The 35th Annual Black Maria Film Festival of 2016

The Black Maria Film Festival returns again to the Hoboken Historical Museum on Sunday afternoon, August 14, at 5:00 pm.

The gala evening includes a barbecue and refreshments
at the museum and a screening of top selections from the
Black Maria’s award-winning short films,
including animation, documentary and narrative. 

   The program will be presented by Festival director
Jane Steuerwald. 

Tickets are $10 in advance; $15 at the door.  

Click below to reserve your seat now!

Register Now! Among the selections to be screened:

Signwriter – Documentary
5 min. by Paul Zinder, Bishops Cleeve, Cheltenham, UK
Graham Brown has his dream job.  He’s painted signs and narrowboats - a boat of a distinctive design, made to fit the narrow canals of the United Kingdom - for sixty years.  His life is exactly what he wants it to be.

 The Black Maria was founded in 1981 as a tribute to Thomas Edison’s development of the motion picture at his laboratory, dubbed the “black maria” film studio, the first in the world, in West Orange, NJ.

The Black Maria Film Festival has been awarded the New Jersey State Council on the Arts Citation for Excellence for eight consecutive years.