>Local students’ films selected for Ridgewood festival
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
BY KAREN KLEIMANN
TOWN JOURNAL
A red carpet event in Ridgewood featuring its first film festival will include two films by local students exploring breast cancer and looking at the inner thoughts of high school students during the day, respectively.
Above, from left, Upper Saddle River residents and brothers Sean and Ryan McIlraith at the Garden State Film Festival, where their film ‘Hallways’ was officially selected. The film is among the more than 40 selected for the first Ridgewood Film Festival, which will be held on April 27 and 28.
The Ridgewood Film Festival, created by the Ridgewood Guild, is the first of its kind in the Village and had more than 60 submissions, which were narrowed down to 41 films, including directors with a few Emmys to their name, amateur filmmakers and high school students hoping to get a break into the industry.
“This festival is going to be wonderful,” Ridgewood Guild chair Tony Damiano said. “We had such an incredible response and we’re still getting submissions, and they come from all over the world.”
