Speaker Information
Ruta Abolins
Ruta Abolins is the Director of the Brown Media Archive & Peabody Awards Collection at the University of Georgia. She has over 30 years of experience working in moving image and sound archives. She has BFA in Filmmaking from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, an MA in Popular Culture from Bowling Green State University, and her MLIS from the University of Wisconsin in Madison. She has written and presented on newsfilm, digitization, and the licensing of media content.
Nedda Ahmed
Nedda Ahmed is Georgia State University’s librarian for the College of the Arts and Department of Communication. Nedda is a member of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies’ Libraries and Archives Special Interest Group (LASIG) and also serves on the SCMS Media Archive Committee. Nedda is well aware, as a librarian, that granting access—especially electronic access to things like databases, ebooks, and streaming media platforms—to non-affiliated users is incredibly difficult. Her role on this roundtable will be to lay out those difficulties, so we know what we are facing.
Abeer Al Mohtar
Research fellow at the Department of Chemical Engineering – Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal Ph.D in Nanotechnology and Optics – University of Technology of Troyes, France Master of Science in Physics – American University of Beirut, Lebanon Bachelor of Science in Physics – Lebanese University, Lebanon
Matthew Bakkom
Matthew Bakkom is an artist, researcher and curator active since the early 1990’s, primarily in Minneapolis, New York and Paris. His projects have often involved the creative interpretation of archival materials and the organization of participatory engagement within library collections and contexts. HIs first book, New York CIty Museum of Complaint was published by Steidl-Miles in 2009. Between 2004-2006 he collaborated with Adam Sekuler in the creation of Search and Rescue, a 16mm film program of Minnesota Film Arts based on the deaccessioned film media collection of the University of Minnesota. Since 2018 he has operated All Star Fine and Recorded Arts, a studio and exhibition space located in South Minneapolis where he continues his work with discarded media.
Oscar Becher
Oscar Becher is a film archivist at Vinegar Syndrome, a company focused on cult film preservation, restoration, and distribution. Within the archive, he oversees film inspection, conservation, and storage of the company’s extensive collection of genre film elements. Oscar is a 2019 graduate of the L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation and whose capstone project focused on processing a collection of 16mm prints donated to the George Eastman Museum by Martin Scorsese. Currently, he is pursuing a Master’s degree in Moving Image Archiving and Preservation from New York University Tisch School of the Arts, with focuses in digital archiving and magnetic media preservation.
Snowden Becker
Snowden Becker is an audiovisual archives and preservation professional, and a member of the AMIA Board of Directors, 2019-2021. She has been both an adjunct instructor and an administrator for UCLA’s Moving Image Archive Studies MA, and has personal experience of the issue of getting and maintaining, and providing, research library access for contingent faculty.
Becca Bender (she/her)
Becca Bender is the Curator and Archivist of Moving Image and Audio Collections at the Rhode Island Historical Society. She holds a master’s degree from NYU’s Moving Image Archiving and Preservation program, and studied Film Production and Africana Studies as an undergraduate at Vassar College. Prior to becoming an archivist, Becca worked for many years as a documentary archival producer on projects such as the Emmy-nominated PBS series’ Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise and Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies.
Tre Berney
Tre Berney is the Director of Digitization and Conservation at Cornell University Library where he is responsible for annual digital collections and preservation priorities for Cornell’s Rare and Distinctive Collections. He’s responsible for the renowned Digital Consulting and Production Services unit at CUL, frequently consulting on digital production, asset and metadata management workflows, software assessment, and user experience goals for clients throughout the University and beyond. Along with leading the Library’s Audiovisual Preservation Initiative, he serves as chair of a faculty board that prioritizes annual digital scholarship and digital humanities projects at Cornell. Over the years has worked closely with Cornell’s Lab of Ornithology, which houses the largest collection of naturally occurring sound and video in the world. Along with being a drummer for several decades, he has a background in audio engineering, mastering, and production for broadcast television and documentary filmmaking.
Shiraz Bhathena
Shiraz Bhathena is the Digital Archivist for the UW-Milwaukee Libraries. Prior to being a full time staff, Shiraz was an Archives Intern at the UW-Milwaukee Libraries from 2004-2008, spending much of his time on the WTMJ-TV News Film Project. A graduate of the University of California-Los Angeles Moving Image Archive Studies Program, Shiraz has also worked for institutions such as Sony Pictures, AMPAS, the Sundance Institute, Chace Audio by Deluxe, and the USC Shoah Foundation/Digital Repository.
Khalif Aziz Birden
Khalif A. Birden is an Archival Assistant at the Amistad Research Center and a graduate student in Anthropology at Tulane University. He holds a B.S. in Anthropology from Albion College in Albion, Michigan. His research interests are studying the people and cultures of the African continent and Diaspora, with a specific focus on storytelling traditions, spirituality, LGBTQIA+ experiences, black literature and media and pre-colonial African societies.
Amos Bishi
Amos Bishi is a Lecturer in audiovisual archiving and is based at Harare Polytechnic’s School of Library and Information Science. He holds a Master of Science Degree in Information Science from the University of South Africa (UNISA). He is a visiting fellow audiovisual archivist at the National Archives of Zimbabwe.
Hayden Blankenship
Hayden is a operator in the film studio at Memnon Archiving Services in Bloomington, Indiana, where he’s worked on multiple film preservation projects since 2017. He has inspected and digitized a huge quantity of film in a wide variety of conditions during his time at Memnon.
Guillaume Boure
Guillaume Boure is a time-based media preservation professional, independent footage researcher and translator for moving image and oral history projects. Since 2020, he is working with the Oral History Projects department at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The year before moving to Los Angeles, Guillaume was doing research and translations in Paris on two ambitious non-fiction projects, Yves Jeuland’s extensive documentary: Charlie Chaplin, The Genius of Liberty – on the artist’s career, social activism and life controversies, while also helping out on the last season of Serge Viallet’s award-winning series, Mysteries in the Archives, in collaboration with the Sherman Grinberg Film Library. Guillaume has been an active AMIA member ever since he joined the organization in 2020. His active involvement led him to be appointed to tri-chair the Advocacy Committee of the AMIA Board with Valeria Dávilla Gronros and Casey Davis Kaufman. Guillaume is also an active member of the International Sub-Committee of the Continuing Education Advisory (CEA) Task Force and the Oral History Committee. He co-founded the AMIA Student Chapter at INAsup – the French National Audiovisual Institute, from which he recently graduated with a Master’s in Audiovisual Heritage Management
Bill Brand
Bill Brand is an artist, educator and film preservationist. Through his company BB Optics, Inc. he has preserved hundreds of small gauge films and films by artists since 1976. His own experimental and documentary films, videos and installations have exhibited extensively worldwide in museums, microcinemas and on television and have been featured in major film festivals including Berlin Film Festival and New Directors/ New Films Festival. His 1980 public artwork, Masstransiscope, a mural in a NYC subway tunnel that is animated by the movement of passing trains, is in the permanent collection of the MTA Arts and Design. His paintings and works on paper are represented by Galerie Arnaud Lefebvre in Paris and Court Tree Gallery in New York. He is Professor Emeritus at Hampshire College and teaches in the graduate Moving Image Archiving and Preservation program at New York University, Tisch School of the Arts.
