2024 New Jersey International Film Festival Film is Dead. Long Live Film! Filmmaker Q+A with Director Peter Flynn, Festival Judge Morgan Kalmbach and Festival Director Al Nigrin

Film is Dead. Long Live Film! screens at the 2024 New Jersey International Film Festival on Friday, May 31, 2024 – Online for 24 Hours and In-Person at 7PM! in Voorhees Hall #105/Rutgers University, 71 Hamilton Street, New Brunswick, NJ. Film is Dead. Long Live Film! Director Peter Flynn will be on hand to do a Q+A after the In-Person screening!

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FILM IS DEAD. LONG LIVE FILM! – Peter Flynn (Wakefield, Massachussets)
FILM IS DEAD. LONG LIVE FILM! explores the vanishing world of private film collecting—an obsessive, secretive, often illicit world of basement film vaults, piled-high with forgotten reels, inhabited by passionate cinephiles devoted to the rescue and preservation of photochemical film. Condemned as pirates and hounded by the FBI, film collectors have long lurked in the shadows. Yet their efforts have resulted in the survival of countless films that would otherwise have been lost to history. Archives and studios now look to private hands for long-lost titles and many collectors have begun restoring and releasing films themselves. As analog film fades from memory, the basement-dwellers and bootleggers of old are finally being given their due. FILM IS DEAD. LONG LIVE FILM! is a lively tribute to the private film collector, a celebration of the fetishistic subculture of pre-video movie-love, and a timely reminder of the glories of analog film. 2024; 102 min.