Staff

Jim Healy

Director of Programming

+1 608-263-9643

Jim Healy began his position as Cinematheque Director of Programming in October, 2010. From 2001-2010, he was Assistant Curator, Exhibitions in the Motion Picture Department at George Eastman House in Rochester, NY. Prior to that, he was a Film Programmer for the Chicago International Film Festival. Jim is also currently the American Programming Correspondent for the Torino Film Festival in Turin, Italy and he is supervising programming for the 2012 edition of the Wisconsin Film Festival.

Lea Jacobs

Director and Professor of Communication Arts

jacobs@wisc.edu

+1-608-262-1750

Lea Jacobs teaches film history and aesthetics in the Department of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin. She founded the UW Cinematheque with her colleagues Ben Brewster and David Bordwell in 1997. She is the author of The Wages of Sin: Censorship and the Fallen Woman Film, Theatre to Cinema (written with Ben Brewster) and The Decline of Sentiment: American Film in the 1920s. Her current project is Trapped in Time: Film Rhythm After Sound.