Thomas Edison Film Festival

✨ The Hoboken Historical Museum, Thomas Edison Film Festival and Our Tern present Wings of Hope: an Earth Day Celebration with Jeff Train! ✨ Celebrate grassroots environmental activism through the power of film and art as the Terns on Parade Upper Gallery exhibit draws to a close. The program will include: 🍷 a wine reception at 6:30 PM 📽️ screenings of independent films: When Worlds Collide, R.E.S.C.U.E., and The Pigeon Lady at 7 PM 📣 a conversation with Jeff Train at 8 PM Join us to learn about local bird protection efforts and support the cause by adopting a tern decoy, print or photograph. We are reminded of Margaret Mead’s famous quote, “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed individuals can change the world. In fact, it’s the only thing that ever has.” 🌎 🗓️ Saturday, April 25th | 6:30 PM 📍 Hoboken Historical Museum 🎟️ Free admission

If you told me a 2-day film school project would be closing out its festival run with an award from an Oscar Qualifying film festival two years later, I’d have thunk you to be insane. Very grateful to close out “The Man in the Blue Suit”’s run with the Best Student Narrative Award from the @thomasedisonff and a screening at @hamiltonfilmfestival ‘s @funnyunderfifteen Fest. Enough of the past! My next film will be underway soon - keep your eyes peeled for announcements!

JOIN US for two amazing events! Filmmaker Visits to FDU March 9: Bill Plympton/Animator and Oscar Nominee March 10: Winning Films from the Thomas Edison Film Festival March 9th/6pm - Dreyfuss Theater: Animator/Filmmaker Bill Plympton. Bill Plympton (born April 30, 1946)[1] is an American animator, graphic designer, cartoonist, and filmmaker best known for his 1987 Academy Award–nominated animated short Your Face and his series of shorts featuring a dog character starting with 2004’s Guard Dog.   March 10th/7pm - D125  Premiere of Student Film award winners from the Thomas Edison Film Festival. TEFF is a New Jersey based festival that tours throughout the country and internationally. FDU is hosting the premiere event of this award-winning screening. Naturally, we hope our own film majors will come out to support (program runs 66 minutes).

✨ Come celebrate the power of independent cinema with us! ✨ The Thomas Edison Film Festival (TEFF) and the Hoboken Historical Museum present the 45th Anniversary TEFF Hoboken Premiere on Friday, February 27th. The program kicks off with a 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 📽️ Hollowgram – Experimental by Laura Iancu, Romania and Blacksburg, Virginia, USA 📽️ The Letter – Documentary by Oliver Würffell, Germany and Brooklyn 📽️ Olive – Narrative by Tom Koch, France, and NY, NY 📽️ 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 📽️ The Undying Pain of Existence – Animation by Oscar Jacobson, Ludwigsburg, Germany. The reception includes light refreshments, wine 🍷and pizza 🍕 from Hoboken’s own...Benny Tudino’s, served at 6:30pm. Advance ticket purchases are recommended as seating is limited. Ticket 🔗 in bio

Join us on October 4th at the Jersey City Art & Studio tour for an exclusive screening of select Thomas Edison Film Festival short films! #JCAST #film #filmfestival #filmscreening

Tuesday, June 24, 7 pm, Anthology Film Archives, NYC. A Celebration of Pride screening of short films from around the world including Old Girl in a Tutu: Susan Rennie Disrupts Art History. Presented by Thomas Edison Film Festival. Directed by Cheri Gaulke featuring the art of Susan Rennie. Music by Ray Lynch. #oldgirlinatutu @thomasedisonff @raylynchmusician

We have so much to learn from Randy Wicker. He shared these rousing words: “We are the only authorities of our lives and the only way to win is to fight.” 🙌 It was a moving evening of independent cinema dedicated to Pride Month. Special thanks to Rolando Nieves, Nicole Pometti, and Jane Steuerwald for the video portrait of Randy. We were honored to host Randy and his archivist Devlyn Camp. A huge shoutout to student Kabir Sahu, who volunteered for this project, and to Sweet Hoboken for their generous donation of cupcakes. We greatly appreciate the support of Brian Gorman and the Pride Advisory Committee, and the thoughtful audience. To liberation and pride! 🌈

