21^st Annual The Garden State Film Festival 

New Jersey's Premier Independent Film Festival

Schedule

Thursday March 23, 2023

7:00–9:00pm

Meet the Filmmakers

Friday March 24, 2023

7:00–8:20pm

Gala Cocktail Reception

8:30–10:30pm

Opening Ceremonies

Conservation Dog

The Baker

Location -ASBURY LANES

209 Fourth Avenue

Asbury Park, NJ

Schedule

Saturday Macrch 25,2023

12:15–2:30pm

Eye For An Eye, Brother
The Market
Fa La La HO Ho Ho
Survival-living through
COVID universal-access
Andy & Kaliope universal-access
Brotherly Love
Curiosity
The Man From Granada
Earl
Manpreet
The Thing universal-access

3:00–4:30pm

Daughter of Italy
Heart & Soul
6:00–8:00pm AL5
Viruses
Skeletons
Gnomes universal-access
Glass Eyes
White Eyes
Angel City Horror
La Mugre universal-access
Escalation
If We Run

8:30–11:15pm 

WARNING: These films contain sex, nudity,
violence, gore, profanity, alcohol, drugs,
smoking, frightening and intense scenes.
Tongues-Immolate
Terrifier 2

Location - ASBURY LANES
209 Fourth Avenue
Asbury Park, NJ

12:00–2:00pm
Nadya’s Sleepover, Invite Only
Ward
Search for the Cooper: A
River Hidden In Plain View
Smudge
The Perfect Fit
2:45–4:45pm TA10
Fire Ramen
Ocean County
Share
Sugar Crash
Sea of Lights
Broken Bottles: A South
Jersey Legacy
Silly Girl
Crumb Cake
6:00–8:00pm TA11
Argent Glass universal-access
The Struggle
Gene’s 6th Symphony universal-access
Unconditional
A Significant Problem
Lunachicks
For Lonely Nights
The Third Defector
The Undesirables
8:30–10:30pm TA12
The Desecrated
To Be The Moon
Written For Walken
Leonardi’s Jewel Of Wonders
Smokescreens
Blue Boy
Fight Like a Mother
ASBURY HOTEL
Asbury Hall
210 Fifth Avenue
Asbury Park, NJ   

Location - ASBURY HOTEL
Asbury Hall
210 Fifth Avenue
Asbury Park, NJ

9:30–11:45am BK15
High School Films
See Last Column SHARE
12:30–2:30pm BK16
Resilience
Fly
Marijuana Minutes
3:45–5:15pm BK17
Plight of the Timeguard
Call End
Thoughts
Defiance & Desperation:
Documentary Performance
The Principal’s Assembly
Going Home
Toy Phone
5:45–8:00pm BK18
The Promotion
The Sprayer universal-access
Stratosphere
NES02
I’m Losing You
The Tunnel
Anemoia
Calibrate
8:30–10:30pm BK19
Dawn
Stag

Location - BERKELEY HOTEL
Kingsley Ballroom, First Floor
1401 Ocean Avenue
Asbury Park, NJ

12:00–2:00pm

Day of the Dead universal-access
Escape Artists universal-access
21: Atlantic County
Faerman Register Co
Knocking On Doors
Gustav Spicy
Double Take
Asking For It
Yearmates universal-access
The Autumn Girl
2:45–4:45pm BC24
Waterspirit Mindfulness
Moment
Dancing Through the Decades
The Old Guitarist universal-access
Darwin Fick in New York
Dadu
Saint Joseph
Ball & Vase

5:45–8:00pm
Dangerous
Brewtown
The Grotto

8:45–11:00pm
April At The End of the Month
A Rosary and a Diamond Ring
TRAP

Location -BERKELEY HOTEL
Continental Room, Second Floor
1401 Ocean Avenue
Asbury Park, NJ

12:15–2:15pm
The Empty Saddle:
Remembering Samuel
Johnson
Thunderclap
Left Behind: A veterans Story
Amala universal-access

