press release

Doc Arts Inc, the producer of the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, has concluded the final phase of its restructure with this appointment and with giving Nancy Buirski the newly created title of Chief Executive Officer of the Full Frame organization. Brown will direct the administrative and development areas of the Festival while Buirski will oversea the festival's creative areas and direct the organization's new Full Frame Institute.

Thanking out-going interim Executive Director David Hughey for his extraordinary help in shepherding the festival the past three months, David Sontag, speaking for the Doc Arts Board says that "We are very excited about bringing Tammy Brown over to Full Frame and look forward to the ideas and experience she will bring to our growing institution."

Buirski, who founded the festival nine years ago, reflected, "Tammy Brown brings a kind of knowledge and perspective that the festival will benefit from greatly. Her deep roots in this community as well as her understanding of how our community is part of the larger national conversation, will help us enormously as we move forward."

Brown was selected for the Top 25 Triangle Women in Business Award (2004). She has over twenty years serving as a manager, including six years leading a Fortune 250 Foundation, and previously in leadership positions with nonprofit organizations including the North Carolina Prevent Blindness, The American Red Heart Association and The American Lung Association. She's been at the forefront, successfully leading major projects, including the "DAY 1" campaign for the launch of the new Progress Energy brand Progress Energy's outreach to the Red Cross after the most recent hurricane disasters; and the 1999 Special Olympics which were held in the Triangle area.

She has received many awards, most recently for the "Imagine The Progress" campaign, which raised $1.9M for The American Cancer Society. Her most recent position was as Manager of Corporate Community Relations, Secretary of the Progress Energy Foundation. She has been involved in community affairs as well, working with the Center for International Understanding, the Public School Forum, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Business Education Committee. A graduate of Barton College, and Duke University's Leadership Institute, Brown will be responsible for the day-to-day business and development affairs for the festival.

The Full Frame Documentary Film Festival is produced by Doc Arts Inc. a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. The presenting sponsors are The New York Times and Duke University.