Film Archive of the National Archives of Estonia
Eva Näripea is the Director of the Film Archive of the National Archives of Estonia (since 2014) and a member of the Council of the Estonian Academy of Arts (since 2020). She has worked as a researcher at the Estonian Academy of Arts, Estonian Literary Museum and University of Central Lancashire. Additionally, she has served as an editor for various scholarly journals, including Studies in Art and Architecture/Kunstiteaduslikke Uurimusi, Baltic Screen Media Review (TLU), and Studies in Eastern European Cinema (Routledge). She has written extensively on Estonian and East European film history and contemporary cinema and has translated several key works in audiovisual theory into Estonian. Alongside her role as the head of the Film Archive, she continues to conduct research, currently focusing on the histories of film preservation and pre-World War II cinema in Estonia.