Staff

STAFF NEWS Karin Carlson, Karen Wyatt, and Brian Graney joined the NHF staff for the Boston TV News Project and Moving Images 1938-1940: Amateur Filmmakers Record the New York World’s Fair and Its Period. See Grants in Action  for more information on the projects.

David S. Weiss, Executive Director
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Karen Carlson, Media Specialist
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Jane Donnell, Distribution and Theater Manager
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Joe Gardner, Technical Services Manager
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Brian Graney, Media Cataloguer
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Jessica Hosford, External Affairs Director
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Barbara Manning, Business Manager
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Gemma Perretta, Collections Manager
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Karen Wyatt, Technical Services & Stock Footage
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Phil Yates, Facilities Manager & Theater
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Board of Directors
Sian Evans, Belfast, ME
Consulting producer for documentaries on science, nature and history including Discovery HD Theater, National Geographic, PBS. Thirty years of experience, working nationally and internationally. Family roots in Kingman, Macwahoc, and Millinocket, ME.

Treasurer
Paul Gelardi, Cape Porpoise, ME
President, E Media, Kennebunk, a process development company specializing in plastic manufacturing and surface technologies.

Vice President
James S. Henderson, Harpswell, ME
Principal, Publius Research, a public affairs consulting firm. Author of Maine: An Encyclopedia, a DVD publication incorporating moving images. Consulting archivist to the Council of State Archivists. Ph.D. in political science from Emory University. Adjunct faculty member, Southern New Hampshire University. Director of the Maine State Archives, 1987-2007.

Judith F. McGeorge, Ellsworth, ME
Background in banking and finance. Served as Executive Director and Board member of organizations including the Bagaduce Music Lending Library, the Seymour Papert Institute, and WERU community radio. Advisor on the Hancock County Fund of the Maine Community Foundation.

James A. Phillips, Bangor, ME
Co-founder of Trio Software Corporation, and an independent property assessment consultant. Former staff producer and director at WMTW-TV; studied film at George Eastman House.

President
Richard Rosen, Bucksport, ME
Owner Rosen’s Department Store, Bucksport. Maine State Senator. Board member, Bucksport Regional Health Center.

Karan Sheldon, Milton, MA
NHF co-founder. Author, “Meeting the Movie Queen: An Itinerant Film Anchored in Place” for the AMIA journal, The Moving Image. karansheldon.blogspot.com

David S. Weiss, Blue Hill, ME
Executive Director and co-founder of NHF. Previously media producer in Boston after graduating in film and semiotics from Brown University.

Pamela Wintle, Washington, DC
Founder, Smithsonian Institution Human Studies Film Archives. Association of Moving Image Archivists member and various committees participant. Former AMIA representative for National Film Preservation Board. Family roots in Skowhegan, ME. Member of Maine State Society.

Advisors
Individuals with interest in the work of NHF as an organization with a vision for film, video and digital preservation, with broad public access.

Gillian Anderson, orchestral conductor and musicologist.

Q. David Bowers, author of Nickelodeon Theaters and Their Music.

Peter Davis, director of Hearts and Minds.

Kathryn Fuller-Seeley, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Cinema Studies/Communications, Georgia State University.

Jan-Christopher Horak, Ph.D. Director, UCLA Film and Television Archive.

Janna Jones, Ph.D. Associate Professor and Director of the Cinema and Visual Culture program, School of Communication, Northern Arizona University.

Donna Loring, Wabanaki Cultural Tourism Coordinator, Four Directions Development Corporation. Author and sponsor of the state law, “An Act to Require Teaching of Maine Native American History and Culture in Maine’s Schools.”

Martha McNamara, Ph.D. Director, Art and Architecture Program, Wellesley College.

Mark Neumann, Ph.D. School of Communication, Northern Arizona University.

Eric Schaefer, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of Visual and Media Arts,
Emerson College.

Samuel Suratt, Founding member of International Federation of Television Archives.

Nathaniel Thompson, President of Maine Radio and Television Co. and CSP Mobile Productions.

Tricia Welsch, Ph.D. Associate Professor and Chair of Film Studies, Bowdoin College.

David Wexler, owner of Hollywood Vaults.

Patricia Zimmermann, Ph.D. Professor of Cinema and Photography, Roy H. Park School of Communications, Ithaca College.