New Jersey Media Arts Center Summer 2008 Workshopssm

Introduction to Screenwriting
Instructor: Jeff Cohen
Screenwriting is a combination of creativity, craft, and commerce. With a strong emphasis on structure, this class will introduce students to the nuts and bolts of screenwriting, as well as the reality of selling your work and getting it produced. Film clips will illustrate specific points, and students will be shown how to absorb the rules, in order to break them intelligently.
Day/Time/Place: 2 Sundays, June 1 + 8, 2008 - 12 Noon to 3:00 PM
Loree Hall #024, Douglass Campus, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
Fee: $170 (Materials not included) = General Public
$160 (Materials not included) = Rutgers Film Co-op/NJMAC Friends
About the Instructor: Jeff Cohen is a screenwriter, novelist, and freelance writer whose screenplays have been developed by Jim Henson Productions, CBS, Gross-Weston productions, and others. His Aaron Tucker mystery novels have been optioned for television or film, and his work has appeared in The New York Times, Premiere, The Star Ledger, USA Weekend,  Writer's Digest, and Entertainment Weekly.

Filmmaking I
Instructor: Albert Gabriel Nigrin
This hands-on workshop for beginning and intermediate students welcomes those who wish to become more adept at filmmaking. Participants will shoot and edit a short film directed by the instructor. While working on this film, students will be instructed in the fundamentals of film production: use of the camera, lighting, editing, sound, and other special techniques. Limited enrollment.
Day/Time/Place: 3 Sundays, June 15, 22 + 29, 2008 - 12 Noon to 3:00 PM
Loree Hall #024, Douglass Campus, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
Fee: $325 (Materials not included) = General Public
$315 (Materials not included) = Rutgers Film Co-op/NJMAC Friends
About the Instructor: Albert Gabriel Nigrin is a cinema studies lecturer at Rutgers University.   In addition, he is the Executive Director of the Rutgers Film Co-op/New Jersey Media Arts Center, Inc., which presents the New Jersey Film Festivals and the United States Super 8mm Film + Digital Video Festival. Mr. Nigrin has an M.F.A. in Visual Arts/Film and Video from Rutgers University and he is also an award-winning experimental media artist. Mr. Nigrin was a 2002 New Jersey State Council on the Arts Media Arts Fellowship winner.   In addition, his films/videos were screened as part of the 2004+-2006 Enter The Screen: Experimental Film program in China and the1998-2001 Big as Life: An American History of 8mm Filmmaking Retro at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Also, his recent works Light Pharmacy: Part 5/Mental Radio were winners at the 1997 Sinking Creek Film/Video Festival, the 1997 Big Muddy Film and Video Festival, the 1997 Atlanta International Film/Video Festival, the 1996 VIVA 8 - London International Film Festival, the 1996 Black Maria Film and Video Festival, and the 1995 American Film Institute National Video Festival.

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New Jersey Media Arts Center Summer 2008 Workshopssm Registration Form

Introduction to Screenwriting
$170 /$160 Rutgers Film Co-op/NJMAC Friends

Filmmaking I
$325/$315 Rutgers Film Co-op/NJMAC Friends

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Rutgers Film Co-op/NJMAC
(018 Loree Hall-Douglass) 72 Lipman Drive
Rutgers University
New Brunswick, New Jersey 08901-8525
For more information call us (732) 932-8482 or email NJMAC@aol.com.