Robert X. Browning
Robert X. Browning serves as the Executive Director of the C-SPAN Archives which he founded in 1987. He is responsible for the management and development of the C-SPAN Archives including its online Video Library and Congressional Chronicle that contain over 270,000 hours of searchable and playable digital video. He a professor at Purdue University and the author of seven books published by the Purdue University Press featuring research using the C-SPAN Archives. In 2010 the Archives won a George Foster Peabody Award.
Louise Burkart (she/her)
Louise Burkart (she/her) is a film restorer at the DFF – Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum in Frankfurt. She is lucky to be able to work on a great variety of titles which include early sound films, animated works and documentaries from the end of the past century. She has been presenting her a/v projects at conferences such as the FIAF Programming Winter School and the IASA. Apart from her work at the archive, she is curating series about experimental or marginals films which have been shown in German speaking countries and France.
Natalie Cadranel
Natalie Cadranel is an archivist and ethnographer working at the nexus of human rights, design, and technology. She is the Founder and Executive Director of OpenArchive (https://open-archive.org/), an experienced research and development organization dedicated to the ethical collection and long-term preservation of mobile media. Using participatory research methods and co-design, she created a free, open source, mobile-to-archive preservation ecosystem, which ethically collects and preserves media captured by groups at risk of persecution and censorship. OpenArchive seeks to protect its communities – and their media – from efforts to chill free speech through content takedowns, privacy breaches, and data loss, while preserving it for legacy access. Natalie complements her work with a strong theoretical background, having earned a Masters of Information Management and Systems from UC Berkeley’s School of Information in 2013. She was a 2019 Stanford PACS’ Digital Civil Society Lab fellow and currently serves on the board of Common Frequency.
Kathleen Carter
Kathleen Carter is a Processing Metadata Associate for the University of Georgia Libraries’ Brown Media Archives. Previously, she was a processing archivist at the Alexander Architectural Archives at the University of Texas at Austin. She received her MS in Library Science with a concentration in archives management at Simmons College.
Alex Cherian
Alex Cherian has been film archivist at the Bay Area Television Archive in San Francisco since emigrating from England in 2007. He manages over 100 TV and documentary projects per year and has partnered with the Black Panther Party, the Bayview Hunters Point community and Mission Media Archives to preserve and showcase community history. Alex holds an M.A. in Film Archiving from the University of East Anglia, taught college level Shakespearean Tragedy in the 1990s and relaxes by running up (and down) mountains.
Anthony Cocciolo
Anthony Cocciolo (he/his/him) is the Dean of the School of Information at Pratt Institute in New York City. His research and teaching are in the area of archives and digital preservation. He completed his doctorate from the Communication, Media, and Learning Technologies Design program at Teachers College, Columbia University. Prior to Pratt, he was the Head of Technology for the Gottesman Libraries at Teachers College, Columbia University. He completed his undergraduate degree in Computer Science from the University of California, Riverside. In 2017, he authored “Moving Image and Sound Collections for Archivists” (Chicago: Society of American Archivists).
Alan Cloutier
A graduate of Purdue University and 14-year veteran of C-SPAN, Alan manages the people and processing behind the recording, archiving, cataloguing, and distribution of C-SPAN video and data via c-span.org and other platforms. Alan’s specialties include: AWS Architecture, LAMP development, ffmpeg tools, database management, and project management.
Margaret Compton
Margaret Compton received her MLIS at The University of Texas at Austin in 1997, and she has been the Media Archives Archivist for the UGA Libraries’ Walter J. Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Collection since 2001. She manages the physical care of over 140 home movie collections, Georgia television news collections, campus films, television programs, audio materials, and more, from 28mm to born digital, dating from 1916 to today, all of which are being repurposed by the campus community and film and television producers around the world.
Greg Cram
Greg Cram is the Director of Copyright, Permissions and Information Policy at The New York Public Library. Greg endeavors to make the Library’s collections broadly available to researchers and the public to be used to advance knowledge. He is responsible for developing and implementing policies and practices around the use of the Library’s collections, both online and in the Library’s physical spaces. Greg has helped steer projects through a maze of complex intellectual property issues, including the release of more than 300,000 high-resolution images of public domain collection items. Greg has represented the Library in advocating for better copyright policy and has testified before Congress and the United States Copyright Office. Before joining the Library in 2011, Greg served as the copyright clearance consultant to Leadership Team Development, a business support company that organizes thousands of meetings, seminars and conferences. He also worked as a licensing associate at Sanctuary Records, a large independent record label. He is a graduate of Boston University and The Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law and a licensed attorney in New York and Massachusetts.
Lydia Creech
Lydia attended Indiana University Bloomington to get her Masters of Library Science. She worked in the IU Libraries Moving Image Archive as a graduate student worker, where she gained experience with film handling. She has worked processing large film collections for over five years and joined the George Eastman Museum in 2020 for a grant project inspecting the South Asian Cinema Collection.
Gonzalo Ramírez Cruz
Gonzalo Ramírez is an audiovisual producer, archivist, and researcher. He holds a BA in Social Communication from the University of Chile and an MA in Moving Image Archive Studies from the University of California, Los Angeles, where he was a Fulbright fellow His research is based on the preservation of audiovisual and digital archives, its access and reutilization. He has participated in different seminars and specialization courses such as: FIAF Summer School and Video Preservation Workshop (MoMA). Now he works as a media researcher in the Fondecyt project of the French-Chilean Videoart Festival and at the Audiovisual Archive of the National Museum of Fine Arts in Santiago, Chile. Gonzalo founded Archivo Roc&Pop in 2019 based on his personal archive.
Laurel Day
Laurel Day is a recent graduate of Ryerson University’s Film + Photography Preservation and Collections Management Master of Arts program, where she was the 2020 recipient of AMIA’s Rick Chace Foundation Scholarship. Laurel also holds a Bachelor of Science in Radio-Television-Film and a certificate in Museum Studies from the University of Texas at Austin. She has previously held internships at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Academy Gold (now Gold Rising) program, the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, and Austin Film Society. Her research interests include Eastern European cinema, the censorship of archives, independent film distribution, and film programming at diplomatic posts during Communism.
Eric Dawson
Eric Dawson is Director of the Knox County Public Library’s Tennessee Archive of Moving Image and Sound (TAMIS). He holds a Master’s degree in Information Science from the University of Tennessee. Former Arts & Entertainment editor of the Knoxville Voice alt-weekly, his writing on film, music and regional history has appeared in publications such as Metro Pulse, Signal To Noise, Tiny Mix Tapes and The Wire. He was co-organizer and programmer of The Knoxville Stomp music festival, and his films compiled from archival footage have screened at the Big Ears festival. He loves home movies so much.
Rachel Del Gaudio
While attending Chapman University for a degree in Film Studies, Rachel spent summers interning at film archives. Those lost summers paid off after being offered a position at the Academy Film Archive in 2007 to work with their nitrate film collection, which subsequently led to landing a job at the Library of Congress in their Motion Picture division in 2009. During her time at the Library, she has worked in the vaults, processed collections, inspected prints for film loans and has worked to barcode the vast collection. The most rewarding project has been co-creating and orchestrating “Mostly Lost,” the annual workshop that is dedicated to identifying unknown films from around the world. The workshop is an organic extension of the Nitrate Committee’s Flickr page that had served the same purpose since 2008.
Rafael de Luna Freire
Rafael de Luna Freire is Associate Professor at Fluminense Federal University (UFF), in Niterói, Brazil, where he is the coordinator of the Audiovisual Preservation University Lab (LUPA-UFF).
