Brian Belak
Brian Belak is an audiovisual archivist living in Los Angeles, where he currently works as a Film Preservationist for the UCLA Film & Television Archive. Brian was previously Collections Manager and Client Services Director at Chicago Film Archives and has worked with community and amateur collections for UCLA Library Special Collections, Skid Row History Museum and Archive, and Home Movie Day events. Brian holds a Master's degree in Library and Information Science from UCLA and a BA in Cinema and Media Studies from the University of Chicago, where he was a projectionist for Doc Films. Brian serves as Board Secretary for the Al Larvick Fund.
kelly burton
Kelly Burton is the Media Archivist at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, where he manages analog and digital time-based media objects for the Gallery Archives. Prior to his work at the National Gallery, Kelly implemented and managed the moving image archives repository at the Montana Historical Society and organized the first Home Movie Day in the state. He is a certified archivist, a certified Digital Archives Specialist, and a Museum Archives Section officer for the Society of American Archivists. In addition to archival work, Kelly also participates in the Fédération internationale des archives du film’s Periodicals Indexing Project. He holds a master’s degree in History (with an archives and records management emphasis) from Western Washington University, a BA in English from the University of Washington, and a BA in Film Studies from the University of Utah.
Jennifer Huebscher
Jennifer Huebscher is the Curator of Photography & Moving Images at the Minnesota Historical Society (MNHS) and works to acquire sound and visual materials for the permanent collection in addition to promoting, interpreting, and sharing the materials with a larger audience. Prior to serving as a curator, she cataloged sound and visual collections for MNHS and worked in its Gale Family Library. She has her Master's in Library and Information Science from Dominican University and a B.A. in Political Science with a concentration in Asian Studies from St. Olaf College. She lives in the Twin Cities area.
TAMERA KAPAUN
Tamera currently resides in Fargo, ND with her husband James. She has lived in Fargo for more than thirty years graduating from Minnesota State University-Moorhead in 1994 with a Bachelor’s of Fine Arts degree. After graduating she worked in various capacities as a technical illustrator, media assistant, and most importantly mother of her two children. With an interest in preserving her family’s old photos and home movies, she wanted to do the same for others. In 2009 she started her business, TK Design, with the mission to help other families’ retain their history’s (photos, slides, and film) by updating and enhancing old mediums to current standards. Tamera is honored to serve as a Board member for the Al Larvick Conservation Fund. With her service, she hopes to educate others on the importance of preserving home movies. tamerakdesign.com
Kirsten Larvick
Kirsten Larvick is a documentarian and archivist. As an archivist she works with independent filmmakers and organizations to reach their ongoing archiving, preservation, exhibition and distribution goals. Additionally, Kirsten is a co-chair of the Women’s Film Preservation Fund (WFPF) and serves on its Grant Selection Committee. She founded the Al Larvick Conservation Fund in honor of her grandfather. kirstenstudio.com
DIANA LITTLE
Diana Little directs the Film Department at The MediaPreserve, a laboratory outside of Pittsburgh, PA that specializes in the digitization of archival audiovisual materials. Prior to her time at The MediaPreserve, Diana spent nine years working on film restorations at Cineric, Inc. in New York City. She holds a bachelor's degree in Film Production, History, and Theory from Vassar College and completed the certificate program at the L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation at George Eastman House. She previously served on the steering committee of the Women’s Film Preservation Fund of NYWiFT and continues to advise the group on technical matters. Diana has participated in Home Movie Days in New York and Pittsburgh since 2003.
Dwight Swanson
Dwight Swanson resides in Virginia. He has a B.A. in history from the University of Colorado and an M.A. in American Studies with an emphasis on popular and material culture from the University of Maryland. His initial training was in photographic history and museum studies. Since graduating from the L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation at the George Eastman House he has served as the archivist for regional film and video collections at the Alaska Moving Image Preservation Association, Northeast Historic Film and Appalshop, as well as working on projects at the Human Studies Film Archives, the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. He is a specialist in amateur film and regional film production and has lectured and written extensively on home movies and amateur film, including presentations at the Orphan Film Symposium, the Northeast Historic Film Summer Symposium, the University Film and Video Association, and the Association of Moving Image Archivists’ annual conferences. He is a past member of the National Film Preservation Board, and is past co-chair of the Association of Moving Image Archivists’ Small Gauge and Amateur Film Interest Group and the Regional Audio-Visual Archivists’ Interest Group. Dwight serves as Board Chair for the Al Larvick Fund.
Laura Zimmerman
Laura began her administrative career in nonprofit, where she worked as an auditor and Special Program Administrator. Over the years her experience expanded to supportive and managerial roles in business systems, accounting and operations for national commercial service companies. As a longtime cinephile of British film of the '60s and 70's, and enthusiast of vintage home movies, Laura has joined the Al Larvick Fund to lend her skill set and passion for preservation to its Board as Treasurer.
