MUMBAI: The International Film Festival Summit, held in Las Vegas in the month of December every year witnesses organisers of film festivals around the world congregate. It is for this the New Jersey Film Festival (NJFF) is known as a trendsetter.

The selection of films for this year‘s festival will showcase about 40 films selected from 266 entrants has started and will go on till 4 November.

NJFF began 29 years ago, before the VCR, before Rutgers even had its own film studies program.

Through the years, NJFF has evolved from a film series to a full-fledged call-for-entries festival that receives close to 1,000 submissions a year.