New Jersey Film Festival

The New Jersey Film Festival is New Jersey's largest continuing public film series devoted to "experimental, offbeat and influential cinema".[1][2] It is held in New Brunswick, New Jersey. It was started in 1981 and is hosted by Albert Gabriel Nigrin.[1][2] The Festival began in 1982.[3]

New Jersey Film Festival
FrequencyAnnual
Location(s)New Brunswick, New Jersey
Inaugurated1981

Key personnel

Albert Gabriel Nigrin

Albert Gabriel Nigrin (born circa 1959.[1]) 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, 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] Nigrin was born in Charlottesville, Virginia, and has a Master of Fine Arts in Visual Arts/Film and Video and a Master of Arts in French Literature from Rutgers University, as well as a Bachelor of Arts from Binghamton University. 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]

See also

References
  1. Steven Hart (January 17, 1993). "Albert Gabriel Nigrin, Movies That Don't Make the Multiplex". The New York Times. 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". Al Nigrin.com. Archived from the original on 16 May 2008. Retrieved 2008-05-27.


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