AMIA 2024: Full Schedule

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7:30am CST

Registration Desk

Wednesday December 4, 2024 7:30am - 7:00pm CST

Registration

Wednesday December 4, 2024 7:30am - 7:00pm CST
Registration

Registration

8:30am CST

Coffee & Tea Break

Wednesday December 4, 2024 8:30am - 9:00am CST

Break

Start the morning with a cup of coffee or tea. Thanks to our friends at Iron Mountain Archives & Media Services!

Wednesday December 4, 2024 8:30am - 9:00am CST
Break

Break

8:45am CST

AMIA 2024 Welcome & Keynote

Wednesday December 4, 2024 8:45am - 10:45am CST

Keynote

Wednesday December 4, 2024 8:45am - 10:45am CST
Keynote

Keynote

11:00am CST

Diaspora Identities in Archival Home Movie Practice

Wednesday December 4, 2024 11:00am - 11:30am CST

Session

This presentation looks at vernacular moving image practices and related oral histories as sources for studying the transformation of the diaspora’s identity through a case study of the Not-So-Ordinary project on home movies and Polish Chicago. The research project is conducted by Agata Zborowska (University of Chicago/KU Leuven) in partnership with Chicago Film Archives. In the presentation, I will discuss the preliminary results of the project that aims to contextualize films and videos through oral histories and explore the media’s potential to evoke memories and narrativize one’s experience. The presented case study is an example of how to analyze not only the movies’ content and aesthetics but also the practices related to their creation, viewing, sharing, and their role in the lives of individuals, families, and communities.

Speakers

Agata Zborowska

University of Chicago/KU Leuven

Agata Zborowska is a cultural historian with a background in cultural studies and visual culture. She completed her PhD at the University of Warsaw. Her research interests lie in the intersection of material culture, property relations, and critical archival studies. She is currently... Read More →

Wednesday December 4, 2024 11:00am - 11:30am CST
Session

Session

11:00am CST

Arkansas Voices: The Oral History Recordings of Dr. Johnye Strickland

Wednesday December 4, 2024 11:00am - 12:00pm CST

Session

In 1973, Dr. Johnye Strickland founded the Oral History Program at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. During her 52-year tenure at UALR, she and her students recorded hundreds of hours of interviews on open reel tapes, audio cassettes, and microcassettes. Thanks to a grant from the Arkansas Natural and Cultural Resources Council, the UALR Center for Arkansas History and Culture has digitized these recordings, making the stories they contain accessible again. This presentation will introduce the Johnye Strickland Collection, describe the grant project, and highlight some unique oral histories, including interviews with Vietnamese refugees, conversations with women in Arkansas politics, folk histories of Petit Jean Mountain, and discussions of craft with Arkansas poets. Strickland’s recordings feature an array of Arkansan voices – from those newly arrived to those long established – and the stories they tell enrich our understanding of this often-overlooked state’s cultural and political history.

Speakers

Amanda McQueen

University of Arkansas at Little Rock Center for Arkansas History and Culture

Amanda McQueen is an archivist, historian, and educator at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock Center for Arkansas History and Culture (CAHC). She holds an MA in Moving Image Archiving and Preservation from New York University and an MA and PhD in Communication Arts from the... Read More →

Wednesday December 4, 2024 11:00am - 12:00pm CST
Session

Session

11:00am CST

Risk and Reward: What Archivists Should Know About Film Projection

Wednesday December 4, 2024 11:00am - 12:00pm CST

Session

As archivists, we are entrusted with both the preservation and access of rare and original materials created by others. However, many archivists are not often trained to project films or understand the technical standards around film projection as part of access, which is often segmented to the role of projectionists and other technical roles. Projection of works in their original formats, particularly film, is often integral to the nature of the material we steward and can additionally help highlight artistic intent around the medium and further support archival advocacy. Presented by the AMIA Small Gauge and Amateur Film Committee, this roundtable discussion is composed of filmmakers, theatrical projectionists, and archivists. It aims to bring greater awareness to the larger archival community about special issues and considerations concerning the projection of artist-made films, archival prints, and other valuable prints of both small and large gauge formats in addition to theatrical and microcinema 16mm/Super 8 projection.

