Michael Pogorzelski is the Director of the Academy Film Archive, whose collection now includes nearly 100,000 titles representing 214,000 items. Over 1,100 films have been preserved at the Academy Film Archive including features, documentaries, animated films, avant-garde and experimental films and home movies. Pogorzelski has preserved and restored over 50 films and recently co-supervised the digital restoration of Satyajit Ray’s Apu trilogy, Edgar G. Ulmer’s Detour(1945), Philip Kaufman’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988), John Ford’s How Green Was My Valley (1941) and Akira Kurosawa’s Rashomon (1950).

A passion for fidelity and years of experience in audio postproduction for film, television, and music led Ryan Hullings to the Criterion Collection, where he began as an audio restoration engineer in 2007 and is now manager of the audio department. His work involves not just conducting digital film audio restoration but also keeping pace with cutting-edge restoration technology and evaluating the sound quality of film elements, all with the mission of upholding the company's lofty technical standards for film sound and allowing viewers to faithfully experience soundtracks as their makers intended them to be heard. In the past year, Ryan has spearheaded the audio restorations of such landmark films as Stalker, Chimes at Midnight, Straw Dogs, and Barry Lyndon..