Staff
David S. Weiss, Executive Director
     david@oldfilm.org
Jane Donnell, Marketing Manager
     jane@oldfilm.org
Joe Gardner, Technical Services/Vault Assistant
     joe@oldfilm.org
Jessica Hosford, External Affairs Director
     jessica@oldfilm.org
Melissa Kenney, Technical Services & Stock Footage
     melissa@oldfilm.org
Barbara Manning, Business Manager
     barb@oldfilm.org
Gemma Perretta, Collections Manager
     gemma@oldfilm.org
Phil Yates, Facilities Manager & Theater
     phil@oldfilm.org

Board of Directors
Sian Evans, Belfast, ME
Consulting producer for documentaries on science, nature and history including Discovery HD Theater, National Geographic, PBS. Twenty-eight 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.

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. Member, Maine Historical Records Advisory Board.

Pamela Wintle, Washington, DC
Founder, Smithsonian Institution Human Studies Film Archives. Member, National Film Preservation Board. Founding chair, Association of Moving Image Archivists’ amateur film group, Inédits. 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.

Alan Kattelle, author of Home Movies: A History of the American Industry 1897–1979.

Donna Loring, Wabanaki Cultural Tourism Coordinator, Four Directions Development Corporation.

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

Mark Neumann, Ph.D. Chair, 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.

WRITER
Virginia Wright is a freelance writer and editor whose regular clients include Down East magazine and Greater Portland Landamarks, the leading advocate for historic preservation and quality new design in Portland, Maine. She was the lead writer for Moving Image Review from 2000 to 2006.

Staff News      In June 2009 we had the great fortune to bring two new staff members on board, Joe Gardner as Technical Services Assistant and Melissa Kenney as Technical Services Manager. Gemma Perretta then moved over to the Collections Manager position. These transitions move NHF forward and provide us with a great balance of talent.     “Working here for the past five months has offered me the chance to see a lot of unique amateur film and video; it's always interesting to think that I might be the first person to view the film in decades.” - Joe Gardner     “Wonderful people look to NHF to preserve and bring their memories, heritage and loved ones to DVD. I feel so fortunate that I have the opportunity to do so; it is a feeling to wake up for everyday.” - Melissa Kenney