(NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ) The 41st Bi-Annual New Jersey Film Festival will take place on select Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays between January 27-February 19, 2023. The Festival will be a hybrid one as they will be presenting it online as well as doing in-person screenings at Rutgers University. All the films will be available virtually via Video on Demand for 24 hours on their show date. From documentaries to shorts to narrative and experimental films, the festival has something for everyone. Here is a preview of the festival.
The Woods Hole Film Festival continues its 2021 virtual season series with the shorts program âFamily Voices,â Thursday, March 4, through Sunday, March 7. âFamily Voicesâ is a program of short films presented in collaboration with the Woods Hole Diversity Initiative and its 2021 Black History Month events. The program will feature six short films by up-and-coming filmmakers. âFamily Voicesâ offers snapshots of family life through the eyes of Black parents and children in recognition of the 2021 Black History Month theme: The Black Family: Representation, Identity, and Diversity. The festival will host a live online line question and answer session with the filmmakers on Saturday, March 6, at 7 PM.
A Desire for Consistency (and Sanitizing) Led to Love
Sonya Keshwani and Sahil Navodia’s relationship began on a seesaw. They soon started supporting each other in other ways.
Credit.Adam Ciccarino
Published Feb. 19, 2021Updated Feb. 22, 2021
When you’re weary, the idea of traveling to Midtown Manhattan to ride a giant seesaw probably isn’t at the top your wish list.
It certainly wasn’t for Sonya Keshwani and Sahil Suleman Navodia one day in January of 2020, when a group of friends from their jamatkhana, a house of prayer, invited each of them to an installation of glowing seesaws that had been set up in the garment district. Mr. Navodia, then 27, had just returned from a trip to India; he was still jet-lagged. Ms. Keshwani, who had just turned 31, had recently completed treatment for breast cancer. She had been out and about all day, and she was tired. But she was also in a period of her life when she was determined to put herself out there; her fight against cancer ha
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Dec. 30, 2020
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