Albert Gabriel Nigrin is a Cinema Studies Lecturer at Rutgers University, and the Executive Director and Curator of the Rutgers Film Co-op/New Jersey Media Arts Center, Inc., a non-profit organization which screens and promotes independent, experimental and artistic cinema in New Jersey via the New Jersey Film Festivals, and the United States Super 8mm Film + DigitalVideo Festival. [1] The Festival began in 1982.[2]

Biography

He has an M.F.A. in Visual Arts/Film and Video; and an M.A. in French Literature from Rutgers University and a B.A. from the State University of New York at Binghamton. Mr. Nigrin has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and American Film Institute Mid-Atlantic Media Arts Fellowship Program and the Ford Foundation for his flm and video work. In addition, he was awarded a 2002 New Jersey State Council on the Arts Media Arts Fellowship.

References

  1. ^ "Rutgers fest marks its 20th". Asbury Park Press. Al Nigrin, Rutgers Film Co-op founder and curator, says the festival is "the largest and longest running juried" festival of its kind in North America. ... ((cite news)): |access-date= requires |url= (help); Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  2. ^ "Rutgers Art-House Tradition Gains A Following". Bergen Record. Nigrin, who began the New Brunswick-based festival in 1982 as a small, on-campus Rutgers event, and has seen it ... ((cite news)): |access-date= requires |url= (help); Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
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