Rutgers Film Co-op/New Jersey Media Arts Center explained

The Rutgers Film Co-op/New Jersey Media Arts Center is a film society established in 1982 and based at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey.

The Rutgers Film Co-op/NJMAC presents year-round programming, including two festivals, which screen classic, independent, international, and experimental films and videos and often include discussions with filmmakers, performers, screenwriters and production crews.[1]

Festivals are organised in conjunction with the Cinema Studies program at Rutgers.[2] Events have taken place at College Avenue Campus at the Voorhees Hall, Scott Hall, Zimmerli Art Museum, as well as the State Theatre and Crossroads Theatre.

New Jersey Film Festival

The New Jersey Film Festival, founded in 1982, is juried film competition and ongoing public film series devoted to "experimental, offbeat and influential cinema".[3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]

United States Super 8mm Film + Digital Video Festival

The United States Super 8mm Film + Digital Video Festival, established in 1988, takes place annually is the longest running Super 8mm festival in the US.[9] [10] [11] [12] [13]

Founder

The founder, executive director, and curator of the Rutgers Film Co-op/New Jersey Media Arts Center is Albert Gabriel Nigrin, a filmmaker and cinema studies lecturer at Rutgers.[3] [4] He was born (circa 1959) in Charlottesville, Virginia.[3] He received a Bachelor of Arts from Binghamton University, a Master of Fine Arts in Visual Arts/Film and Video, and a Master of Arts in French Literature from Rutgers 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, and a 2002 New Jersey State Council on the Arts Media Arts Fellowship.[14]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: New Jersey Film Festival. Rutgers Film Co-op. njfilmfest.com.
  2. Web site: Rutgers, Cinema Studies:. www.cinemastudies.rutgers.edu.
  3. News: Steven . Hart . Albert Gabriel Nigrin, Movies That Don't Make the Multiplex. . . January 17, 1993 . 2008-05-27.
  4. News: Rutgers fest marks its 20th . 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. ... . .
  5. News: Rutgers Art-House Tradition Gains A Following . Nigrin, who began the New Brunswick-based festival in 1982 as a small, on-campus Rutgers event, and has seen it ... . .
  6. Web site: Festival Widens Role of Films Made in State (Published 2009). May 29, 2009.
  7. Web site: A User-Friendly Film Festival . May 29, 2010.
  8. Web site: Film Festival: Wildwood Rocks (Really) and Heavy Exit Tolls. May 30, 2004.
  9. Web site: FILM; Super 8 Grows Up With a Festival of Its Own (Published 1998). February 8, 1998.
  10. Web site: 2020 United States Super 8mm Film & Digital Video Festival. February 19, 2020. New Brunswick, NJ Patch.
  11. Web site: U.S. Super 8 Film and Digital Video returns. Asbury Park Press.
  12. Web site: United States Super 8 Film and Digital Video Festival. February 20, 2023. FilmFreeway.
  13. Web site: 2023 United States Super 8 Film + Digital Video Festival Award Winners Announced. February 21, 2023. NewJerseyStage.com.
  14. Web site: Albert Gabriel Nigrin . 2008-05-27 . Al Nigrin.com . https://web.archive.org/web/20080516034354/http://www.alnigrin.com/biography.htm. 16 May 2008 . live.

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