The Bergen County Film Commission in association with the Fort Lee Film Commission Presents:

Reel Jersey Film Festival: A Celebration of American Film Past, Present & Future.

September 25-28 at the Williams Center in Rutherford, NJ.

This newly established film festival will incorporate the existing Jersey Filmmakers of Tomorrow High School Student Film Festival as the future filmmakers element.  There will be a retrospective film element administered by the Fort Lee Film Commission under the guidance of film historian Richard Koszarski. Festival Director Christina Kotlar will also concentrate on securing present day filmmakers to attend the festival to screen / premiere their present day films.

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Reel Jersey Film Festival:  A Celebration of American Film Past, Present & Future

September 25-28 at the Williams Center, One Williams Plaza, Rutherford, NJ.

This festival is sponsored by the Bergen County Film Commission in association with the Fort Lee Film Commission.  The festival will incorporate as the future element the annual Jersey Filmmakers of Tomorrow Bergen County High School Student Film Festival.  This festival will also showcase films from present day filmmakers.  Among the films scheduled to screen at this festival is the Academy Award
winning documentary short film "Freeheld" produced in New Jersey. This festival will also showcase a full retrospective element curated by the Fort Lee Film Commission.  Work shops and symposiums will be held in addition to the screenings which will take place in the Williams Center and which will access all five screens as well as the 1923 Rivoli Theatre in the Williams Center.

2008 Jersey Filmmakers of
Tomorrow Entry Form

Entry forms are available on this website.  Entry form deadline is May 30, 2008 and all films must be submitted by the deadline of July 31, 2008.  Call (201) 693-2763 with any questions.

For further information please visit www.bergencountyfilmcommission.org or www.fortleefilm.org

The Bergen County Film Commission presents:

Bergen County Film Commission / Fort Lee Film Commission  
produced tribute reel to Alice Guy Blache.

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SAVE NEW JERSEY FILM

Help Save the Film Industry in the Garden State!

Governor Corzine has eliminated funding for the New Jersey State Film Commission starting July 1st 2008.  That means they will no longer exist.

Beginning June 30th, 2008, the Government of the State of New Jersey has decided to eliminate the New Jersey Motion Picture & Television Commission from the state budget.  Filming in the state of New Jersey generated $92 million dollars last year, money spent to employ New Jersey residents, as well as purchase goods and services from New Jersey businesses.

The Fort Lee Film Commission and the Bergen County FIlm Commission work closely with our colleagues at the state film commission and they have assisted us in bringing major film production to Bergen County over the years.  New Jersey is the birthplace of the American Film Industry.  Thomas Edison built and operated the first movie studio here in New Jersey.  Fort Lee was the first film town in America, the site where Universal Studios and Fox Films was born.  How can we as a state with this film history allow for the destruction of our state film commission, a commission responsible for bringing in millions of dollars of revenue and jobs to New Jersey each and every year?

Please visit this link to sign a online petition to save our state film commission:

http://www.savenewjerseyfilm.com/

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February 29th at 7:30pm
Women in Film Symposium at the Rivoli Theatre in the Williams Center Reel Jersey Film Festival / Jersey Filmmakers of Tomorrow Kickoff
Christina Kotlar of New York Women in Film & Television will moderate a panel of women filmmakers and film reviewers / film critics in a panel discussion on the role of women in film. Clips will be screened of films including those of the first women director in cinema history, Alice Guy Blache. Alice Guy Blache built and operated Solax Studio in Bergen County from 1912 through World War I.
Tickets are $7 at the box office.

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2008 Reel Jersey Film Festival /
Jersey Filmmakers of Tomorrow

Reel Jersey Film Festival: A Celebration of American Film Past, Present and Future

September 25-28 at the Williams Center for the Arts
One Williams Plaza
Rutherford, NJ  07070
(201) 693-2763

This festival will be formally announced at the February 29th, 2008 Reel Women in Film Symposium hosted by the Fort Lee Film Commission in Association with the Bergen County Film Commission at the Williams Center at 7:30pm.

Bergen County high school students can download applications on this site for the annual Jersey Filmmakers of Tomorrow Bergen County High School Student Film Festival.  Entry forms must be returned by the listed deadline.  Selected films will be screened at the September 25-28 Reel Jersey Film Festival at the Williams Center. Winners will be announced during the festival

Click here for the application in .PDF Format

Filmmakers from across the United States are encouraged to submit their films for the Reel Jersey Film Festival.  A "Best of the Fest" award will be announced during the September 25-28 festival.  Call (201) 693-2763 for further details.

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2008 ASIAN-AMERICAN FILM FESTIVAL

The Bergen County Film Commission, in association with the Fort Lee Film Commission, will screen the winning film from this festival at the Williams Center in Rutherford on April 24th at 7:30pm.  We will also screen, courtesy of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in New York, two additional films.  Tickets are $7 for this event and are available at the Williams Center box office on the night of the event.  For further information please call (201) 592-3663.
We thank our sponsor, imaginasiantv (www.iatv.tv).

Winner of 2008 Fort Lee Film Commission / Bergen County Film Commission Asian-American Film Festival Best in Show

Folklore Restaurant! by Tomoko Oguchi.

FOLKLORE RESTAURANT is a short classic-animation film. Characters are created from the special Japanese paper (washi) and sometimes appear over a background of original photographs of the aurora borealis. FOLKLORE RESTAURANT explores, in an aesthetically exceptional way, the strength of the fox tales originating from Native America, Finland, and Japan. It is both an educational and entertaining film.  http://www.tomokooguchi.com/synopsis.html

The Fort Lee FIlm Commission / Bergen County FIlm Commission thank our sponsors:

Tapei  Economic and Cultural Office in New York

Imaginasiantv

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Director’s Guild petitioned on behalf of Alice Guy Blache

The Bergen County Film Commission in association with the Fort Lee Film Commission is at work with other organizations across the United States to petition the Director's Guild of America to grant entry to Alice Guy Blache, the first woman film director in the history of world cinema.  Alice Guy Blache built, owned and operated Solax Studio on Lemoine Avenue in Fort Lee, NJ, from 1912 through World War I.  She is buried in Maryrest Cemetery in Bergen County, NJ.

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April Fool Comedy Classics 

The Fort Lee Film Commission in Association with the Bergen County Film Commission presents a month of April  Fools classic comedy films at at the Williams Center in Rutherford.  Tickets are $7 and 2 for 1 admission is available.

All programs start at 7:30 p.m.

April 3 - "Pardon My Sarong" (1942) starring New Jersey's own Bud Abbott & Lou Costello.  Bud & Lou appeared on the stage of the Rivoli Theatre where we will screen this classic A&C film.

April 10 - "Sons of the Desert" (1933) starring Stan Laurel & Oliver Hardy.  This wonderful Hal Roach comedy features the boys on an adventure away from home and their wives.

April 17 - "A Night at the Opera" (1935) starring the Marx Brothers.  Join the brothers Marx in one of their most greatest films.  The Marx Brothers first film "Humor Risk" was shot in Fort Lee, NJ (right here in Bergen County) in 1921.  

These screenings will take place in The Rivoli Theatre of the Williams Center.  One Williams Plaza, Rutherford, NJ .  Call (201) 939-6969 or (201) 693-2763 for details or visit www.bergencountyfilmcommission.org or www.fortleefilm.org.

Bergenfield Film Festival Coalition

                                                    http://bergenfieldfilmfestival.org