-2010; 87 min.

Sunday-September 12-Voorhees Hall #105-7PM $10/$9/$8

Leonardo - Jim Capobianco
In this lovely animated short, Leonardo concocts his flying machine, gets ready for flight and finally...well you just have to see where the maestro's creativity takes him. 2009; 10 min.


Toxic Soup - Rory Owen Delaney
In the wake of the oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, this very timely and hard-hitting documentary exposes precisely how corporations get away with polluting the environment: manipulating the political system to gain tax-breaks and regulation loopholes, delaying environmental reform, and endangering the lives of people and wildlife for the sake of increased profits. Every day in America a total of 42 billion pounds of chemicals are produced or imported for commercial and industrial uses. Of that, over 62,000 chemicals were grandfathered into commerce without testing their impact on public health or the environment. As a result, in 2005, the CDC found over 148 chemicals in the blood stream and breast milk of sampled Americans. Toxic Soup connects the current spikes in childhood cancer, autism, and other serious illnesses with the business practices of Fortune 500 companies: DuPont, Bayer, Ashland Oil and Massey Energy. The film features interviews with Senator Mike Gravel, Louisville public health director Dr. Adewale Troutman, NRDC toxicologist Dr. Jenn Sass, Jane Houlihan from Environmental Working Group, Mark Schapiro from the Center for Investigative Reporting, and  others. 2010; 88 min

Thursday-September 16-Ruth Adams Building #001-6PM $10/$9$8

Dreams That Money Can Buy - Hans Richter           
The ultimate Dada/Surrealist cinematic experience. Dreams That Money Can Buy brings to life the dreams of seven people who find themselves in the office of a mind-reading psychiatrist.  When he looks into their eyes he sees the reflected images of their unconscious worlds.  These visions are then manifested on the screen, in saturated, surrealist color, and are based directly on the drawings, paintings, and scripts of six leading modern artists: Man Ray, Max Ernst, Alexander Calder, Fernand Leger, Marcel Duchamp, and Hans Richter.  1946; 80 min.

Thursday-September 23-Ruth Adams Building #001-6PM $10/$9$8

Experimental Films by Sidney Peterson                     
Tonight we will screen experimental films by the great Sidney Peterson, an originator of the American avant-garde cinema, as well as a script writer and storyboard artist for Walt Disney Studios. The five films he made between 1947 and 1950 have become classics, influencing many of the best filmmakers of subsequent generations. With his sharp assemblages of wild sight-gags and free associations, he celebrated the Dada and Surrealist style of directors such as Rene Clair, Man Ray, and Bunuel/Dali. Films include: The Petrified Dog (1948) -- a scrambled Alice In Wonderland; Mr. Frenhofer and The Minotaur (1949) -- based on Le Chef D’Oeuvre Inconnu by Balzac, and others. 60 min.

Friday-September 24-Voorhees Hall #105-7PM $10/$9/$8

Prayers For Peace – Dustin Grella
This beautiful short animation draws upon the filmmaker’s memory of his younger brother who was killed in the current conflict in Iraq. 2010; 8 min.


Chosin - Brian Iglesias
In the winter of 1950, 15,000 U.S. soldiers and marines, trapped and outnumbered, fought to save the lives of 98,000 refugees.  History books will tell you about the generals, the politicians, and the casualty counts from what came to be known as the Chosin Reservoir Campaign…but what was it like to be thrust into a combat described as more intense and terrifying than the horrors experienced by the Marines on Iwo Jima? After 60 years of silence, the survivors of Chosin remember one of the most savage and highly-decorated battles in American history. Emotionally-charged, visceral, and unrelenting, Chosin will leave you asking, “How can these brave soldiers have been forgotten?” 2010; 85 min. With an in-person appearance by director Brian Iglesias!