Emma Dickson
Emma Dickson is a data engineer, media art technician and artist. They graduated from New York University in 2017 with a BA in computer science and an honors degree in Sociology. Emma has worked at IBM, Artsy and Webrecorder as a data engineer. They have also worked as a conservation technician for various archival projects and conservation efforts, including the team that restored BRANDON, a 1998-1999 piece of netart by Shu Lea Cheang, the Electronic Literature Organization, and the team that restored net.flag, a 2001 piece of netart by Mark Napier.
Peter Englesson
CVO of Vintage Cloud Steenbeck (VCS). Expert in film scanning and film restoration technologies and processes and always on forefront of newest methodologies development and implementation of scanning and film restoration technologies at VCS. Vast experience in film restoration. Supervisor and quality control of film restoration tasks in VCS.
Anna Esparza
Anna Esparza is the Digitization and Metadata Specialist for Special Collections at the University of North Texas Libraries, where she oversees the completion of major archival projects, including the WBAP/KXAS Television News Film Collection, the Black Academy of Arts and Letters Records, the Dallas Way LGBTQ Archive and the Byrd Williams Family Photography Archive. Her professional interests include sharing access to Texas history as well as technical processes such as digitization and metadata. She has a master’s in information science from the University of North Texas.
Susan P. Etheridge
Susan Etheridge leads the film prep department for the Hearst Newsreel Project, a position she has held since 2015. The project is a joint effort between the Packard Humanities Institute (PHI) and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) to digitize 27 million feet of UCLA’s Hearst Newsreel Collection. Susan got her start working as a film technician at Colorlab in Rockville, Maryland in 2010. It was there that she fell in love with film preservation and decided to move to Los Angeles to obtain her master’s degree in Moving Image Archive Studies at UCLA. After graduating in 2014, she briefly worked at FotoKem, in Burbank as a film technician, before transferring to the UCLA Film and Television Archive, and later PHI. Susan has also done freelance research work for the Academy of Museum Arts and Sciences for their visual history interviews that focus on motion picture film laboratories. Susan received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Corcoran College of Art and Design in Washington, D.C.
Carolyn Faber
Carolyn Faber is the Media Collections Librarian at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s John M. Flaxman Library, and an independent audiovisual archivist with over two decades’ experience in the field. Faber has been associated with Kartemquin since 2001, as an archival footage researcher on Refrigerator Mothers, Milking the Rhino and The Trials of Muhammad Ali. She has served as their archive consultant since 2007, leading several projects focused on stabilizing and improving access to the collection. She has served as a consultant and project manager to archives and organizations including The Chicago Film Archives and The Media Burn Independent Video Archive.
Brenda Flora
Brenda Flora is the Curator of Moving Images and Recorded Sound at the Amistad Research Center in New Orleans, Louisiana. She became the Center’s first audiovisual archivist in 2010, and has been responsible for creating and implementing AV policy and overseeing audiovisual projects. She holds a Master’s degree in Film Archiving from the University of East Anglia, and currently serves as co-chair of AMIA’s Advocacy Committee of the Board (ACOB).
Giovanna Fossati
Giovanna Fossati is the Chief Curator at Eye Filmmuseum (Amsterdam) where she supervises a collection of more than 50,000 titles. She is also Professor of Film Heritage and Digital Film Culture at the University of Amsterdam where she has taught in the MA Preservation and Presentation of the Moving Image Program since it was established, in 2003.
Fossati is the author of From Grain to Pixel: The Archival Life of Film in Transition (Amsterdam University Press, 2009 and 2018 – revised edition), co-author with Tom Gunning, Joshua Yumibe and Jonathon Rosen of Fantasia of Color in Early Cinema (Amsterdam University Press, 2015), co-editor with Annie van den Oever of Exposing the Film Apparatus. The Film Archive as a Research Laboratory (Amsterdam University Press, 2016), and co-editor of the volume The Colour Fantastic. Chromatic Worlds of Silent Cinema (Amsterdam University Press, 2018). Her book From Grain to Pixel has also been translated into Spanish (in Argentina and Spain) and into Italian.
Recently, Fossati has acted as guest editor, together with Floris Paalman and Eef Masson, for the special issue of The Moving Image journal focusing on “Activating the Archive” (Vol. 21, No. 1-2, 2021).
Finley Freibert
Finley Freibert is a Senior Lecturer in Comparative Humanities at the University of Louisville and he completed a Ph.D. in Visual Studies from the University of California, Irvine in 2019. Finley’s primary areas of research are media industry studies, gender and sexuality studies, and LGBTQ+ cultural histories. Finley currently serves as co-chair of the Precarious Labor Organization of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, and is engaged in efforts to secure research library access for contingent film & media studies instructors, independent scholars, and media archivists.
Nancy Friedland
Nancy Friedland is the Librarian for Media, Film Studies and Performing Arts at Columbia University. She served on the planning committee for the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) Conference (2018) and has presented and written on various topics related to research for the performing arts and film studies. She has worked in many ways toward the goal of making greater access possible for library patrons, and in this roundtable will discuss issues about, and possibilities for, open access funding.
Nadia Ghasedi
Nadia Ghasedi is the associate university librarian for Special Collections Services Division at Washington University in St. Louis. In this role, she serves as a member of the Libraries senior leadership team. She has served as Principal Investigator on numerous grant-funded projects, including Eyes on the Prize Preservation Project, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, to complete the film preservation of part one of the award-winning documentary series and associated interviews. Nadia is currently pursuing an Executive M.B.A from Washington University’s Olin School of Business. She previously earned an M.A. in Information Science & Learning Technologies from the University of Missouri-Columbia and a Certificate in Film Preservation from the L. Jeffrey School of Film Preservation at the George Eastman Museum in Rochester, New York. She holds a B.A. in Communication Arts and a minor in Classical Humanities from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Morgan Gieringer
Morgan Gieringer joined the University of North Texas Libraries as the Head of Special Collections in 2012. She is responsible for major initiatives including the NBC5/KXAS Television News Archive which was awarded the Archival Award of Excellence from the Texas Historical Records Advisory Board in 2019. Her articles and presentations about preserving local television news have been featured by Archival Issues, the Journal of Digital Media Management, the International Council on Archives and the Coalition for Networked Information.
Rebecca M. Gordon
Rebecca M. Gordon (Ph.D. Indiana University) is a masters candidate in Film + Photography Preservation & Collections Management at X University (Ryerson) in Toronto, and currently serves as the Precarious Labor Organization representative on the board of directors of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, She has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in world cinema, literature and film, film & literary theory, and multicultural US literature at Northern Arizona University, Oberlin College, Reed College, and the Universidad Centroamericana in Managua, Nicaragua. In 2022 she is slated to spend six months in residency at Queens University, Kingston, Ontario at the Vulnerable Media Lab, working on digital preservation of at-risk media under the auspices of Archive/Counterarchive Canada.
Vitor Graize
Vitor Graize studied journalism and started work in the Brazilian film industry in 2009 when he directed his first work, a TV documentary about an western shot in the 70’s and then considered a lost film. Since then produced many short and feature-length films that premiered at film festivals as IFF Rotterdam, the Berlinale, Sheffield Doc Fest, IFF Mannheim-Heidelberg, Festival de Brasília, among others. In 2014 became a film programmer at Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, in Vitória. Since 2017 he coordinates the Acervo Capixaba which focuses in research, digitization and relaunching the filmography produced in the state of Espírito Santo, where he lives and works.
