Leenke Ripmeester is the curator animation and advertising film of Eye Filmmuseum (the Netherlands) since 2007. She has worked on the animation collections of the Geesink and Toonder studio, the NIAF (Dutch Institute of Animation Film) and the Dutch animator Ton van Saane. Currently she is working on the Puppetoon animation films the Hungarian-American animator George Pál made in the Netherlands. Besides her job as a curator, she is also the sales manager of the film collection of Eye since 2013. She delivers archival footage, including the large WWI collection of Eye, to television channels, museums, and other companies from all over the world. She participated in productions such as They Call me Babu (directed by Sandra Beerends, 2019) and Letters from Baghdad (directed by Zeva Oelbaum and Sabine Krayenbühl, 2016) that make extensive use of archival footage. In 2006 she completed her PhD thesis on music videos and youth cultures at the University of Amsterdam.