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Jersey Filmmakers of Tomorrow

11/14/2012

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Fort Lee Film Commission presented the eighth annual Jersey Filmmakers of Tomorrow (JFOT), a Bergen County High School student film festival, with a finalists screening and awards ceremony on Saturday, November 10, 2012, at Media Mix Studio in Allendale, New Jersey. I have been involved with JFOT for several years and it’s great to see […]

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Passaic, NJ: Birthplace of Television

11/14/2012

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Du Mont is a pioneer in the television industry, with the first American TV sets on the market in 1938.  In the late 1940s and early 1950s, Du Mont was America’s fourth television network before Channel Five (Fox) proved that a fourth network was viable. Du Mont competed with CBS, NBC and ABC for a […]

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NYFF: Under the “Kubelka Spell”

10/12/2012

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We’re still talking about this Special Event that was presented at the beginning of the second week of the New York Film Festival. You could say we are still under the “Kubelka Spell”, experiencing the “here and now” and creating new art forms in the moment. Whoa. That’s where this ride has taken me, by […]

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