University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

The UWM French Program is grateful for the generosity of the Quebec Government Office in Chicago, HOME, Lynden Sculpture Garden, Kitty Morse, and Dr. Richard Stone. We thank the Albertine Cinémathèque, a program of FACE Foundation and Villa Albertine, with support from the CNC (Centre National du Cinéma), and SACEM/Fonds Culturel Franco-Américain.

We also thank our many UWM co-sponsors, past and present: the Department of Global Studies, Student Involvement, Union Cinema, the Master of Arts in Language, Literature, and Translation (MALLT), the Department of Dance, the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS), the Department of African and African Diaspora Studies, the Department of Women’s & Gender Studies, the Department of History, the Film Studies Program, the Department of Film, Video, Animation, and New Genres, the Sam & Helen Stahl Center for Jewish Studies, the UWM OSHER French Class in honor of Professors Gabrielle Verdier and Jim Mileham, the College of Letters and Science, the Institute of World Affairs, the Center for International Education (CIE) and CIE’s U.S. Department of Education Title VI NRC Grant, and the Milwaukee LGBT Film/Video Festival.

We greatly appreciate the community sponsorship of the Alliance Française of Milwaukee, the Milwaukee French Immersion School, and SWAAF (Southeast Wisconsin Academic Alliance in French). We extend a special note of gratitude to Professor Martine Meyer (1929-2013) and Professor Emerita Gabrielle Verdier for their vision in establishing the UWM Festival of Films in French.