As the world’s largest international association of professional media archivists, AMIA brings together a broad range of media professionals. Members represent film studios, corporate and national archives, historical societies, labs, post production, universities, footage libraries and  more.   AMIA supports public and professional education and provides a forum for collaboration among the individuals and organizations concerned with the...

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Donate here! What if painters were told there would be no more watercolors, that they must transition to oil? No choice between manual and automatic transmission in your car. And moviegoers and filmmakers had to forego film for digital files? This is what brought the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) Film Advocacy Task Force together: the need to ensure access to celluloid film as a production, preservation, and exhibition medium in...

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Why We Film Teaser Why We Film WHY WE FILM explores why and how we engage with film as a physical object and experience- why we watch it, why we create with it, why we teach with it, why we preserve it. We’ve spent the past 18 months interviewing dozens of people in a range of motion picture-related professions: archivists, film-makers, scientists, researchers, projectionists, photochemical preservationists, cinematographers. We're shooting and...

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