JSFF 2008 Awards
JERSEY SHORE FILM FESTIVAL 2008 JURY AWARDS FEATURE
The Renee & Izzy Shamah Special Jury Award
BEST FEATURE FILM
Calling It Quits
Director: Anthony Tarsitano
2ND PLACE FEATURE FILM
Wherever You Are
Director: Rob Margolies 3RD Place FEATURE FILM
Divergence
Director: Patrick Donnelly SHORT
BEST SHORT FILM
Graduation Day
Director: Andrew Gallery
2ND PLACE SHORT FILM
Stato Di Grazia
Director: Valerio Esposito 3RD PLACE SHORT FILM
Paper Angels
Directors: AJ Ingoglia, Bob O'Reilly SHORT SHORT
BEST SHORT SHORT
Crema Suprema
Director: Ellenora Ventura
2ND PLACE SHORT SHORT
The Cave: An Adaptation of Plato's Allegory in Clay
Director: Michael Ramsey 3RD PLACE SHORT SHORT
The 2 Sons and Their Crogzookles
Director: Dale Ward HONORABLE MENTION SHORT SHORT
Uh Oh
Director: George Fearns JERSEY SHORE FILM FESTIVAL 2008 AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARDS BEST FEATURE FILM
Wherever You Are
Director: Rob Margolies
BEST SHORT FILM
Graduation Day
Director: Andrew Gallery
BEST SHORT SHORT FILM
Crema Suprema
Director: Ellenora Ventura Featured Film
Arranged
Director: Diane Crespo, Stefan C. Schaefer
Comedy/Drama, USA, 2007, 90 min
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Winner Best Film Brooklyn Int'l Film Festival and Winner of best film in Washington Jewish Film Festival
Arranged centers on the friendship between an Orthodox Jewish woman and a Muslim woman who meet as first-year teachers at a public school in Brooklyn. Over the course of the year they learn they share much in common - not least of which is that they are both going through the process of arranged marriages.
Rochel and Nasira both live at home and share their frustrations about the matchmaking efforts by their parents. Rochel and Nasira willingly participate in the matchmaking process, but each struggles to make her preference heard.
The proud women of Arranged delightfully combine loyalty to tradition with a contemporary friendship based on more shared values than differences.
| Axelrod Theatre at JCC | | Sun, 7/20 at 3:00pm | | $10.00 | This Showing Has Passed | | Events/Shorts: |  The 2 Sons and Their Crogzookles at 3:00pm – The Battle of the Brains! Who will win? Left brain? Right brain? | | | Feature Film: | Arranged at 3:03pm | |
| | Axelrod Theatre at JCC | | Thu, 7/24 at 8:45pm | | $10.00 | This Showing Has Passed | | Events/Shorts: | The 2 Sons and Their Crogzookles at 8:45pm – The Battle of the Brains! Who will win? Left brain? Right brain? | | | | Out of Service at 8:48pm – A wheelchair-bound paraplegic struggles to find a way upstairs when the elevator in his apartment building breaks down. This is a thought provoking film, which poses an ethical challenge. (Student Film)
| | Feature Film: | Arranged at 8:55pm | |
| | Axelrod Theatre at JCC | | Sat, 8/2 at 9:40pm | | $10.00 | This Showing Has Passed | | Feature Film: | Arranged at 9:40pm | |
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