(JERSEY CITY, NJ) -- The 11th Annual Golden Door International Film Festival takes place this week beginning Thursday, May 12th with the Opening Night and culminating with the awards ceremony on Saturday,  May 14th. Screenings take place at Sip Studios (140 Sip Avenue) and 329 Warren Street in Jersey City.

The Opening Night Red Carpet Gala takes place on May 12th from 6:00pm to 10:00pm at Sip Studios. Opening night red carpet gala sponsored by Tito's Handmade Vodka, NJ Beer Co, Vias Imports Wines. Light fare will be served.

Featured films include All God's Children; Bootyology;  I Am Simon: The Call of the Elephants; Leveling Lincoln; Malibu Horror Story; Omar Sosa's 99 Well-Tuned Drums; Sweet Disaster; Take The Night; Tales From The Narrow Bridge: The Wrymwood Devil.

Short films include 9 Lives: Chapter One; A Feast That Never Comes; A Lone Star Love; Ain't No Mercy For Rabbits; And On That Day; Balloon; Billy; Blurred Line; Buildings; Crippled; Driving Her Away; Eaglehood; Fight Back!; From The Shadows of Desert Rocks; Growing Peace in the Middle East; Have You Heard The Truth?; Heirloom; HomeBound; I Want To Tell You; LEFA (The Inheritance); Making Beethoven Proud; Now You See Us; Over My Dead Body; Pillow Talk; Regular Negroes; Scratch This: The Series; Sonho; Sophia, I Love You; The Bottom; The Clinic; The Militiaman (Student Film); There's Something Wrong with Paul; Unveiled; Vlada Goes To London; Wake.

An interactive program is available here.  Festival sponsors include Cinelease Studios, Titos Vodka, Siverman, Office of Hudson County Administrators, Vias, New Jersey Beer Company.