- Albert Gabriel Nigrin
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 theNew Jersey Film Festival s, and the United States Super 8mm Film + DigitalVideo Festival. [cite news |first= |last= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=Albert Gabriel Nigrin, Movies That Don't Make the Multiplex. |url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CE4DD153BF934A25752C0A965958260 |quote= |publisher=New York Times |date=January 17 ,1993 |accessdate=2008-05-27 ] [cite news |first= |last= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=Rutgers fest marks its 20th |url= |quote= 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. ... |publisher=Asbury Park Press |date= |accessdate=2008-05-27 ] The Festival began in 1982. [cite news |first= |last= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=Rutgers Art-House Tradition Gains A Following |url=|quote=Nigrin, who began the New Brunswick-based festival in 1982 as a small, on-campus Rutgers event, and has seen it ... |publisher=Bergen Record |date=|accessdate=2008-05-27 ]Biography
He was born in
Charlottesville, Virginia , and has anM.F.A. in Visual Arts/Film and Video; and an M.A. in French Literature fromRutgers University and aB.A. from theState University of New York at Binghamton . Mr. Nigrin has received fellowships from theNational Endowment for the Arts andAmerican Film Institute Mid-Atlantic Media Arts Fellowship Program and theFord Foundation for his film and video work. In addition, he was awarded a 2002 New Jersey State Council on the Arts Media Arts Fellowship. [cite web |url=http://www.alnigrin.com/biography.htm Light Pharmacy Films |title=Albert Gabriel Nigrin |accessdate=2008-05-27 |quote=Albert Gabriel Nigrin is an award-winning experimental media artist whose work has been screened on all five continents. He is also a Cinema Studies Lecturer at Rutgers University, and the Executive Director/Curator of the Rutgers Film Co-op/New Jersey Media Arts Center, Inc. ... |publisher= ]External links
* [http://www.njfilmfest.com Official website]
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