Charles Tepperman is associate professor in the Department of Communication, Media, and Film at the University of Calgary. He is the author of "Amateur Cinema: The Rise of North American Moviemaking, 1923–1960," co-editor of "Canadian Cinema in the New Millennium," and director of the Amateur Movie Database project. His work on Canadian cinema, film history, and amateur media has appeared in Screen, Film History, Media Industries Journal, The Moving Image, and the Canadian Journal of Film Studies.