The Master of Arts degree program in Moving Image Archiving and Preservation (MIAP) is a two-year, interdisciplinary course of study that trains future professionals to manage and preserve collections of film, video, new media, and digital works. MIAP is situated within New York University’s Department of Cinema Studies, part of the Kanbar Institute of Film & Television in the Tisch School of the Arts.

MIAP provides prospective collection managers and archivists with an international, comprehensive education in the theories, methods, and practices of moving image archiving and preservation. The curriculum includes courses on moving image conservation and preservation; collection management; metadata standards and application; copyright and legal issues; moving image curation; the cultures of museums, archives, and libraries; and the histories of cinema and television. Students are taught by leading scholars and practitioners in the field. Internships complement classroom learning by giving MIAP students the chance to practice and develop their skills in professional settings. MIAP also sponsors the Archival Exchange Program (APEX), a two-week meeting that promotes international collaboration and academic dialogue on film and media preservation in order to safeguard audiovisual heritage.

Juana Suárez Juana Suárez is the director of the Moving Image Archiving and Preservation Program at New York University. She is a media preservation specialist, and a scholar in Latin American Cinema. Author of Cinembargo Colombia: Critical Essays on Colombian Cinema (2009), published in English (2012) and Spanish (2009), and Sites of Contention: Cultural Production and the Discourse of Violence in Colombia (published in Spanish 2010); and co-editor of Humor in Latin American Cinema (2015). She recently completed the translation to Spanish of A Comparative History of Latin American Cinema by Paul A. Schroeder-Rodríguez, and it will be published in March 2020. She is currently forwarding a research project tentatively entitled Moving Images Archives, Cultural History and The Digital Turn in Latin America. She is the coordinator of arturita.net, a collaborative digital humanities project on Latin American AV archives.