Oliver Hanley, born in 1984 in Belfast, Northern Ireland, is a film preservationist, curator and researcher whose work focuses mainly (but by no means exclusively) on popular German silent and early sound cinema. A graduate of the University of Amsterdam’s Preservation and Presentation of the Moving Image professional M.A. programme, he has worked at the Deutsche Kinemathek in Berlin (2008-2011), the Austrian Film Museum in Vienna (2011-2016) and the Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF (2016-2021) in Potsdam, where he still currently resides. In Vienna, he supervised the Austrian Film Museum’s DVD and online video publications as well as numerous preservation and restoration projects. At the Film University, his teaching mainly focused on research methods in film history and on the transition from analogue to digital technology in film-making, distribution, preservation and access practices. He became a member of FIAF’s Programming and Access to Collections Commission (PACC) in 2018, having previously served as a corresponding member since 2016 (www.fiafnet.org/pages/Community/Programming-Access-Collections-Commission.html). He also serves on the board of the Berlin-based association of film historians CineGraph Babelsberg and was editor in charge of DVD and Blu-ray reviews for the association’s bi-annual German-language academic journal "Filmblatt" (www.filmblatt.de) from 2018 to 2022. In April 2021, he was appointed co-artistic director of the Bonn International Silent Film Festival (www.internationale-stummfilmtage.de). Since 2023, he has curated the “One Hundred Years Ago” strand of the prestigious Il Cinema Ritrovato film festival in Bologna (festival.ilcinemaritrovato.it). He also currently works part-time as a film restorer for DFF - Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum supervising digital restoration projects carried out within the framework of "Förderprogramm Filmerbe", a public grant scheme to digitise German film heritage (www.ffa.de/digitisation-of-german-film-heritage.html). Most recently, in July 2024, he was named Elaine Burrows' successor as editor of FIAF's bi-annual specialist journal, the "Journal of Film Preservation" (www.fiafnet.org/pages/Publications/About-the-JFP.html).