Lost & Found at the Movies:
No Place Like Home

Dino Everett

Dino Everett is a Hugh M. Hefner archivist, punk rock musician, silent film fan, and early movie technology cinegoon. Before coming to USC, he spent eight years at UCLA Film & Television Archive working in various departments including the Stanford Theatre Film Lab. Beginning with 35mm carbon arc projectors to earning a master’s in Moving Image Archive Studies, Everett has spent his life involved in moving image field and possesses both technical preservation experience and archive-specific optimization skills.

Kate Dollenmayer

Kate Dollenmayer is a filmmaker and film archivist based in Los Angeles. She formerly managed and curated the film collection at the Wende Museum of the Cold War in Culver City, and she currently works at the Academy Film Archive as well as serving on the Board of the non-profit Center for Home Movies.

Mark Toscano

Mark Toscano is a filmmaker, curator, and film preservationist based in Los Angeles. Since 2003, he has worked at the Academy Film Archive, where he specializes in the curation, conservation, and preservation of artists’ films such as Stan Brakhage Barbara Hammer, Chick Strand, and many others. He has curated and presented programs at numerous venues—from MoMA to Bangalore, and elsewhere. He is a programmer with Los Angeles Filmforum, and has lectured at various universities on experimental film and archiving, as well as teaching the History of Experimental Animation at CalArts.

May Haduong

May Haduong is the Senior Manager of Public Access at the Academy Film Archive, where she oversees access to the Archive’s Collection. Prior to serving at the Academy Film Archive, she was the Project Manager for the Outfest UCLA Legacy Project for LGBT Moving Image Preservation, a collaboration between the UCLA Film & Television Archive and Outfest, which produces the Los Angeles LGBT Film Festival. She currently serves on the Legacy Project Advisory Committee.

Shani Miller

Shani Miller is the Metadata and Digital Processing Coordinator at the UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive. She was the project coordinator for the Golden State Mutual Audiovisual Digitization and Access Project at the UCLA Library. In this role, her responsibilities included, quality control and metadata creation, as well as management of outsourced digitization. Miller holds Master’s degrees in Moving Image Archive Studies from UCLA.

Todd Wiener

Todd Wiener has worked at the UCLA Film & Television Archive for more than nine years and currently serves as its Motion Picture Archivist, researching and supervising the acquisition of new material. He manages more than 500 print loans annually to film festivals, museums and other venues worldwide, including international festivals in London, Berlin, and more. Wiener is also the Archive’s liaison with major donors and depositors, as well as with important archival partners such as the Sundance Institute, Outfest UCLA Legacy Project, The Film Foundation, and Film Noir Foundation.

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