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= Teaneck International Film Festival =

History
Founded in 2005, the Teaneck International Film Festival presents a collection of compelling and imaginative feature-length films, documentaries, and shorts from a variety of cultures that would lead audiences to question, debate, and become caring and involved citizens who recognize the need to institute positive change. The festival takes place annually in November.

Award Categories
The Teaneck International Film Festival gives out awards based on audience voting and juried voting. Categories include: Best of Festival, Best Feature, Best Documentary and Best Short.

About Teaneck
Former Mayor Frank Hall, who died recently, composed the forward to The Teaneck 100 Year Book that was published in honor of the township’s Centennial in 1995. He wrote: "Neighboring municipalities have a core of loyal residents who think of their town as the very best.  But Teaneck ... is unique." What makes it unique? According to Mayor Hall, it all began in 1930 "when a fundamental change was initiated by enraged residents who voted out the corrupt political organization that was running the town into bankruptcy.  In a landmark referendum, the residents changed the form of government to our present nonpartisan form, featuring a full-time professional manager – one of the first municipalities to do so in New Jersey – and hired Paul A. Volcker, Sr. as Township Manager." What was accomplished in those early years of this new form of government? There was the first Master Plan, the first Planning Board, pay-as-you-go budgeting, outstanding municipal services, and a superlative school system. "By setting such high standards," says Hall, "(Teaneck) attracted as residents men and women of much-better-than-average civic responsibility to the town ... a population determined to maintain those standards." Hall goes on to say:  "The second major milestone in Teaneck’s history ... was the voluntary integration of the schools.  Teaneck was the first school district in the nation to vote resoundingly to integrate its school system."