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A Time Capsule Review: GARDEN STATE FILM<\/b> FESTIVAL\u00a0 March 22^{nd<\/sup> to March 25^{th<\/sup> 2018\u00a0 Asbury Park USA\u00a0\u00a0 by Calvin\u00a0 Schwartz\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a03-28-18<\/strong><\/p>\n}}

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Pre show Interview with Artist Nation TV and Lauren Concar , GSFF Executive Director & Heather Brittain O’Scanlon, actress, Board Member<\/span>.<\/p><\/div>\n
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The purpose of this capsule review is to light fires for planning next year to attend and perhaps some instillation of guilt, regrets, why you were not there this year. A wondrous event; New Jersey\u2019s own film<\/i> festival by the ocean, replete with pomp, excitement, energy, film<\/u> makers, actors, actresses, industry insiders, deal makers.<\/span><\/p>\n
Represented; the independent film industry. I love the word independent. It makes me think of 1776; spirit, original colonies, strong belief systems, New Jersey, expressing, declaring, creating, proudly showing, winning, competing, producing, directing and the togetherness, cohesiveness, knowledge of participants. Metaphors, verbs, visualizations; whatever, the Garden State Film Festival delivered a wonderful weekend.<\/span><\/p>\n
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selfie with Ed Asner<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n
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Friday Night Gala Cocktail Party and First Screening brought hundreds to Convention Hall. My press credentials issued for my work with NJ Discover and Artist Nation TV headed by Noelle Ciumei, doing feature interviews capturing excitement and energy. To me, this party was like a boardwalk amusement park, some fantasy rides, adventure, future, past, present; and the props like people, electricity, business cards, appointments, promises, future think, projects, exigencies and realities. A great accessible party for pictures, selfies and red carpets.<\/p>\n
Food, plentiful, imaginative and fun. I\u2019m not a foodie person, but the pretzel, with perhaps the best brown spicy mustard ever, had me perseverating for days.<\/p>\n
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with actor Xander Berkeley. Lifetime Achievement Award<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n
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Accessibility evident. I stopped Xander Berkeley, who was honored with Lifetime Achievement, eating with chopsticks, and moments later, we were sitting, talking, about his prolific career, but with such ease, as if we\u2019ve been friends for decades. He loves the notoriety aspect, lack there-of, so he can sit at a sidewalk caf\u00e9 and draw\/sketch people walking by. He called it flying under the radar. He talked about living in the now, his spiritual side. There is a power to living in the now, an inner peace. How delightful he was. Of course, it was time to get back to photo-ops and selfies.<\/span><\/p>\n
Ed Asner, on the Honorary Board, Armand Assante, MVP, honored for his continuing support of the Festival, Christopher Lloyd, a Festival honoree with the Beacon Award, were all mixing in. Such graciousness, a particulate of the energy of this Festival.\u00a0 Armand Assante, Christopher Lloyd and Xander Berkeley all premiered their films. Check out www.gsff.org<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n
On a lighter note, three women excitedly stopped me, \u201cWait, you\u2019re an actor from Seinfeld. The raisin episode! Can we take a picture with you?\u201d It took me a minute of convincing that it\u2019s not me. But they still took a picture with me.<\/span><\/p>\n
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with actor Garry Pastore<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n
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Post Panel Actors on Acting with Diane Raver, Lauren Concar, Monica Henreid, Moderator, Gala Chair, Xander Berkeley, Gary Pastore, Chance Kelly &\u00a0 Armand Assante & Oana Marcu<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n
A young woman introduced herself. My projection of being a journalist; the blazer, Rutgers hat. Stephanie Angel, from Angelight \u00a0Films, recipient of the 2018 Garden State Film Festival\u2019s Broader Vision Award for Filmmaking Dedicated to Greater Good told me about her work, which gives children with brain and spinal chord tumors a chance to express themselves on short films. This blew me away, such that I\u2019ll do a special article on NJ Discover. People need to know. Part of the reason to believe in the Festival; to illuminate, share and learn.<\/span><\/p>\n
Next up, the film premiere of Armand Assante\u2019s riveting, powerful film, \u2018The Wanderers-The Quest of the Demon Hunter\u2019 in the Paramount Theater. Of course, I loved it, engrossed, carpeted to on site locations in Romania, loved the Q and A, honest, engrossing, revealing. Would love a sequel; I told that to Armand directly.<\/span><\/p>\n
Saturday, with my Rutgers mentee student Marisa, and co-host of NJ Discover LIVE TV Show, Tara-Jean McDonald Vitale, we attended the showing of nine short film entries, animation, comedic, heavy, imaginative, sad, uplifting, but part of this brave new world of accomplished independent talent. Being a former salesman, the film \u2018Death of an Umbrella Salesman,\u2019 resonated with me as it conjured up Arthur Miller and Charlie Chaplin as the Tramp. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
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with actor Armand Assante. We talked about his film The Wanderers-The Quest of the Demon Hunter and my para-normal activity.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n
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Q and A post showing of The Wanderers-The Quest of Demon Hunter with Armand Assante, Oana Marcu and Lauren Concar<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n
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Next the anticipated Panel discussion, Actors on Acting with Monica Henreid, moderating. Her father, one of my all-time favorite actors played Victor Lazlo from \u2018Casablanca.\u2019 Present were Armand Assante, Xander Berkeley, Garry Pastore, Chance Kelly and Oana Marcu, who played the \u2018heavy\u2019 in \u2018The Wanders-The Quest of the Demon Hunter.\u2019\u00a0 A great hour. I loved Monica\u2019s question, \u201cWho Inspired You?\u201d\u00a0 For the Q and A., I needed to know about their handling of rejection.<\/span><\/p>\n
Later that night, Christopher Lloyd\u2019s heavy, true story film, premiere, \u2018Making A Killing,\u2019 in the enchanting venue of Jersey Shore Arts Center, formerly Neptune High School, a long time ago, but renovated by the vision of Herb Herbst (an NJ Discover feature story)<\/span><\/p>\n
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with actor Artie Pasquale<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n
Yes, this capsule, a bit long, but needed for reality and enticement, memorization to get you down here next year. It\u2019s \u201cgood stuff\u201d being in Asbury Park, smelling ocean air, popcorn, seeing movies, dreams realized, partaking of all that Asbury offers, food, music, boardwalk, escapism. Actually, a capsule is something you take in the morning or at night, then call me next year, in the morning. \u00a0We\u2019ll go to the Festival together.<\/span><\/p>\n
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