Noted Sundance Film Festival-winning director Nancy Savaco returns to Ann Arbor to participate in the University Library’s Bilmes Visiting Filmmaker series. Savoca and her husband, as well as writing/producing partner Rich Guay, will share items of interest discovered while looking through the archives of fellow maverick directors Orson Welles and Jonathan Demme. Savoca was the Fall 2022 John H. Mitchell Visiting Professor in Media Entertainment with the Department of Film, Television, and Media. Her papers are part of the Special Collections Research Center’s Screen Arts Mavericks & Makers collections. Savoca’s films include True Love, Dogfight, and Household Saints.

Researchers from across the globe have been using the Screen Arts Mavericks & Makers collection at the U-M Library since items began arriving more than a decade ago. Books, papers, articles, movies, mapping projects, and semester-long courses are just some outcomes generated from this wealth of material.

We'll also recognize the generosity of Joshua Bilmes, who funded these four research and programmatic initiatives for the U-M Library’s Screen Arts Mavericks & Makers collection, which is held within the Special Collection Research Center:

* The Hubert I. Cohen Research Fellowship
* The Bilmes Screen Arts Mavericks & Makers Student Internship
* Open access support for the U-M Press’s Out of the Archives manuscript series
* The Bilmes Visiting Filmmaker Series