At an early morning press conference on Wednesday September 21^st, at Bar Majestic in Downtown Jersey City, Bill Sorvino, Festival Director of the Golden Door Film Festival and organizers along with Jersey City Mayor Jerramiah Healy in attendance announced to the public the three day event and all  films nominated at the first film festival to be held in Jersey City from October 13 to October 16^th, 2011

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Bill Sorvino  said “My goal is to get a lot of independent filmmakers a way to shine, and help the city’s huge renaissance and artistic community.”

41 films, will be featured and Sorvino who has worked hard for the past year and the half on organizing the festival is looking forward to the start of the festival but added in “these last weeks before the festival a lot has to be accomplished.”

The following films have been nominated within their perspective categories:

BEST FEATURE : 

·Nightclub  Victims

·Moment of Truth: The Andy Myers Story

·Life Camera Action

Kerberos

 BEST DIRECTOR OF A FEATURE

Sam Borowski -Nightclub

David Bryant -Victims

Steven Canfield Crowley -Moment of Truth:The Andy Meyers Story

Rohit Gupta- Life Camera Action

William Kely McClung -Kerberos

 

BEST MALE LEAD

 Ernest Borgnine -Nightclub

Rick Haymes,Andy Meyers, in Moment of Truth:The Andy Meyers Story

Shaheed K. Woods -Life Camera Action

William Keli McClung -Kerberos 

 BEST FEMALE LEAD

 Natasha Leone -Nightclub

Sarah Coyle -Victims

Whitney Sullins -Kerberos

Dipti Mehta -Life, Camera, Action

 BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

 Sally Kellerman- Nightclub

Will Keating- Echo 

Rob Pralgo- Kerberos

Brian Williams- Night Club

 BEST DOCUMENTARY

 The Secret Life of…My Small Urban Backyard -John Dunsten

Dams the Lethal Water Bombs -Sohan Roy

In the Footsteps of Willie Sutton -Rich Gold

Kevin Jay- Duplass

Street Corner Harmony -Abraham Santiago

 BEST SHORT

 Quirk of Fate

The Risen 

Bright 

Asbury Park  

Terms of Employment

Fatakra 

 BEST SHORT SHORT

 Another Day Another Life

In Transit

Business Is Dead

The Waking

Decent Men

 BEST JERSEY CITY FILM

 Business is Dead -Vito LaBruno

Secret Life in My Small Urban Backyard -John Dunsten

Another Day Another Life -Rohit Gupta

  Lifetime Achievement Awards -Paul Sorvino,-Leon Gast–Keys to the City

Sponsors of the Golden Door Film Festival

 -Norman And Bettina Robert’s Foundation

-Friends of the Loew’s

-Building Hosting.com

-Bar Majestic

-LITM

-Art House Productions by Christine Goodman

-Studio III VII I by Stephanie Panepinto

-The city of Jersey City- Chambers

-Five Corners Library- Mildred Hunke Theater

-Oakwood Dental Arts

-Mark Ruggeri DDS

-Rich Rodek Graphic Designs

-PATH

-NYC-JC

-Hudson Reporter

-HAIG graphics

-The CPA Firm of Carr, Dailey, Sullivan and Weir PC

-Ron Shaljian ESQ

-The Riverview Observer

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