Sunday-September 26-Voorhees Hall #105-7PM $10/$9/$8

The Valley of Dawn - Adrienne Grierson
This fascinating short documentary film focuses on a group of believers in Brazil who assert that they originate from a planet called Capella.  Their glamorous robes are a means by which they maintain contact with their interplanetary spirit guides. Director Adrienne Grierson explores one of the least known and most colorful religions on earth. In English, Portuguese, Spanish and Italian, subtitled. 2010; 23 min. With an in-person appearance by director Adrienne Grierson!


Crossing Our Borders - Gladys Bensimon
Crossing Our Borders analyzes the history of both right-wing and left-wing dictatorships in Latin America, including Cuba under Fidel Castro, Argentina under Juan Peron, Peru under Alberto Fujimori, and Venezuela under Hugo Chavez. These messianic leaders from both the right and the left promised solutions to poverty, inequality, and crime plaguing their nations, but their true motive was, or still is, to remain in power for perpetuity. The film features the voices of leading Latin American experts and expatriates, along with eye-witness reports from news, political, and human right organizations to provide an inside view of the traumatic political history of Latin America.  2010; 55 min. With an in-person appearance by director Gladys Bensimon!

Friday-October 1-Voorhees Hall #105-7PM $10/$9/$8

Boundless - Stephen Kanaris
In this short documentary, a 35-year-old man with Down’s syndrome draws upon his limitless imagination and quest for independence to confront life's challenges head on. 2009; 17 min.


Calling My Children - David Binder
Through narrative, photographs, and profoundly moving letters, this superb film explores the challenges of single parenthood and confronts misconceptions about race, class, and disease. With AIDS as a subtext for this family’s story, the film began as a father’s attempt to heal his family after the death of his courageous young wife, Gail Farrow.  He and his children speak directly about their lives in the wake of her death, as the letters that she wrote to them before her passing figure strongly in the story. 2009; 36 min.


Fanny, Annie & Danny - Chris Brown
A dark comedy about the ties that simultaneously bind a trio of siblings and split them apart.  Fanny is a disabled 39-year-old living in a home for dependent adults. Her world starts to implode when the candy factory where she works goes bankrupt. The oldest of the three children, Fanny has long been a source of strain and resentment within her family. Her jittery sister Annie has spent her life taking care of her, while their successful but elusive brother Danny has thus far escaped responsibility. When the three siblings are forced by their mother to reunite for a holiday dinner, everyone's worst fears are realized.  “Packed with captivating performances...director Chris Brown brings a focus on characters and family dynamics that makes most holiday family squabbles look like a picnic.  Find it and seeit!” --Aaron Lafferty, NBC. 2010; 82 min. With an in-person appearance by director Chris Brown!

Sunday-October 3-Voorhees Hall #105-7PM $10/$9/$8

Insurgency of Ambition - Anya Belkina
In this animated short, the illusion of success lures a man to the threshold of glory only to unsheathe its true, frightening nature as he gets within reach. 2009; 8 min.


Virtual JFK: Vietnam, If Kennedy Had Lived - Koji Masutani
Virtual JFK is a compelling investigation of one of the most debated scenarios in American history:  What would have happened in Vietnam if President John F. Kennedy had not been assassinated? Structured like a detective story told through documents put into a time capsule, the film makes use of an impressive array of resources including recently declassified documents, audio tapes, photographic and archival material, and testimonies from Kennedy and Johnson administration officials. As the film examines Kennedy’s decision-making on issues of war and peace, it also serves as a case study of the ways in which American presidents have entered into covert wars. 2008; 85 min.

Saturday-October 9-Voorhees Hall #105-7PM $10/$9/$8

The Expos Five – Michael Goeller, Jessica Lipman, James Monahan and Jacob Rasor
This short documentary film follows five college freshmen as they take on the challenge of acing a notoriously difficult first-year writing course, Expository Writing. An illuminating take on the importance of the craft of writing for a generation of students growing up in an age of texting and emoticons. 2010; 35 min.With an in-person appearance by director Michael Goeller!


