Cape May NJ State Film Festival

New River

A Musical Family History Tour
Zane & Hugh Campbell document the lives of their musical family with strong roots in early Country and Bluegrass music — featuring a live performance by the brothers.

Aunt Ola Belle created such bluegrass hits as “High on a Mountain,” which earned her a gold record, and “I’ve Endured.” Uncle Guy Brooks was credited with writing the first trucker song, “Wreck on the Mountain Road.” Uncle Hub wrote “Don’t You Call My Name” which has been recorded by several noted bluegrass artists.

Brothers Zane and Hugh have been active in the music industry as well. Hugh’s song “Shape of a Tear” was nominated for 2003 Song of the Year by the International Bluegrass Music Association. Zane’s “Post-Mortem Bar” was in the film “Longtime Companion,” which was the first American film about HIV/AIDS. Zane’s music was also the soundtrack for the film, “Bittercress,” which has been in several film festivals (including the 2007 Cannes Film Festival Short Film Program) and on cable television.

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Indescribable Nth

Disney veteran animator/director Steve Moore (who has worked on The Nightmare Before Christmas, The Brave Little Toaster, Robots, and other modern classics) tells the story of how a boy with his heart in a snow globe finds love.

Rimalev, The Seventh House

Will Kahane and a group of Holocaust survivors journey to the Ukraine to attend a memorial at a mass gravesite, but local priests have their own ideas on how the service should be conducted.

Letting Go

This film, produced at the request of Steven Spielberg’s reality TV show, “On the Lot,” tells the story of a nine year old who decides to put away his blanky and a father who’s finding it difficult. Critics have called this film “a mini-masterpiece.”

Juggling Life

Lou De Lauro is an award-winning teacher and other dedicated instructors on a mission to make a difference through the New Jersey Is Beautiful Juggling Program!

Indian Summer

Sam Garrison, an elderly widower whiling away his days in mourning at his home on the New Jersey shore, ventures out on a bright Fall day and meets a spirited widow who shows him there’s still a lot of life left to be lived.

Going Home

As a troubled young man walks home from school a chance meeting shows him that there are many ways to reach his destination

Sam's World

"SAM'S WORLD" is a screen dance that celebrates the color-saturated collages of renowned artist/humanist, Sam Maitin. Dancers both interact with individual Maitin shapes and find themselves embedded inside the art as they PLAY, JOURNEY through life, and FLY through time.

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