Drs. Melissa Dollman and Devin Orgeron founded Deserted Films in Palm Springs in 2021 and incorporated as a nonprofit in July 2022. In 2023, it was federally recognized as a 501(c)(3). A bit about us: We collect, care for and make accessible films shot in the general Palm Springs region -- by locals and tourists -- during that golden age of nontheatrical film from the 1920s-1980s when 16mm, 8mm, Super 8 celluloid film and video cameras (instead of our phones!) were the tools we used to preserve our memories. The collection also houses a fair bit of footage of Southern California, generally, and our surrounding desert regions. If a film documents a historical event (or historically under-represented peoples), we grab it too. To date, our archive consists of over 2,000 films (500+ are digitized and on our website), and we have presented educational -- and entertaining we think! -- programs to audiences in the Coachella Valley at such venues as: Palm Springs Cultural Center, Palm Springs Public Library, Modernism Week, Maleza (forthcoming 02/26), and Rotary Club of Indio.