The Black Maria Film + Video Festival seeks diverse, expressive, and passionate short films and videos by independent makers. The Festival is named after Thomas Edison’s motion picture studio, and is known for its support of spirited, cutting edge, and otherwise singular film and video. The Black Maria is committed to works that explore the potential of the medium to illuminate, provoke, enrich, and engage viewers. Imaginative and revelatory films and videos which provide insight into the human condition and political, social, and environmental issues, as well as the lives of people with disabilities, or which investigate the aesthetic potential and eschew obvious conventions of the medium are also sought by the festival. The Black Maria Film + Video Festival is generously supported by The Charles Edison Fund, New Jersey City University, New Jersey Network – NJN (in kind), New Jersey State Council on the Arts, NFL Films (in kind), The William H. Donner Foundation, Inc.
Last season's jurors were:
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•William Brand - Professor of Film / Photography, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA
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•Sabrina Schmidt Gordon - Independent Documentary Filmmaker, New York, NY
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•Mary Kerr - Executive Director, The Robert Flaherty Film Seminar, New York, NY
The Festival tours to over 65 museums, colleges, libraries and community organziations throughout the U.S.
Please check back in early July 2011 when our “Call For Entries” will once again commence for the 31st Black Maria Film + Video Festival.
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