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By popular demand Freeing Juanita returns to the 2026 New Jersey Film Festival on Friday, February 20!

by Yuri Kim
published 2026-02-15

Freeing Juanita, directed by Sebastián Lasaosa Rogers, is not the kind of documentary you watch and walk away from unchanged. It stays with you long after the credits roll. At its heart, this is a film about one woman, wrongfully imprisoned. But as you watch it unfold, you realize it’s also about so much more: a broken immigration system, the erasure of Indigenous voices, and the extraordinary strength of family and community.




 

New Release Review - "The Secret Agent"

by Eric Hillis, TheMovieWaffler.com
published 2026-02-14

With Summer of Sam, Spike Lee suggested that in 1977 there was nowhere crazier than New York. With The Secret Agent, Kleber Mendonça Filho asks Lee to hold his beer. If you thought '77 NYC was something, wait till you experience the Brazil of that year. In opening text, Mendonça Filho describes that era in his nation's troubled history as "a time of great mischief," and The Secret Agent is a gleefully mischievous movie. Like several recent high profile South American films, including last year's Brazilian drama I'm Still Here, it is concerned with the corruption that was rife under the military dictatorship. But just as Lee did for the bankruptcy era Big Apple, Mendonça Filho displays a fond nostalgia for the energy that can be created by dangerous times. There is much in The Secret Agent that is shocking, and it reminds us of the evil that is allowed to flourish in corrupt societies, but it's also heart-poundingly thrilling.



New Jersey Stage: Daily Edition 02-14-26

Here is the morning update from New Jersey's arts newswire. We regularly publish between 8-15 new articles and news reports each day. Nobody covers the Arts throughout the Garden State like New Jersey Stage!





2026 United States Super 8 Film + DV Festival Celebrates its 38th Anniversary!

by Al Nigrin
published 2026-02-14

Now in its 38th year, the United States Super 8mm Film + Digital Video Festival is the largest and longest running juried festival of its kind in North America. The festival encourages any genre (including animation, documentary, personal, narrative, and experimental) made on Super 8mm/8mm film, Hi 8mm/8mm, or digital video. The festival will be held Online and In-Person at Rutgers University on February 21+22, 2026.



Lewis Center for the Arts presents "How to Be Not Alone"

(PRINCETON, NJ) -- The Lewis Center for the Arts' Program in Theater and Music Theater will present How to Be Not Alone, a concert of original and Broadway songs performed by the Princeton Playhouse Ensembles led by Solon Snider Sway and featuring guest tap dance artist Michael J. Love. Directed by faculty member Aaron Landsman and cosponsored by the Department of Music, the concert is on Saturday, February 21, 2026 at the Berlind Theatre. Showtime is 7:00pm.