Directors
Ron Tuckman
Ron Tuckman is the executive director if the Flagstaff Mountain Film Festival. His involvement started with attending Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT in pursuit of a degree and career in the film industry. Having thought he completed his last math and science classes after his first college semester, fate would have it that he graduated with a degree in Neuroscience and Psychology and continued on to receive his MD. He now works full time as a pediatrician in Flagstaff. However, Ron has never lost his passion for film and was overjoyed when given the opportunity to be on the board of the Flagstaff Mountain Film Festival in 2006.
For the past five years, Ron and the other board members have developed the Festival into a four day event, with over 3,000 movie-goers yearly. With the youth of the community in mind, they have developed programs to share their vision with students about important local and global themes as well as provide them with the opportunity to create their own films.
Ron is proud to be the director of this outstanding organization and looks forward to an amazing festival in 2011.
John Tveten
Dr. John Tveten is an ER doctor who is no stranger to adventures and mountain filmmaking. He has worked as an expedition doctor on Mount Everest as well in Antarctica and the Canadian High Arctic. His interest in filmmaking began through his work on the Hopi Indian Reservation, where he produced educational shorts aimed at preventing problems such as substance abuse and diabetes. Since then John has worked on film projects in Western Mongolia, Chilean Patagonia, and on Mount Everest.
He has been a board member of the Flagstaff Mountain Film Festival since 2006, when he was asked by founding members Geoff Cross and Anne Walton to keep the festival alive upon their departure from Flagstaff. His primary duties on the FMFF Board include Environmental Director, Student Filmmaker Program Director, and Grant Writer.
John’s main reason for joining the Flagstaff Mountain Film Festival is to help keep Flagstaff’s eyes open to the passion, struggles, and conviction of mountain film.
Brad Kamradt
Brad Kamradt brings more than 15 years of experience and passion in the fields of entertainment and education to the Flagstaff Mountain Film Festival. While pursuing a Bachelor’s degree at Northwestern University, he began promoting campus speaking and concert events. This led to an internship in music management and, shortly after graduation, a move to Los Angeles. A few years later, Brad returned to Chicago to pursue a career in the multimedia industry but soon entered graduate school to join the family business: public education.
Upon earning his Master’s degree from the University of Illinois at Chicago, Brad came to Flagstaff for his first teaching job. After several years in the English department at Coconino High School, he accepted an instructional technology position with the school district, where he continues to work full time as Flagstaff USD’s first and only Technology Integration Coordinator.
Brad is honored and excited to join the Flagstaff Mountain Film Festival Board of Directors after volunteering for the Festival in 2011. In particular, he hopes to further expand and enrich the Festival’s already successful Student Program in 2012 and beyond.