Garden State Film Festival to Present Free Summer Outdoor Movie, 8/2

In conjunction with the Casino Reinvestment Development Authority (CRDA), the Garden State Film Festival will present a free movie screening of Wild Ocean on August 2, 2014 at 8:45 p.m. at Brighton Park. It will be presented with a selection of short films, and hosted by Captain Joel S. Fogel, past chairman of the Philadelphia chapter of the Explorers Club as well as their First World Ambassador. Brighton Park is located off the Boardwalk near Bally's.

Wild Ocean is a vivid documentary that follows the annual feeding frenzy in the oceans of South Africa as billions of sardines migrate up the KwaZulu-Natal Coast. For countless generations, the migration has provided an annual food source for both sea life, and people living along the African shores. The film captures breaching whales, feeding sharks, diving gannets, and massive bait balls. It further depicts how business, government, and the local people have joined forces to protect this invaluable ecological resource. Wild Ocean was written and directed by British filmmakers Luke Cresswell and Steve McNicholas. The filmmakers are also the creators of the dance percussion act Stomp.

"Establishing a year-round presence in the Atlantic City community is an absolute and primary strategy of the Garden State Film Festival," explains festival founder and executive director, Diane Raver. "We received a warm welcome in April from the Casino Reinvestment Development Authority, Mayor Guardian and his team at City Hall, our fellow non-profits, the business community and most of all, the local residents who we hope to actively engage in our programming. Wild Ocean is a spectacular film that we showcased at the festival a few years back. It is an ideal and apt selection for our first summer presentation, in what we hope will be an ongoing series of features and documentaries screened on and around the beach for families and film lovers alike," added Ms. Raver. The festival established its new home in Atlantic City this spring after a 12-year run in Asbury Park, and is planning creative and educational activities throughout the year.

About the Garden State Film Festival:

The Garden State Film Festival was envisioned by 25-year film industry veteran Diane Raver and the late Hollywood actor Robert Pastorelli in 2002 and launched the following year. Since 2003, thousands of films have made their public premiers, hundreds of thousands of people from around the world have attended; and the total infusion of cash to local businesses since inception exceeds $5 million. Until 2013, it was held in Asbury Park, in and around the Convention Center complex. In 2014, it will move to Atlantic City as a major component of DO AC, the marketing campaign to promote arts and culture the city spearheaded by the Casino Reinvestment Development Authority. The GSFF is a 501-c-3 non-profit organization.

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