Garden State Film Festival
| Location | Asbury Park, New Jersey, U.S. |
|---|---|
| Language | International |
| Website | http://www.gsff.org |
The Garden State Film Festival is a film festival in the United States held in Asbury Park and Cranford, New Jersey. which debuts more than 200 independent films annually over four days each spring.[1][2]
The festival was founded in 2002 in Sea Girt, New Jersey by Diane Raver and Hollywood actor Robert Pastorelli.[1] Pastorelli and Raver mounted the first festival in 2003. As of 2017, the executive director is Lauren Concar Sheehy.[3]
The festival pays tribute to Jersey's legacy as the birthplace of the American filmmaking in
America's first motion picture industry, and participants frequently include a New Jersey tie.[1][4] The festival is one of Asbury Park's major cultural and economic forces.[5]
In 2021, the festival began including screenings at the
century-old Cranford movie theater in Cranford, New Jersey
.
See also
- Television and film in New Jersey
- List of film festivals in New Jersey
- New Jersey Motion Picture and Television Commission
References
- ^ a b c Gates, Anita (March 30, 2008). "A Film Festival That's Unabashedly Local". The New York Times – via NYTimes.com.
- ^ "Garden State Film Festival Moves to New Home [AUDIO]". 94.3 The Point.
- ^ "The Cranford Theater Joins the Garden State Film Festival". NewJerseyStage.com. 2021-01-08. Retrieved 30 June 2021.
- ^ "Irish famine movie and James Joyce documentary project to be shown in the US". IrishCentral.com. 2019-03-26. Retrieved 2020-10-07.
- ^ Community, Hunter Hulbert- (2020-03-24). "2020 Garden State Film Festival to launch four-day digital streaming event featuring over 240 films". Jersey's Best. Retrieved 2020-10-07.
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