Albert Gabriel Nigrin (1958)

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. The Festival began in 1982.

Biography
He 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 and a Bachelor of Arts 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.