Jane Steuerwald is an Executive Director of the Thomas Edison Black Maria Film Festival. Since 1981, the Thomas Edison Black Maria Film Festival has been celebrating and preserving the diversity, invention, and vitality of the short film. The Festival is named after Thomas Edison's original West Orange film studio dubbed the "Black Maria" because of its resemblance to the black-box police paddy wagons of the same name. For more information and current season please visit www.blackmariafilmfestival.org