Speakers

Ben Balcom

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Lori Felker

DePaul University

Lori Felker is a filmmaker, teacher, programmer, and performer. Her films study the ineloquent, frustrating, and chaotic qualities of human interaction and have explored empathy, discontinuity, grief, and multiple dimensions. She eschews any particular style or genre in favor of letting... Read More →

Kevin Rice

Oriental Theater, Milwaukee

Kevin Rice is a cinema engineer and filmmaker based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. In 2012, he co-founded the non-profit organization Process Reversal, an org dedicated to film preservation through the practice of making and exhibiting films on film. Through its touring series of screenings... Read More →

Patricia Ledesma Villon

Walker Art Center

Patricia Ledesma Villon is the Bentson Archivist and Assistant Curator of the Moving Image department of the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where she oversees the preservation of the Ruben/Bentson Moving Image Collection. She has processed audiovisual collections and... Read More →

Wednesday December 4, 2024 11:00am - 12:00pm CST
Session

Session

11:00am CST

The Jack Warner Scripts: A Case Study

Wednesday December 4, 2024 11:00am - 12:00pm CST

Session

Archival experts from both Warner Bros. Discovery Global Archives & Preservation Services and Iron Mountain Media and Archive Services will present on the discovery, preservation and digitization of 600 bound scripts created for Jack Warner’s personal collection. Dated between the 1920s-1970s, noteworthy scripts include Don Juan, The Adventures of Robin Hood, My Fair Lady, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and many others. The collection will be fully digitized and shared for the first time, creating a comprehensive representation of the book by digitizing not only the pages, spine, and front/back covers, but also by imaging vintage publicity stills from the features that are taped inside the books.

Speakers

Hillary Howell

Iron Mountain Media and Archive Services

Director of Premium Archival Services for Iron Mountain Media and Archive Services, Hillary Howell, brings an extensive background managing all the aspects of studio and production company collections along with her experience as an entertainment archivist. At Iron Mountain Media... Read More →

Randal Luckow

Warner Bros Discovery

Alisha Perdue

Iron Mountain Media and Archive Services

Alisha Perdue is the Senior Marketing Manager at Iron Mountain Media & Archive Services, where she helps drive impactful marketing strategies for the media and entertainment industry. With a deep passion for storytelling, Alisha specializes in building partnerships that bring to life... Read More →

Wednesday December 4, 2024 11:00am - 12:00pm CST
Session

Session

12:00pm CST

Meeting: CAW Workshop Working Group

Wednesday December 4, 2024 12:00pm - 1:00pm CST

Meeting

Wednesday December 4, 2024 12:00pm - 1:00pm CST
Meeting

Meeting

12:00pm CST

Meeting: Education Committee

Wednesday December 4, 2024 12:00pm - 1:00pm CST

Meeting

Wednesday December 4, 2024 12:00pm - 1:00pm CST
Meeting

Meeting

12:00pm CST

Meeting: Publications Committee

Wednesday December 4, 2024 12:00pm - 1:00pm CST

Meeting

Wednesday December 4, 2024 12:00pm - 1:00pm CST
Meeting

Meeting

12:30pm CST

Queer Exhibition and VHS Preservation

Wednesday December 4, 2024 12:30pm - 1:30pm CST

Screening

Our screening, from the UWM Film Studies Collection’s Queer Media library, highlights three early films by Sadie Benning. Sadie’s work stands apart (including from their father, James Benning) in its DIY, punk rock, stream-of-consciousness storytelling. In this session, we will interrogate the difficulty of accessing their films through screening a VHS copy directly as a prelude to our VHS digitization project. These works, filmed in Benning’s bedroom using available materials on a Fisher-Price PXL 2000, are prime examples of the resulting “Pixelvision” style for which they are known. In tandem with Pixelvision is the difficulty in deciphering the images onscreen and risk of loss while rerecording in another medium. While watching a good-quality VHS release of “A Place Called Lovely,” “It Wasn’t Love,” and “Girlpower,” we aim to demonstrate both the importance of preserving queer voices through media while emphasizing the value of using already existing media for exhibition.

