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Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, Salvatore Botti’s background crosses traditional disciplinary lines between programming, archival work, and filmmaking. After working in short-form Super 8mm and 16mm for many years, Salvatore completed his first feature film, Dreams of Her, which had its world premiere at the 2004 South by Southwest Film Festival. A graduate of Vassar College, Salvatore has worked as a historical film programmer for Austin Film Society, taught film history and been published in a number of publications. In 2014, he completed work on his second feature film, The Future Past. Salvatore has over 20 years of experience in footage licensing having spent the last seven with Getty Images as a Broadcast Archive specialist. He currently manages a team who specialize in NBC, BBC, ITN, and TVNZ archive licensing.