Many thanks are in order for Friday’s Third Annual MorristownGreen.com Film Fest: To our gracious hosts at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, the sensational Boys Nyte band, the filmmakers and musicians who shared their talent, Peter Jorge for his fine work on the audio, the sponsors who donated great prizes (Rios’ Engraving, the New York Film Critics series, the Community Theatre and Sandrian Camera) and especially, to everyone who came out to root for the artists.
None of this would have been possible without the help of a truly wonderful team of volunteers, and, at the risk of inadvertently overlooking someone, I want to acknowledge them here, starting with Sharon Sheridan.
Sharon, creator of our colorful MG Kids section, attended to details large and small that made the festival run smoothly–while taking lovely pictures, too!
Nayna Shah was a writing machine, cranking out entertaining profiles on the filmmakers in the run-up to the show.
Illustrator Fred Caracci hit a home run with his festival logo.
MG Kids reporter Alyse Jefferson, sister Alex and mom Crystal did a great job at the MG table, and overseeing Best Picture voting.
Nathaniel Rossoff made sure the video portion of the evening went according to plan.
Cathy Veit gathered the all-important shoe boxes for the voting, and distributed programs.
Victoria Birmingham, Dan Stronetta and Paul Hausman (with help from his MG Kids assistant, Carl Hausman) documented the festival with some beautiful photos.
Patrick Allocco made his reporting debut, and Augie King helped with setup and cleanup.
When our initial run of 260 programs ran out, Marie Patterson, despite being very near her due date for child No. 2, dashed upstairs in the church to print another batch.
John Dyer serenaded Morristown on the bells of St. Peter’s to put people in a festive spirit.
Della Berg and Barbara Snyder whipped our program into shape on 20 seconds’ notice.
And last but never least, Chef Melody McGinley Whitelaw, caterer to the stars, shared her delicious brownies, cupcakes and Carolina Rice with grateful grazers.
Guaranteed, I am forgetting some important people here, so apologies in advance, with my pledge to make amends.
Videos of the festival movies coming soon…
COMPLETE COVERAGE OF THE THIRD ANNUAL MORRISTOWNGREEN.COM FILM FEST
Amen! Well done everyone, and a big THANK YOU!!!!!