Speakers

Allison Farrell

University of Wisconsin -- Milwaukee

Julio Garcia

University of Wisconsin -- Milwaukee

Wednesday December 4, 2024 12:30pm - 1:30pm CST
Screening

Screening

1:00pm CST

Meeting: LGBT Committee

Wednesday December 4, 2024 1:00pm - 2:00pm CST

Meeting

Wednesday December 4, 2024 1:00pm - 2:00pm CST
Meeting

Meeting

1:00pm CST

Meeting: News, Documentary, and Television Committee

Wednesday December 4, 2024 1:00pm - 2:00pm CST

Meeting

Wednesday December 4, 2024 1:00pm - 2:00pm CST
Meeting

Meeting

1:00pm CST

Meeting: Preservation Committee

Wednesday December 4, 2024 1:00pm - 2:00pm CST

Meeting

Wednesday December 4, 2024 1:00pm - 2:00pm CST
Meeting

Meeting

2:00pm CST

No Reel Left Untouched - A Case Study of 150,000 Reels

Wednesday December 4, 2024 2:00pm - 2:30pm CST

Session

The National Film Archive of India (NFIA), the largest archive in India, is in the midst of a project to preserve almost 150,000 reels of film in its collection and to physically restore almost 60,000 of those reels. This case study looks at the workflows and processes, as well as new management structures created. The project is ongoing, with lessons still to be learned.

Speakers

Geetha Sanumathy

Prasad Corp

Mark Smirnoff

Prasad Corp

Wednesday December 4, 2024 2:00pm - 2:30pm CST
Session

Session

2:00pm CST

Preparing Streaming Media for Accessibility: Three Organizations Share Their Efforts

Wednesday December 4, 2024 2:00pm - 3:00pm CST

Session

Given the April 2024 updated Rule on the Accessibility of Web Content and Mobile Apps Provided by State and Local Governments, many organizations are working on plans to make their digitized archival audio-visual material accessible to all. With the vast quantity of streaming media available currently across our organizations, this panel will present the issues, the efforts that are beginning now and the challenges that will be faced. This will serve to introduce this topic to the AMIA community and to promote discussion within our field.

Speakers

Walter Forsberg

Curator of Audiovisual Media, Smithsonian Libraries and Archives

Walter Forsberg is Curator of Audiovisual Media at Smithsonian Libraries and Archives. His co-edited book on Mexican microcinemas, "Cine-Espacios," was published by Canyon Cinema in 2023. Walter's first AMIA was 2008 in Savannah, where he got to meet Rick Prelinger and Sam Kula IRL... Read More →

Jon Dunn

Assistant Dean for Library Technologies, Indiana University Libraries

Heather Heckman

Associate Dean for Technology, University of South Carolina Libraries

Crystal Sanchez

Smithsonian Institution, Smithsonian Institution

Crystal Sanchez is a media archivist at the Smithsonian Institution on the Digital Asset Management team (DAMS), working with digital audiovisual collections from across the Smithsonian’s diverse Museums, Archives, Libraries, Research Centers, and the Zoo. As a moving image archivist... Read More →

Rachael Stoeltje

Indiana University Libraries

Wednesday December 4, 2024 2:00pm - 3:00pm CST
Session

Session

2:00pm CST

Best Practices for Use of Generative AI in Archival Documentaries

Wednesday December 4, 2024 2:00pm - 3:00pm CST

Session, AI Stream

Generative AI (GenAI) is flooding our world with a dizzying amount of synthetic media, and there is little guidance on how to responsibly navigate this new reality. The Archival Producers Alliance will present the Best Practices Guidelines we have developed for use of GenAI in documentary films. In this panel, we will explore the potential risks that GenAI presents to the Archive, to preservation, to the historical record, and to documentary film--as well as ways of mitigating these risks when using it. We will also discuss the methodology that went into developing the guidelines and how we see the Archival and Documentary spaces evolving in light of this powerful new technology.

