2023 Partners & Sponsors

Thank you to our partners and sponsors for their support of the 2023 conference, our screenings, scholarships, and awards. Please support those who support AMIA projects and members.

AMIA’s Preservation Partners provide year-round support for programs, projects and publications.

Iron Mountain Media & Archive Services.  For more than 60 years, Iron Mountain has preserved priceless originals of blockbuster movies, popular songs, hit TV shows and other irreplaceable film and sound recordings. In doing so, the company helps major movie studios, recording labels, television production companies, and advertising agencies reduce their risk of losing or damaging these cultural artifacts, either physical or digital. Today, Iron Mountain continues to lead the industry in preserving and transferring analog and digital entertainment assets, offering unmatched expertise and resources, including: Experience in managing more than 21 million film and sound elements for more than 1,500 customers, including all of the top entertainment companies; A fully integrated digital studio to handle analog to digital transfer and storage for audio, video, and film assets; Highly secure, climate-controlled facilities that ensure preservation of valuable film and sound elements; A dedicated, trained, and screened staff of security professionals who keep assets secure and protected; A highly skilled team of award winning engineers to assist in digital transfers, migrations, and content delivery in 3 dedicated studios located within our preservation vaults, ensuring complete chain of custody of your assets.  

Digital Preservation Laboratories. DP Labs is the leader in migration, inspection and cloud optimization for digital archives: Digital Media Recovery, Advanced Image Lineage Verification QC, Digital Picture Exchange (DPX) Metadata Inspection, Archive eXchange Format (AXF) Creation & Verification, and Preservation Cloud Optimization Through Image Dehydration™.

DFT: Digital Film Technology.  Film archives are of great historical importance and require long-term preservation for future generations. Whether you are considering long-term film archival of the original content and / or digitization of archival material for easier access DFT offers a complete and affordable hardware and software combination for archive facilities to secure the protection of film assets.

Prasad.  Prasad Corporation utilizes the latest tools to scan and restore your motion picture film, including the DFT Scanity with high Dynamic Range technology. We focus on offering economical solutions to help you digitize your collections and make them more accessible. As Prasad Corp, our team’s years of experience allow us to handle complicated restoration projects.

PRO-TEK Vaults. Our media and archiving pedigree comes from Eastman Kodak, the leader in photographic film throughout the 20th century. Over the years, the PRO-TEK Vaults team and facilities have evolved to encompass more services and capabilities, including digital scanning and archiving services and the creation of a state-of-the-art film vault in Ventura County.  Everyone in the PRO-TEK Vaults team brings a deep respect for historical and cultural significance, creative artistry and preservation science to the important work we do on behalf of our clients. What sets PRO-TEK Vaults apart from other preservation and archiving providers is personalized service. We’re big enough to offer specialized capabilities, capacity to expand, and peace of mind, yet small enough to give you personal care, with attention to every detail.

Duplitech. The Duplitech team provides digital preservation and archive restoration services including Film Inspection, 4K Film Scanning, Tape Migration, Digital Restoration (Film/Video/Audio), Dolby Vision HDR Color Grading, and Master QC. From our humble beginnings as a physical media duplicator, we’ve been adapting, evolving, and perfecting our solutions for over 25 years.

NBC Universal StudioPost.  NBCUniversal StudioPost- a complete sound & picture post production facility for features, television, streaming, trailers, content mastering, archive management, and media fulfillment.

Tuscan Archival. Proudly made in the USA, Tuscan Archival by Lewis Plastics Co., Inc. is the industry’s leading provider of premium film containers for film preservation and archival storage. Whatever you archive, Tuscan has the complete product line to fully preserve your films in 8mm, 16mm, and 35mm sizes. As the largest and only U.S. manufacturer, Tuscan Archival’s proprietary “ProVent” design achieves premium film preservation. With rapid turnaround and a great price point, Tuscan Archival is the perfect solution for all your preservation projects. www,tuscancorp.com/

Kodak. Kodak is a technology company focused on imaging. We provide – directly and through partnerships with other innovative companies – hardware, software, consumables and service to customers in graphic arts, commercial print, publishing, packaging, entertainment and commercial films, and consumer products markets. With our world-class R&D capabilities, innovative solutions portfolio and highly trusted brand, Kodak is helping customers around the globe to sustainably grow their own businesses and enjoy their lives. For additional information on Kodak, visit us at kodak.com.

Digital Bedrock. Digital Bedrock provides secure, managed digital preservation services. Our clients entrust us with preserving and safeguarding their valued digital cultural heritage content, unique holdings, and digital media to ensure their content is usable into the future, without the need for software licenses, subscription fees, or staff training. We manage the content over time by monitoring its bit health and format obsolescence vulnerabilities, as well as managing geographically dispersed redundant storage for disaster recovery. While our preservation storage and services are off-line for ultimate security, we can also provide clients the option of “hot” online cloud storage.  We’ve preserved over 3 PB of data for libraries, museums, archives, studios, and non-profits who view us as their trusted preservation partner.  Whether you have 50 GB or 500 TB, all clients receive the same amount of care. www.digitalbedrock.com

Colorlab. Located in Rockville, Maryland and operating since 1972, Colorlab is a full-service motion picture laboratory. We offer daily film processing, printing, and scanning. With a focus on preservation, we also specialize in tape recovery and digitization, film recording, and digital mastering. At Colorlab we take pride in serving a vast community of archivists and filmmakers. Visit www.colorlab.com to learn more.

MTI Film. Providing world-class Restoration services while advancing the automation process with our industry standard DRS Nova software. Contact larry.chernoff@MTIFILM.com

MWA Nova: continuity, stability, flexibility

Experience, quality and innovation are three other main characteristics of their systems for audio and film postproduction and archive applications.MWA Nova currently offers more specialist solutions for the actual physical transfer and replay of celluloid, nitrate and magnetic film for archival purposes than any other single manufacturer.

Our sales engineer Bernhard will be happy to answer any questions and arrange for you a demo of the spinner S2! Visit mwa-nova.com

STiL Casing Solution.The STiL Casing Solution: Help Preserve the Film Industry Anthology. The film community has long understood that images and sound recordings are important in the conservation of our social memory, which is essential to our identity and sense of belonging. Therefore, they must be preserved as part of our common heritage for future generations to enjoy. Visit www.stilcasing.com 

The MediaPreserve. The MediaPreserve, a division of Preservation Technologies, provides high-quality reformatting services for audio, video and film. Using expertly-modified legacy equipment as well as current technologies, our staff of engineers, librarians, archivists and metadata specialists transfer and document your collection materials according to professional standards and best practices so that your AV assets remain accessible into the future. Visit https://ptlp.com