Saturday, February 20, 2027 – Online for 24 Hours and In-Person at 7PM!2026 United States Super 8 Film + Digital Video Festival Day 1 – Program 2&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;View the winning films and digital videos of the International United States Super 8 Film &amp; Digital Video Festival, selected by a jury of filmmakers, Rutgers University student interns, and media professionals. The festival--now in its 39th year—will feature finalist works by independent filmmakers from the United States and around the world. Co-sponsored by Pro 8mm!

Two lovers will do anything to convince the other to stay in bed and not go into work. 2026; 6 min.

Stay

Two lovers will do anything to convince the other to stay in bed and not go into work.

Desperate for affection, Hazel unravels while grappling with the lack of intimacy and fulfillment in her life. 2026; 6 min

Kiss Me

Desperate for affection, Hazel unravels while grappling with the lack of intimacy and fulfillment in her life.

A cohort of filmmaker-scientists travel to an undisclosed location to explore sonic botany. one studies sound waves emanating from plants that they observe with different color filters as others hypothesize on the margins of echoes and laughter. as the background infers, the foreground fails. 2026; 7 min.

A failed experiment

A cohort of filmmaker-scientists travel to an undisclosed location to explore sonic botany.

When teenage siblings shelter in their grandmother’s abandoned house from a mysterious midwestern contamination, Opaline slips away into her interior self. Shot in gritty black-and-white Super 8, the film takes us into a grungy spiral of dreams, paranoia, and enlightenment. 2026; 13 min.

Opaline

When teenage siblings shelter in their grandmother’s abandoned house from a mysterious midwestern contamination, Opaline slips away into her interior self.

The Strange Disappearance of Emily Jayne – Steven Adam Renkovish (Easley, South Carolina)On Halloween night, a grieving woman turns to the occult in an attempt to reunite with her deceased lover.&nbsp;Shot entirely on Super 8 film. 2026; 30 min.

The Strange Disappearance of Emily Jayne

On Halloween night, a grieving woman turns to the occult in an attempt to reunite with her deceased lover.

Amidst the hustle and bustle of New York City, our beloved Candy has fallen under the dark shroud of hunger and must do anything to fill her belly. Hunger has the ability to make rational people do rash things... What limits would you push in order to take advantage of a bargain? 2026; 4 min.

Hungry Candy

Hunger has the ability to make rational people do rash things... What limits would you push in order to take advantage of a bargain

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Welcome to the Fall 2026 New Jersey Film Festival! The 45th Bi-annual Festival will be taking place place between September 4-October 4. The Festival will be presenting the Festival online VOD as well as doing select in-person screenings.

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