Michael Grant
Michael Grant runs the film scanning operations for NYU Libraries’ Media Preservation Unit, and is an instructor in the Moving Image Archiving and Preservation program. He has done work for the Standby Program, XFR Collective, the New York State Archives, the Educational Video Center, and La MaMa E.T.C. Michael holds an M.A. from NYU’s MIAP program, and a B.A. in Film Studies from Empire State College. When he’s not working in preservation, he can be seen tromping around Woodside, Queens with a 2-year-old on his head.
Karissa Hahn
Karissa Hahn is a visual artist based in Los Angeles. Her work articulates the nature of contemporary image reproduction and dissemination through the use of analogue and digital technologies. Hahn has shown around the world in various cinemas, galleries, and institutions such as the Anthology Film Archives, TIFF, Rotterdam, MoMA, and NYFF. Hahn holds a BFA degree from the California Institute of the Arts and is currently completing a MLIS degree from San José State University.
Dinah Handel
Dinah Handel is the Digitization Services Manager at Stanford University, where she works across their digitization program to provide quality services to Stanford University patrons and the community at large. Previously, she was the Mass Digitization Coordinator at the New York Public Library, and was a member of the 2015‐2016 NDSR‐NY cohort, as a resident at CUNY TV. She has also worked on community archives projects in New York and San Francisco. She holds an MLIS from Pratt Institute in New York, and a BA from Hampshire College.
Wyndham Hannaway
Wyndham Hannaway began working in professional film, video, and audio production environments after high school, 55 years ago. He encoded all the images for Carl Sagan’s Golden Record which still travel on the Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 spacecraft. Additionally, Wyndham worked as a technical director of special effects for the production of “Star Trek – The Motion Picture” which featured V’ger, the powerful alien cloud. In 1980, he shifted to video imaging and created digital image processing systems for scientists. His company coded software to interface computers to dozens of high resolution instruments for image input and output. This included digital cameras, scanners, printers, film recorders, as well as holograms and lenticular 3D media. Recently, he modified 6 cameras to stealthily shoot footage for the Academy Award winning documentary, “The Cove”. Wyndham has designed and installed large scale public art installations and museum theaters as well as the five Digital Cinema and streaming art theaters in Boulder.
Genevieve Havemeyer-King
Genevieve Havemeyer-King is Manager of Media Preservation Services for the New York Public Library’s Digital Research Division, where she oversees mass digitization, media conservation, and quality control for the Library’s audiovisual research collections. An alumni of the National Digital Stewardship Residency program, her work highlights the intersections of physical and digital media preservation with a focus on open source workflows.
Katie Higley
Katie Higley is a McNair Scholar at Central Michigan University (CMU) studying Public History, Museum Studies, and Cinema Studies. She is interested in film preservation and how films can be a valuable teaching tool in Museums.
Callie Holmes
Callie Holmes is the Digital Archivist and Digitization Unit Head in the Brown Media Archives. She received her MLIS from the University of Texas and prior to UGA worked at the Library of Congress.
Libby Savage Hopfauf
Libby Savage Hopfauf is the Program Director/Lead Audiovisual Archivist at Moving Image Preservation of Puget Sound (MIPoPS) and Audiovisual Archivist at Seattle Municipal Archives (SMA) in Seattle, Washington. She received a Masters in Library and Information Science from the University of Washington and a Bachelor of the Arts in Creative Writing with a minor in Sociology from Western Washington University. She is passionate about creating resources that provide intuitive use of open-source tools, making the digitizing process accessible to archivists (with a wide variety of skill-levels) to ensure the sustainability of institutions to preserve their videotape and conquer the magnetic media crisis.
Eric Hoyt
Eric Hoyt is the the Kahl Family Professor of Media Production and an Associate Professor of Film, Media and Cultural Studies in the Department of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Hoyt is the Director of the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research and Media History Digital Library, which has digitized over 2.5 million pages of historic books and magazines for broad public access. Hoyt also serves as the lead developer of Lantern, the MHDL’s search platform, and Arclight, a data analytics and visualization app for the MHDL’s collection. Hoyt will discuss issues about, and possibilities for, open access funding and publishing.
Mary Huelsbeck
Mary Huelsbeck has been the Assistant Director of the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison since March 2012. She has twenty-five years of experience managing film, videotape, audio, photograph, manuscript and three dimensional object collections in museums, libraries, and archives. She has been a member of TLA (Theatre Library Association) since 2018 and is a long-time member of the Association of Moving Image Archivists.
Peter jaszi
Peter Jaszi is a Professor Emeritus at American University Law School, who writes and lectures about copyright law in historical and cultural contexts. He was a founder of the school’s Glushko-Samuelson Intellectual Property Law Clinic and its Program on Intellectual Property and Information Justice. Having served as a Trustee of the Copyright Society of the U.S.A., Professor Jaszi remains a member of its journal’s editorial board. During 1993, Professor Jaszi served on the Librarian of Congress’s Committee on Copyright Registration and Deposit, and from 1994 to 2000, he was a principal organizer of the Digital Future Coalition, and in 2007, he received the American Library Association’s L. Ray Patterson Copyright Award. Much of Professor Jaszi’s work in the last 20 years has been around the topic of fair use, on which he has written and lectured widely. He has been part of a team that has facilitated a series of fair use “Best Practices” for various creative and educational communities, and is the co-author (with Patricia Aufderheide), of Reclaiming Fair Use: How to Put Balance Back in Copyright (University of Chicago, 2d ed. 2018
Jackie Jay
Jackie Jay is the owner of Farallon Archival Consulting LLC in San Francisco. She specializes in analog and digital videotape formats and archival curriculum development. Jackie is the Videotape Digitization Instructor for the American Archive of Public Broadcasting’s PBPFellowship. She teaches the course Audio Visual Archives which she developed for the University of Alabama’s SLIS program and supports the EBSCO fellows throughout their internships. Jackie teaches the course Digital Assets: Tools and Methodologies which she developed for Diablo Valley College’s Certificate and Associates Degree in Library Technologies and supports the community college students by introducing them to archival internships. She is a member of AMIA’s Continuing Education Advisory (CEA) Task Force and co-chair of the CEA Task Force’s Accreditation & Curriculum Subcommittee.
David Jones
David Jones earned his M.I. (Master of Information, Archives and Records Management) from the University of Toronto in 2019. During his studies, he worked as a Media Production Technician for the University of Toronto Information Commons, an archival intern at the University of Toronto Media Commons Archives and at VTape artist distribution centre. In May 2019, he attended the 38th meeting of the Standing Committee for Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland as a student observer accompanying representatives from the Canadian Federation of Libraries and Archives (CFLA). In October 2019, David began work at the University of Calgary as an Audiovisual Conservation Assistant digitizing music, video, and data records from the EMI Music Canada fonds. In 2020, he accepted an academic position as Project Archivist for the EMI Music Canada Fonds at the University of Calgary Archives and Special Collections. David is a music collector, performer, video artist, electronics hobbyist, and long-time volunteer in the Canadian DIY music and art community.
Erica Jones
Erica Jones is a Project Film Specialist in the Moving Image Department of the George Eastman Museum. She is currently working on a 26 month IMLS grant processing the Museum’s South Asian Cinema collections. She holds a PhD in Ethnomusicology from the University of California, Riverside studying Indian Classical music and a certificate from The L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation.
