The Rutgers Film Co-op/New Jersey Media Arts Center, in association with the Rutgers University Program In Cinema Studies, is proud to present the New Jersey Film Festivalsm Fall 2000. Grouping together new international films, American independent features and short subjects, classic revivals, and cutting-edge documentaries, the New Jersey Film Festival Fall 2000 will feature over 25 film screenings on 40 evenings. The Festival will run from Friday, September 8 through Wednesday, November 22, 2000.

Film Premieres: Over fifteen films will have their New Jersey Premiere or Area Premiere (Middlesex County) screenings as part of the New Jersey Film Festivalsm Fall 2000. Some of these include: Julien Temple's The Filth and The Fury, an engrossing documentary on the punk band rock movement; Mike Figgis's new quadruple-split-screen, film Time Code; Jem Cohen and Peter Sillen's funny and sad documentary Benjamin Smoke, Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman's documentary on the persecution of gays during the Holocaust Paragraph 175, Claire Denis' gorgeous Beau Travail; Emmanuel Finkiel's insightful Holocaust filmVoyages; Michael Almereyda's stylish new adaptation of Shakespeare's Hamlet; Majid Majidi's astonishing film from Iran The Color of Paradise ; Abbas Kiarostami's new master work The Wind Will Carry Us; and many others.

Visiting Directors: This fall's festival will host visiting filmmakers Jem Cohen and Peter Sillen who are slated to present their critically acclaimed film Benjamin Smoke on Friday, September 29, 2000 at Scott Hall 123, Rutgers University with a 7PM start time. The directors will introduce the film and take questions from the audience after the screening.

Revival Series: On Thursday evenings, the New Jersey Film Festivalsm Fall 2000 continues its cinema revival program featuring the best films ever made. This fall, the Festival will screen a collection of classic films made between 1959 and 1968, a turbulent period in the world's history. They include: Peter Brook's unforgettable Lord of the Flies; Jean-Luc Godard's film noir sci-fi film Alpha ville; Georges Franju's art and horror hybrid Eyes Without a Face; Andy Warhol's series of 15 minutes of fame Screen Tests; and Bruce Baillie's humanist experimental films: To Parsifal, Mass For The Dakota Sioux, and Castro Street.

The New Jersey Film Festival Fall 2000 is funded and sponsored in part by The Rutgers Film Co-op/New Jersey Media Arts Center; The Rutgers University Program In Cinema Studies/Faculty of Arts and Sciences; The Middlesex County Cultural & Heritage Commission and the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State-a partrner agency of the National Endowment of the Arts; Eastman Kodak; Johnson & Johnson; New Jersey Books; WCTC/WMGQ; The New Jersey Motion Picture Commission; The Home News Tribune; The Princeton Forrestal Center; Picus Associates; Borders Books and Music; Equal Shot of Rutgers University; The Cultural Services of the French Embassy; The Cultural Ministry of France; The Bagel Dish; Barracini Hallmark; Film and Video Services; Rutgers University Office of Community Affairs; Association for Independent Film and Videomakers; The Rutgers College Office of Student Services; Rutgers Couch (The Committee of Organizations United to Combat Homophobia); The Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender, Film, and German Studies Sections of Demarest Residence Hall; The Rutgers College Office of Diverse Community Affairs and Gay and Lesbian Concerns; The Rutgers University Center for Latino Arts and Culture; The Rutgers University Joan and Allen Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life; Design Ideas; Advanced Printing; Steven C. Schechter, Esq.; and Share and Harris. The New Jersey Film Festivalsm Fall 2000 is curated by Albert Gabriel Nigrin. Schedule text by Irene Fizer.Schedule compiled by Adam Bodenstein, Jason Currie, Cristy Huppach, Sharon Kasper.

For dates, times and locations for the various film programmes see the schedule.