Meet the Team
The Board of Directors
Setu Raval, Chair
Setu has a background in nonprofit arts organizations and more than 10 years of experience in program and project management. As associate director of the Spirit Awards nominations, she oversaw the nominating process for the Film Independent Spirit Awards and managed the selection process for filmmaker grants.
Christopher Huntley, Treasurer
Lisa Davis, Secretary
Lisa co-owns The Giddy Goat Coffee Roasters. She is a former business journalist and a community volunteer, advocating for children as a guardian ad litem and serving on Planned Parenthood South Atlantic’s Charlotte Stewardship Committee and Davidson College’s Arts and Creative Engagement Advisory Board.
Tom Eiselt, Past Chair
Tom is a CPA, retired from Ernst & Young. He has over 30 years of experience providing management consulting services to global organizations in a variety of industries. A resident of Charlotte for over 25 years, Tom has served on nonprofit boards including Blumenthal Performing Arts, Children’s Theatre of Charlotte and Actor’s Theatre of Charlotte and on the board of Neuro580 LLC, a for-profit mental health-care/technology venture.
Marcie Kelso
Marcie founded Kelso Communications and runs its business, accounts and strategy side. Previously, she launched the film division of the Charlotte Regional Partnership and was executive director of The Light Factory Museum of Photography & Film. Marcie has served on the Mathews Economic Development Advisory Committee and the board of Boom Charlotte.
Olivia Horton
Olivia has spent her career in fundraising and strategic planning for arts organizations and other nonprofits in both the Midwest and Charlotte. She enjoys being a charitable matchmaker between community-minded people and causes they care about, and is currently serving as the Director of Development at Carolina Farm Trust. Aside from supporting Charlotte’s powerful film community, she stays connected to her artistic roots as a classical pianist.
Terri L. Brown
Terri is Finance Director at Enola Group Inc. She has extensive nonprofit accounting and financial management experience with employers in both Boston and Charlotte. She is a community advocate and a lover of the arts and has programmed art festivals in Boston for more than a decade. She also volunteers with the Charlotte Secondary Charter School, serves on the board of Charlotte PINC and reviews grants for the Charlotte Arts & Science Council.
Jamie Kiser
Rodney Stringfellow
Rodney is a screenwriter, filmmaker and adjunct professor in film studies at UNC Charlotte. Previously, he taught screenwriting at Sarah Lawrence College. Rodney has written for Nickelodeon, PBS Kids, Disney Channel, BBC and Sesame Workshop and has been nominated for three Daytime Emmys.
Amy Teats
Amy is a senior manager in Deloitte’s Audit & Assurance practice, working with public and private audit clients, primarily in the power and utilities and retail sectors. She also assists clients with accounting and financial reporting matters, including initial public offerings, purchase accounting, dispositions and new accounting standard implementations.
David Thalberg
David is President of Stryker-Munley Group, an integrated strategic communications agency. He has more than 30 years of agency experience leading publishing, entertainment, technology, nonprofit and lifestyle accounts. He also chairs the awards committee for the Charlotte Jewish Film Festival.
Chris Ziegler
Chris is an intellectual property attorney at Alston & Bird LLP. His practice focuses on counseling clients on developing and managing patent portfolios. A lover of arts and storytelling, Chris has been involved in the Charlotte arts community since 2013 and previously served as a board member of Actor’s Theater of Charlotte, including as the board chair.
Cinema Operations
Brad Ritter, Executive Director
Jay Morong, Creative Director
Claire Lechtenberg, Director of Development & Marketing
de’Angelo Dia, Director of Education and Community Engagement
Ivana Woodcock, Marketing Coordinator
Dylan Wachman, Graphic Designer
Brandy Ray, Cinema Operations Director