Date: Tuesday April 16, 2024
Time: 6:00PM – 8:30PM
Location: Montclair State University / 1040 Presentation Hall, School of Communication and Media 1 Normal Avenue Montclair, NJ 07043
Co-sponsored by Montclair Film Forum.
Dustin Grella is an animator and documentary filmmaker whose work attempts to glean glimpses of colorful insight into the seemingly mundane. His work has screened at the Cannes Film Festival, Margaret Mead Film Festival, and won the Walt Disney Award at the Ottawa International Animation Festival. His film “Prayers for Peace” screened at almost two hundred festivals worldwide and won over forty awards. He has written and mailed himself a letter every day for the past ten years and has all 3650 sealed letters neatly filed and categorized. Thanks to a grant from the Franklin Furnace Fund, the collection of over 3650 letters will be displayed in New York City in April 2012. He is currently in production of the Animation Hotline, a series daily animations where he uses crowdsourced voicemail messages for content.
The screening will begin at 6:00PM followed by a Talkback.
Register today to reserve your seat.
The ReelAbilities NJ – 2023 Film Festival is brought to you by the Office of Education and Community Outreach (OECO) in the College of the Arts at Montclair State University and is made possible by a generous grant from Kessler Foundation.
