Ivan Peycheff is the Head of Film Archive for the American Genre Film Archive (AGFA) in Austin, TX, and an avid film collector. Ivan studied traditional animation at the Art Institute of Seattle and the James L. Coffin School of Animation. In 2000 he got his start in the world of film as a volunteer projectionist at the Grand Illusion Cinema in Seattle, WA. There, Ivan worked his way up to Head Programmer and in 2008 signed on as a programmer with the Olympia Film Society (All Freakin' Night 2008-2010, Feastival Programmer 2010). Ivan left the Grand Illusion Cinema in 2013 and relocated to Austin, TX in 2015 where he started Bat City Cinema, a 16mm screening series dedicated to weird and obscure films. In 2016, Ivan joined AGFA as a volunteer archivist and in 2019 was made Head Archivist. Earlier this year he was promoted to Head of Film Archive; he maintains the physical archive and oversees all the scanning work.