Garden State Film Festival
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The Garden State Film Festival is a film festival in the United States held in Asbury Park and Cranford, New Jersey, which debuts more than 200 independent films annually over four days each spring.[1][2]
The festival was founded in 2002 in Sea Girt, New Jersey by Diane Raver and Hollywood actor Robert Pastorelli.[1] Pastorelli and Raver mounted the first festival in 2003. As of 2017, the executive director is Lauren Concar Sheehy.[3]
The festival pays tribute to Jersey's legacy as the birthplace of the American filmmaking in Thomas Edison's Menlo Park laboratories, to Fort Lee, home to America's first motion picture industry, and participants frequently include a New Jersey tie.[1][4] The festival is one of Asbury Park's major cultural and economic forces.[5]
In 2021, the festival began including screenings at the century-old Cranford movie theater in Cranford, New Jersey.
See also
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- Television and film in New Jersey
- List of film festivals in New Jersey
- New Jersey Motion Picture and Television Commission
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