long annual jersey independent south asian cine fest njisacf concluded sunday october rutgers busch campus student center festival clout major films festivals world enjoy gradually gaining momentum festival boast stars glitterati focused quality films made artists south asian descent year festival showcased films including full length features shorts highlighted works young promising film makers veterans adoor gopalakrishnan watch handful films discuss attempt report mine readers attended festival comment films watched festival opened friday evening westin hotel princeton film days slow motion umakanth thumrugoti screening announced organizers small strip carpet film makers walked photographed awaiting camera missed hanging lobby notice carpet screening started late logistics related delay accommodate people stuck friday evening traffic film maker umakanth introduced screening made comments film learnt director disney films worked disney's popular animated features sabbatical year make film hyderabad film starts light hearted comedy young ravi friends ventures making film borrowed camera film gradually takes tone camera starts capture stories ravi imagined film made professional polish distinguishes amateur house film hollywoodish kind wrong screenplay structure typical flow preached hollywood gurus story kind slacked film made point films finally made editing table story begin story finally told film editing tool footages captured accidentally panasonic camera nonetheless enjoyable film brought year dabbles film making watch film film screening short celebration famed film maker india adoor gopalakrishnan felicitated adoor respected film maker received numerous awards acclaims films india abroad major achievement festival committee bring film festival nice dinner event wrapping venue shifted rutgers university cook-douglas campus watch films loori film made afgan expats barah anah film made raja menon mumbai loori directed saeed orokzai film young afgan woman meena meena brought child parents died soviet invation troubling incidents life meena develops emotional mental problems finally finds back afgan doctor artist homeless story slow soft lyrical quality loaded symbolism problem film technical quality entire production regarded amateurish acting performances quite poor photography skewed inadequate projection system barah anah short changed directed raja menon produced interesting team people including italian giulia achilli american yerasi indian raja menon film tells tale migrant workers mumbai tired continuous indignity disdain showered rising middle class takes crime achieve goals kidnap simple middle class people faith enforcement prefers micro ransom demands police story told times film boost wonderful performances cast members include great nasiruddin shah vijay film contrived times ending patch work difficult justify back story shukla's acted nasiruddin shah predicament beginning film death certificate person judicial claws criminals carried death certificate raja menon's answer artistic license left audience figure kind excuse regular song-and-dance kind seventies style bollywood movie sunday final festival happened rutgers busch campus students center film possibly death full moon pura handa kaluwara sinhalese film directed prasanna vithanage made banned lankan govt prasanna fought case supreme court forced govt lift film wonderful treatise de-humanization common people reigning authorities vannihamy full moon receives remains soldier lankan army sealed coffin vannihamy refuses accept death risking compensation money govt opens casket vindicate belief loss humanity general apathy people caused prolonged dealt great sensitivity beauty master film maker inclined prasanna's films njisacf brings gems south asian cinema exposes rich cultural variety region hope modest festival develops major international event helps build bridges cultures kudos festival organizers request organizers make projection systems justice films shown film makers care composing shots arranging color schemes frame frustrating film makers audience adequate player projection system screws 