C. Díaz
C. Díaz is a filmmaker, colorist, and archivist from the Rio Grande Valley, Texas. Their films explore the alchemy of celluloid through the use of DIY, analog, and digital techniques. The desire to collect forgotten and discarded memories led them to a love of archives, home movies, and oral history. They frequently work with the Oral History Projects at the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences as the department’s Colorist for their Visual History Project. They were project manager, film inspector, scanning technician, and remastering colorist on numerous film restoration projects such as Belladonna of Sadness, The Estate of Ana Mendieta, and their family’s Super 8mm home movie collection. In 2021, C returned to the RGV to continue their work as a filmmaker and archivist through the establishment of ENTRE, an artist-run community film center and regional archive.
Pamela Vadakan
Pamela Vadakan has hosted Home Movie Days in the Bay Area since 2007. She is the Director of California Revealed, an endeavor to digitize and preserve archival collections related to California history – including hundreds of home movies – from partner libraries, archives, museums and historical societies. She also teaches audiovisual preservation workshops and assesses archival collections for a variety of institutions across California. She volunteered at her first Home Movie Day at Anthology Film Archives in 2005 when she was a student in the Moving Image Archiving and Preservation program at New York University, and has loved opening up, inspecting and sharing home movies and their hidden lives ever since.
Kate Dollenmayer – on leave of absence 2024-2025
Kate Dollenmayer is a filmmaker and media archivist living in Richmond, California. Before her current job at Prelinger Archives, she was a Senior Film Archivist at Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Film Archive in Hollywood. Kate previously worked on the preservation of home movies and other non-theatrical films at the Wende Museum of the Cold War, where they contributed to the curation of the 2019 exhibition Watching Socialism: The Television Revolution in Eastern Europe. Kate has given presentations on home movies at the Association of Moving Image Archivists, the Northeast Historic Film Summer Symposium, Los Angeles’s Central Library, the El Segundo Museum of Art, and the DEFA Summer Film Institute at Smith College. Kate has volunteered at Home Movie Days in Mill Valley, Los Angeles, Palm Springs, San Francisco, and Ojai, California, as well as in Tirana, Albana.
Advisory Board Members
Ray Edmonson, Skip Elsheimer, Mona Jimenez, Greg Lukow, Mike Mashon, Rick Prelinger, Dan Streible
In Memorium: Alan Katelle, William S. O’Farrell
Past Board Members
Snowden Becker (founding member), Antonella Bonfanti, Katrina Dixon, Skip Elsheimer, Brian Graney (founding member), Chad Hunter (founding member), CK Ming, Saroop (Justin D. Williams) Singh, Amy Sloper, Albert Steg, Dwight Swanson (founding member), Katie Trainor (founding member), Andy Uhrich, Molly Wheeler