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AMIA Partners & Supporters

Support the organizations that support you and your colleagues through AMIA.

Become an AMIA sponsor!  At a time of accelerating change, AMIA provides a unique forum for everyone involved in the production, use, preservation and management of visual media.  From large media companies to community archives, AMIA is the only place where everyone comes together to share information, strategies, and innovations in meeting the challenges of a constantly evolving field.  There are a broad range of sponsorship opportunities available here.

Preservation Partners

AMIA’s Preservation Partners provide year-round support for programs, projects and publications as well as AMIA events.

Iron Mountain Entertainment Services

For more than 60 years, Iron Mountain has preserved priceless originals of blockbuster movies, popular songs, hit TV shows and other irreplaceable film and sound recordings. In doing so, the company helps major movie studios, recording labels, television production companies, and advertising agencies reduce their risk of losing or damaging these cultural artifacts, either physical or digital. Today, Iron Mountain continues to lead the industry in preserving and transferring analog and digital entertainment assets, offering unmatched expertise and resources, including: Experience in managing more than 21 million film and sound elements for more than 1,500 customers, including all of the top entertainment companies; A fully integrated digital studio to handle analog to digital transfer and storage for audio, video, and film assets; Highly secure, climate-controlled facilities that ensure preservation of valuable film and sound elements; A dedicated, trained, and screened staff of security professionals who keep assets secure and protected; A highly skilled team of award winning engineers to assist in digital transfers, migrations, and content delivery in 3 dedicated studios located within our preservation vaults, ensuring complete chain of custody of your assets.

Gold Level Partners

PRO-TEK Vaults

Our media and archiving pedigree comes from Eastman Kodak, the leader in photographic film throughout the 20th century. Over the years, the PRO-TEK Vaults team and facilities have evolved to encompass more services and capabilities, including digital scanning and archiving services and the creation of a state-of-the-art film vault in Ventura County. Everyone in the PRO-TEK Vaults team brings a deep respect for historical and cultural significance, creative artistry and preservation science to the important work we do on behalf of our clients. What sets PRO-TEK Vaults apart from other preservation and archiving providers is personalized service. We’re big enough to offer specialized capabilities, capacity to expand, and peace of mind, yet small enough to give you personal care, with attention to every detail.

Silver Level Sponsors

DFT: Digital Film Technology (DFT)

Film archives are of great historical importance and require long-term preservation for future generations. Whether you are considering long-term film archival of the original content and / or digitization of archival material for easier access DFT offers a complete and affordable hardware and software combination for archive facilities to secure the protection of film assets.

Prasad Corporation

Prasad Corporation utilizes the latest tools to scan and restore your motion picture film, including the DFT Scanity with high Dynamic Range technology. We focus on offering economical solutions to help you digitize your collections and make them more accessible. As Prasad Corp, our team’s years of experience allow us to handle complicated restoration projects.

Visual Data Media Services

An award-winning multimedia company with offices in Burbank, London and Bangalore, Visual Data Media Services offers a full range of post-production, and media transformation services: encoding, editing, quality control, content management, asset storage, sound services, and localization.

Custom built for creating, re-purposing and distributing content, our state-of-the-art, 30,000 square-foot facility in Burbank features advancements in 2K/4K archival and high-speed film scanning, restoration, HDR and image-detection that can make what was old seem like new again. www.visualdatamedia.com

Bronze Level Sponsors

Aviary

Aviary, as a lightweight platform, can integrate with your existing workflows to provide access to your audiovisual assets through time-stamped transcripts, indexes, and annotations, and Aviary can support your automated transcription, transcript editing, and streaming needs. Aviary offers advanced security for private or sensitive audio and video files as well as increased shareability for your content. Use Aviary as an audiovisual digital asset management system (DAMS), or as a collections management system (CMS). Sign up for a free 90-day Starter Plan subscription at https://aviaryplatform.com#take-flight

Digital Bedrock

Digital Bedrock provides secure, managed digital preservation services to ensure your digital content is usable when you need it. Our off-cloud architecture combines object storage technologies with green and secure storage, so our clients have a minimal carbon footprint. We manage the content over time by monitoring its bit health and format obsolescence vulnerabilities, as well as managing geographically dispersed redundant storage for disaster recovery. As a related service, we also help clients save their digital content by migrating their data from legacy LTO to the cloud, current LTO generations, or hard drives. Storage media becomes obsolete faster than the file formats on them, so data should be moved off legacy media now. We’ve preserved 3 PB of data for media & entertainment entities, museums, archives, non-profits, and even law firms who view us as their trusted preservation partner.

Kodak

Kodak is a technology company focused on imaging. We provide – directly and through partnerships with other innovative companies – hardware, software, consumables and service to customers in graphic arts, commercial print, publishing, packaging, entertainment and commercial films, and consumer products markets. With our world-class R&D capabilities, innovative solutions portfolio and highly trusted brand, Kodak is helping customers around the globe to sustainably grow their own businesses and enjoy their lives. For additional information on Kodak, visit us at Kodak.com , follow us on Twitter @Kodak, or like us on Facebook at Kodak

NBC Universal

NBCUniversal StudioPost- a complete sound & picture post production facility for features, television, streaming, trailers, content mastering, archive management, and media fulfillment.

Tuscan Archival by Lewis Plastics Co., Inc.

Proudly made in the USA, Tuscan Archival by Lewis Plastics Co., Inc. is the industry’s leading provider of premium film containers for film preservation and archival  storage.   Whatever you archive, Tuscan has the complete product line to fully preserve your films in 8mm, 16mm, and 35mm sizes.   As the largest and only U.S. manufacturer, Tuscan Archival’s proprietary “ProVent” design achieves premium film preservation.  With rapid turnaround and a great price point, Tuscan Archival is the perfect solution for all your preservation projects.