Speakers

Stephanie Jenkins

Archival Producers Alliance

Rachel Antell

Archival Producers Alliance

Jennifer Petrucelli

Wednesday December 4, 2024 2:00pm - 3:00pm CST
Session, AI Stream

Session AI Stream

2:30pm CST

Lateral Thinking with Withered Technology

Wednesday December 4, 2024 2:30pm - 3:00pm CST

Session

The domain of digital audiovisual preservation has been largely confined to grandfathered production technology. While signal processing has continued to improve in adjacent disciplines, we lag behind and stubbornly soldier onward using old technology and techniques. I'm proposing a workflow for visual restoration on image scans of optical tracks as a superior alternative to conventional sound readers and audio software. I'll show how this workflow enables results of higher fidelity, and I'll go in to detail about its archival and ethical merits. The process only uses image scans of optical tracks along with free and low cost software with a wide user base; therefore, I consider it "lateral thinking with withered technology," in the words of game designer Gunpei Yokoi, whose 16mm FMV games will be the first subject of the case study portion. We defy you to guess the second subject, and heartily ask you to divulge it afterward.

Speakers

Sydney Perkins

myself

Syd Perkins is a 2017 graduate of the L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation certificate program. She has interned and worked at multiple institutions over the past twelve plus years, including the Moving Image Research Collections, Yale Film Archive, and Metropolis Post... Read More →

Wednesday December 4, 2024 2:30pm - 3:00pm CST
Session

Session

3:00pm CST

Coffee & Tea Break

Wednesday December 4, 2024 3:00pm - 3:30pm CST

Break

Take a break and grab a cup of coffee or tea. Thanks to our friends at PRO-TEK Vaults!

Wednesday December 4, 2024 3:00pm - 3:30pm CST
Break

Break

3:15pm CST

Serious Business: 1970s Feminist Film Distribution; A Site for Archival Knowledge

Wednesday December 4, 2024 3:15pm - 3:45pm CST

Session

"Serious Business: 1970s Feminist Film Distribution; A Site for Archival Knowledge " presents the diasporic journey of a now non-existent distribution company's collection of films. Working with catalogs, ephemera, letter correspondences, oral history work, and home archives from Freude's son, this presentation shows ways to build an alternative understanding of experimental and feminist film culture in the long 1970s when films were no longer accessible.

Speakers

Amy Catherine Reid

The University of California, Santa Cruz

Amy Reid

Wednesday December 4, 2024 3:15pm - 3:45pm CST
Session

Session

3:15pm CST

Accompanying Documentation: What to Do With Paperwork Found in Film Cans

Wednesday December 4, 2024 3:15pm - 4:15pm CST

Roundtable

What does your institution do with paperwork found in film cans? Trash it? Scan it? File it? Leave it in the can? This discussion will about what types of paperwork are typically found in cans, what is potentially important to keep, and how your institution handles paperwork.

Speakers

Courtney Holschuh

Library of Congress

Courtney Holschuh is an Archives Technician in the nitrate film vaults at The Library of Congress National Audio-Visual Conservation Center where she has been caring for the Library's vast collection of 145,000 nitrate film reels since 2023. From 2018 to 2023, she was a Senior Film... Read More →

Wednesday December 4, 2024 3:15pm - 4:15pm CST
Roundtable

Roundtable

3:15pm CST

Filipino American Historical Society of Chicago

Wednesday December 4, 2024 3:15pm - 4:15pm CST

Session

The Filipino American Historical Society of Chicago: Autonomous Archiving is an invitation to experience the historical documentary-style 16mm home movies created by union pipefitter Nicholas Viernes (1902-199) and learn about the work done to conserve these films. As part ofIn this session, we will present three of the earliest films from among the 300 home movies in the FAHSC collection: “Little Farmers of Reynoldsburg” parts 1 and 2 (1936 and 1937), which highlights portrait shots of an interracial family and their farm animals in rural Ohio; and “All-Stars” (1939), featuring an interstate Filipino migrant baseball tournament at Grant Park near the Field Museum of Natural History. The families and migrant communities showcased in these home movies document bold moments of joy and prosperity within a rapidly diversifying social landscape of the early 20th Century. Presented by Ashley Dequilla, FASHC archivist and collection manager, and Rebecca Hall, Chicago Film Society co-founder and projectionist.

