The
Board of Irish Film Institute is delighted to announce Sarah
Glennie as DIRECTOR OF THE IRISH FILM
INSTITUTE.
She will
take up the full time position in Autumn 2008, before which
time she will work with the IFI on a consultative basis. In
the transition period, IFI operations will continue to be managed
by Annmarie Gray, Acting Director and Head of Finance and HR.
Sarah has
fourteen years experience in the cultural realm, most recently
as Director of the Model Arts and Niland Gallery in Sligo, and
with previous extensive curatorial experience including her
appointment as Commissioner of the Irish Pavillion at the Venice
Biennale 2005, curated projects for P.S.1 MoMA, New York, and
Cork 2005, and positions at the Henry Moore Foundation and IMMA.
‘Sarah
has a weath of experience in strategic cultural planning and
of running and working in public cultural institutions both
in Ireland and internationally. We are delighted to welcome
Sarah Glennie to IFI to lead one of the country’s most popular
cultural venues into an exciting period in its’ history. In
2007 the IFI staff engaged with over 300,000 people in our continually
expanding and diverse programme. Sarah has the creative vision
and organisational expertise to build on this success into the
future.’ said Eve-Anne Cullinan, Chairperson of IFI.
The Irish
Film Institute, under the new director designate, will immediately
embark on planning three key projects:
• A refurbishment
of the IFI centre in Eustace Street to include installation
of a third cinema and improvements to public facilities, bookshop
and bar/cafe. Designed by O’Donnell Tuomey Architects who won
many architectural awards for the IFI after it opened to the
public in 1993 (a planning application has just been submitted).
• Collaboration
with Dundalk Institute of Technology on an additional state-of-the
art facility for the Irish Film Archive. The development of
this new regional IFI resource will enhance access to the national
film collection, while ensuring its on-going preservation. Access
and preservation will continue to take place within a re-designed
Archive space at IFI Temple Bar.
• A 3 year
Strategy will be published on IFI’s ambitions to 2010.
The
Irish Film Institute (established in 1945 as National
Film Institute) preserves, presents and promotes film culture
in Ireland through exhibition in the IFI Cinemas in Temple Bar,
in over 30 venues around Ireland and through Cinemobile; through
the national film archive collection; through an extensive national
IFI Education programme; and promotes Irish film worldwide through
Reel Ireland.
For more
information please contact Hugo Jellett, Head of Communications.
Irish Film
Institute, 6 Eustace Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2
(Direct: 01-6129432) hjellett@irishfilm.ie
