NSSFM’s Board of Advisors offer invaluable advice and support to the organization’s Board of Directors. In alphabetical order by last name, our Advisors are:

• Lisa Bradberry, film scholar specializing in Florida’s film history (St. Petersburg)

• Leigh Cort, owner of Leigh Cort Publicity, specializing in travel and hospitality

• Eric Gustafson, film historian, radio personality (Chicago)

• Philip Harwood, film historian, lecturer (New York)

• Anthony Hodge, actor, director, writer, owner of Graphicstation, Inc., a freelance design company.

• Angel Jackson, actress, multiple pageant title holder and law student (Atlanta)

• Dr. Lew Klechak, orthodontist and former chair of the Florida Film & Entertainment Advisory Council

• Dr. Phyllis Klotman, author, professor of African American Studies and founder of the Black Film Center/Archive at Indiana University (New York)

• Matthew Mariner, archivist and preservation coordinator, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida (Gainesville)

• Herman McEachin, film historian and collector

• Russell Motley, former television journalist and author of two scholarly papers on the life of Richard Norman for Florida A&M University (Tallahassee)

• Marsha Phelts, historian, author of An American Beach for African Americans

• Nadia Ramoutar, media director for the Arts Institute of Jacksonville, president of the Jacksonville Film Festival Board of Directors and documentary filmmaker

• Todd Roobin, director of the Jacksonville Office of Film & Television, a division of the Jacksonville Economic Development Commission

• Paul Sirmons, filmmaker and former Florida Film Commissioner (Orlando)

• Jeanette Toohey, Director of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the University of North Florida

• Felicia Wright, CBO and president of Mygani Design Studio, a certified brand consulting and design firm