Mette Peters is PhD candidate at the Institute for Cultural Inquiry / Utrecht University and her research focuses on creative practices in the earliest period of animation filmmaking in The Netherlands, between 1918 and 1940. Her main research interests concern the history of Dutch animation film and the preservation of animation heritage. Mette Peters is an animation specialist and works as curator and project manager for film archives, festivals and museums internationally. She is lecturer at the animation course of HKU University of the Arts (Utrecht).