Garden State Film Festival play online

March 23 - April 3, 2022
In Person and Virtual
Asbury Park & Cranford, New Jersey


- Join us for a 12-day Festival filled with current independent films from around the globe.

- Mix and mingle with filmmakers and celebrities!

- Includes workshops, professional panel discussions with industry leaders, parties and more!

- Over 200 Films representing 17 countries.


Come be part of the hottest film event in the state, The Garden State Film Festival (GSFF). Now in its 20th year, the global GSFF brings New Jersey the best in national, international and local films, shorts, documentaries and student films along with exciting networking, hands-on workshops, live reading of the screenplay competition winner, intriguing panel discussions and cant miss parties, all held in numerous locations all over Asbury Park.

GSFF was named winner of the Corporate Vision Media Innovator Award 2021, Film Festival of the Year (New Jersey) 2021 Lauren Concar, 2021 Corporate America Today Best Independent Film Festival USA, 2020 Brookdale Community College Foundation for Service to the Community, 2017 Global Excellence Awards 'Best Independent Film Festival East Coast by TMT News, 2018 Corporate USA Today Best Independent Film Festival USA, and the 2019 Spinnaker Arts & Culture Award from the Eastern Monmouth Chamber of Commerce.