I’ve always reflexively cringed a little at the term “ally”, for the simple fact we are all very much in this together and it shouldn’t be a special thing to act like it. Of course thats an easy quibble to make not belonging to a demographic routinely subjected to intolerance in its harshest forms. As those stakes have taken a brutal trajectory in recent months, I am happy to be called an ally by anyone on the receiving end of that brutality, am here for the fight and grateful for the chance to make stuff that contributes in any way shape or form to combating pig-headed ignorance which the world seems to churn out in inexhaustible supply. One recent such project was “My Dear Mr. Whitman,” an animated short created for Emmy-nominated doc series Queer for Fear. It will screen this Tuesday 6/24 at the hallowed Anthology Film Archives in NYC as part of Thomas Edison Film Festival’s Celebration of Pride program. Happy Pride for all those who shouldn’t be afraid to stand proud. Repost from @thomasedisonff : Celebrate Pride with powerful queer cinema! Join us at Anthology Film Archives on June 24 for the 44th Annual Thomas Edison Film Festival: A Celebration of Pride 🏳️‍🌈 Watch award-winning LGBTQ+ short films from the US, Canada & UK, spanning narrative, animation, documentary, and experimental genres. 🎬 Stay after the screening for a live Q&A with Jeremiah Dickey, director of My Dear Mr. Whitman 💌 📍 NYC • 7:00 PM 🎟️ Tickets going fast — grab yours now via the link in bio! #TEFF2025 #QueerFilm #PrideMonthNYC #IndependentFilm #LGBTQCinema #AnthologyFilmArchives #ThomasEdisonFilmFestival #QueerHistory #ExperimentalFilm #AnimationLovers #nycevents

Celebrate Pride with powerful queer cinema! Join us at Anthology Film Archives on June 24 for the 44th Annual Thomas Edison Film Festival: A Celebration of Pride 🏳️‍🌈 Watch award-winning LGBTQ+ short films from the US, Canada & UK, spanning narrative, animation, documentary, and experimental genres. 🎬 Stay after the screening for a live Q&A with Jeremiah Dickey, director of My Dear Mr. Whitman 💌 📍 NYC • 7:00 PM 🎟️ Tickets going fast — grab yours now via the link in bio! #TEFF2025 #QueerFilm #PrideMonthNYC #IndependentFilm #LGBTQCinema #AnthologyFilmArchives #ThomasEdisonFilmFestival #QueerHistory #ExperimentalFilm #AnimationLovers #nycevents

Randy Wicker has dedicated his life to LGBTQ activism. Here he is pictured with his friend, former roommate, and comrade in activism — Marsha P. Johnson. We are honored to celebrate Randy’s legacy and his special connection to Hoboken this Saturday with a screening of a short produced by filmmakers Nicole Pometti and Rolando Nieves. The wine reception begins at 6:30 PM. The evening will also include the screening of independent films from the TEFF 2025 collection. To pride and liberation! 🌈

Thomas Edison Film Festival will begin accepting entries for our 2026 touring season on May 1st. This year brings exicting changes including a new student category and a new chance for films to qualify for Oscar® consideration. Details about these new changes and more will be provided later this month. #film #filmfestival #filmmaking #indiefilm

Tomorrow is International Women’s Day, and we have a strong woman creative joining us at the Hoboken Historical Museum for the occasion! 💪🏼 Filmmaker Marta Renzi will be speaking at the Thomas Edison Film Festival Premiere, which will include a 🍷and 🍕 reception. 🗓️ Saturday, March 8 🕡 6:30pm 📍 Hoboken Historical Museum Seating is limited. Grab your ticket today. 🔗 in bio.