First NJ Documentary Film Festival Hosted In Sparta July 23-25

SPARTA, NJ - Over 40 documentaries, both feature and short films - some New Jersey homegrown and others from all over the world - will be screened in Sparta at the Sparta Avenue Stage for three days at 10 Sparta Avenue, this upcoming weekend from Friday, July 23 through Sunday, July 25, for the first New Jersey Documentary Film Festival.

Joshua Nelson, the festival director, says if the inaugural festival takes off, it’s planned to become a yearly happening.

The festival with the theme “Where Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction,” has documentary films being shown all weekend-long.

Click here for more information about each film - including trailers - and to buy tickets for each block. People 13 and up can attend without a parent or guardian. See schedule below.

• Friday, July 23, Student Films Doc Block A from noon until 2:30 p.m. with 5 Years From Water, Beyond Dreamers, Consent, Voice, Left Behind, Hackers, Stronger Than Steel, Black Is?, An Ecosystem On The Line, The Dream Cafe, This Is Life, Kindness
• Friday, July 23, Doc Block B from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. with Surviving Bokator, Shaolin, A White Belt’s Journey.
• Friday, July 23, Doc Block C from 5 to 7:30 p.m. with Sadig, Stolen Dreams and March for Dignity.
• Friday, July 23, Doc Block D from 8 to 10:30 p.m. with Hope In The Holy Land, The Roads Most Traveled
• Saturday, July 24 Doc Block E from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. with Mustang Saviors, An Aquatic Community
• Saturday, July 24 Doc Block F from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. with A Peloton Of One, The Day I Had To
• Saturday, July 24 Doc Block G from 4 to 7:30 p.m. with Making An Exoneree
• Saturday, July 24 Doc Block H from 8:30 to 11 p.m. with Canswers The Soul Of A Farmer, Home Or High Water
• Sunday, July 25 Doc Block I from noon to 2 p.m. with A Stray Dog’s Ruff Life, Dehlight
• Sunday, July 25 Doc Block J from 2:30 to 5 p.m. with The Fable Of A Song, Gary K. One Step At A Time
• Sunday, July 25 Doc Block K from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. with The Ashram Children, Cutz of Compassion, The Heart of Camden
• Sunday, July 25 Doc Block L from 8:15 to 10:15 p.m. with Eddy’s Kingdom, Darling Pet Monkey, Eworth, When Larry Met Stanley

For information about the New Jersey Documentary Film Festival and each of the films, visit www.njdocfest.com.

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