NJ Film Festival lineup includes
Some of the films having their area debuts, as described by festival organizers, are:
Amy Lee Ketchum’s animated film First Light
Taylor Olson’s environmental feature film from Nova Scotia Bone Cage an examination of the parallels between the ideals of masculinity that children are taught who become men, and how this goes hand in hand with the destruction of our earth
Marquise Mays’s documentary The Heartland, which focuses on the joys and trials of growing up Black in the Midwest
Matteo Moretti’s short documentary Just Being Here, about a man who finds solace and wonder in the nature of his backyard and comfort in the company of special friends
NJ International Film Festival returns for 2021 in June
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Stolen Fish screens at the 2021 New Jersey International Film Festival on June 5!
Stolen
Fish, documentary filmmaker Gosia Juszczak, of Madrid, Spain, follows the lives of three locals in The Gambia, a country on the coast of West Africa that relies heavily on fishing. Abou Saine, Paul John Kamony, and Mariama Jatta all live in different parts of The Gambia, but all suffer the same struggle brought on when fish meal factories were introduced to the country. Since then, The Gambia has been a slave to the fishmeal industry, where anywhere from four to five kilograms of fish are needed to produce just one kilogram of fish meal. All the fish meal made in The Gambia is then exported to China, where it is used as feed for aquaculture, poultry, pigs and other animals. The major issue is that the fish being exploited could be used to feed The Gambia’s local population that is stuck in deep poverty.