Albert Gabriel Nigrin

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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][2] The Festival began in 1982.[3]

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He was born in Charlottesville, Virginia, and 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 Binghamton University. Mr. Nigrin has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the American Film Institute Mid-Atlantic Media Arts Fellowship Program and the Ford Foundation, for his film and video work. In addition, he was awarded a 2002 New Jersey State Council on the Arts Media Arts Fellowship.[4]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Hart, Steven (January 17, 1993). "Albert Gabriel Nigrin, Movies That Don't Make the Multiplex.". New York Times. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CE4DD153BF934A25752C0A965958260. Retrieved 2008-05-27. 
  2. ^ "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. ..." 
  3. ^ "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 ..." 
  4. ^ "Albert Gabriel Nigrin". http://www.alnigrin.com/biography.htm. Retrieved 2008-05-27. "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. ..." 

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