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New Jersey Film Festival Director interviews Clan of the Painted Lady Director Jennifer Chiu

by Al Nigrin
published 2026-09-01

Here is my interview with Clan of the Painted Lady Director Jennifer Chiu who is a Hakka-Canadian filmmaker who contends with the loss of her ancestral community in Kolkata, India. She journeys across the world to uncover the story of her family’s past and confronts the effects of migration on family, belonging and the uncertainty of preserving culture in the modern world. 




 

New Jersey Stage: Daily Edition 08-31-26

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!





Mystery-thriller Your Lips Never Left Mine opens the New Jersey Film Festival on Friday, September 4, 2026!

by Philip Thompson
published 2026-08-31

Your Lips Never Left Mine is a modern mystery/thriller, with traces of neo-noir, and features many of the nuances of classic horror films. Making his feature directorial debut, Matthew Kozlark, delivers an exhilarating story with lots of twists and turns that is sure to leave the viewer on the edge of their seat, anticipating what will happen or be revealed next.



Touching Documentary Clan of the Painted Lady screens at the New Jersey Film Festival on September 5!

by Penelope de la Cruz
published 2026-08-30

Migration is often discussed in terms of the places people leave and the places they eventually call home, but Clan of the Painted Lady, directed by Jennifer Chiu, is more interested in everything that happens in between. The documentary follows Chiu as she reconnects with her Hakka identity and traces her family history stretching across China, India, and Canada. Born in India and raised in Canada, Chiu grew up mostly separated from her father, who spent much of his life in Kolkata, India. What begins as a personal search into her own family eventually becomes a larger exploration of migration, cultural loss, and what it takes to keep a culture alive across generations.



Top 15 Most Read Stories At New Jersey Stage from August 23-29, 2026

Here's a look at the top 15 most read articles published on New Jersey Stage from August 23-29, 2026. Each week we publish at least 70 articles, including original columns and features, promoting events and covering arts news taking place throughout the state and nearby areas like Philadelphia and New York City. This week's top 15 includes articles from 10 counties in New Jersey (Bergen, Camden, Cape May, Essex, Gloucester, Hudson, Middlesex, Morris, Ocean, and Passaic).


















 

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