Team

Terri was newportFILM’s first Executive Director, leading the program from its inception in June of 2010 until she transitioned to the Board of Directors in October 2017. The majority of her career has been spent in the marketing, development and management of films, talent, festivals, and other events. Prior to her position as Executive Director of newportFILM she worked for eight years as a publicist for New Line Cinema, was the Head of worldwide theatrical publicity for Chris Blackwell’s Palm Pictures in New York and Los Angeles and worked as a unit publicist on a number of small and large budget narrative films shot in and around New England.

Nancy is a film and television producer based in New York City. Her most recent project was as co-producer of a PBS documentary titled “Demystifying Dyslexia”. She was an associate producer of the documentary “Street Dogs” for National Geographic. Her television credits include “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire” for ABC, “Crank Yankers”, for Comedy Central, the ABC Special, “David Blaine: Street Magic”. Donahoe began her career at Actors’ Equity Association, where she negotiated film and television agreements on behalf of AEA members. From 1998-2004, she was the co-founder and Director of the Newport International Film Festival. She is an active member of the Cubs Committee of the New York Public Library Board. She serves on the benefit committees of Room to Grow (NYC and Boston) which provides support to babies born into poverty and their parents from birth to three years and the East Harlem Tutorial Program. Donahoe, her husband and two children live in New York City and Newport, RI.

Bill is the Publisher of The Edward A. Sherman Publishing Company, publishers of The Newport Daily News, Newport Mercury, The Navalog, Newport Life Magazine, NewportRI.com and the South County Newspapers. Bill has lived in Newport County for over 25 years and has served on numerous non-profit boards and committees in that time. He is currently serving as a Trustee of The Preservation Society of Newport County. Bill is married to renowned photographer Kathryn Whitney Lucey. They live in Middletown, Rhode Island with their twin sons Billy and Tucker.

Jim Miller is the owner of Embrace Benefits – an employee benefits consulting practice that specializes in small and midsize companies. Jim has lived in Newport County for over 30 years. Jim is active in the community and has helped many organizations including: Salve University Business Accreditation Committee, Newport County YMCA Board of Directors, Middletown Youth Soccer Club Board of Directors, Sail America Board of Directors, Small Business Association of New England Board of Directors, Boy Scouts of America – Narragansett Council Advisor and the Town of Middletown Zoning Board Member. Jim is married to Photographer Kim Fuller. They reside in Middletown, RI with there three children Henry, Ella and Keydell.

Kimberly spent 33 years in finance working with clients from South America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia. She ran an office for Merrill Lynch in Paris and headed Europe and the UK for Private Client headquartered in London. She speaks Spanish, French and working Portuguese. Her community involvement has included education, diversity issues and the plight of the homeless. While in London she sat on the Merrill Lynch Diversity Leadership Committee and was part of an external organization The Competitors Diversity Forum. She also supported CAMFED, The Campaign for the Education of Women in Africa. In Miami she served on the board of Camillus House, which provides humanitarian services to the indigent and homeless populations of Miami-Dade County Florida, and on the board of the National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship, bringing entrepreneurial training to high school students from low-income communities. She now divides her time between Newport and Miami.

Susan is a documentary filmmaker and founder of Tree of Life Productions. She produced and directed the award-winning films Set for Life (based on the multimedia project Over 50 and Out of Work) and Soldier On: Life After Deployment. Both documentaries are distributed by American Public Television and have shown on public television stations nationwide. She graduated with honors from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 2008, with distinction from New York University’s Stern School of Business in 1991 and cum laude from Williams College in 1980. She is a member of New York Women in Film and Television and the Williams College Presidential Advisory Council, and she also serves on the board of the Newport Performing Arts Center. She lives in the New York metropolitan area, but grew up in Rhode Island. She and her husband, Dwight, have five children.