IFI announces its new director

IFI announces its new director

The freshly Film director of the Irish Film Establish has been announced.
Sarah Glennie will take up the position in fall 2008.
Glennie has antecedently worked as Theater director of the Model Liberal arts and Niland Gallery and Commissioner of the Irish Pavillion at the Venezia Biennale 2005.
She has curated projects for PS1 MoMA, Fresh House of York, and Cork 2005 and held positions at the Henry Moore Institution and the Irish people Museum of Modern Artwork.
Commenting on Glennie's appointment, Eve-Anne Cullinan, Chairperson of IFI, said: "Sarah has a wealth of experience in strategic cultural planning and of running and working in world cultural institutions both in Eire and internationally. We ar delighted to welcome Sarah Glennie to IFI to lead-in one of the country's most popular cultural venues into an exciting geological period in its history."
Among the new projects to be undertaken by the IFI ar a refurbishment of the IFI kernel in Dublin's Eustace Street; a collaboration with the Dundalk Institute of Engineering on a newly facility for the Irish Film Archive and a three-year strategy plan.