From the official announcement:

Fort Lee Film Commission Celebrates Asian-American Filmmakers at April Cliffhanger Film Fest

The Fort Lee Film Commission celebrates Fort Lee's diversity and honors its role as birthplace of the American motion picture industry in this 4th annual Cliffhanger Film Festival salute to Asian-American filmmakers. The Fort Lee Film Commission will screen selected films at various venues including Asian-American restaurants and art galleries within the borough and throughout the state of NJ throughout the month of April 2007. The final screening will take place at the end of April (exact April date, location and time TBA) where our panel will announce the winning film. Top prize is $500 for Best in Show.

Fort Lee's diverse population includes Korean-Americans and this film festival seeks to inspire young Korean-American students, and students of all nationalities, in Fort Lee to pursue a career in film.

Formats: VHS (can be projected on our digital projector) / DVD
Entry fees: None
Press kit must be included with entry
Send entries / films / videos and press kits to:

Fort Lee Film Commission
c/o Tom Meyers - Executive Director
309 Main Street
Fort Lee, NJ 07024

For further details, please call 201-592-3663.

Mission Statement:

The Fort Lee Film Commission celebrates Fort Lee's role as Birthplace of the American Motion Picture Industry. Studios such as Universal, 20th Century Fox and Paramount have their roots in Fort Lee. In addition, pioneer African-American filmmaker Oscar Micheaux shot many films in Fort Lee as an
independent filmmaker from 1920 through 1948. Alice Guy Blache, the first woman film director, built her Solax Studio in Fort Lee and directed many of her films in Fort Lee. Today we celebrate independent filmmakers through our Cliffhanger Film Festivals. The term "CLIFFHANGER" was coined in Fort Lee when one of the first film stars, Pearl White, shot her "Perils of Pauline" movie serials atop the cliffs of the Palisades. Today we hold our "Cliffhanger" film festivals in a theater atop the Palisades not far from
where Pearl White dangled from the cliffs in the early 1900s. We hope to encourage young filmmakers to shoot and screen their films in Fort Lee. We celebrate the diversity in film today and we hope to make this first Cliffhanger Asian-American Film festival an annual event.

See www.fortleefilm.org for further details or call (201) 592-3663.