Alma Macbride

Biography

Alma Macbride is an archivist at The Museum of Modern Art’s Celeste Bartos Film Preservation Center. A graduate of the L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation, they received the 2023 Haghefilm Fellowship that allowed them to work at the Haghefilm Laboratory in Waddinxveen, Netherlands. There, Macbride helped restore a previously unpreserved silent film from the George Eastman Museum’s collection and presented the film at Le Giornate del Cinema Muto silent film festival in Pordenone, Italy. Prior to working at MoMA, Macbride studied film production at Harvard University with a specialization in 16mm and worked in various cinemas around the world.