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Rutgers Film Co-op/New Jersey Media Arts Center

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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

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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

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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

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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]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "New Jersey Film Festival". njfilmfest.com. Rutgers Film Co-op.
  2. ^ "Rutgers, Cinema Studies". www.cinemastudies.rutgers.edu.
  3. ^ a b c Hart, Steven (January 17, 1993). "Albert Gabriel Nigrin, Movies That Don't Make the Multiplex". The New York Times. Retrieved 2008-05-27.
  4. ^ a b "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. ...
  5. ^ "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 ...
  6. ^ "Festival Widens Role of Films Made in State (Published 2009)". The New York Times. May 29, 2009.
  7. ^ "A User-Friendly Film Festival". The New York Times. May 29, 2010.
  8. ^ "Film Festival: Wildwood Rocks (Really) and Heavy Exit Tolls". The New York Times. May 30, 2004.
  9. ^ "FILM; Super 8 Grows Up With a Festival of Its Own (Published 1998)". The New York Times. February 8, 1998.
  10. ^ "2020 United States Super 8mm Film & Digital Video Festival". New Brunswick, NJ Patch. February 19, 2020.
  11. ^ "U.S. Super 8 Film and Digital Video returns". Asbury Park Press.
  12. ^ "United States Super 8 Film and Digital Video Festival". FilmFreeway. February 20, 2023.
  13. ^ "2023 United States Super 8 Film + Digital Video Festival Award Winners Announced". NewJerseyStage.com. February 21, 2023.
  14. ^ "Albert Gabriel Nigrin". Al Nigrin.com. Archived from the original on 16 May 2008. Retrieved 2008-05-27.

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