Best Filmmaker- Feature Film- AMY GLAZER- Seducing Charlie Barker
Best Filmmaker- Short Film- JAY RODRIGUEZ- Change
FEATURE Best Feature Film– THE INFIDEL- Josh Appignanesi Jersey’s Best Feature Film– SNEAKERS & SOUL- Jonathan Zelenak Best Feature Documentary– KILLING KASZTNER- Gaylen Ross Best Foreign Feature Documentary– MAL’OCCHIO- Agata De Santis Best Environmentally Friendly Feature– EARTHWORK- Chris Ordal Best East Coast West Coast Face Off Feature- BUZZKILL- Steven Kampmann
SHORT Best Short Film– CHANGE- Jay Rodriguez 2nd Place– ANIMAL DRILL- Patrick Murphy 3rd Place– POETRY MAN- James McSherry Honorable Mention– LANDLOCKED - Jerry Melichar Jersey's Best - SHORT Jersey’s Best Short– WEEQUAHIC- Jamie Ruddy 2nd Place– THE OTHER SIDE OF TOMORROW- Joseph Pernice 3rd Place– JIMMY TIME- Joe Bandelli Honorable Mention– PROOF OF LOVE- Boris Polonsky Special Category - SHORT Best Guns or Roses- ALIENATED- Paul Borghese Best Low Budget– LOVE IS DEAf- Paul Haber Best Surf Video– BORN TO THE SEA- Steve Coleman Best Silent- IN MEMORIAM- Paul Taylor Best East Coast/West Coast Face-Off– SHOP SECRET- Danny Prussman Best Comedy– ME, MYSELF & YOUR HUSBAND- Susan Hippen Best Sci-Fi/Horror– THE SCIENTIST- Matt Miller Best Experimental- ONLY ONE BOSS- Ellen Brodsky Student Film -SHORT Best Student Short- PORTRAIT- Ryan Halasz 2nd Place- BACKYARD- Alex Megaro
SHORT SHORT Best Short Short- LIFESTYLE FOR MEN- Boris Kozlov 2nd Place Short Short- RONNIE GOLD’S FIGHT TEAM- Louis Iacoviello, Vaughn Verdi ANIMATION FATHER & SISTER- Soyeon Kim
MUSIC VIDEO
SWITCH HIT RESISTOR- Adam Sztykiel
JERSEY SHORE FILM FESTIVAL 2010 AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARDS
FEATURE Best Feature Film- NOODLE- Ayelet Menahemi 2nd Place Feature Film- A MATTER OF SIZE- Sharon Maymon, Erez Tadmor
SHORT Best Short Film- ONLY ONE BOSS- Ellen Brodsky 2nd Place Short Film- CHANGE- Jay Rodriguez
Meet Mahmud Nasir, something of a “relaxed” Muslim, but in his heart he is as Muslim as it gets. After his mother’s death a discovery turns Mahmud’s world upside down. He finds his birth certificate which reveals that not only was he adopted at birth…but he’s Jewish, and his real name is Solly Shimshillewitz! As Mahmud tumbles headlong into a full scale identity crisis, a true comedy of religious errors unfold.
– An ordinary government servant sends out information to the town people through his voice and beats of a drum. Many believe that God lives in his voice and that he speaks only the truth.
– Meet & greet the filmmakers while enjoying cocktails, light dinner & dessert. Presentation of Best Filmmaker Award followed by a screening of shorts and the New Jersey Premiere of "The Infidel".
– An ordinary government servant sends out information to the town people through his voice and beats of a drum. Many believe that God lives in his voice and that he speaks only the truth.
– “Alienated”, starring Vincent Pastore (The Sopranos) and Louis Vanaria (A Bronx Tale) is a short film about a hit man (Pastore) and his fear of extraterrestrial entities interfering in his personal life.
– A Scientist crosses to a parallel universe where his lost love is still alive. The Scientist must face why he lost her before and why he may not be worthy of having her again.
SEDUCING CHARLIE BARKER Director: Amy Glazer
Dramedy, USA, 93 min
In this dark satire of the Manhattan entertainment industry, Charlie, a gifted actor, out of work and past his prime, attempts to cling to what remains of his dignity as a person, an artist and a husband. That is until, through his old friend-turned-nemesis, he encounters the ambitious and manipulative Clea. Though their relationship is short-lived, Charlie is left even more adrift as he struggles to find meaning in his life. “Seducing Charlie Barker” is a ferocious contemporary comedy about an out of work actor and the surreal contradictions of show business.
– Rattlesnake hunting isn't just a way to keep residents, and their valuable cattle, from getting bitten, it's a way to keep the old West from being forgotten.