Speakers

Ashley Dequilla

Filipino American Historical Society of Chicago

Rebecca Hall

Chicago Film Society

Camille Townson

South Side Home Movie Project

Camille Townson is the Processing Archivist at South Side Home Movie Project. They began working with SSHMP in 2022 as an AMIA Pathways Fellow. Camille received their B.S. in Human-Computer Interaction and Design from UC San Diego, and specialize in user experience, digital accessibility... Read More →

Moriah Ulinskas

Community Archiving Workshop

Moriah Ulinskas is an archivist and moving image preservationist whose work seeks out and supports collections which fall outside mainstream historical narratives and major institutions. She is the Diversity Committee Chair for the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA), has... Read More →

Wednesday December 4, 2024 3:15pm - 4:15pm CST
Session

Session

3:15pm CST

YouTube Do’s and Don’ts: Create, Manage, Monetize, Share

Wednesday December 4, 2024 3:15pm - 4:15pm CST

Session

YouTube continues to be the second most visited website, the second most popular social media channel, and the second most popular search engine. It is accessed by 47% of the online population at least once a month. And although a Google search may bring users to your website, you may never reach those natively searching YouTube. A holistic access plan should include a YouTube strategy. In this session, Mitch Peyser, President of PressPlay2Entertain, Elizabeth Hansen, Managing Director of the Texas Archive of the Moving Image, and Skip Elsheimer, Founder of A/V Geeks, explore the do’s and don’ts, (and pros and cons) of creating and managing a YouTube channel with examples from their respective organizations as well data from the UCLA Film & Television Archive. We will cover creating and launching a channel, aligning that channel with your objectives, and practical tips on SEO and monetization. We’ll also discuss the risks, what can go wrong, and how to avoid missteps. Attendees are encouraged to bring their questions and experiences to the session.

Speakers

Skip Elsheimer

A/V Geeks

Elizabeth A Hansen

Managing Director, Texas Archive of the Moving Image

Elizabeth Hansen is a creative problem-solver with more than two decades of expertise in archives, museums, history, and media. She joined the Texas Archive of the Moving Image as Managing Director in 2020 and served as the organization's Outreach and Education Manager from 2008 to... Read More →

Mitch Peyser

PressPlay2Entertaint

After many years mining archives to create and promote classic music and video collections for Time Life, Mitch is now curating, creating, launching and managing YouTube channels including The Smothers Brothers, Bob Hope, and Tennessee Ernie Ford. The Smothers Brothers Channel has... Read More →

Wednesday December 4, 2024 3:15pm - 4:15pm CST
Session

Session

3:45pm CST

The Preservation of Digital Live Performance Art

Wednesday December 4, 2024 3:45pm - 4:15pm CST

Session

This research project focuses on the preservation of Digital Live Performance Art (DLPA). Technological advancements have significantly transformed the performance landscape, enabling artists to engage with digital technology in real time during live shows. The origins of tech-centered audiovisual performances can be traced back to dance, theatre, expanded cinema, audio and video synthesis, and live programming. With the advent of new equipment, software, platforms, projection techniques, various coding environments, and visual programming languages, DLPA has developed into a unique form of artistic expression, no longer merely a supplementary component of musical or theatrical performances. DLPA blends performance art with digital (and analog) technology and human-computer interaction. This research explores two categories: live-coding and mixed-media performances through the lens of museum conservation. By identifying conservation challenges such as documentation, technology obsolescence, and performance delegation, the research aims to develop a documentation resource to aid individual artists and institutions in preserving DLPA.