Robert James Kiss
Robert James Kiss is a freelance writer and researcher based in Heidelberg, Germany. He completed his Ph.D. on pre-1914 German cinema at the University of Warwick in 2000, and has published numerous articles in multi-author volumes on horror, science-fiction and silent movies that have been acclaimed as ‘Film Books of the Year’ by periodicals including HuffPost and Classic Images. He was named ‘Researcher of the Year’ in the latter publication in 2017, and won a Rondo Award for Best DVD/BluRay Audio Commentary in 2020.
John Klacsmann
John Klacsmann is Archivist at Anthology Film Archives in New York City where he preserves experimental film and artists’ cinema. Before joining Anthology in 2012, he worked as a preservation specialist and optical printing technician at Colorlab, a film laboratory in Maryland. He is a contributing editor to INCITE: Journal of Experimental Media and runs a tiny tape label, ZAP Cassettes.
Dimitrios Latsis
Dr Latsis is a historian and digital humanist working at the intersection of archiving and visual culture. He is Assistant Professor in Digital and Audiovisual Preservation at the University of Alabama’s School of Library and Information Studies. His work on American visual culture, early cinema, archival studies and the Digital Humanities has been supported by the Smithsonian Institution, Domitor, Mellon and Knight Foundations and Canada’s Social Studies and Humanities Research Council, among others. He has published and lectured widely in these fields, including co-editing a special issue of The Moving Image, the journal of the Association of Moving Image Archivists on the topic of Digital Humanities and/in Film Archives and an anthology on documentaries about the visual arts in the 1950s and 60s for Bloomsbury Academic. He is currently finishing a monograph on the historiography of American cinema during the early and silent years. He has consulted for a variety of national and international projects in digital archiving and serves on the scholarly advisory board of Library of Congress and WGBH-supported American Archive of Public Broadcasting, and on the technical working group of the Canadian National Heritage Digital Project. He was part of the inaugural cohort of Mellon Postdoctoral Fellows in Visual Data Curation sponsored by the Council on Library and Information Resources during which he was appointed as film curator at the Internet Archive and visiting research scholar at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Before joining UA SLIS, Dr. Latsis served as Assistant Professor in the School of Image Arts at Ryerson University in Toronto where he taught and supervised students in the graduate programs in Film and Photography Preservation and Collections Management, and in Communication and Culture.
Denis Leconte
Denis Leconte Vice President, Technology Iron Mountain Entertainment Services Denis Leconte has over 25 years’ experience working for Iron Mountain, NASA, Disney, Sony, and several post production facilities, designing and deploying database and media handling systems and large scale, high-performance computing and storage architectures. He has over 20 years’ experience in post production and digital media and data lifecycle management. At Iron Mountain Entertainment Services, he oversees all technology issues over several facilities that cover North America and Europe, as well as many special projects dealing with media and data preservation and restoration. Denis has won an Academy Award for Scientific and Engineering achievement in the field of film preservation.
Hugo Ljungbäck
Hugo Ljungbäck is a Swedish video artist, film curator, and media scholar. His research focuses on the intersection of video art, media archaeology, and the archive, and examines the materiality of the moving image and its processes of mediation. His videos regularly explore queer subjectivities and tell underrepresented stories about intimacy, coercion, and memory, and have screened at international film festivals and galleries. He is an MFA Candidate in Studio Art at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and holds a BFA in Film from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where he previously served as Director and Chief Curator of the Patricia Mellencamp Film and Television Archive. He is Co-chair of the Association of Moving Image Archivists’ Small Gauge and Amateur Film Committee.
Allison Lund
Allison is a Digital Projects and Metadata Librarian with the Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO). She works with METRO’s Digital Services Team to extend METRO’s digitization, metadata, hosting and support services for digital collections and custom digital projects development. She is an active member of the Archipelago Commons Open Source project team, and loves to learn about supporting technologies and creative applications within diverse digital repository realms. She is enthusiastic about supporting and expanding access to digital resources from GLAM institutions of all shapes and sizes.
Neil Mara
Neil Mara is a 40-year veteran journalist and technology leader who served as consultant, researcher and co-author of the report. He has extensive experience in digital and print publishing workflows, technologies, digital asset management, digital archiving and digital preservation. He led McClatchy’s efforts to build integrated digital publishing systems and multi-media workflows across the company’s 31 daily newsrooms, equipping, training and supporting more than 1,500 journalists in the US and overseas. He also led the work of collecting and preserving existing news content across all newsrooms, building a repository of priceless news and data that serves journalists every day. He continues work in a consulting role in the industry, through research projects and as a Fellow of the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute.
Michael Marlatt (he/him)
Michael Marlatt is a disabled film archivist and current 4th year doctoral candidate in York University’s Communication & Culture program. He has previously worked on archival film related projects with the Toronto International Film Festival, the Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre, and York University. His research interests centre on the lived experience of disabled students and students with chronic illnesses in archival moving image graduate programs. Michael has previously written on and presented at conferences relating to the experience of the disabled archivist and further disability-centered inclusion in the archival field. Michael is currently on AMIA’s Advocacy Committee of the Board and is an advisor for the AMIA Pathways Fellowship.
Jenni Matz
Jenni Matz is the Director of the Television Academy Foundations’ Interviews: An Oral History of Television. With her guidance the program launched its award-winning website, TelevisionAcademy.com/Interviews, which contains cross-referenced access to our 900+ long-format, oral history interviews with television pioneers from Betty White to Larry Wilmore. Jenni started working at the Foundation in 2008 as its first digital archivist, supervising the entire digitization project of over 3,500 hours of video, and working with colleagues in the archival and information technology fields to create a fully indexed, time-based content management system. Along with producing The Interviews and managing its online presence, Jenni works to enhance use and access of the Interviews, including licensing the footage to third parties. Jenni has a J.D from Southwestern Law School and is an active member of the CA Bar, a Masters in Library and Information Sciences from Simmons College, and a B.A. in Philosophy from Bates College.
Thomas May
Thomas May is an Audiovisual Technician at Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection. He has a degree in Entertainment and Media Studies from UGA’s Grady College of Journalism and is pursuing an MLIS from Valdosta State University. He has worked at BMA since 2018.
Edward McCain
As Digital Curator of Journalism, Edward McCain leads the Journalism Digital News Archive (JDNA); a strategic change agenda addressing issues surrounding access and preservation of born-digital news collections. McCain’s position is a joint effort between the University of Missouri Libraries and the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute. He works with faculty and staff at the Missouri School of Journalism and the journalism industry, building a framework of linked programs and functions designed to support and enhance digital news archives. McCain holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the Missouri School of Journalism and Master of Arts degree in information resources and library science with a graduate certificate in digital information management from the University of Arizona.
Kenneth McCoy
I am an Audiovisual Technician for the University of Georgia’s Brown Media Archives.
Lizzy McGlynn
Lizzy McGlynn is an NYC based Archival Producer with many award-winning documentary and narrative feature titles under her belt. Lizzy’s work is noted for immersing viewers in the history onscreen, and she is sought after to consult with producers on how to best emulate that style. Her work on the true crime docuseries, “Ted Bundy: Conversations with a Killer” won several awards. Lizzy’s more recent work on the award winning doc feature “Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)” has received accolades for archival work and is nominated for Best Archival Documentary by the Critics Choice Awards.
Julia Mettenleiter
Julia Mettenleiter is a film archivist at the Swedish Film Institute and a technician at SFI’s inhouse photochemical lab. In this position she is working with collection management, film identification and cataloging. Furthermore, she oversees and works on analogue preservation and restoration projects and is mentoring the apprenticeship program within the film archive. In addition to her Master’s degree in Literature and Film Studies, she graduated from the L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation in Rochester in 2018, followed by a Fellowship at the film laboratory Haghefilm in Amsterdam, NL. Previously Julia held the position of Assistant Project Manager at the film restoration laboratory L’Immagine Ritrovata and worked for the Il Cinema Ritrovato festival in Bologna, Italy.