– Wanting to fulfill his mothers last wish, Robert goes on a desperate search to find a girlfriend...Or at least someone who will pretend to be. (Student Film)
– Movie and a Martini Monday powered by Jett Vodka and Blue Angel Vodka @ Restaurant Plan B & The Showroom
5:00 pm - Dinner at Restaurant Plan B, 705 Cookman Avenue, Asbury Park (across the street from The Showroom). Includes 3 Course Dinner for $25.00 (tax & gratuity included) plus “FREE” Martinis
7:00 pm - Shorts and Feature Film,
"Seducing Charlie Barker" $10.00
– A Scientist crosses to a parallel universe where his lost love is still alive. The Scientist must face why he lost her before and why he may not be worthy of having her again.
NOODLE Director: Ayelet Menahemi
Drama, Israel, 90 min Hebrew and Mandarin w/ English subtitles View Trailer
Winner Special Jury Grand Prize Montréal World Film Festival
At thirty-seven, Miri is a twice-widowed, El Al flight attendant. Her well-regulated existence is suddenly turned upside down by an abandoned Chinese boy whose migrant-worker mother has been summarily deported from Israel.
This film is a touching comic-drama in which two human beings, as different from each other as Tel Aviv is from Beijing, accompany each other on a remarkable journey, one that takes them both back to a meaningful life.
– Rattlesnake hunting isn't just a way to keep residents, and their valuable cattle, from getting bitten, it's a way to keep the old West from being forgotten.
– Designing custom boards is an art. JP and Andrea build a new unique surfboard for a mix of eclectic and celebrity clients that will inspire human interest.
– After responding to some poorly addressed mail with a written complaint, Quentin Samuels soon finds his routine lifestyle unraveling before him…..
Feature Film:
NOODLE at 9:43pm
A MATTER OF SIZE Director: Sharon Maymon, Erez Tadmor
Comedy/Drama, France, Germany, Israel, USA, UK, 2010, 92 min Hebrew and Japanese w/English subtitles View Trailer
Winner of Three Awards from the Israeli Film Academy
Herzl and his three overweight Israeli friends are fed up with dieting. He has been struggling with his weight since he was a young boy. Through his employer, Kitano, a former Japanese Sumo coach, Herzl and his friends fall in love with Sumo wrestling, a sport involving "two fatsos in diapers with girly hairdos". However, Hertzl’s dedication to this demanding men-only sport threatens his budding relationship with Zehava. “A Matter of Size” is a comedy about a ‘coming out’ of a different sort - overweight people learning to accept themselves.
– “Change” is a film reflecting on the young and deprived individuals. Becoming a product of their environment is an all too common experience but it's not something that is etched in stone.
– Ten challenged young women from New Jersey State's system-of-care, go on a privately funded 'Dream Camp' trip of a lifetime. (Student Film)
Feature Film:
A MATTER OF SIZE at 8:35pm
KILLING KASZTNER Director: Gaylen Ross
Documentary, USA, 120 min Hebrew and English w/ English subtitles
HERO OR TRAITOR?
Rezso Kasztner, known as the Jewish Schindler, negotiated face to face with Adolf Eichmann, rescuing 1700 Jews on a train to Switzerland, and may have saved tens of thousands more lives. Yet
Kasztner was condemned as a traitor in his adopted country of Israel; accused as a collaborator in a trial and verdict that divided a nation and forever stamped him as the "man who sold his soul to the devil." It was a verdict overturned by Israel's Supreme Court but too late for Kasztner. He was
ultimately assassinated by Jewish right wing extremists in Tel Aviv in 1957.
Director Gaylen Ross investigates this tale of murder, intrigue, and heroism through accounts of the inflammatory political trial, startling Revelations after 50 years by Kasztner's assassin, Ze'ev Eckstein, and a chilling meeting between the killer and Kasztner's daughter, Zsuzsi.
– A pair of three-year old friends raise questions about relationships and power. “Only One Boss” proves that everything we know about conflict we learned in pre-school.
– A pair of three-year old friends raise questions about relationships and power. “Only One Boss” proves that everything we know about conflict we learned in pre-school.
Filmmaker Agata De Santis sets out on a quest to uncover the world of Mal'occhio
(‘the evil eye’). We are introduced to a world where one can become physically ill by another’s envious glances. It is a world where the only remedy for prevention is a phone call to the old woman down the street who prescribes wearing strange-looking amulets and gazing into a bowl of olive oil and water. What happens when you realize that your family is part of a global superstition that is neither spoken about openly nor even referred to by name?
– Wanting to fulfill his mothers last wish, Robert goes on a desperate search to find a girlfriend...Or at least someone who will pretend to be. (Student Film)
– This film is not just about stunning stained glass or the prodigious artist, Henri Thomas Bosdet, who made it; it's a story about a disappearing culture and a man fighting against prejudice and personal tragedy to establish his place in the world.