Born in Ismailia : Caroline Savage

Location: Philadelphia

Occupation: Filmmaker, Photographer, Media Arts Administrator, Project Developer, Strategic Planner

Caroline was born in Ismailia, Egypt and traveled extensively as a child. She studied art history at SUNY Binghamton where she first encountered independent/experimental film through Ken Jacobs and Larry Gottheim. In San Francisco, she studied photography and filmmaking at the San Francisco Art Institute, receiving a BFA and MFA. She views her mentoring with Malcolm LeGrice, James Broughton, Larry Jordan, Gunvor Nelson, Ernie Gehr and Janis Crystal Lipzin as the bedrock of her filmmaking education. She has taught at SF State, SFAI, UArts, Temple, Dickinson College and Arcadia University both Photography and Film. For 11 years she was Program Director at the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, managing the state public funding for Media Arts, Visual Arts, Interdisciplinary Arts, Service Organizations and Individual Artists. Currently, Caroline coordinates the operations at PIFVA and oversees the Cinema Speakeasy, Finishing Funds, Speedcrewing programs. Additionally, she is on the Board of Termite TV and makes large drawings with Cyanotype chemicals and digital scanners.

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