Lindsay Miller
Lindsay Miller (they/she) is a video and podcast producer with a passion for preserving old media. What started as a love of cult movies has since blossomed into a desire to assist underrepresented communities in cataloging and preserving art for years to come. They have a BA in Mass Communications from UNC Asheville and are currently pursuing a MA in Moving Image Archiving and Preservation at New York University. Lindsay is also a Research Fellow for the Digital Preservation Outreach and Education Network (DPOE-N).
Mary Miller
Mary Miller is the Peabody Awards Collection Archivist and Metadata Librarian in Brown Media Archives. She is passionate about history, access to information, dogs, and sourdough bread.
CK Ming
CK Ming works at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture as a Media Conservation and Digitization Specialist. Previously they were the Archivist and Project Manager at the South Side Home Movie Project. They are currently a director of the board for the Center for Home Movies and Chair of the AMIA Diversity & Inclusion Fellowship Program Task Force.
Laura Morreale
Laura Morreale is a Visiting Scholar in the Global Medieval Studies Program at Georgetown University, and a Councillor on the Board of the Medieval Academy of America. She is also a founder of and administrator for The Article Finder Network (@article_finder) on Twitter, and editor of Digital Medieval Studies: Practice and Preservation (2021). She is actively seeking ways to provide access to library resources, especially articles, to fellow independent scholars and precariously employed scholars.
Kirk Mudle
Kirk Mudle is a current graduate student of the Moving Image Archiving and Preservation program at New York University and Research Fellow for the Digital Preservation Outreach and Education Network. Prior to MIAP, Kirk studied East Asian film history (specifically the Japanese New Wave and New Korean Cinema), book-to-film adaptations, and documentary film at San Francisco State University. His current research focuses on software preservation, intellectual property law, and the preservation and exhibition of video games in libraries, archives, and museums. Kirk holds an MA in Cinema Studies from SF State and a BA in Psychology from the University of South Florida.
Diego Pino Navarro
Diego is a pet and human-friendly systems architect and open source software developer from Chile. He enjoys working on Linked Data, Web Semantics, IIIF, questioning AI and exploring open and scalable ways of describing and preserving human knowledge, all while helping others to implement open source digital repository solutions and solving interdisciplinary problems via computer science and empathy. At METRO, Diego manages the digital services team that advances and supports our Objects Repository ecosystem. He also develops and leads the OSS Archipelago architecture (our very own and unique take on Open Source Digital Repositories) and tries to facilitate this work by providing tools and software solutions for everyday needs in our field. He really enjoys helping others. When not developing, dreaming about code or walking dogs, he likes to build LEGOs, build toys, cook for others and do hobby research on reef ecosystems.
Sabrina Negri
Sabrina Negri (Ph.D. 2017, Cinema and Media Studies, University of Chicago) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Cinema Studies and Moving Image Arts at the University of Colorado Boulder. A graduate of the Selznick School of Film Preservation, she worked as a film archivist at the National Cinema Museum in Turin, Italy, before joining the ranks of academics. Her current research interests include the digitization of analog archival holdings and the evidentiary value of film materials.
Henry Newman
Henry Newman has over 40 years of advanced systems architecture and performance analysis expertise in solving the most complex challenges for customers in government, scientific research, and industry around the world. This comprehensive experience includes hardware and software requirements analysis and design; file system and HSM design and optimization; system performance analysis and optimization; storage system architecting; high-performance networking; and capacity planning with a focus on high performance computing and advanced UNIX, Linux and Windows systems. For the last few years, Henry has been focusing on security issues for large storage systems.
Mr. Newman worked at Cray Research in a variety of capacities for over 11 years until 1992. He was then the CTO/CEO of Instrumental until its 2015 acquisition by Seagate. Mr. Newman is now the CTO for Seagate Government Solutions and works with engineering teams across Seagate’s production lines from individual storage components to complete systems, with a special emphasis on security.
Yvonne Ng
Yvonne Ng is the Archives Program Manager at WITNESS, where she trains and supports partners on collecting, managing, and preserving video documentation for human rights advocacy and evidence. Prior to joining WITNESS in 2009, Yvonne worked as a Research Fellow on the Preserving Digital Public Television Project, and at NYU Libraries, New York Public Library, and the Canadian Filmmakers’ Distribution Centre. Yvonne has served on the Board of Directors for the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA), and on the Advisory Boards of Documenting the Now, Memory Lab Network and OpenArchive. Yvonne holds an MA in Moving Image Archiving and Preservation from New York University.
Hope O’Keeffe
Hope O’Keeffe has been Senior Associate General Counsel of the Library of Congress since November 2006, supervising all collections matters including acquisitions, copyright, intellectual property, social media, web archiving, and increasing digital access to Library collections. The LC’s National Audio-Visual Conservation Center is a favorite client. Prior to joining the Library she worked at the National Endowment for the Arts in the Office of General Counsel and in the Office of National Initiatives. Before NEA she worked as a litigator at Arnold & Porter and a union lawyer at Bredhoff & Kaiser and clerked for the DC Circuit. She attended Amherst College and the George Washington University Law School.
Tyler Ortel
Tyler Ortel is an audiovisual technician at the Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection, where he has been drowning in an endless haze of analog tape since 2018. He holds bachelor’s degrees in Film Studies and Film Production from the University of Georgia.
Hannah Palin
Hannah Palin is the Moving Image Curator at the University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections. She was instrumental in creating the moving image preservation program and has worked on numerous grant-funded projects over the course of her nearly two decades at the UW. Palin is one of the founders of Moving Image Preservation of Puget Sound, a collaborative project to assist regional heritage institutions preserve their videotape collections. She is also the host of the podcast, Beyond Scope and Content: Hidden Histories from the Film Archive. The UW is home to the KIRO-TV Daily News Broadcast Videotape Collection and Palin is becoming an expert on serial killers of the Pacific Northwest.
Keith Pendergrass
Keith Pendergrass is the digital archivist for Baker Library Special Collections at Harvard Business School, where he develops and oversees born-digital content workflows. His research interests include integration of sustainability principles into digital archives standard practice, systems thinking, energy efficiency, and clean energy and transportation. He holds an MSLIS from Simmons College and a BA from Amherst College.
Moisés L. Pinto
Associate Professor at the Department of Chemical Engineering – Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal Ph.D in Physical Chemistry – University of Lisbon, Portugal President of CERENA research center and Assistant Secretary General of the Portuguese Chemical Society Co-author of over 82 peer-reviewed publications (h-index 27; more than 2270 citations) Co-author of 10 patents.
William Plotnick
William Plotnick is the Executive Director of Cinelimite, a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving Brazilian Cinema and exhibiting repertory Brazilian films. William is a current graduate student of New York University’s Moving Image Archives and Preservation program. He holds a Master’s degree in Cinema Studies from Columbia University and a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Massachusetts in Comparative Literature.
