Ridgewood-based filmmakers appear in New Jersey Film Festival
SEPTEMBER 8, 2014 LAST UPDATED: MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2014, 1:21 AM
BY JIM BECKERMAN
STAFF WRITER
THE RECORD
FILM
WHAT: New Jersey Film Festival.
WHEN: Sept. 11 to Oct. 16. Programs begin at either 6 or 7 p.m., check listings. “She-Wolf” will be screened at 7 p.m. Oct. 5.
WHERE: Rutgers University (various locations), New Brunswick; 848-932-8482 or njfilmfest.com.
HOW MUCH: $10 general admission.
Ridgewood-based filmmakers Daniel Shapiro and Alex Topaller have made videos for Pharrell Williams and Michael Jackson. They’ve made commercials for Ford, Bloomberg and Beech-Nut.
Now they’re claiming the privilege familiar to all Christmas shoppers who’ve ever bought themselves a little present while in the store for others. “She Wolf,” their first narrative film, is a little something for themselves.
“We do a lot of music videos, we do a lot of commercials, and at some point we wanted to shoot something creative, something for ourselves,” says Shapiro, a Hawthorne resident, whose 18-minute film will be screened as part of the New Jersey Film Festival at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. The festival begins Sept. 11.
The 7 p.m. Oct. 5 screening of “She Wolf” will be at Voorhees Hall No. 105, 71 Hamilton St., New Brunswick: one of several locations where more than 30 films — shorts and features, from far-out experimental to near-mainstream — will be screened this fall. Shapiro and Topaller will both be present at the screening to answer questions.
– See more at: https://www.northjersey.com/arts-and-entertainment/movies/ridgewood-filmmakers-pet-project-1.1083059#sthash.E3ZsmQZm.dpuf
