Susi Niewahner ö The newest edition to the PPS Group archival team, Susi got her Bachelor of Arts, from Bowling Green State University. At BGSU, she received the Lillian Gish Memorial Scholarship for excellence in film studies, presented by Eva Marie Saint. Susi was also the recipient of the Sony Scholarship, through the Association of Moving Image Archivists and Sony Pictures, which she used to attend the L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation, the most elite moving image preservation school in the world. Located at the George Eastman House in Rochester, NY, Susi got a variety of experiences learning to preserve and restore our moving image heritage. During her time there, she was a contributor to The Film Preservation Guide, a guide for archives, libraries and museums, from the National Film Preservation Foundation. Graduating as one of the tops in her class, she was honored with the Haghefilm Laboratory Fellowship. This gave Susi the unique experience of working in a film conservation laboratory. She spent a month at the Haghefilm Laboratory in Amsterdam, Holland, restoring a silent film from the George Eastman House Collection. Later that year she presented her restored film at Le Giornate del Cinema Muto ö Pordenone Silent Film Festival in Pordenone, Italy.

Susi also comes to us by way of the Library of Congress. She spent four years interning and working for the Library of Congress Motion Picture Conservation Center at Wright Patterson Air Force Base, in their nitrate vaults. Susi is currently managing a digitizing project for Kentucky Educational Television, where over 6,000 video tapes are being encoded and cataloged.