Preservation Project Films is a blog, website, and film production company that belongs to Ashley Maynor, a Super-8 enthusiast and award-winning documentarian, whose films and new media works have been exhibited around the country. Here, she offers up advice for those looking to preserve family archives and home movies and writes about her experience as an archivist, curator, and filmmaker. You can read more about the origin of this project here.

Outside the blogosphere, Ashley is engaged with building communities through video partnerships, empowering youth and communities to tell their own stories. Her  creative work, outreach, and research have been supported by the Southern Humanities Media Fund, the Virginia Commission for the Arts, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Ashley is the co-founder and program director of the Blacksburg Stories Youth Video Workshop. She also organizes the occasional Home Movie Day celebration.

You can reach her via email: ashley[at]preservationprojectfilms[dot]com.