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Board of Directors
JOHN KIRK
John Kirk began his film career as an assistant video editor on TV shows, including "That's Incredible!" and
Steve Allen's "Life's Most Embarrassing Moments." To get experience in film, he took a job building a stock
footage library for Cannon Pictures. In 1990 Cannon and MGM merged, and he landed in the Technical Operations Department
of MGM. Over the last ten years his job evolved into being in charge of the vault prints of films, as well as preserving
and restoring film elements whenever necessary. He has performed restorations to such classic films as Robert Aldrich's
film noir Kiss Me Deadly and Truffaut's Mississippi Mermaid, has retranslated new subtitles for Fellini's
Satyricon and Rohmer's Pauline at the Beach, and made new prints for the Melina Mercouri tribute at the
National Gallery in Washington, D.C. in September 2001.
