Reel Jersey Girls: A Century of Women Filmmakers
Reel Jersey Girls: A Century of Women Filmmakers symposium reflects on Alice Guy Blache's innovations and achievements as it fits in with the present day potential and opportunity for women filmmakers. Emerging at the end of the nineteenth century, it wasn’t
Backstage Pass
Listen in on the exposition and experience the denouement as Backstage Pass hosts Christina Kotlar, film festival maven & visual media geek and Yuri Turchyn, jazz musician & sound sculptor, travel to music events and festivals, checking out the music scene as it
Alice Guy Blache
Alice Guy Blache was the first woman film director and a film director for twenty-eight years. She accomplished things no one was doing at the time– special effects, super imposition, synchronized sound, colorization, cut mattes on film, developing fiction films as a narrative at a time when it did not exist. In 1912, women didn’t
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Montclair Film Festival Vanity Project for Yorkies
Montclair Film Festival has become a vanity project of Bob Feinberg, Vice President of WNET, the public television conglomerate that Governor Christie sold out to this year eliminating a New Jersey entity (NJTV) and putting its control into the hands of New Yorkers (Yorkies).
Rob from HP Productions gave distribution deals to filmmakers
Back in the day [...]
One Hundred Years for Universal Studios
In the beginning…there was Fort Lee, New Jersey. Situated on the top of the Palisades cliffs, it was a natural fortress during the Revolutionary War, and where, in the start of the 1900s, the early cinema revolution rooted and shot up in and all around the New York/New Jersey landscape.
One of the first cinema pioneers [...]
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