Thomas Edison Film Festival to show selected international short films

(Island Heights, NJ) The Thomas Edison Film Festival returns to the Ocean County Artist Guild, 22 Chestnut Ave., Island Heights, NJ on Saturday, July 13th at 6:00 pm. The program will be presented by TEFF Director, Jane Steuerwald. There is ample parking, and the Guild is ADA-accessible. A $15 donation is requested.

Award-winning selected shorts from Armenia, Canada, France, the UK, and the US representing animation, documentary, experimental, narrative, and screen dance genres will be screened.

Since 1981, the mission of the Thomas Edison Film Festival (TEFF) has been to promote innovation in the art of the moving image, and the films that are the centerpiece of the festival honor Edison’s vision. The festival’s relationship to Thomas Edison’s invention of the motion picture camera and the kinetoscope and his experimentation with the short film is an essential part of our mission. Shorts are the essence of the festival - not a sidebar to feature films. TEFF is a socially conscious, modern, fiercely independent traveling showcase reaching out to diverse audiences with provocative, timely, edgy and compelling new works by both accomplished and emerging filmmakers.

The Consortium is grateful for generous funding and support:

• New Jersey State Council on the Arts
• Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University
• The Charles Edison Fund – Edison Innovation Foundation
• The Hudson County Office of Cultural and Heritage Affairs Tourism Development
• Hoboken Historical Museum
• Lowenstein Sandler, LLC
• New Jersey Motion Picture and Television Commission
• The NBA
• Big Sky Edit
• Sonic Union
• APM Music
• University of Delaware, Department of Art & Design
• Fairleigh Dickinson University School of the Arts - Filmmaking
• Digital Film East Brunswick Magnet School
• Corporations and private donors

To learn more about the Thomas Edison Film Festival and the Thomas A. Edison Media Arts Consortium visit www.TEFilmFest.org, Jane Steuerwald, Executive Director, +1 551-999-8225, Jane@TEFilmFestival.org.