Contact: Anne Kneuer
732-272-4023 or anne@gsff.org
For Immediate Release:
GARDEN STATE FILM FESTIVAL TO PRESENT FREE OUTDOOR MOVIE
Documentary Wild Ocean to be Screened at Brighton Park
Atlantic City, NJ, June 23, 2014 – 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, chairman of the Philadelphia chapter of the
Explorers Club. 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.
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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 moved to Atlantic City with financial and operation support from the
Casino Reinvestment Development Authority (CRDA). GSFF now serves as a major component
of the strategic plan to promote arts and culture in Atlantic City to reestablish the resort as the
premier Mid-Atlantic entertainment destination. The GSFF is a 501-c-3 non-profit organization.
For more information about the Garden State Film Festival, contact: info@gsff.org