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Board of Directors

Ballot

2014

Two (2) candidates for two (2) seats

Ben Bradley-Gilbert (3 year term)

Stephen Eldredge (3 year term)

Bernadine Mellis (3 year term)

Jeromie Whalen (3 year term)

Name of NCTV Member:

Signature of NCTV Member:

HOW TO COTE AND DEADLINES

EMAIL3pm on November 27, 2014. Please send an email with up to two choices tonctv@northamptontv.org Please title the email NCTV Ballot. Your email must match theone you provided NCTV and you must be a member in good standing.

MAILPrint and fill out the above form, circling the two candidates for whom you wish tovote. Mail must be received and delivered to our mailbox by Wednesday, November 26, 2014.

Postmark dates are not considered. Mail the form to:

Northampton Community Television

380 Elm St.

Northampton, MA 01060

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IN PERSON- Ballots will be deliverable in person by 5:00pm on Wednesday, November 26 to

NCTV Studios at 380 Elm St. (in the back of the building that also houses the Northampton High

School), Northampton, MA

If you have any questions, please call 413-587-3550 or emailnctv@northamptontv.org

BIOS OF CANDIDATES

Ben Bradley-Gilbert

Its been nearly two years since I joined the NCTV community. I must acknowledge thatdoing so has been the most rewarding decision that I have ever made in my life. Meeting thewonderful people who work and reside at the station not only helped me to open up as a person

but also showed me how awesome it can be to collaborate with others. Especially those who are

as motivated, if not more than I am when it comes to creating multimedia content. Having NCTVin my life has been very enlightening.The only thing that might limit my position on this board is my availability after

September 2015. I will be starting college then and as of now do not know what state I may be

moving to. I really want to contribute to NCTV as much as possible before I go. It would beideal to continue through the three year contract but it is a possibility that I might have to resign

come the fall of next year.

I would like to act as a bridge between the school and NCTV, a role that I already fill inmy day-to-day life but could be amplified a hundredfold upon my admittance to the board. This

position would allow me to go farther than ever before as I work to better the community in

every way possible.

With all the generosity that I have received from the station in the form of friendship,education, funding, and being recognized as producer of the year, it only seems fitting that I try

to the best of my ability to give back to this community in every way I can. I see myself on the

board of directors, working alongside my fellow community members to help make the stationbetter and to entice more aspiring filmmakers down the path that I took, in the hopes that they

too will find the support they need to create amazing things.

QUALIFICATIONS

A Senior at Northampton High School.

Have been going to NCTV since the fall of 2012.

NCTV Producer of the Year (2013) Winner of the $2,000 NCTV Youth Production Grant Good Standing Producer at NCTV

Multimedia Liaison and intern with the NHS Tech Department

Producer of numerous Documentaries, education videos, music videos, feature and short

narrative films.

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Stephen Eldredge

Stephen Eldredge graduated cum laude from Hamilton College in 1978, with a B.A. in Theater-Drama. He earned an M.F.A. In Acting from the NYU Tisch School of the Arts in 1981. Since

then, he has acted, directed and taught theater and film for over 30 years in New York, San

Francisco and across New England. Stephen arrived in the Pioneer Valley in 1995, working asan Artistic Associate of the Hampshire Shakespeare Company for the next ten years. He co-

founded the Hampshire Shakespeare Young Company (a teen acting program) in 2000, serving

as company mentor from 2000-2004. He founded the Northampton High School theater programin 2005, since then adding courses in Film Studies and Multimedia Production.

Stephen has directedRosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, As You Like It, The Madwoman ofChaillot, The Rimers of EldritchandKey Exchange for Northampton High School, andMuch

Ado About Nothingfor the Hampshire Shakespeare Young Company. He directedHigh Tidefor

the 2013 Double-Take Fringe Festival. Stephen and his students have collaborated with NCTV

on a variety of projects, including live video productions of the playsHamlet, The Winter's Tale,

andPinocchio;the student-written, directed and produced films Omnivore andDeadline; and inMay 2014, the first-annual NCTV-NHS student film festival. Most recently, Stephen's students

proudly participated in NCTV's first-ever 7-Day Film Sprint. Stephen is currently co-directingthe NHS production of Thornton Wilder's The Skin of Our Teeth, featuring live and recorded

multimedia in collaboration with NCTV.

Bernadine Mellis

Bernadine Mellis makes films that range from experimental fiction to non-fiction and combine

the genres of personal narrative and political documentary. Her film THE FOREST FOR THETREES tells the story of her father Dennis Cunninghams role as attorney in environmentalactivist Judi Baris civil case against the FBI. THE FOREST FOR THE TREES premiered at theHuman Rights Watch Film Festival, was broadcast on the Sundance Channel, and is nowavailable on Netflix Instant. Bernadine also directed THE ODYSSEY, a collaborative adaptation

of Homer's 24-chapter epic, made up of 24 shorts by 24 queer, trans, and women

filmmakers. The film premiered at Mix New York Queer Experimental Film Festival. She hasalso made several short films, most recently a project commissioned by FuturePoem Books, I

SHOULD THINK FIRE, which can be viewed on The Anarch. Film Project tumblr. Currently,

Bernadine is working on two projects: an archive of stories of children of the New Left and

CORE, which follows architect Katrina Spade as she designs and builds the prototype for theUrban Death Project, a site for creating compost out of our beloved dead. She serves as Five

College Lecturer in Film & Video Production and is based in the Film Studies Program at Mount

Holyoke College.

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Jeromie Whalen

In recent years Jeromie has been deeply involved in the expansion and cultivation of communitymedia, working as Project Coordinator at Northampton Community Television for three years

and as the Director of Content and Production at Community Media Access Partnership in

Gilroy, CA. His experience in the management and implementation of a wide variety ofcommunity media projects has allowed him to develop a keen insight for what direction the

industry is moving towards and how to best navigate the complexities of community media law,

project planning, and other key issues.

Recently, Jeromie transitioned into full-time teaching with his employment at Northampton High

School. His employment as technology teacher has helped strengthen ties between NCTV and

the Northampton Public School District. Site tours and collaborations between the two entities,including student participation in NCTV debut "7-Day Film Sprint" are just the beginning of

what will potentially be an incredibly fruitful relationship between the school district and NCTV.