Garden State Film Festival

Garden State Film Festival
LocationAsbury Park, New Jersey, U.S.
LanguageInternational
Websitehttp://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 Thomas Edison's Menlo Park laboratories, to Fort Lee, home to 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

References

  1. ^ a b c Gates, Anita (March 30, 2008). "A Film Festival That's Unabashedly Local". The New York Times – via NYTimes.com.
  2. ^ "Garden State Film Festival Moves to New Home [AUDIO]". 94.3 The Point.
  3. ^ "The Cranford Theater Joins the Garden State Film Festival". NewJerseyStage.com. 2021-01-08. Retrieved 30 June 2021.
  4. ^ "Irish famine movie and James Joyce documentary project to be shown in the US". IrishCentral.com. 2019-03-26. Retrieved 2020-10-07.
  5. ^ 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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