BLACK MARIA FILM FESTIVAL RETURNS TO CALDWELL

For the fourth consecutive year, the Caldwell Merchants Association is sponsoring the Black Maria Film Festival at Caldwell Flowerland, 329 Bloomfield Avenue, on Saturday, March 24,2012 at 4:30PM. The Black Maria takes its name from Thomas Edison’s  pioneering 1893 film studio. Each year since 1981, a panel of film scholars has selected about forty-five short films submitted from around the world to showcase at the festival throughout the United States. The program consists of about a dozen award winning documentary, animation, and narrative films shown on a giant permanent screen with commentary by a Festival spokesperson.

 

 

General admission tickets are $12 and are being sold at the following locations:

 

Caldwell Flowerland, 329 Bloomfield Avenue, 973-226-1309

Lovely Living Interiors, 295 Bloomfield Avenue, 973-364-1124

 

The following restaurants will offer 20% off one dinner after the show when a ticket is presented:

 

Bangkok Kitchen

Calandra’s Italian Village

Cloverleaf Tavern

Hog Wild BBQ Co.

Ocha Japanese Restaurant

 

Tickets will not be sold at the door due to space limitations.