5...6...7...8 - Andy Milkis
Nova Jazz is an elite dance company with dancers ranging in age from 10 to 18, based out of the Pulse Performing Arts Studio, in Bedford Hills, NY. The film begins as a “year-in-the life” of the company, but quickly evolves into an intimate portrait of five key members. This delicately crafted documentary charts the story of each dancer as the year progresses, culminating in the triumph of their final performance together. 2009;  96 min. With an in-person appearance by director Andy Milkis!

Sunday-October 10-Voorhees Hall #105-7PM $10/
$9/$8

Fear Itself - William Wonders III
A short film about a state of dreadful uncertainty.  A year ago a pastor was shot in his own church. This is the first time he is returning to the pulpit. Only one thing is certain: that fear has a tight grip on him. 2010; 6 min. With an in-person appearance by director William Wonders III!


Delicious Peace Grows in a Ugandan Coffee Bean - Curt Fissel
Your morning cup of coffee comes to you as the end product of a vast global industry. This lively documentary tells the inspiring story of one coffee-farmer to illuminate the challenges faced by small coffee-growers around the world. The Delicious Peace Coffee Cooperative was started by a Ugandan coffee farmer who organized a group of Christian, Muslim and Jewish neighbors to challenge historical -- as well as economic and environmental -- hurdles and to enhance mutual economic development.  As the Delicious Peace coffee-growers band together, to improve their standard of living, they are spreading their messages of peace and fair trade to coffee customers in the US. 2010; 40 min. With an in-person appearance by director Curt Fissel!


Dreaming Mali – Barbara Kowa
If it is true that art can be a universal language, can artists from totally different worlds and cultural backgrounds work together?  In this enthralling documentary film, two visual and performing artists from Germany travel to remote villages in Mali – to co-create works of art with the villagers that fuse together traditional techniques of music, dance, singing, smelting ore, and blacksmithing.  The results are truly amazing, reflecting the harmonious blending of two cultural perspectives.  2010; 84 min. In Bambra and German, subtitled.

Thursday-October 14-Ruth Adams Building #001-6PM $10/$9$8

American Experimental Films                        
Discover a wide array of unique and unusual American experimental films from the 1960s through the 1990s.  Tonight’s program will feature films by Bruce Baillie, Storm de Hirsch, Hollis Frampton, Shirley Clarke, Robert Nelson, Victory Furniture and others. 80 min.

Friday-October 15-Voorhees Hall #105-7PM $10/$9/$8

Lights - Giulio Ricciarelli
Ashort comedy about a small town police officer who dreams of being a hero. As his peaceful village offers no opportunity for heroism, he decides to take matters in his own hands. He puts up a traffic light on a rarely - used bridge in the middle of nowhere - and the fight begins. 2009; 14 min.


Dvojka (Twosome) - Jaroslav Fuit
An intimate feature film from the Czech Republic about a couple who have come to a crossroad in their five-year relationship. While Michal is thinking about creating a family, Veronika feels that she has not yet experienced enough of life, pleasure, and freedom. Michal comes up with an idea: he will take Veronika on a mystery holiday to Scandinavia. However, from the beginning of their trip, everything is unsettled, and completely different than either had expected. When the couple meet a wanderer and petty thief named Simon they are tested in ways that require them to reflect on their lives together and apart. 2010; 89 min. In Czech, subtitled.

Sunday-October 17-Voorhees Hall #105-7PM $10/$9/$8

The Cycle – Roy Clovis
A short film about a tranquil urban neighborhood that unravels over the theft of a bicycle. Crystal owns a neighborhood bookstore in Brooklyn, and her eight-year-old daughter spends her summer afternoons riding her bike in front of the store.  When the bike is stolen, Crystal's decision to call the police is seen as a betrayal by some, while others choose to join the search. As the events unfold, underlying tensions caused by economic disparities begin to surface. Will the search for a child's bicycle unite this fragile community or ignite a conflict that could blow it apart? 2010; 18 min.

