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Margaret Murray, Executive Director
 Margaret
came to Washington, DC, by way of Florida, where for two years she was
Executive Director for the Tampa International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival.
She successfully launched KidFlix, Tampa’s first children’s
film festival, and has also programmed festivals for various cultural
institutions, includiung the Salvador Dali Museum in St. Petersburg,
FL as co-director of Cinema of Agitation: Eastern Surrealism in Film.
She is the owner of Movies That Move, an award-winning roving cinema
showcase that pair site specific film screenings in out of the way and
unlikely locales.
Prior to moving to Washington, DC., she was Communications Director
for the Arts Center, a contemporary arts facility in St. Petersburg,
FL., where she worked extensively on a partnership between glass artist
Dale Chihuly and the Arts Center to create Florida’s first arts-anchored
residential development.
A life-long supporter and patron of the arts, Murray was the Amsterdam
based European Label Manager for Knitting Factory Records, a New York
avant-garde jazz label, as well as the General Manager for the highly
successful Madstone Theatre Tampa, an art-house cinema, lounge and gallery
space.
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