Daniel Berman is the former president and founder of The MainQuad Group, an assembly of businesses that was engaged in the acquisition and operation of radio stations throughout North Carolina and Virginia. Dan led a successful sale of the stations to two private equity groups in 2004 and 2006. Before becoming a broadcaster, Mr. Berman graduated from Duke Law School and served as a law clerk to The Honorable Leonard I. Garth, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Dan received an MFA from the University of Southern California School of Cinema and Television and completed his undergraduate studies at Duke University. He has served on the Board of Directors of the North Carolina Association of Broadcasters, the Alumni Board of Duke Law School and is currently Chairman of the Board of the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival.

Barry Poss is former President and Chairman of Sugar Hill Records, a company he founded in 1978. Specializing in contemporary music rooted in tradition, Sugar Hill has won twelve Grammy awards with an artist roster including Doc Watson, Dolly Parton, Nickel Creek, Ricky Skaggs and dozens more in a catalog of over three hundred titles. Widely acclaimed for developing a company with a strong label identity, Emmylou Harris regards Sugar Hill as “one of the few seminal independent record labels in America” while Lyle Lovett describes Sugar Hill as a label with an “artist’s vision.” Twenty years after its founding, Mr. Poss sold the company to the Welk Music Group.

Mr. Poss is the 2006 recipient of the Americana Music Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of his accomplishments in music as a record executive. He has served on a variety of Boards including the Association for Independent Music, North Carolina Folklife Institute, Blue Ridge Institute, Foxfire Fund, International Bluegrass Music Association and others.

Mr. Poss has an Honors BA from York University, Toronto, Canada, receiving the Masters Award for Academic Achievement, and an MA from Duke University, Durham, NC, where he was a James B. Duke Fellow in the graduate school.

Russ is a Founding Partner of CMG Partners LLC, a Durham, North Carolina based strategic marketing consultancy. In his role of Partner, Russ works with clients to meld market needs with client strategies in the areas of marketing, product development, organizational structure and corporate leadership. With over two decades of experience spanning both engineering and marketing, he typically concentrates on helping define strategies that achieve the client’s goals and then translating those strategies into reality through product and business development initiatives. Russ has also served in a variety of interim management roles for several clients, most recently as General Manager for a fast-growing consumer products company with operations in China and the United States.

Prior to co-founding CMG Partners, Russ spent three years with Carter Marketing Group, specializing in assisting telecommunications and Internet companies in bringing new products and services to market. During these years he concentrated on the development and analysis of market behavior models as well as a variety of customer retention and winback programs.

In addition to his marketing skills, Russ brings clients his quantitative analysis honed through a previous 10- year career as an engineer, developing high-speed computer vision systems, including DNA scanners. He holds two patents in the field of vision and control systems and his degrees include a BSEE and an MSEE from Drexel University, and an MBA from the Kenan-Flagler Business School (UNC-Chapel Hill).

Leon Capetanos is a screenwriter and filmmaker. He received his undergraduate degree from UNC CH and a Master of Arts in Communication degree from UNC CH, as well, where he was a MCA Graduate Fellow. He lives in Cary, NC. Screenwriting credits include CREAM and SUMMER RUN which he also directed. Other credits include GUMBALL RALLY, TEMPEST, MOSCOW ON THE HUDSON, DOWN AND OUT IN BEVERLY HILLS, FLETCH LIVES and MY PALIKARI for the American Playhouse on PBS. He currently directs CAPETANOS HOLDINGS, a personal real estate company in Raleigh while remaining an active screen writer.

Kathi Eason, a native of Texas, relocated from Dallas to Durham in 2000 with her husband, Steve, and two daughters, Emma and Elizabeth. She comes to Full Frame with significant philanthropic experience and a love of documentary film.

Kathi began her involvement with The Full Frame Documentary Film Festival in 2002. She joined other members of the community interested in developing local interest and building financial support for Full Frame. Kathi helped form a steering committee to provide direction for cultivation events. Over the past three years, individual contributions to Full Frame have increased by more than 50%.

Kathi is an active supporter of the Carolina Ballet and Nasher Museum of Art, and also serves as a teacher of faith formation at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church. When not keeping busy with her active family, she finds time to travel, play tennis, enjoy classical music, and view documentary films.

Joseph Jordan is Director of the Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Associate Professor in the Department of African/Afro-American Studies. He was the founding chair of African/African-American Studies at Antioch College and has also taught at Howard and Xavier Universities. From 1998-2001 he was director of the Auburn Avenue Research Library on African-American Culture and History. Besides his academic work he has also spent over 30 years in arts and cultural programming.