Honor In The Valley of Tears - Eric Dow
In their own words, and through the stories they narrate, this film tells the story of Congressional Medal of Honor recipient David H. McNerney and the soldiers of A-Company that he led in Vietnam in 1966-67. The bonds that they formed remain unbroken to this day. Their story begins with basic training in 1965 and continues 40 years later at their last reunion in September 2007. The highlight of the film is a detailed, first-hand account of their most intense combat on the late winter of 1967. 2010; 100 min. With in-person appearances by director Eric Dow and producer John Ponsoll!

Friday-October 22-Voorhees Hall #105-7PM $10/$9/$8

A Complex Villainelle - Bart OvaittNate Billington, Rebecca Forth and Ryan Porter
A short animation film in which Batman plays a small but decisive part.  Before the Penguin became the obsessive sad sack of his later years, he was a poet and a dandy, who threw lavish parties and was an expert at umbrella flight. Looking for love, he was introduced to a lovely nanny named Mary Poppins, who also preferred to travel by umbrella. Alas! The Penguin’s hopes for love were suddenly dashed by the arrival of a  mysterious stranger in a black cape! 2010; 8 min.


Overload - Robert Fritz
Overload is an engrossing feature film and an intriguingly modern murder mystery.  When Kate, a young disc jockey, finds her boyfriend Ted cheating on her, she leaves Boston for her mother's place in Vermont. There, she discovers that her problems with her mother haven't gone away, a conflict that is exacerbated by the arrival of her grandmother, who is experiencing problems with her memory. Once Kate meets a new guy named Hal, and her boyfriend Ted turns up dead, the complex intertwining of murder, romance, and family intrigue has to be unraveled. 2009; 106 min.

Sunday-October 24-Voorhees Hall #105-7PM $10/$9/$8

Undoctrinate – Scott Lazes
An illustration of a loss of faith. 2010; 1 min. With an in-person appearance by director Scott Lazes!


This Town - Randy Scott Slavin
Another day in the life of suburban teens except today they plot their escape in this music video. 2010; 4 min.With an in-person appearance by director Randy Scott Slavin!

About Falling – Nicholas Brown
A man suffering from depression is taken back when he meets a new woman at work. 2010; 9 min.


Dancing on the Moon - Jungho Park
Kate is renting a ballet studio and needs a way to pay the back rent. She starts to advertise her ballet class by dancing on the street, when she notices that her own posters are being covered over by audition announcements for Swan Lake.  ‘When she auditions for the part of the Swan, is she seeking revenge or redemption? 2010; 13 min. With an in-person appearance by director Jungho Park!


Cole Complex - Mike Wallach
Cole Grayson is a low-key hit man who begins taking an experimental drug that helps him tackle jobs he normally would not do. Eventually the perfect killer makes his first mistake. 2010;13 min. With in-person appearances by director Mike Wallach and producer Anthony DeRose!


The Angel to Help Me Sleep - Julius Kelly and Giancarlo Orellana
Eric DeLeo never did anything with his life. Although, he did leave a huge impact on his ex-girlfriend, Persephone Potter by getting her pregnant and then leaving her to raise their child alone. One night, Death comes to Eric's apartment and gives him a chance to fix a past mistake. 2010; 19 min. With in-person appearances by directors Julius Kelly and Giancarlo Orellana!


Land Without Shadows - Antoine Blanchet
After the death of her ex-boyfriend, Eponine decides to go back to the place of her memories, Coney Island. On a bench, she reads a letter full of love. Paul, a young photographer looking for new images seizes this moment and decides he has to get to know Eponine better. 2010; 16 min. With an in-person appearance by director Antoine Blanchet!


Zé - Julien Suaudeau
Who is that young soldier on the train? A veteran just back from Afghanistan or an ex-dealer? A boy from inner-city Paris or a Portuguese immigrant? A prizefighter or a construction worker? When the past catches up with him, he must make the toughest choice of his life: street justice and blood ties vs. freedom and an uncharted future. Ze is a new take on the story of the loner fighting against the odds for survival. In French, subtitled.  2010; 20 min.