EMERITUS BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Melissa Dollman
Shane Molander
Brianna Toth
Rhonda Vigeant
Advisory Board
INA ARCHER
Ina Diane Archer's multimedia works and films have been shown in festivals and galleries nationally including Black X: African Diaspora Experimental Film Series, NYC; Cinema Remixed and Reloaded: Black Women Artists and the Moving Image Since 1970 at Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, GA., and The Contemporary Art Museum, Houston and she was featured in Cinema Project's EXPANDED FRAMES: a celebration and examination of critical cinema in Portland, Oregon. Her awards include residences at Headlands Center for the Arts, Vermont Studio Center, Blue Mountain Center and Civitella Ranieri in Umbria, Italy. Ina was a Studio Artist in the Whitney Independent Study Program; a NYFA multidisciplinary Fellow, a 2005 Creative Capital grantee in film and video, and a 2010 nominee for the Anonymous Was A Woman award. She is a former co-chair of New York Women in Film and Television’s Women’s Film Preservation Fund. continuumfilmblog@typepad.com.
Melissa dollman
Melissa Dollman earned her Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in American Studies in 2021 and has a Master’s in Moving Image Archive Studies from the University of California, Los Angeles. She has worked professionally as an audiovisual archivist, adjunct faculty, fellow, exhibit developer, and researcher for cultural heritage institutions including Women In Film Foundation, UCLA Film and Television Archive, Academy Film Archive, Schlesinger Library at Harvard University, State Archives of North Carolina, North Carolina State University, the Southern Oral History Program (UNC), Tribesourcing Southwest Film, and is co-founder of Deserted Films, a home movie archive in Palm Springs, CA. Melissa has published textual and videographic works on home movies, digital humanities projects, public relations films and living trademarks. Between 2016 and 2020 she was a director of the board for the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA), and since 2005 has volunteered for or co-organized Home Movie Day events in Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., Boston, Raleigh, and Palm Springs. melissadollman.com
Jeffrey Larvick
With over thirty years in the telecommunications and information technology, including 18 years with Verizon Federal, and currently BlackBox, Jeff lends his business and tech knowledge to the Al Larvick A/V Conservation Fund. Having spent much of his youth visiting his Grandpa and Grandma Larvick and joining them on road trips, Jeff also developed a love of the home movie and family history. He has enjoyed sharing his grandfather’s films with family, and most recently with the All 50’s alumni of Valley City High School, where his Grandpa Al served as Athletics Director during his time there. Jeff also spent four years as treasurer for the Michelle Pickens Memorial Fund and paved the way for the foundation to receive 501(c)(3) status as a non-profit. To date the fund has raised over $650,000 to support organ and tissue donation community outreach and educational events for LIfeNet Health Foundation, Virginia’s non-profit organ and tissue procurement’s charitable entity. Jeff looks forward to supporting his sister’s efforts to preserve home movies and historical films for generations to come.
Shane Molander
Shane Molander is the Deputy State Archivist for the State Historical Society of North Dakota where he has worked since 2002. A North Dakota native, Shane was born in Mayville and grew up in Crosby. He earned a B.A. in History from Minot State University and a Master of Public Administration degree from the University of North Dakota.
One of Shane’s duties as Deputy State Archivist is preserving over 3,500 million feet of film in the archives as well as thousands of video tapes of several formats. Organizing, storing, and appraising film and video collections for digitization has been a high priority in the archives. The society continues to collect moving images that relate to life in North Dakota. Shane believes it is important to keep moving images alive and accessible so people today and in the future have the ability to see what past events and everyday life looked like. The society’s museum division will open the Inspiration Gallery in November 2014. The dozens of video screens feature moving images selected from the archives collection.
RACHAEL STOELTJE
Rachael Stoeltje is the Director of the Indiana University Libraries Moving Image Archive. For two decades she has worked on preserving, collecting, assessing, archiving and providing access to the vast and varied film collection on the IU campus. In 2011, she formally established these IU Libraries’ moving archive collections into a FIAF (International Federation of Film Archives) member film archive.
In addition to managing the moving image archive, Stoeltje regularly presents locally and at The Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) conference, the Orphan Film Symposium, the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF) Congress on film preservation and content specific topics. She also teaches a class in film preservation and mentors incoming archivists in the field.
While she has many, many favorite films in the 70,000+ collection, she is particularly fond of some of the home movies in the IU collections and has received NFPF grants to preserve the home movies of John Ford and Hoagy Carmichael and through the IULMIA unit, sponsors Home Movie Day every year.
She is a member of AMIA and serves on the Executive Committee of FIAF.
Rhonda Vigeant
Rhonda Vigeant is a business owner, author, speaker, radio show host, educator and home movie consultant.
Her company, Pro8mm in Burbank, California, is dedicated to the professional use of Super 8 film for both production and archiving for over 40 years.
Rhonda’s book, GET “REEL” ABOUT YOUR HOME MOVIE LEGACY…Before It’s Too Late! is filled with practical information for bringing legacy footage into your digital life, tips for archiving and preservation, and how these cultural treasure can help you to better understand your family and yourself.
She is the creator, executive producer and host of The Home Movie Legacy Project, a weekly internet radio show that interviews people telling compelling life stories that center around things found in their home movies, as inspiration on how tocreate projects, organize, digitize and share home movies on social media
She has developed an 8 part webinar series on Home Movie Education, which simplified archival best practices and studio system workflows.
Rhonda has spoken on many conferences and symposiums including Roots Tech, The Digital Imaging Conference, Warner Brothers, and numerous film festivals. She is a founding board member of the Al Larvick Conservation Fund and served as Board Chair 2014-2022.
