This three program Advocacy Stream is to provide attendees with useful information and inspiring case studies that will help them to be more effective advocates in their own situations. SESSION 1: INTERNATIONAL REFERENCE POINTS Moderator: Caroline Yeager, George Eastman House; co-chair AMIA Advocacy Committee Speakers: Hila Abraham, Digitization and Access Project Director at the Jerusalem Cinémathèque – Israel Film Archive Christophe Dupin,...

Join us in the Vendor Cafe!  Our supplier and service provider partners are a great resource about what is new, what works and what’s around the corner. Thursday and Friday , November 19th and 20th Hilton Portland & Executive Tower _______________________ AheadTeK AheadTeK manufactures video heads and other specialty heads used in the video broadcast, tape data and disk data storage industries. Founded in 1972 as CMC, AheadTeK...

Archival Screening Night will take place at the Whitsell Theatre at the Northwest Film Center in Portland, Oregon. The 2015 edition of ARCHIVAL SCREENING NIGHT will be open to the public. All submissions are made with the understanding that this will be a ticketed event, open to an 18+ audience. * * * The AMIA Archival Screening Night provides conference participants with an opportunity to showcase recent acquisitions and preservation efforts....

Wednesday . November 18  .  1:30pm – 5:30pm Get it in Writing: The First Annual AMIA Writer’s Workshop Led by AMIA colleagues with experience on both sides of the writing process (Donald Crafton and Susan Ohmer: authors, professors and current co-editors of The Moving Image; Devin Orgeron: author, professor, co-chair of AMIA’s Publications Committee, and former editor of The Moving Image; Regina Longo: author and associate editor at...

For those 2015 AMIA Conference participants who are interested in sharing accommodation in Portland, AMIA will maintain a list of attendees searching for roommates. You will be emailed, faxed, or mailed a copy of the list so that you may contact potential roommates directly. Please try to submit your information as early as possible while appropriate room accommodations are still available. #AMIA15