The New Jersey International Film Festival will rely on the internet for its 26th anniversary season, with the planned online posting of 24 films over a two-week period starting Friday, June 4.
Presented by the Rutgers Film Co-op/New Jersey Media Arts Center in association with the Rutgers University Program in Cinema Studies, the showcase of new international films, American independent features, experimental and short subjects, classic revivals and documentaries was scheduled to take place at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, but because of COVID-19 the campus will not hosting any public events this summer.
The films were selected by a panel of media professionals, journalists, students and academics from more than 540 submissions. They will be scheduled for posting Fridays through Sundays from June 4-13 on Eventive and each will be available for on-demand viewing for 24 hours. There also will be filmmaker introductions and question-and-answer sessions available for many of the films.
Among the highlights this weekend:
- The festival will open Friday, June 4, with “Bone Cage,” a 2020 full-length feature by Canadian filmmaker Taylor Olsen about a wood processor who tries to rescue the animals displaced or injured by his work. The screening will be paired with “First Light,” an animated short by Amy Lee Ketchum of Philadelphia.
- A grouping of short documentary films to be posted on Saturday, June 5, will include Marquise Mays’s “The Heartland,” which focuses on the joys and trials of growing up Black in the Midwest; Matteo Moretti’s 14-minute “Just Being Here,” about a man who finds solace and wonder in the nature of his backyard; Anna Prokou’s “Emily, ilaw ng tahahan,” a 19-minute experimental work about a young Filipina singer in Doha, Qatar; and Gosia Juszczak’s 30-minute “Stolen Fish,” on Gambia’s fishmeal industry co-opted by Chinese corporations.
- Luc Quelin’s full-length feature “Who the f... is Roger Rossmeisl” on “one of the most overlooked great guitar makers of all time” also will be posted on Saturday.
- Stephanie Schwiederek’s 56-minute “Leave Nothing,” scheduled for Sunday, June 6, has a strong Jersey connection: It a portrait of the Somerville filmmaker’s immigrant mother, who moved to America from Czechoslovakia and lived in a motel for 13 years.
The complete schedule can be found online.
Tickets are $12 per film or $75 for an all-access pass. For more information, visit watch.eventive.org/newjerseyinternationalfilmfestival2021.
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