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NHF Staff, Board, & Advisors
Staff
David S. Weiss
Executive Director
Peggy Coreson
Business Manager
Jane Donnell
Marketing Manager
Robert Nanovic
Collections Manager
Bill Phillips
Customer Services & Membership
Sean Savage
Technical Services & Stock Footage
Phil Yates
Projection & Facilities Manager
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Board of Directors
 
The Board of Directors of Northeast Historic Film consists of 10 people. The bylaws allow for as few as 3 (which is where NHF started in 1986), and as many as 15 board members, each elected for a 3-year term.

Paul Gelardi

Treasurer

Cape Porpoise, Maine

President, E Media, Kennebunk, a process development company specializing in plastic manufacturing and surface technologies.

James S. Henderson

Vice President

Harpswell, Maine

Maine State Archivist, administrative head of the State Archives. Chairs Maine's Historical

Records Advisory Board. Ph.D. in political science from Emory University.

Donna Loring

Richmond, Maine

Tribal member of Penobscot Indian Nation. Served as Nation's representative to the Maine State Legislature and also as Coordinator of Tribal, State and International Relations. Sponsor of the state law, An Act to Require Teaching of Maine Native American History and Culture in Maine’s Schools.

Martha McNamara

Orono, Maine and Boston, Massachusetts

Associate Professor of History, University of Maine, specializing in cultural History and the History of New England. Author of From Tavern to Courthouse: Architecture and Ritual in American Law, 1658-1860. Ph.D. in American & New England Studies, Boston University. Maine Historic Preservation Commission member.

James A. Phillips

Bangor, Maine

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.

Richard Rosen

President

Bucksport, Maine

Owner Rosen's Department Store, Bucksport. Maine State Senator, member of Health & Human Services Committee. Former State Representative. Board member, Bucksport Regional Health Center.

Karan Sheldon

Milton, Massachusetts

Steering committee member, Moving Image Collections (MIC), a project of AMIA and the Library of Congress.

Nathaniel Thompson

South Portland, Maine

President of Maine Radio and Television Co., LLC. Owns and operates CSP Mobile Productions,

based in Saco. Member of the family-owned media group that sold Maine NBC affiliates

WCSH-TV and WLBZ-TV to Gannett Broadcasting in 1998. Graduate of Connecticut College.

David S. Weiss

Blue Hill Falls, Maine

Executive Director and co-founder of Northeast Historic Film. Previously media producer in

Boston after graduating in film and semiotics from Brown University. Member, Maine Historical

Records Advisory Board.

Pamela Wintle

Washington, D.C.

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, Maine.

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

Gillian Anderson

Washington, D.C. & Bologna, Italy

Orchestral conductor and musicologist. Director of the Colonial Singers and Players and author of Music for Silent Films, 1894-1929.

Q. David Bowers

Wolfeboro, New Hampshire

Author of Nickelodeon Theaters and Their Music, A History of the Thanhouser Company, and over three dozen other books. Antiquarian, business executive.

Peter Davis

Castine, Maine

Author of If You Came This Way: A Journey Through the Lives of the Underclass, and director of the documentary feature Hearts and Minds.

Kathryn Fuller-Seeley, Ph.D.

Atlanta, Georgia

Author of The Hollywood Studio System: A History (University of California Press), and At the Picture Show: Small Town Audiences and the Creation of Movie Fan Culture (Smithsonian Institution Press).

Douglas Gomery, Ph.D.

Chevy Chase, Maryland and Allenspark, Colorado

Author of 12 books, including Who Owns the Media?, winner of the Picard Prize for the best book

in media economics, and Shared Pleasures: A History of Motion Picture Presentation in the United States.

Janna Jones, Ph.D.

Tampa, Florida & Bucksport, Maine

Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, University of South Florida. Author of The Southern Movie Palace: Rise, Fall, and Resurrection. Her article, "Confronting the Past in the Archival Film and the Contemporary Documentary," appeared in The Moving Image, Fall 2004. She is currently working on a book about the cultural implications of film preservation, Archiving America's Cinematic Past.

Alan Kattelle

Hudson, Massachusetts

Author of Home Movies: A History of the American Industry 1897 – 1979, and cinematographic researcher. Recepient of AMIA Silver Light Award, 2005. Family roots on Monhegan Island, Maine.

Mark Neumann, Ph.D.

Tampa, Florida & Bucksport, Maine

Associate Professor, Department of Communication, University of South Florida. Author of On the Rim: Looking for the Grand Canyon. His article, "Home Movies on Freud's Couch," appeared in The Moving Image, Spring 2002. He is currently at work on a book about memory and the practices of popular culture.

William O’Farrell

Ottawa, Ontario

Former Chief, Moving Image and Audio Conservation at the National Archives of Canada. Anthology Film Archives Film Preservation Honoree, 1997. Has served several terms as Board Director for AMIA. Advisor, Chicago Film Archives.

Eric Schaefer, Ph.D.

Cambridge, Massachusetts & Gouldsboro, Maine

Associate Professor, Department of Visual and Media Arts, Emerson College, Boston. Author of "Bold! Daring! Shocking! True!": A History of Exploitation Films, 1919-1959 (Duke University Press). Currently serves as Secretary of The Society for Cinema and Media Studies.

Samuel Suratt

New York, New York

Archivist for CBS News for 25 years and archivist of the Smithsonian Institution. Founding member of International Federation of Television Archives.

Tricia Welsch, Ph.D.

Brunswick, Maine

Associate Professor and Chair of Film Studies, Bowdoin College.

David Wexler

Santa Barbara, California

Founder, owner and designer of Hollywood Film Vaults, Inc. Contributed to new vault projects for Northeast Historic Film, Paramount Pictures, Eastman Kodak, Cousteau Society, Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, British Film Institute, Television New Zealand, Pearl Jam, and Phish.

Patricia Zimmermann, Ph.D.

Ithaca, New York

Professor of Cinema and Photography, Roy H. Park School of Communications, Ithaca College.

Author, Reel Families: A Social History of Amateur Film (Indiana University Press) and States of

Emergency: Documentaries, Wars, Democracies (University of Minnesota Press).