Jersey Shore Film Festival 2011
JERSEY SHORE FILM FESTIVAL 2011 JURY AWARDS FEATURES BEST FEATURE FILM The Mulberry Tree Mark Heller JERSEY'S BEST FEATURE Love Chaos at the Jersey Shore Thomas Bentey BEST FEATURE COMEDY When Harry Tries To Marry Nayan Padrai BEST FEATURE DOCUMENTARY Only A Number Steven Besserman BEST EDUCATIONAL FEATURE DOCUMENTARY Prison Through Tomorrow’s Eyes Paul Sutton BEST HISTORIC FEATURE DOCUMENTARY In The Footsteps of Willie Sutton Richard Gold BEST OF THE BEST DOCUMENTARY 7 Years Underground: A 60’s Tale Jason M. Solomon BEST ENVIORONMENTALLY FRIENDLY FEATURE Redneck Roots Joanne Hock GUNS OR ROSES COMPETITION Shoot George Adam Nadler REMASTERED CLASSIC AWARD Many Masterpieces Become One: “The General” with music by Scott Joplin Eric Grob ROOKIE FILMMAKER OF THE YEAR Michael Altino Parker and the Box SHORTS BEST SHORT FILM Out of Focus Jim Cocoliato JERSEY'S BEST SHORT Only Way Out David Daudelin
BEST SHORT COMEDY The Ballad of Sandeep Derek Frey
BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY Recovering the Anchor from the Stolt Dagali Maureen Langevin
BEST FOREIGN SHORT Renascence Delia Solari
BEST ENVIORONMENTALLY FRIENDLY SHORT What’s Up? Kim Sheridan
BEST SHORT DRAMA Day of Grace DK Bowser
BEST ANIMATION Miscast Bryan Moses BEST EXPERIMENTAL The Tolltaker Steve Janas
BEST LOW BUDGET SHORT Don’t Shoot Michael P. Russin EAST COAST / WEST COAST COMPETITION The Josh Condition Jyrki Rantasuo SHORT SHORTS
BEST SHORT-SHORT Your Adoring Public Rachel Carey
BEST LOW BUDGET SHORT–SHORT Oh Sister Susan Hippen
BEST MUSIC VIDEO Bring ‘em Home Kyle Mumford
BEST MUSIC VIDEO 2nd Place Don’t Wake Me Up Lydia Galeno
HONORABLE MENTION SHORTS Club Scene: The Bartender- Adriano Valentini Free Man- Katie Rotondi In Memoriam- Cynthia Granville Mack- Ben Kadie Osteo- Genevieve Gilbert-Quach Ripple Plains- Elmer Atkinson JERSEY SHORE FILM FESTIVAL 2011 AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARDS
BEST FEATURE FILM
Love Chaos at the Jersey Shore Thomas Bentey BEST SHORT FILM The Tolltaker Steve Janas
Featured Film
Incendies
Director: Denis Villeneuve
Drama/ Mystery, Canada/France, 130 min
French/ Arabic with English Subtitles
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Academy Award Nominee, Best Foreign Film
2011 Sundance Film Festival selection
When Jeanne and Simon are read their mother's will, the twins are stunned to receive a pair of envelopes – one for the father they thought was dead and another for a brother they didn’t know existed. With this inheritance, Jeanne immediately decides to go to the Middle East to dig into the family’s history. Simon initially unmoved, soon joins her in combing their ancestral homeland in search of a mother who is very different from the mother they knew. The siblings piece together the story of the woman who brought them into the world, discovering a tragic fate and their mother’s courage. An adaptation of Wajdi Mouawad’s hit play, Incendies is a deeply moving story that brings the extremism and violence of today’s world to a starkly personal level, delivering a powerful and poetic testament to the uncanny power of the will to survive.
| Axelrod Performing Arts Center - Deal Park | | Sun, 7/31 at 8:30pm | | $10.00 | This Showing Has Passed | | Feature Film: | Incendies at 8:30pm | |
| | Axelrod Performing Arts Center - Deal Park | | Mon, 8/1 at 7:00pm | | $10.00 | This Showing Has Passed | | Feature Film: | Incendies at 7:00pm | |
| | Axelrod Performing Arts Center - Deal Park | | Sat, 8/6 at 9:30pm | | $10.00 | This Showing Has Passed | | Feature Film: | Incendies at 9:30pm | |
In a Better World
Director: Susanne Bier
Drama/Thriller, Denmark, 113 min
Danish/ Swedish/ Arabic with English Subtitles
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Academy Award Winner, Best Foreign Film
Golden Globe Award Winner, Best Foreign Film
Anton is a doctor who commutes between his home in an idyllic town in Denmark and his work at an African refugee camp. In these two very different worlds he and his family are faced with conflicts that lead them to difficult choices between revenge and forgiveness. Anton and his wife, who have two young sons, are separated and struggling with the possibility of divorce. Their older, ten-year-old son Elias is being bullied at school, until he is defended by Christian, a new boy who has just moved from London. Elias and Christian quickly form a strong bond, but when Christian involves Elias in a dangerous act of revenge with potentially tragic consequences, their friendship is tested and lives are put in danger. Ultimately, it is their parents who are left to help them come to terms with the complexity of human emotions, pain and empathy.
