The new Director of the Irish Film Institute has been announced.
Sarah Glennie will take up the position in autumn 2008.
Glennie has previously worked as Director of the Model Arts and Niland Gallery and Commissioner of the Irish Pavillion at the Venice Biennale 2005.
She has curated projects for PS1 MoMA, New York, and Cork 2005 and held positions at the Henry Moore Foundation and the Irish Museum of Modern Art.
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 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."
Among the new projects to be undertaken by the IFI are a refurbishment of the IFI centre in Dublin's Eustace Street; a collaboration with the Dundalk Institute of Technology on a new facility for the Irish Film Archive and a three-year strategy plan.