Speakers

Jenny Hsu

Jenny Hsu received her Master’s degree from NYU’s Moving Image Archiving and Preservation Program in May 2024. She is currently a Time-Based Media Conservation Fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where she works on the ingest and documentation of new acquisitions and artworks... Read More →

Wednesday December 4, 2024 3:45pm - 4:15pm CST
Session

Session

4:30pm CST

Cinema Slides: The Greatest Images Never Seen

Wednesday December 4, 2024 4:30pm - 5:00pm CST

Session

Projected glass “lantern” slides were part of the cinema-going experience from the very beginning. Slides were used for advertising products, instructing, informing (or scolding) audiences, and spectacularly advertising the delights of upcoming shows. Not only visually stunning, these slides provide unique insight into audience behavior and expectations, as well as advertising and promotional strategies. Many archives and museums hold cinema slides that have been passively collected, but that generally reside on the fringes of the institution’s collection. In his richly illustrated presentation, Rob discusses the history of glass projection slides within the cinema, placing them in both a historic and aesthetic context, as well as the archival challenges and opportunities presented by these fragile objects that many institutions hold in their collections. The presentation will include the opportunity to view and handle original slide artifacts and coincides with the launch of the online Cinema Slide Archive.

Speakers

Robert Byrne

San Francisco Silent Film Festival

Robert Byrne is film preservationist and restorer specializing in early cinema and films of the silent era. Working with film archives and collections worldwide he has led restorations and resurrections of more than forty feature films and numerous short subjects. He has lectured... Read More →

Wednesday December 4, 2024 4:30pm - 5:00pm CST
Session

Session

4:30pm CST

Introducing Moving Image Archives into Media Studies

Wednesday December 4, 2024 4:30pm - 5:30pm CST

Session

This session explores the integration of archival media into media production and digital storytelling education. By leveraging archival footage, students can create compelling narratives that connect historical content with contemporary perspectives. The session will provide practical strategies and case studies from media literacy and production classes, highlighting how archival media can enhance learning and foster creativity. The two case studies will come from two university libraries working with Media Studies courses, with different archival content, leading to a broader discussion of best practices and strategies for incorporating and potentially exhibiting student projects using moving image archives. The session will include access to example assignment prompts and files for reuse in many educational contexts.

Speakers

Jason Evans Groth

North Carolina State University Libraries

Josh Thorud

University of Virginia

Josh Thorud is a Multimedia Teaching and Learning Librarian at the University of Virginia Library. In this role, he designs and teaches audio/video and digital art instructional sessions, including software, equipment, media literacy, and digital storytelling, as well as consults... Read More →

Wednesday December 4, 2024 4:30pm - 5:30pm CST
Session

Session

4:30pm CST

Whisper AI Transcription, Human Implementation

Wednesday December 4, 2024 4:30pm - 5:30pm CST

Session, AI Stream

Since the 2022 debut of Whisper, OpenAI’s automatic speech recognition software, an ecosystem of complementary tools and modifications has evolved, now offering organizations stewarding AV materials unprecedented opportunities to leverage this tool to increase the accessibility and discoverability of their digital collections. In this session, panelists from Emory, GBH, and Indiana will discuss their experiences and research implementing Whisper into their media management and preservation workflows, discussing Whisper’s performance across varied AV collections as well as the human impacts of working with Whisper. These insights from three organizations with varied scopes of collections and distinct but connected avenues of research may be helpful to a variety of organizations engaged in similar work or interested in starting up such a project. Attendees will gain insight into the strengths and weaknesses of leveraging Whisper, the challenges and opportunities presented by the technology, and practical guidance on implementing or expanding AV accessibility-related projects.

Speakers

Owen King

WGBH

Emily Lynema

Head, Digital Media Software Development, Indiana University

Emily Lynema is the Head of Digital Media Software Development at Indiana University Libraries. Her team develops systems that support access to digitized audiovisual materials, including the large volume of content digitized by the University’s Media Digitization and Preservation... Read More →

Simon O’Riordan

Head of Metadata Services, Emory University

Simon O'Riordan is the Program Manager for Metadata Services for Emory University Libraries. He has been with Emory since 2014. He earned his Masters in Library Science from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He also has an MA in history from Queen's University (Kingston... Read More →

Nina Rao

Emory University

Nina Rao is the Audiovisual Conservator for Emory Libraries, where she is responsible for digitization and preservation of audiovisual materials. She holds a BA in Communications and Media Studies from Tufts University, an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Arizona, and... Read More →

