Dennis Doros
Milestone Films
AMIA President
Dennis Doros is a co-founder of Milestone Films in New Jersey. For nearly 30 years, the company has preserved, restored and distributed films around the world that expand the canon, or as their motto says, “films to enlighten, educate, entertain and amaze. Open your eyes, we’ll open your mind.”
Lauren Sorensen
AMIA Secretary
Lauren Sorensen is a self-employed consultant and doctoral student at University of California, Los Angeles. Her research interests include digital preservation, video archives, communities of practice, and copyright. She has held positions at Library of Congress, Bay Area Video Coalition, Canyon Cinema, among others. She holds an MA, Moving Image Archiving & Preservation, NYU (2007); BA, Film & Digital Media, UC Santa Cruz.
Jayson Wall
The Walt Disney Company
AMIA Treasurer
Jayson Wall is currently the Manager of Film Archives for The Walt Disney Studios. Over the past 10 years, he has overseen the 4k preservation on the David Selznick library and restored many classic Disney live action features such as 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea, Pollyanna and Old Yeller.
Melissa Dollman
AMIA Board of Directors
Melissa Dollman earned her M.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles in Moving Image Archives Studies, and is currently pursuing her Ph.D. at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has been a librarian, a/v archivist, consultant, intern, volunteer, instructor, exhibit developer, and researcher.
Casey Davis Kaufman
WGBH
AMIA Board of Directors
Casey Davis Kaufman is Associate Director for WGBH’s Media Library and Archives and Project Manager for the American Archive of Public Broadcasting. Her interests include access, use of archives, copyright, advocacy, and supporting non-AV-trained archivists in developing AV expertise. She’s worked for American Experience and holds an MLIS from LSU.
Andrea Leigh
Library of Congress
AMIA Board of Directors
Andrea Leigh is Moving Image Processing Unit Head at the Library of Congress Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation. Previously, she was a cataloger at the UCLA Film & Television Archive and held positions at the UCLA Library, Cal State University at Northridge, Walt Disney Company and Creative Artists Agency. She has an M.L.I.S in Information Studies and B.A. in Theatre Arts from UCLA.
Yvonne Ng
WITNESS
AMIA Board of Directors
Yvonne is currently the Senior Archivist at WITNESS, an international non-profit organization that trains and supports people using video to document human rights abuse. She holds an MA in Moving Image Archiving and Preservation from NYU, and is currently based in Prague, Czech Republic.
John Polito
Audio Mechanics
AMIA Board of Directors
John graduated with honors from Stanford University specializing in digital audio signal processing and composition at CCRMA (Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics). In 1993 he founded Audio Mechanics, working on restoration, editing, and mastering projects for music, film, television, and legal industries. He has also worked in conjunction with the FBI on forensic cases and has been called upon as an expert witness.
Teague Schneiter
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
AMIA Vice President
Teague Schneiter is Senior Manager of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Oral History Projects department, an archival initiative that records, collects and preserves audio and video interviews with filmmakers. Prior to her work at the Academy, Teague worked with oral history and other audiovisual cultural heritage materials in Australia, the Netherlands, and with WITNESS and IsumaTV. She holds a MA in Preservation and Presentation of the Moving Image from the University of Amsterdam.
