Thomas Edison Film Festival celebrates the 1st Annual TEFF Student Filmmaker Awards. Program 1 features “Between Then & Now” by Paige Morton, winner of the “Made in NJ” Stellar Award, Princeton University; “Better Half” by Grace Demopoulos, winner of the Stellar Animation Award, RISD; “Handwoven” by Dasha Levin, winner of the Stellar Documentary Award, Chapman University; “WOAH, WOAH, WOAH” by Tae Yeon Han, winner of the Stellar Experimental Award, Sarah Lawrence College; and “The Man in the Blue Suit” by Evan Patrick Adams, winner of the Stellar Narrative Award, Florida State University.  Please note – “Better Half” by Grace Demopoulos is not available for on-line viewing.

Thomas Edison Film Festival celebrates the 1st Annual TEFF Student Filmmaker Awards. Program 2 features TEFF Official Selections including “All Beauty Queens Have Broken Bones,” narrative by Max C. Tullio, Columbia University; “Anadromous,” animation by Ari Grubb, School of the Museum of Fine Arts/Tufts; “Puddle,” animation by Samual O’Dair Holovacs, School of Visual Arts; “Sunrise in Prison,” documentary by Quincy Bowie Jr., Daniel Chit, Katelyn Do, Andrew R. Hong, Eve Levy, Katie Lou, & Johans Saldana Guadalupe, University of Southern California; “Itlu (With Love),” animation by Sriya Reddy Nallannagari, Savannah College of Art & Design; “L’Ouverture,” narrative by Maggie Deer, Savannah College of Art & Design; “Mismatch,” animation by Luna Lee, UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television; and “Not Your Script,” narrative by Phoebe Sifan Liu, University of Southern California.

Thomas Edison Film Festival celebrates the 1st Annual TEFF Student Filmmaker Awards. Program 3 features TEFF Official Selections including “Whirlwinds,” animation by Leo Wille, Kansas City Art Institute; “Emulsion,” narrative by Aaron Dylag, University of Hartford; “So Much More to Offer,” animation by Cullen Burt, Grant Cosko, Xingyu Gu, Hunter Hartz, Aliiv Jiao, Saleen Lee, Alison Ma, Brisa Parra, Shelby Pine, Lyndzi Ramos, Tricia Saputera, Hanyu Sun, Kaan Ust, Elaine Wong, Rosemary Wu, & lla Zhou, University of Southern California; “Beyond the Clouds,” experimental by Andrew Imai, University of Notre Dame; “Rainbow Rain,” animation by Guyu Liang, University of Southern California; “Mother Clay,” animation by Armin Rangani & Raha Amirfazli, NYU Tisch School of the Arts; and “That’s Not Me,” experimental by Lucas O’Brien - Chapman University.

Thomas Edison Film Festival & Hoboken Historical Museum present Women’s HERstory Month Marathon 2026

Featuring an eclectic program of animation, documentary, and narrative shorts from Canada, New Zealand, Poland, Spain, the UK and the US.

Selected shorts from Germany, England, Scotland, and across the US including animation, documentary, experimental, and narrative, and award-winning films produced at SCAD.

Thomas Edison Film Festival celebrates the 1st Annual Winners of the TEFF Student Filmmaker Awards with a selection of this year's films.

Thomas Edison Film Festival (TEFF) celebrates the 1st Annual Winners of the TEFF Student Filmmaker Awards with a selection of this year's films.

Thomas Edison Film Festival (TEFF) celebrates the 1st Annual Winners of the TEFF Student Filmmaker Awards

Selections from the TEFF 2026 Jury’s Stellar Awards.

Grit – Jury’s Stellar Award - Documentary. 14 min. by Vanina Feldsztein, Brooklyn, NY, USA
A film about people who keep going. What does it mean to be old? Once we reach a certain age are we still being seen? “Grit” looks at old age with a fresh set of eyes on three people who defy perceptions.

Hollowgram – Jury’s Stellar Award - Experimental. 7 min. by Laura Iancu, Romania, and Blacksburg, Virginia, USA
“Hollowgram” conjures varicolored clusters of swirling images and sounds from places real and imagined as if looking through a flip book in a dream. It navigates the tension between the desire to share memories and possibilities with another person and the failure of the attempt. The soundscape is crafted from wild sounds captured in Romania that are core components of the film’s emotional space

The Oath – Jury’s Stellar Award - Screen Dance. 24 min. by Alla Kovgan, Harlem, NY, & Annie-B Parson, Brooklyn, NY, USA. Both communal and monstrous, the human urge to move in a large mass in unison – to bond, to battle, to promise, to intimidate, to gather, to dance; this is THE OATH. “I wondered if it was possible to create a film that could conjure this sharing of energy of live bodies in space. This became my goal for the film.” Annie-B Parson, Writer/Choreographer

The Anarchist and the Fridge – Global Insights Stellar Award 14 min. by Yunchang Zhang, Jersey City, NJ, USA. “The Anarchist and The Fridge” tells the story of a man named Thadeaus who moved from Boston to New York over 20 years ago to pursue his ideals. Inspired by the organization, “Food Not Bombs” he survived cancer, gained community support, and established New York's first free fridge in Bed-Stuy. Now, he sees replenishing the fridge as his duty, using free food to unite the community.

Randy Wicker – A Portrait – Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Stellar Award. 8 min. by Nicole Pometti, Bloomfield, NJ and Rolando Nieves, Guttenberg, NJ, USA. An intimate glimpse into the life and legacy of LGBT pioneer Randy Wicker — told in his own words.

The Thomas Edison Film Festival (TEFF) and the Hoboken Historical Museum present the 45th Anniversary TEFF Hoboken Premiere on Friday, February 27th at 6:30pm. The program kicks off with a wine and pizza reception at 6:30pm followed by a selection of uplifting top award-winning films from the 2026 collection. Special guest filmmakers will join a Q&A.

The program includes, The Anarchist and the Fridge – Documentary by Yunchang Zhang, Jersey City, NJ, USA; Hollowgram – Experimental by Laura Iancu, Romania, and Blacksburg, Virginia, USA; The Letter – Documentary by Oliver Würffell, Germany and Brooklyn, NY, USA; Olive – Narrative by Tom Koch, France, and NY, NY, USA; In the Eyes of the Worm – Animation by Emily Hubley and Max Rosenthal, East Orange, NJ; A Mountain of Content – Experimental by Duncan Cowles, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK; Grit – Documentary by Vanina Feldsztein, Brooklyn, NY, USA; and The Undying Pain of Existence – Animation by Oscar Jacobson, Ludwigsburg, Germany.

Tickets can be purchased in advance on-line through the Hoboken Historical Museum website for $10, or at the door. The reception includes light refreshments, wine and pizza from Hoboken’s own, Benny Tudino’s, served at 6:30pm. Advance ticket purchases are advised as seating is limited.

The Littleman Parking-Independence Garage (Shipyard Lane, at 12th St.) offers 3 hours of free parking with Museum validation. Make sure to bring your ticket to the event at the Hoboken Historical Museum for validation.

For tickets click here.