Kate Dollenmayer
Kate Dollenmayer is a media archivist and filmmaker living in Richmond, California. Before her current job at Prelinger Archives, Kate 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 International Federation of Library Associations, the Association of Moving Image Archivists, the Northeast Historic Film Summer Symposium, Los Angeles’s Central Library, the Orphan Film Symposium, 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.
Elizabeth Hansen
Elizabeth Hansen is the Executive Director of the Texas Archive of the Moving Image (TAMI), where she previously served as Outreach and Education Manager from 2008 to 2013. Beyond her 11+ years with TAMI, she has brought her expertise to prominent organizations including the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, the LBJ Presidential Library, and Kansas City PBS, working across a broad spectrum of roles spanning community engagement, media production, marketing, and archival practice. Hansen has led award-winning initiatives across these organizations, including TAMI’s Texas Film Round-Up (recipient of the AASLH WOW Award and the Texas Digital Library Outreach Award) and Kansas City PBS’s Mister Rogers Kindness Crawl (honored with the NETA Special Event Award and the Social Media Club of Kansas City’s Gold AMPS Award). As an archival researcher, her work has supported acclaimed documentaries such as Winnebago Man, Karen Dalton: In My Own Time, and Oklahoma City Bombing: One Day in America. Active in community and civic leadership, she serves as Vice President of the Board of Directors for KOOP Community Radio, is a member of the City of Austin’s Library Commission, and sings alto in the Saengerrunde Damenchor, Austin’s oldest ethnic organization. A Certified Archivist, she holds an M.A. in Media Studies from the University of Texas at Austin and a B.S. in Mass Communications from Middle Tennessee State University.
Hugo Ljungbäck
Hugo Ljungbäck is a Swedish filmmaker, archivist, curator, and media scholar. His films explore queer history, representation, identity, and sexuality through an autobiographical lens, and have screened at festivals, art galleries, and museums internationally. His research focuses on queer cinema, experimental film and video, media archaeology, and archival practice, and has appeared in venues such as New Review of Film and Television Studies, Found Footage Magazine, The Gay & Lesbian Review, Cinéma & Cie, Synoptique, and Media, War & Conflict. He is currently a PhD candidate in Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago, where he is developing a dissertation on gay men’s amateur filmmaking between 1930 and 1970, an almost wholly overlooked chapter of the history of queer cinema.
Christopher Melton
Christopher Melton has collected many degrees and skills over the last several decades, and is a filmmaker, writer, archivist, and the Executive Director of a historical museum on the Oregon Coast. In his free time he designs audio for movies, explores the coastal rainforest with his dogs, and enjoys archiving objects, images, sounds, memories, and thoughts. His practical focus is in multimedia archives, combining his love of sound, film, ephemeral materials, and uncovering erased histories. Through archival research he hopes to challenge oppressive patterns within information institutions and the communities they serve, while celebrating the power these organizations have to cultivate positive change in the world.
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.
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