12th ANNUAL NORTHEAST FILM FESTIVAL
The Northeast Film Festival will be held September 2024 at the Teaneck Cinemas in Teaneck, NJ. The Northeast Film Festival (NEFF) showcases top independent films from celebrated filmmakers, as well as new talent. The diverse array of films, selected by a committee, includes features and shorts from all genres, as well as documentaries.
Schedule:
(Theater 1)
12PM - BLOCK 11
YOUR VALLEY, MY VALLEY
A heartfelt and humorous portrait of a community through the lens of nine seemingly disparate characters — a cowboy, a jingle composer, a journalist, a phonographer, a historian, a painter, a radio host, a self-appointed investigator, and an heir to country music royalty — who are all connected by the legacy of strange phenomena in their beloved Valley.
directed by Brendan Fay
2PM - BLOCK 12
X-MAS ANONYMOUS
When a group of Christmas addicts gather for their regular meeting, the addition of a new member could be the catalyst for a relapse they've all been waiting for.
directed by Sammy Smedley
ALWAYS WEAR COMFORTABLE SHOES
Paula learns the hard way, regarding one of the golden rules to surviving a horror movie.
directed by Angie Hansen
MIMI GOES TO REHAB
Mimi, a people-pleasing psychotherapist, is fed up with her hostile work environment, abusive boss, and cheating boyfriend. She poses as a cocaine addict for a free "vacation" at a luxury rehab, but will she get away with her scam?
directed by Asger Folmann
CONVERSION OF THE ATHEIST
Two Mormon boys with a dark secret knock on an atheist woman's door.
directed by Michael Ambrosino
DAD'S NEW ROOMMATE
Joe, a retired mechanic, Vietnam veteran, and widower, who has been without his wife for a long time, decides to take in a roommate. His three grown children and daughter-in-law have shown him over the years how to be more accepting of other people, to be a more open and loving man, and how to stay with the times both socially and technologically. And when they find out the reality of what their dad actually has going on, it forces them to re-examine what they truly feel as opposed to what they say they do.
directed by Patrick F Devaney
3:30PM - BLOCK 13
THE CHAT
Two neighbors meet on the street for a quick chat.
directed by Matthew Taylor
DEEP SLOP
Struggling with a recent spat of unexplained headaches, Jewel Skibicki and her buzzed friend Dominic head to the free clinic where they encounter an opportunistic doctor driven to hatch an incredibly insulting scheme.
directed by Adam Michael Tuckey
STATIC CLING
While attempting a love connection, an obnoxious guy gets trapped inside his own coat at a laundromat.
directed by Steven Lifshey
THAT'S MESSED UP!
An after hours romance between diner staff is interrupted by unforeseen visitors.
directed by Chris Mastro
THE LIFE AND LOVES OF ALLAN GLICKMANA
A light comedy in the manner of Neil Simon. Allan, recently divorced, conducts marriages in City Hall___not exactly a great job for meeting wife number two. But when an old high school crush arrives to be married, he must desperately find a way to sabotage the impending ceremony.
directed by Stanley Katz and Eric Lau
5PM - BLOCK 14
THE MARTINI SHOT
This existential drama follows an ailing movie director as he begins to shoot what he believes to be his final work of art. What starts out as a normal movie, ends up being an exploration of mortality and one's profound effect on the world.
directed by Stephen Wallis
6:30 - 7:30PM - RED CARPET
7:30PM - AWARDS CEREMONY
9PM - AFTER PARTYUNPRODUCED SCREENPLAYS
Aliens & Powers & Lily Ômai! (written by Jonny Kandell)
Ban the Bullet (written by Salvatore Klezmer Riggio)
Don't Eat Paper! (written by Julius Galacki)
Last Seen Alive (written by Jillian Lozano)
Old Men at the Club (written by Michael Jonathan Gellis)