Kathryn Ramey
Kathryn Ramey is a filmmaker and anthropologist whose work operates at the intersection of experimental film processes and ethnographic research. Her award-winning and strongly personal films are characterized by manipulation of the celluloid including hand-processing, optical printing, and various direct animation techniques. Most recently she has been focused on creating an anti-colonial film practice with collaborators in Puerto Rico and researching environmentally friendly photochemical processes utilizing indigenous flora. She is deeply committed to sharing her knowledge of alternative analogue technologies through workshops and publications. Ramey’s scholarly interest is focused on the social history of the Avant-Garde film community, the anthropology of visual communication and the intersection between avant-garde and ethnographic film and art practices. Her book Experimental Filmmaking: BREAK THE MACHINE (Focal Press 2016) is a thinly veiled experimental ethnography on the contemporary experimental film scene masquerading as a textbook on experimental film techniques written in the freehand voice of a zine.
Lorena Ramírez-López
Lorena Ramírez-López is an alum from the National Digital Stewardship Residency of the American Archive of Public Broadcasting, a graduate of the Moving Image Archiving and Preservation program at New York University, and member of XFR Collective in NYC. A native New Yorker from Queens, Lorena has been actively involved in open-source projects, hackathons, and international collaborations.
Miguel Resendiz
Miguel Resendiz is an emerging memory worker interested in the field of time-based media conservation. He has been a conservation intern at several museums in Washington, DC, including the National Gallery of Art, The Phillips Collection, and the Smithsonian Institution Archives. He holds bachelor’s degrees in studio art, art history, and anthropology from the University of Maryland.
Ant Rowstron
Ant Rowstron is a Distinguished Engineer at Microsoft Research in Cambridge and leads a team looking at future technologies for the cloud. He is particularly passionate about creating new systems to support cloud storage, and Project Silica is looking at how to use glass as a media for long-term archival storage (for more information see #OpticsForTheCloud). Ant has been at Microsoft for over 22 years, and before that was at Cambridge University. Ant has received the ACM SIGOPS Mark Weiser Award and the EuroSys lifetime achievement award. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the British Computer Society
Lisa Russ
Lisa Russ is a PhD candidate at the University of Canberra investigating the presence of triphenyl phosphate (TPP) in heritage collections and the risk to those entrusted with collection care. Lisa was introduced to plastics conservation in the form of motion picture film in her undergraduate during a conservation research internship and subsequent work with the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia. She is currently an intern in the Photo, Film and Sound Lab at the Australian War Memorial where she is using fourier transform infrared spectroscopy to identify TPP in plastic heritage objects. She holds BAs from Carleton University (Art History and English, Hons, and Psychology, Hons), a BEd from Nipissing University, and a BA from the University of Canberra (Heritage, Museums and Conservation, and Arts, Hons).
Elise Schierbeek
Elise serves as the Archive and Distribution Associate at Kartemquin Films, managing the organization’s digital collections, coordinating licensing and print traffic, as well as consulting on archival strategy with Kartemquin filmmakers. Elise joined the Kartemquin team in 2019, serving as the primary attendant to the Kartemquin Archive Project, a decades-long effort to inventory and preserve the aging media and ephemera from KTQ’s 55 years of independent documentary filmmaking. Before joining Kartemquin, Elise worked as an assistant in the John M. Flaxman Library Audiovisual Archives and the Gene Siskel Film Center. They received their BFA in film, video, and animation from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Elise is a visual artist and writer.
Abigail Sebaly
Abigail Sebaly is Archivist, Documentary Heritage Community Programs, at Western Front in Vancouver, BC. She recently completed a dual Master of Archival Studies and Master of Library and Information Studies with a First Nations Curriculum Concentration at the University of British Columbia. Abi also has an extensive background in dance and arts administration, and was inspired to formalise her archival training while cataloguing the Merce Cunningham Dance Company’s collection of sets and costumes at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. She also holds degrees from the University of Michigan and the University of Chicago.
Adam Sekuler
Adam Sekuler is a filmmaker, curator, educator and editor. Screening in forums and film festivals throughout the US and internationally, his many alternative films strike a delicate balance between stylization and naturalism, creating a poetic and lyrical form of visual storytelling. His feature length documentary Tomorrow Never Knows won the Radical Empathy Jury Award at the Chicago Underground Film Festival (CUFF) where his film 36 Hours also won the Carolee Schneemann Award also at CUFF. He holds an MFA in Studio Arts from the University of Colorado, Boulder, is Founder and Programmer of Radar: Exchanges in Dance Film Frequencies, and was Program Director for Northwest Film Forum (Seattle) and Minnesota Film Arts. His work has screened at the BFI, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Film Society of Lincoln Center, Anthology Film Archives, Walker Art Center, Seattle Art Museum, Museum of the Moving Image, and dozens of other venues around the globe.
Steven Sielaff
Steven Sielaff is Senior Editor & Collections Manager at the Baylor University Institute for Oral History in Waco, TX. During the last ten years he has held positions ranging from graduate student to senior lecturer, working on various web-based and multimedia projects, including For the Greater Good: Philanthropy in Waco, the Texas Holocaust and Genocide Commission’s Texas Liberators Oral History Project, and War Comes to Waco, A WWI digital exhibit. Steven has also conducted many institutional oral histories, including series on both the Dr Pepper Museum and Baylor’s Mayborn Museum Complex, as well as a forty-interview series on the history of Baylor University. In his supervisory role he oversees every technical aspect of processing, preserving, and disseminating Baylor’s oral history collection of over 7000 interviews. He directs the digitization of BUIOH’s analog collection, oversees the Institute’s web presence, and spearheads the migration of transcripts and audio files to the institute’s searchable online database powered by Quartex. He is currently Editor-in-Chief of the Texas Oral History Association’s annual journal, Sound Historian, serves as chair of the Oral History Association’s Metadata Task Force, and is Managing Editor for the H-OralHist listserv.
Amy Sloper
Amy Sloper is the Collections Archivist at the Harvard Film Archive. Prior to this, she served as the Film Archivist at the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research in Madison, Wisconsin from 2014-2019 and was the Assistant Film Conservator at the Harvard Film Archive from 2007-2014. She is a founding member of the Community Archiving Workshop and serves on the board of the Center for Home Movies.
Heather Sonntag
Heather Sonntag, PhD, MLIS, she/her, is an associate archivist with the Center for Railroad Photography & Art, and an assistant archivist of visual materials at the Wisconsin Historical Society (WHS) in Madison. Heather processed the WTMJ News Film Project from 2018-2021, one of several projects she has worked on while at WHS. Originally from Albuquerque, New Mexico, Madison has been her home for the past two decades.
Lauren Sorensen (she/her)
Lauren Sorensen (she/her) serves as Program Director for the Digital Preservation Outreach & Education Network (DPOE-N) initiative, based at the Pratt Institute School of Information. As a consultant and educator, she specializes in moving image preservation and conservation, digital preservation and access, and independent media. Over the past fifteen years, Sorensen has been employed by institutions such as Bay Area Video Coalition, Library of Congress, Canyon Cinema and as a consultant has worked with the City of Los Angeles, Glenstone Museum, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, among others. She has previously served on the Association of Moving Image Archivists’ Board of Directors, is currently on the editorial board for The Moving Image journal, and is a contributing author to Archival Accessioning (published 2021, Society of American Archivists). She holds an MA from New York University in Moving Image Archiving & Preservation, and a BA from University of California, Santa Cruz.