3:00–5:00pm

Meatloaf and Pie at the
Sunset Cafe universal-access
Dinner Talk
Born In Chicago
6:00–8:00pm SR31
Yes Mother
Boris Karloff The Man

8:30–10:45pm

The Deli
Daniel’s Gotta Die

Location -THE SHOWROOM CINEMA
707 Cookman Avenue
Asbury Park, NJ

Schedule

Saturday March 25, 2023

12:15–2:00pm

You In New York
Brontë
Service Me!
Pretend
Chateau Laurier
Next Steps
Out of Water
The Drive
The Tale of Captain
Fortyhands
Lodo universal-access

2:30–4:45pm

Who Killed The Coach
Solidarity
Ruthless
The Sisters Karras
I’m Not Nice

6:00–8:00pm

Snail Mail
The Aviary
Mountains We Climb
Escorted
Hitbaby
Wisdom
8:30–10:45pm JS36
The Decision
Loved
Not For Nothing

Location -JERSEY SHORE ARTS CENTER
Palia Theater
66 S Main Street
Ocean Grove, NJ

Schedule

Saturday March 25, 2023

10:30am–12:45pm

21: Essex County
The Healing
Fior Di Fossa
A Holocaust Journey:
Lessons We Learned
Idea

1:15–3:30pm
Hawthorne Shade Tree
Commission
21: Sussex County
Global Wagner universal-access

4:00–6:00pm
Ocean Eyes Dance
Performance
Marjorie Eliot’s Parlor
Entertainment Harlem
A Taste of China
Hard Feelings
Blind Date
Daddy’s Night
Canned

6:30–8:30pm
Dead-Enders universal-access
Good Session
Laria
No Way Out
The DM
Haunted
Cameo

9:00–11:00pm
Discoloration
Ramsey: The Vandy Case

Location -CRANFORD THEATER
25 N Ave W
Cranford, NJ

Schedule

Sunday March 26, 2023

12:00–2:00pm

I Like U But
Tale of the American Dream
Across
2:45–4:45pm
Antique Failure
Made In Heaven
Wendy
100 Words
Strength Through Visibility,
Twenty Years of Gay Pride in
Jersey City

Location - ASBURY LANES
209 Fourth Avenue
Asbury Park, NJ

12:15–2:30pm
Across the Ocean
Dreaming of a Better Place
Dark Sacred Night
The Great Connector
Fields of Devotion
The Jersey Storm: Sandy in
Monmouth County
One Light
3:00–5:00pm TA14
Cool For You universal-access
21: Camden County
Ireland
Asset of Teeth

Location - ASBURY HOTEL
Asbury Hall
210 Fifth Avenue
Asbury Park, NJ

9:30–11:30am
High School Films
See Last Column SHARE
12:00–2:15pm BK21
A Bikers Dream
Bad Beat
Sick Puppy
One Night Stand
Fault Line
2:45–5:00pm
Paralympian

Location - BERKELEY HOTEL
Kingsley Ballroom, First Floor
1401 Ocean Avenue
Asbury Park, NJ

10:00–11:30am
Screenplay Reading in the
Oval Room See Left Side
Column for Details reply
12:00–2:15pm
Urban Decay
Noch Alles O.K. (Everything is
Still O.K.) universal-access
Who Are The Marcuses

2:45–4:45pm
Little Hurts
Who’s Calling Me at 2am?
Peace Be With You
Amen-Amen-Amen: A Story
of Our Times

Location -THE SHOWROOM CINEMA
707 Cookman Avenue
Asbury Park, NJ

Sunday March 26, 2023

Schedule

11:45am–1:45pm

A Polar Bear Story universal-access
Wild Beauty: Mustang Spirit
of the West
2:30–4:30pm

Tonight is Your Night
The Fifth Chair
Capsules

Location - JERSEY SHORE ARTS CENTER
Palia Theater
66 S Main Street
Ocean Grove, NJ

Date : March 23 – 26 , 2023

Location -Various Venue

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