Wednesday December 4, 2024 4:30pm - 5:30pm CST
Session, AI Stream

Session AI Stream

5:00pm CST

From Busby Berkeley to Frank Zappa: the Treasure Trove of Philip Jenkinson

Wednesday December 4, 2024 5:00pm - 5:30pm CST

Session

Private film collectors now arguably represent the last frontier of film preservation. Many key film titles still missing or even yet to be discovered, may well be hiding in private hands. The private film collection of British broadcaster and journalist Philip Jenkinson is testament to this. He was embedded in, and well known throughout the British film collecting community, which included Kevin Brownlow (film historian), and Ronald Grant (founder of the London Cinema Museum), and with Key American connections such as David Bradley (American writer, actor, director, and university instructor). He edited early films for some of Britain's most important filmmakers, including Ken Russell, one or two of which made it into his collection. Rosie Taylor has worked with this complex and fascinating collection, now preserved in the BFI National Archive, finding important connections and hidden gems, and discovering the important role private collectors play in film preservation.

Speakers

Rosie Rowan Taylor

British Film Institute

Wednesday December 4, 2024 5:00pm - 5:30pm CST
Session

Session

5:30pm CST

In Plain Sight! Women Directors: Restoration Case Studies

Wednesday December 4, 2024 5:30pm - 7:00pm CST

Session, Screening

Since 2016, IndieCollect has digitally restored more than 80 films — half of them by women directors. Kirsten Larvick (Women’s Film Preservation Fund), Sandra Schulberg (restoration producer), and Eva Yuma (restoration colorist) focus on the 4K restoration of A Question of Color by Kathe Sandler, whose negative had to be pieced together with help from the Black Film Center & Archive. How IndieCollect works with archive and distribution collaborators is part of the story, as well as our approach to programming restored films by women in theaters and other venues. We’ll also report on launch of 20-title “American Independents” film series & restoration summit from Dec 6-12 at Laemmle’s Monica Film Center to mark 10th year of our #SaveIndieFilm campaign and educate various publics about the demise of works on celluloid.

Speakers

Kirsten Larvick

Women’s Film Preservation Fund/IndieCollect

Kirsten Larvick is the Director of Special Projects at IndieCollect, where she helps filmmakers develop strategies for preserving their work through the Legacy Services initiative. Since 2009, she has co-chaired the Women's Film Preservation Fund (WFPF), which is dedicated to protecting... Read More →

Eva Yuma

IndieCollect

Eva Yuma is IndieCollect’s Senior Restoration Colorist where she has restored Solomon Northup’s Odyssey by Gordon Parks, Bitter Cane by Ben Dupuy & Kim Ives, Shadow Magic by Ann Hu, Hairstory by LaTanya Richardson Jackson, Suzanne Suzanne by Camille Billops, Suspect by Darnell... Read More →

Sandra Schulberg

IndieCollect

Sandra Schulberg is President of IndieCollect and producer of its restorations. Previously she restored her father’s documentary, Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today, and authored the monograph “Filmmakers for the Production,” which was turned into the eponymous documentary film... Read More →

Wednesday December 4, 2024 5:30pm - 7:00pm CST
Session, Screening

Session Screening

7:30pm CST

Trivia Night 2024

Wednesday December 4, 2024 7:30pm - 9:30pm CST

Other, Trivia

Test your skills, win prizes, and dethrone the reigning AMIA Trivia Champs! Do you know the name of the brewery where Laverne & Shirley worked? Or what the state lullaby of Montana is? If not, maybe one of your teammates does. Play as a team or show up and we’ll assign one for you. Eight rounds – and prizes for Best Team Name, Best Team Cheer, and, of course, the champion team!

Speakers

Colleen Simpson

Prasad Corp

Wednesday December 4, 2024 7:30pm - 9:30pm CST
Other, Trivia

Other Trivia

7:30pm CST

Restoration Screening

Wednesday December 4, 2024 7:30pm - 9:30pm CST

Screening

On Wednesday evening, AMIA hosts a surprise Restoration Screening and a flashback to the music of the 1980s.

Wednesday December 4, 2024 7:30pm - 9:30pm CST
Screening

Screening