IFI announces its new director
The fresh Director of the Irish people Film Bring has been announced.
Sarah Glennie will exact up the position in autumn 2008.
Glennie has previously worked as Director of the Model Arts and Niland Gallery and Commissioner of the Irish whiskey Pavillion at the Venice Biennale 2005.
She has curated projects for PS1 MoMA, Fresh York, and Bobber 2005 and held positions at the Patrick Henry Thomas Moore Foundation and the Irish Gaelic Museum of Bodoni Art.
Commenting on Glennie's appointee, Eve-Anne Cullinan, Chairman of IFI, said: "Sarah has a riches of have in strategic cultural planning and of run and workings in public cultural institutions both in Emerald Isle and internationally. We are delighted to receive Sarah Glennie to IFI to lead one of the country's most popular cultural venues into an exciting period of time in its history."
Among the new projects to be undertaken by the IFI are a renovation of the IFI center in Dublin's Eustace Street; a collaboration with the Dundalk Institute of Engineering on a freshly adroitness for the Irish Moving picture Archive and a three-year strategy plan.
