UW Arts Institute names film festival director

Mary Carbine, veteran of film and arts organizations in California, Chicago and Madison, has been named director of the Wisconsin Film Festival. The festival, a project of the UW–Madison Arts Institute, will be held March 30-April 2, 2000 in Madison.

Carbine’s duties for the event will include working with UW–Madison and off-campus to organize and develop the festival program.

“Wisconsin needs and deserves a quality annual film festival,” Carbine says. “The university and community support for last year’s inaugural festival was tremendous, and I’m looking forward to offering audiences even more films and filmmakers next year.”

In addition to Carbine’s film festival duties, she also will manage the Arts Institute Interdisciplinary Arts Residency Program. Coming next semester to teach at UW–Madison and present public lectures are film and theater writer/producer/director Stuart Gordon and historian of photography John Szarkowski, formerly of the Museum of Modern Art.

Information about the Wisconsin Film Festival will be coming soon.