Linda Tadic
Linda Tadic is Founder/CEO of Digital Bedrock, a managed digital preservation service that helps libraries, archives, museums, producers, studios, artists, and individuals preserve their digital content. She is also a Lecturer in UCLA’s Department of Information Studies, teaching a course on Digital Asset Management. She was previously an adjunct professor in NYU’s Moving Image Archiving and Preservation program. Her over 35 years’ experience includes positions at HBO, ARTstor, the Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection at the University of Georgia, Pacific Film Archive, and the UCLA Film and Television Archive. Ms. Tadic consults and lectures on digital asset management, audiovisual and digital preservation, copyright, metadata, and the impact of digital preservation on the environment. She is a founding member and former President of the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA), and is currently on the National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA) Coordinating Committee.
Ms. Tadic is the recipient of the 2021 SMPTE James A. Lindner Archival Technology Medal.
Kimberly Tarr
Kimberly Tarr is the head of the media preservation unit in the Barbara Goldsmith Preservation & Conservation Department at New York University Libraries. In this role, she oversees preservation activities for all archival film, video, and audio collections. She received her B.A. in American Studies from the University of California, Berkeley and her M.A. from New York University’s Moving Image Archiving and Preservation (MIAP), a graduate program in which she has served as an adjunct instructor since 2012. Recent projects include the restoration of The Grim Game (1919), the first feature film to star Harry Houdini which was long thought to be a lost silent film. She served as the MIAP Faculty Associate Director from 2018-19.
Laura Jean Treat
Laura Treat is the Curator of Moving Image Collections and Film & Media Studies Subject Librarian at UC Santa Barbara. She previously worked at Austin PBS, the Texas Archive of the Moving Image, and the University of North Texas where her work focused on preserving and providing access to local broadcast television and regional non-theatrical moving image collections. She is co-chair of AMIA’s News, Documentary, & Television Committee and the Local TV Task Force.
Louisa Trott
Louisa Trott is the liaison subject librarian for Cinema Studies and Theatre at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She is a graduate of the University of East Anglia’s film archiving master’s program, and has worked with amateur film collections at regional and national film archives including the Imperial War Museum, London, and Screen Archive South East, Brighton. In 2005, she co-founded the Tennessee Archive of Moving Image and Sound in Knoxville. Loves: early color processes for amateur filmmakers, behavior and body language in home movies, and making cyanotypes of film reels.
Chalida Uabumrungjit
Chalida Uabumrungjit serves as the Director of the Film Archive, Thailand since 2018. She graduated in film from Thammasat University and film archiving from University of East Anglia,UK. She coordinated programmes of Thai films for various international festivals and was also involved in making a number of experimental films and documentaries before joining the film archive. Since 2013, she is one of the Executive Committee of FIAF(International Federation of Film Archives).
Andy Uhrich
Andy is the Curator of Film and Media at the Washington University Libraries. The one in St. Louis. He also volunteers for AMIA on its Continuing Education Taskforce and Pathways fellowship program.
Shawn VanCour
Shawn VanCour is associate professor of Information Studies and Film, Television & Digital Media at the University of California, Los Angeles. His scholarship focuses on the history and preservation of US-based sound and moving image media. He serves as project director for UCLA’s School of Education & Information Studies Center for Preservation of Audiovisual Heritage and directs the Radio Preservation Task Force of the Library of Congress’s National Recording Preservation Board.
Erly Vieira Jr.
Erly Vieira Jr is a writer, filmmaker, researcher, professor and audiovisual curator. He lives and works in Vitória, Brazil. He is an associate professor at the Department of Communication at the Federal University of Espírito Santo (UFES). Erly holds a Ph.D. in Communication and Culture from UFRJ (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2012) and held a postdoctoral degree at UFF (Niterói, Brazil, 2020). He has published five books, four of them on Espírito Santo’s cinema and arts. Since 2012 he has been one of the curators of the Vitória Film Festival. He has made ten short films, between fiction and documentary and is now working on his first feature film, “Presence”, scheduled for 2022.
Patricia Ledesma Villon
Patricia Ledesma Villon is a graduate student at UCLA’s MLIS/Media Archival Studies program, where she is the 2021 recipient of AMIA’s Rick Chace Foundation Scholarship. She previously worked as a production archival assistant with the Center for Asian American Media for the 2020 PBS documentary The Asian Americans and is a co-programmer for Light Field, an international exhibition of recent and historical experimental moving image art on celluloid held in San Francisco. She received her B.A. in Media Studies from UC Berkeley and currently serves as co-chair of AMIA’s Small Gauge and Amateur Film Committee. She is also currently researching the role of artist-run and commercial film laboratories in the moving image archiving and preservation field.
Eriona Vyshka
Eriona Vyshka joined the staff of the Albanian Film Archive (AQSHF) in 2001. She is in charge of the cataloging and office management department. Eriona has edited several catalogs and periodicals published by the Albanian Film Archive. She has collaborated with the Albanian National Film Center and served as the Albanian representative to several Southeast European Cinema meetings, an international cinema network that the Albanian National Film Center joined in 2003. As an experienced archivist, Eriona represents the archives at several regional and European professionals’ meetings and serves as the liaison and project coordinator between the Albanian Film Archive and other collaborators or initiatives AQSHF works with, dedicated to preserving, restoring and promoting Albanian film heritage. Eriona holds an MA in Literature from Tirana University; her research is focused on the adaptation process from novel into film.
Jamie Marie Wagner
Jamie Marie Wagner is a Moving Image Archivist in the University of Colorado Boulder Libraries’ Rare and Distinctive Collections, where she oversees archival film and video materials and collections related to media history. She has both an MA in Film and MLIS from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She currently serves as the Continuing Education Coordinator for the Society of Rocky Mountain Archivists (SRMA) and the Rocky Mountain Representative to AMIA’s Regional Audiovisual Archives Committee (RAVA).
Nadja Wallaszkovits
Nadja Wallaszkovits studied ethnomusicology at the University of Vienna and graduated as an audio engineer. After several years of experience as a sound engineer for private national and international audiovisual productions, she joined the Phonogrammarchiv of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna in 1998, where she worked as a senior researcher from 2005-2020. She is currently professor for Conservation and Restoration of New Media and digital Information at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart, Germany. Nadja is a specialist in audiovisual restoration, re-recording and digital archiving, and works as a consultant for archival technology for project partners all over the world. She is Audio Engineering Society (AES) Past President, Co-Chair of AES Technical Committee for Archiving, Restoration and Digital Libraries and Chair of AES SC-03-06 Standards Committee.
Michael Walsh
Curator, archivist, arts administrator and studio artist, Michael Walsh has worked in moving image art since the early1990’s. He has curated programs for San Francisco museums and micro-cinemas, Korean galleries, Milwaukee’s urban meadows and shipyards, Alaskan galleries, airplane hangars, bunkers and on mountain tops. Walsh champions the traditions of thought provoking anti-establishment practices and cherishes combining 21st century moving image practices and philosophies with early experimental film practices. Walsh is currently Assistant Curator/Archivist for the Moving Image dept at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis MN.
Lisa Wong
Lisa Wong is an Audiovisual Archivist from the National Archives of Singapore (NAS), an institution under the National Library Board (NLB). As an avid history enthusiast, she earned her Bachelor’s degree in History from the National University of Singapore and made her way towards a career in preservation. Currently, she spends her time scrolling through Tiktok, Instagram and YouTube in her quest for digital content that should be archived.
Genevieve Yue
Genevieve Yue is Assistant Professor of Culture and Media and director of the Screen Studies program at Eugene Lang College, the New School. She is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Flaherty, and has written criticism for Film Comment, Film Quarterly, art-agenda, and Reverse Shot. She is author of Girl Head: Feminism and Film Materiality (Fordham University Press, 2020).