Webinar: Techniques for Color Remastering Home Movies in DaVinci Resolve

In this workshop, C. Díaz will share techniques on color remastering home movies across various formats and codecs. These tips and tricks will help breathe new life into your collection as well as highlight the importance of project management when working with home movies in both personal and institutional settings.

The footage used in this workshop highlights home movies from Arizona and Texas as a continuation of AMIA's Borders and Borderlands programming.

Díaz will be demonstrating this process using DaVinci Resolve, which is free to download from the Blackmagic Design website. Participants are welcome to download the software and follow along during the pre-recorded workshop. Following the workshop, there will be a live Q&A for participants.

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C. Díaz is a filmmaker, colorist, and archivist from the Rio Grande Valley, Texas. Her films explore the alchemy of celluloid through the use of DIY, analog, and digital techniques. Her desire to collect forgotten and discarded memories has led her to a love of archives, home movies, and oral history. She frequently works with the Oral History Projects at the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences as the department’s Colorist for their Visual History Project. She was a project manager, film inspector, scanning technician, and remastering colorist on numerous film restoration projects such as Belladonna of Sadness, The Estate of Ana Mendieta, and her family's Super 8mm home movie collection. In 2021, she returned to the RGV to continue her work as a filmmaker and archivist through the establishment of ENTRE, an artist-run community film center and regional archive.