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)

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HOW TO COTE AND DEADLINES
EMAIL 3pm on November 27, 2014. Please send an email with up to two choices to
nctv@northamptontv.org Please title the email NCTV Ballot. Your email must match the
one you provided NCTV and you must be a member in good standing.
MAIL Print and fill out the above form, circling the two candidates for whom you wish to
vote. 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
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 email nctv@northamptontv.org

BIOS OF CANDIDATES
Ben Bradley-Gilbert
Its been nearly two years since I joined the NCTV community. I must acknowledge that
doing so has been the most rewarding decision that I have ever made in my life. Meeting the
wonderful 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 NCTV
in 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 be
ideal 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 in
my 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 station
better 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.

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 as
an 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 program
in 2005, since then adding courses in Film Studies and Multimedia Production.
Stephen has directed Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, As You Like It, The Madwoman of
Chaillot, The Rimers of Eldritch and Key Exchange for Northampton High School, and Much
Ado About Nothing for the Hampshire Shakespeare Young Company. He directed High Tide for
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 plays Hamlet, The Winter's Tale,
and Pinocchio; the student-written, directed and produced films Omnivore and Deadline; and in
May 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-directing
the 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 THE
TREES tells the story of her father Dennis Cunninghams role as attorney in environmental
activist Judi Baris civil case against the FBI. THE FOREST FOR THE TREES premiered at the
Human Rights Watch Film Festival, was broadcast on the Sundance Channel, and is now
available 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 has
also 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 the
Urban 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.


Jeromie Whalen
In recent years Jeromie has been deeply involved in the expansion and cultivation of community
media, 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 of
community 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.