Albert Gabriel Nigrin is an award-winning experimental filmmaker whose films have been screened worldwide. 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. -- a non-profit organization which screens and promotes independent, experimental and artistic cinema in New Jersey via the New Jersey Film Festival and the United States Super 8 Film & Digital Video Festival.
Mr. Nigrin has an M.F.A. (in Visual Arts/Film) and an M.A. (in French Literature) from Rutgers University and a B.A. from the State University of New York at Binghamton. Mr. Nigrin has received many fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the American Film Institute, the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and the Ford Foundation for his films.
Mr. Nigrin teaches American Experimental Film, Cult Films in American Culture, and American Film Directors courses for the Rutgers University American Studies Department.