He currently serves on the NC Humanities Council and has also worked on projects with the D.C. Humanities Council and Georgia Humanities Council, Atlanta’s Bureau of Cultural Affairs, and the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities. From 1997-98 he served on the Advisory Board of the New Orleans Film and Video Society. He was part of the Cultural Transition Team for former DC Mayor Sharon Pratt Dixon, and worked with Tony Gittens, then of the Black Film Institute, to bring documentary and independent film to DC communities. He was project director for the NEH Exemplary project Urban Odyssey: Many Voices on a Common Ground and served as Executive Producer for the accompanying seven-part documentary series on the immigrant experience in the city, that was directed by documentary filmmaker Michelle Parkerson.

He has also served as curator for exhibits focusing on questions of place, identity, and loss. In 2002 he curated the exhibit Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America that took place in Atlanta at the M.L.King, Jr. Historic site and served as executive producer for the companion video directed by videographer Matt Dibble. He has recently been working on identity and politics in Afro-Latin communities, and on the international engagements of Black radical movements. He is a board member for the Contemporary Art Centre in Kingston, Jamaica, the Grassroots Leadership Institute, with Our Children’s Place (a pre-release residential housing project that will reunite women inmates with their infants and children), and works with the UNESCO Slave Routes Project.

Before coming to UNC at Chapel Hill in 2001 he was the recipient of the Governor’s Art Award (on behalf of Auburn Avenue Research Library) from Georgia Governor Roy Barnes. Jordan is a native of Queens (East Elmhurst) NY, and attended schools there and in Virginia. He is a graduate of Norfolk State, Ohio State, and Howard Universities.

Nancy Kalow is a folklorist and filmmaker. Since 2000, she has taught a variety of courses at Duke University's Center for Documentary Studies. She attended Harvard University (AB) and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (MA), and was a Rockefeller Fellow at UNC. Her film, "Sadobabies," received the Gold Hugo at the Chicago Film Festival and the Special Jury Trophy at the San Francisco Film Festival, and was screened at the Berlin Film Festival and the Festival dei Popoli, Italy. She has served on the boards of the Southern Documentary Fund and the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics Foundation. She chairs the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival's Selection Committee.

Biographical information to be posted soon.

Tom Rankin is the Director of the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University where he teaches courses in documentary studies and photography. A photographer, filmmaker, and folklorist, Rankin has been documenting and interpreting American culture for nearly twenty years.

Formerly Associate Professor of Art and Southern Studies at the University of Mississippi and Chair of the Art Department at Delta State University, he was educated at Tufts University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Georgia State University.

A native of Kentucky, he has published numerous articles and reviews on photography and southern culture. He is the co-director and co-producer of the documentary film, Powerhouse for God. He has curated a number of exhibitions, among them Maggie Lee Sayre: A Pictorial Narrative of a River Life and Revealing Visions: African-American Mississippi Artists. His photographs have been published widely in numerous magazines, journals and books, and he has exhibited throughout the country. In 1991 he was awarded the Susan B. Herron fellowship in the visual arts from the Mississippi Arts Commission. His books include Sacred Space: Photographs from the Mississippi Delta (1993), which received the Mississippi Institute of the Arts and Letters Award for Photography, Deaf Maggie Lee Sayre: Photographs of a River Life (1995), and Faulkner's World: The Photographs of Martin J. Dain (1997).

Jim Roberts is a social historian and university administrator with a long-standing interest in documentary forms, including photography, film and roots music. As an historian, his research, writing and teaching has focused on the social history of alcohol production, consumption and control in Western Europe and North America. As an administrator, he has over 20 years of experience in the financial management and administrative support of academic programs. He is currently executive vice provost for finance and administration at Duke University and adjunct professor of history. After graduating from Northwestern University, Roberts earned M.A. and Ph.D. degrees at the University of Iowa. On the West Coast, he held post-doctoral fellowships at Stanford University and UC Berkeley. In 1983, he and his family moved to Durham -- a community they've loved every since. Roberts earned an MBA degree at Duke University in 1985 and started his Duke career that year as business manager of the Duke University Press.

Dr. Andrew Rothschild had been involved in a number of historic re-development projects in New York and was a practicing physician and an Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine at the State University of New York until moving to the Triangle and turning to real estate development and construction full-time. He received his B.A. from Columbia University, his M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, completed his residency in Internal Medicine at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City and is currently an M.B.A. candidate in the Executive M.B.A. Program at the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Andrew founded Scientific Properties to develop and build life sciences facilities and is currently planning future projects in this area. Also active in scientific and entrepreneurial education and community development, Andrew leads Laboratories for Learning, a not-for-profit organization devoted to creating public educational opportunities in biotechnology, particularly for socio-economically disadvantaged youth.