Snowden Becker
Snowden Becker is an IMLS and Harrington Foundation PhD Fellow in the University of Texas, Austin's School of Information, studying how audiovisual materials are integrated into our larger cultural heritage. Her research and writing on amateur film has examined the use of home movies in the scientific community to study autism and schizophrenia, early independent film productions, and the increasing use of historic footage in new documentary productions. Before coming to Texas, Snowden worked with collections of home movies at the Japanese American National Museum, the University of Southern California, the Academy Film Archive, and other institutions. She served AMIA as founding chair of the Small Gauge and Amateur Film interest group from 2001-2003, and also co-presents the Society of American Archivists' "Becoming a Film-Friendly Archivist" workshop with Katie Trainor.

 

 

Chad Hunter
Chad Hunter is an archivist for the WITNESS Media Archive in Brooklyn, NY, as well as the Appalshop Archive in Whitesburg, KY. His work at Appalshop has included the preservation of the National Film Registry-named documentary The Buffalo Creek Flood: An Act of Man, and audio recordings of traditional Appalachian musicians such as Buell Kazee and I.D. Stamper. At George Eastman House in Rochester, NY, where he spent seven years as an archivist and Preservation Officer, Chad supervised the preservation of more than one hundred films, including the home movies of Martin Scorsese and Joan Crawford; the collection of independent filmmaker Peter Hutton; unique films of Harold Lloyd, Buster Keaton and Raoul Walsh; and dozens of actuality and animation films from the silent period. He served as an instructor and lecturer at the L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation in Rochester, as guest lecturer at the Cinemateca Brasileira in São Paulo, Brazil, and as a visiting archivist at the Danish Film Institute in Copenhagen, Denmark. Chad is actively involved with the Association of Moving Image Archivists, and is former co-chair of the Association's Small Gauge and Amateur Film Interest Group. 

Albert Steg
Albert Steg is a freelance archivist and film collector living in Cambridge, MA. He hold Masters degrees in Philosophy (Edinburgh University) and English (Boston University).  In 2004 he left his position as head of the English Department at the Winsor School in Boston to pursue a career in moving image archiving.  After completing the Selznick School program at George Eastman House in 2005, he reorganized the film collection of the Baseball Hall of Fame.  A co-chair of the AMIA Small Gauge and Amateur Film Interest Group, his primary film interests are in small-gauge and ephemeral materials, reflected in his work on the Kodascope Collection at GEH and on his own collection of itinerant, educational, and erotic / stag films, as well as home movies. An avid Filemaker Pro designer, he maintains the database of screenings for the Giornate del Cinema Muto at Pordenone and provides custom database solutions for collections management. 

 

Dwight Swanson
Dwight Swanson resides in Baltimore and maintains the home office of the Center for Home Movies. He has a B.A. in history from the University of Colorado and an M.A. in American Studies with an emphasis on popular and material culture from the University of Maryland. His initial training was in photographic history and museum studies. Since graduating from the L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation at the George Eastman House he has served as the archivist for regional film and video collections at the Alaska Moving Image Preservation Association, Northeast Historic Film and Appalshop, as well as working on projects at the Human Studies Film Archives and Historical Society of Pennsylvania. He is a specialist in amateur film and regional film production and has lectured and written extensively on home movies and amateur film, including presentations at the Orphan Film Symposium, the Northeast Historic Film Summer Symposium, the University Film and Video Association, and the Association of Moving Image Archivists' annual conferences.  He is a past member of the National Film Preservation Board, and is past co-chair of the Association of Moving Image Archivists' Small Gauge and Amateur Film Interest Group and the Regional Audio-Visual Archivists' Interest Group.

Katie Trainor
Katie Trainor is a graduate of the L.Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation at the George Eastman House. She  has worked for the Museum of Modern Art in the Celeste Bartos Film Preservation Center and before that she worked as the Director of Operations for the Jacob Burns Film Center in Westchester, NY. Her introduction to the archival world was her employment as Archive Manager of the Harvard Film Archive from 1993-2000. In addition to being an archivist and exhibitor, Katie will talk your ear off about the do's and don't's of archival film projection. She is a long standing operator for the Sundance Film Festival and proud veteran of the Telluride Film Festival. Miss Trainor is an active member of AMIA (Association of Moving Image Archivists) having served on the Conference Committee in addition to curating the Annual Archival Screening night at the conference. She is a member of the Small Gauge and Amateur Film Interest Group. Her proudest achievement by far is joining Snowden, Chad, Dwight and Brian as a co-founder of Home Movie Day and the Center For Home Movies.

 

Molly Wheeler
Molly Wheeler is an Archivist at the Yale University Beinecke Manuscript and Rare Book Library. Prior to working at Yale, she was the Archivist at The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, where she processed the two artists' papers, sound recordings, and films for nearly four years. While pursuing her MSIS in Archives and Preservation at the University of Texas at Austin, she worked at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, where she built an audio preservation lab and established the audio reformatting program. She organizes the Home Movie Day for Connecticut in New Haven and volunteers to preserve local small film collections. She is currently chair of the New England Archivists Outreach Committee and is an active member of the Association for Moving Image Archivists and Society of American Archivists.