Board Members
Diana Newton
Interim Board President
Diana Newton is currently the Principal of Falling Apples Consulting, where she focuses on developing individuals and teams to achieve superior results in the areas of leadership, management, and team development. In addition to consulting and training, Diana spent a number of years as a psychotherapist in private practice. Her interest in filmmaking began as a writer and producer of training films that explore the complex interpersonal dynamics between managers and their employees. She has recently authored a business history book and produced a companion video about the 75-year development of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina.
Diana is also currently producing a personal documentary film, Two Forms of I.D., which examines how her brother's change in gender identity tests the "ties that bind" in her Southern family.
Mimi Fountain
Mimi has worked in the publishing business and in film making. From 1983-1992 she was the Publicity Director of Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill. Prior to that, she worked in the promotion departments of McGraw-Hill, Holt Reinhart & Winston and Conde Nast in New York. She was Co-Executive Producer for Macky Alston's film, FAMILY NAME, winner of the Freedom of Expression Award at the 1997 Sundance Film Festival.
Currently, Mimi is a board member of The Women's Center where she serves as Chair for the annual fundraising event featuring North Carolina women writers, "Tea With Lee Smith." Mimi is a native of North Carolina and lives in Chapel Hill. She is an avid documentary film fan!
Jim Haverkamp
Board Treasurer
Jim Haverkamp is a Durham filmmaker and freelance editor. His short documentary and narrative films have screened at more than 50 film festivals around the world. Jim received a Filmmaking Fellowship from the North Carolina Arts Council in 2000. He has also served on the selection committee of the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival and is a former organizer of the Flicker Film Festival in Chapel Hill.
Nicole Triche
A native of Walnut Cove, NC, Nicole Triche is graduate of Appalachian State University where she received her Broadcasting degree in 1998. Triche is currently an Associate Producer with North Carolina's statewide public television network, UNC-TV. She produces various field and studio projects at UNC-TV, including North Carolina Visions, which highlights the work of North Carolina filmmakers.
Triche is also the former director of the Flicker Film Festival in Chapel Hill, which she programmed from 2004-2007. Flicker was started in 1994 to showcase shorts, shot exclusively on film. The bi-monthly screenings are held at the Cat's Cradle in Carrboro. She is also a past member of the Ms. Films Festival screening committee and is also on the Piedmont Community College Film and Video Production Technology Curriculum Advisory Committee.
Currently, Triche is pursuing a MFA in Broadcasting and Cinema at UNC Greensboro, where she is also the Assistant Director of the Carolina Film and Video Festival.
Tom Whiteside
Tom Whiteside has been making, curating, and exhibiting film since 1979, when he graduated from the University of North Carolina with a degree in Radio, Television and Motion Pictures. Interests include experimental film, regional film history, and the intersection of motion pictures with music and fine arts. He worked as a Visiting Artist in the North Carolina Community College system for four years, and was an Artist-in-Residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito, California. He was an Arts Administration Fellow at the National Endowment for the Arts in Washington, DC in 1990. Founder and director of Durham Cinematheque, he has presented more than 60 unique film programs in downtown Durham since 1991.
His short film Conjure Bearden was part of the Romare Bearden exhibition at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University in 2006, and was screened at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival in 2007. He works as an audio-visual technician in Technical Services at Duke University.