Andrea Kalas

Andrea Kalas is Vice President of Media and Archival Services at Iron Mountain, where she leads an amazing team of experts who provide an enormous range of archival services to entertainment companies, universities, corporations and individuals who care about their assets enough to entrust them to Iron Mountain to both preserve and share them with the world. 

Previously, Andrea ran the Paramount Archives where she combined preservation expertise with technical innovation to build what is now one of the world’s most valuable film archives.  Before joining Paramount, Andrea served as Head of Preservation at the British Film Institute, Digital Studio Director for Discovery Communications, Archivist for Dreamworks SKG, and preservationist and research data expert at UCLA Film and Television Archive.  She is former President of the Association of Moving Image Archivists and a current member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences where she founded the Academy Digital Preservation Forum Initiative.  Andrea has preserved or restored over 2000 films over her career, and in 2023 she was the recipient of the HPA Outstanding Achievement in Restoration award for the restoration of The Godfather, 1972 directed by Francis Ford Coppola.