Thursday-November 4-Ruth Adams Building #001-6PM $10/$9$8

Flaming Creatures - Jack Smith
Reviled, rioted over, and banned as pornography even as it was recognized as an unprecedented visionary masterpiece, Jack Smith's film is one of the most important and influential underground movies ever released in America. 1963; 43 min.

Films shown on Friday, Saturday or Sunday are part of the New Jersey Film Festival Competition and are either Area or New Jersey Premieres!

TIME

All film programs begin at 7:00 PM. Films are screened in the order listed with a brief intermission between films for double and multiple-bills.

LOCATIONS

Locations are indicated by the codes listed below. Directions are also listed below.

Voorhees Hall #105 (Near the corner of George Street and Hamilton Street),
71 Hamilton Street/College Avenue Campus, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey

NOTE: Our new primary screening location Voorhees Hall #105 features new comfortable seats, stadium seating, a state-of-the-art hi-definition projection and sound systems!

ADMISSION

$10=General; $9=Students+Seniors; $8=Rutgers Film Co-op/NJMAC Friends.

TICKETS

Tickets are available on a first come, first served basis only and can be purchased at the door beginning a half-hour before the show begins. All films are subject to change. Call our information number 732-932-8482 the day of show to confirm titles.

DIRECTIONS

Voorhees Hall #105=Take the NJ Turnpike to Exit 9 and then take Route 18N (New Brunswick direction) and go for 2 1/2 miles to the College Avenue Campus/George Street exit (immediately after the Route 27S exit) and make a left at the light at the end of the exit ramp onto George Street, then go to the next light and make a right onto Hamilton Street, then go to the next light and make a right onto College Avenue. Almost immediately on your right hand side there is an University Parking Lot (#9) which is made available for our patrons to park in. Voorhees Hall is adjacent to the Zimmerli Art Museum and is 100 paces across the Voorhees Mall from Parking Lot 9. Patrons can also park in Rutgers Lots #1 (next to Kirkpatrick Chapel) and #16 (next to Murray and Milledoler Hall).

Map and Directions are also here:
http://rumaps.rutgers.edu/?q=bnum:3013

Ruth Adams Bldg. #001= Take the NJ Turnpike to Exit 9 and then take Route 18N (New Brunswick direction-Local Lanes)  and go for approximately 1 mile and take the Commercial Avenue exit. Go up Commercial Ave to the 2nd light and make a left on George Street.  Then go about 100 yards and make a left into the service road (opposite Jones St. on the right) into the Douglass Campus and park in the University parking lot #69 at the end of the service road. Additional Parking is available on Jones Street and behind the Douglass Student Center near the corner of Nichol Avenue and George Street.

Map and Directions are also here: http://search.rutgers.edu/buildings.html?q=ruth%20adams

INFORMATION

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.
(732) 932-8482 phone (732) 932-1935 fax; NJMAC@aol.com   e-mail;
Web Site: www.njfilmfest.com

The New Jersey Film Festivalsm Fall 2010 is funded and sponsored in part by The Rutgers Film Co-op/New Jersey Media Arts Center; The Rutgers University Program in Cinema Studies/School of Arts and Sciences; Middlesex County Cultural and Heritage Commission/Board of Chosen Freeholders and the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts; Eastman Kodak; Johnson & Johnson; New Jersey Books; WCTC/WMGQ; The Home News Tribune; The Highland Park Mirror; The Rutgers University School of Arts and Sciences; the Rutgers University Office of Academic Engagement and Programming; The Rutgers University American Studies Department; Rutgers University School of Arts and Sciences Honors Program; Writers Boot Camp; Baseline/Film Tracker; Jungle Software; New Brunswick City Market; Showbiz Software; The Rutgers University Office of Community Affairs; Rutgers University Presentation Services; The Rutgers University Enhanced Classroom Support Department; Design Ideas; Advanced Printing; Steven C. Schechter, Esq.; Share and Harris.