| Axelrod Performing Arts Center - Deal Park | | Thu, 7/28 at 6:30pm | | $26.00 | This Showing Has Passed | | Events/Shorts: | GALA OPENING NIGHT-Cocktails & Light Dinner Reception at 6:30pm – Our Gala opening night will feature the Academy Award and Golden Globe Award winner for best foreign film, “In a Better World.” | | | Feature Film: | In a Better World at 8:00pm | |
| | Axelrod Performing Arts Center - Deal Park | | Sat, 7/30 at 9:45pm | | $10.00 | This Showing Has Passed | | Feature Film: | In a Better World at 9:45pm | |
| | Axelrod Performing Arts Center - Deal Park | | Tue, 8/2 at 8:00pm | | $10.00 | This Showing Has Passed | | Feature Film: | In a Better World at 8:00pm | |
The Mulberry Tree
Director: Mark Heller
Drama, USA, 88 min
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The Mulberry Tree finds three characters at the crossroads of their faltering lives, who through their complex and sometimes unlikely relationships, find self worth, personal redemption and the lost ability to love, amongst the painful and dysfunctional damage of their own past tragedies. While fulfilling his court-ordered community service in the state hospital, Mickey Loren meets Samuel Freeman, a convicted murderer dying of AIDS, whose remaining days on “hospital detail” give him the opportunity for redemption through conversations with Mickey about their own family issues.
| JCC Film Salon - Deal Park | | Wed, 8/3 at 7:45pm | | $10.00 | This Showing Has Passed | | Feature Film: | The Mulberry Tree at 7:45pm | |
Only A Number
Director: Steven Besserman
Documentary, USA, 64 min
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Aranka is a Holocaust survivor who has dementia. Many years before this insidious disease began to eat away at her memory, she documented her experiences and the horrors she endured at the hands of the Nazis. Aranka met Josef in a concentration camp, separated by a barbed wire fence and without the aid of a common language. They fell in love and gave each other the strength and will to survive. Their story is told through a journey of rediscovery, taking the viewer to the ghettos, concentration camps and slave-labor factories as they are today, unearthing the horrendous occurrences long-since buried there. What lies within the tangles of Aranka's memory, lies beneath the surface of these places that time may have changed, but can never erase. Aranka's words serve as a testament to the horrific circumstances of her personal experience and tell a true story of the struggle to survive, to love and to remember.
| Axelrod Performing Arts Center - Deal Park | | Wed, 8/3 at 5:00pm | | $10.00 | This Showing Has Passed | | Events/Shorts: | Mack at 5:00pm – 'Mack' tells the story of a painter with an ambition tragically larger than his talent. Inspired by Macbeth, the film's 15-year-old writer/director worked with a cast of fellow high-schoolers to capture the suspense, violence, comic relief, and drama of a Shakespearean tale. | | | Feature Film: | Only A Number at 5:23pm | |
| | Axelrod Performing Arts Center - Deal Park | | Sun, 8/7 at 7:00pm | | $10.00 | This Showing Has Passed | | Events/Shorts: | Mack at 7:00pm – 'Mack' tells the story of a painter with an ambition tragically larger than his talent. Inspired by Macbeth, the film's 15-year-old writer/director worked with a cast of fellow high-schoolers to capture the suspense, violence, comic relief, and drama of a Shakespearean tale. | | | Feature Film: | Only A Number at 7:23pm | |
Winston Churchill:Walking With Destiny
Director: Richard Trank
Documentary, USA, 102 min
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New Jersey Premiere
Narrated by Sir Ben Kingsley, this polished production from the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Moriah Films Division is a meticulous portrait of former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and his special bond with the Jewish people. Oscar-winning director Richard Trank focuses on the months between Churchill’s ascent to power and early 1942, as he inspired and united Great Britain during its fight against Nazi Germany. Emerging from years of isolation in the political wilderness, Churchill was a lone voice in early opposition to Hitler. Extensive archival footage and rare audio recordings document Churchill’s efforts to publicize the plight of Europe’s Jews and later support Jewish nationalist aspirations in Palestine. This film’s impressive roster of interviewees includes leading British historian John Lukacs, Churchill’s official biographer Sir Martin Gilbert, and Churchill’s grandchildren. Winston Churchill:Walking With Destiny offers a distinctly Jewish perspective on one of history’s most eminent figures.
| Axelrod Performing Arts Center - Deal Park | | Tue, 8/2 at 2:00pm | | $10.00 | This Showing Has Passed | | Feature Film: | Winston Churchill:Walking With Destiny at 2:00pm | |
| | Axelrod Performing Arts Center - Deal Park | | Sun, 8/7 at 3:15pm | | $10.00 | This Showing Has Passed | | Feature Film: | Winston Churchill:Walking With Destiny at 3:15pm | |
Bradley Beach...Before Deal
Director: Stevie Doueck, John Brunetti
Documentary, USA, 50 min
A light-hearted look back to a simpler time, to the San Bar and popsicle stick games, to penny arcades and Friday nights on the boardwalk. This documentary follows the journey of friends, living in the Syrian Sephardic Community over an eighty-year period, as they forge life long lasting friendships while spending their summer vacations along the Jersey Shore in Bradley Beach, New Jersey. The film explores the possible reasons why their summer get-togethers in the quaint town of Bradley Beach might have contributed to sustaining these lasting relationships.
| Axelrod Performing Arts Center - Deal Park | | Sun, 8/7 at 8:45pm | | $18.00 | This Showing Has Passed | | Feature Film: | Bradley Beach...Before Deal at 8:45pm | |
| | Axelrod Performing Arts Center - Deal Park | | Sun, 8/7 at 10:00pm | | $18.00 | This Showing Has Passed | | Feature Film: | Bradley Beach...Before Deal at 10:00pm | |
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