Youth Temple in Ocean Grove, NJ. Flickr.com

Youth Temple at night. Paul Goldfinger photo.

By Paul Goldfinger, editor

We are currently working on details for the 2nd Annual Blogfinger Film Festival on Sunday afternoon, May 5, 2013.  We are pleased to announce that we will be partnering with the Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association to present this exciting event in town at the beautiful Youth Temple where we will have room for 300 people plus the audio-visual capability to show these films properly.  This will be a fund raiser for the CMA’s boardwalk restoration fund.

It should be a great day to invite family and friends to enjoy our beautiful town— visiting the ocean, the shops and restaurants,  while spending about two hours at the festival.  Who knows, maybe Marty, Spike or Woody will show up.

Marlee Roberts, the producer of the BFFF.

As we did last year, we will be featuring short movies by film students. It’s always exciting and fun to see the work of young artists, especially when they will be present to talk to us.  As in 2012, our main contact at the Tisch School of the Arts (New York University) will be our producer, the multi-talented Marlee Roberts, who is a student herself, although she also is a professional actress and songstress.  She will be consulting with her professors to choose the best selections from submissions not only from NYU, but from film schools in New Jersey as well.

Watch for more details.  Please mark your calendars.  This will be a community event that we all can be proud of. Let’s have a great turnout. And let’s have a big round of applause for the Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association which saved the day and became an “angel” for our show.

SOUNDTRACK:  From Stephen Sondheim’s “Follies”