Caroline Frick, an expert on film conservation, is founder and executive director of the Texas Archive of the Moving Image (TAMI) and assistant professor at the University of Texas at Austin. In this interview, hosted by Luis Figueroa, she emphasizes the importance of film preservation and mentions how the growth of film media has had a positive influence on the development of the art of conservation. During her visit to Guatemala, Dr. Frick learned about the work of the New Media department of Universidad Francisco Marroquín and visited the Cinemateca Universitaria Enrique Torres, an important source of vintage films in Guatemala. After this experience, she is planning to enter into a new phase of film research by writing a book about the history of film preservation.