Board of Directors

Christine Crosby

Chris Crosby comes to MFS with 25 years of experience as an educator, therapist and activist. With a background in education and clinical psychology, she has worked with schools, hospitals, community groups, and in private practice. She has extensive experience with non-profits, working on boards and as development staff for both new and established groups. Chris was a founding member and board president of the Austin Children's Museum and has served on the board of the Center for Battered Women and other local environmental and education-based groups.

Kristy Holmes

Kristy brings multiple talents to the Mobile Film School team. As a tax associate with Maxwell, Locke and Ritter since 2005, Kristy concentrates her professional efforts on high net worth individuals and small family owned businesses. Not only is she a certified QuickBooks Pro Advisor, Kristy has been involved in several community activities, such as Habitat for Humanity in Odessa and Meals on Wheels. Kristy holds both a Bachelor’s and a Master’s degree in Business Administration from Angelo State University in San Angelo, Texas.

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Susan Mann

Susan Mann has over twenty years of diverse business experience in sales, marketing advertising, public relations, product branding campaign promotion, product placement, sponsorship, business development, management, operations, distribution, magazine publication and raising venture capital. As an independent entertainment and media marketing consultant, she has produced commercials, corporate motion pictures, network promotional DVD's, developed program concepts for television, participated in single picture, / multi-picture slate financing for films, film distribution company financing, and supported the formation of a production company and procurement of venture capital.

Tom Boobar

Tom currently works with Arthur J. Gallagher & Co, the 4th largest insurance broker in the world with 34 offices and over 300 producers working in this niche.  Tom has spent most of his 17-year career working with school districts, private schools, and charter schools helping them manage risk and create a safe environment for the students.

Margo Dover

Margo Dover, Executive Director of Skillpoint Alliance, has spent much of her career as an international business specialist. During the 1980s she lived in Spain and Argentina, where she was a co-founder and marketing director for Columbus International College, an American Community College program created for foreign students hoping to continue their post-secondary educations in the United States.

Paul Freed

Paul Freed, an independent film Editor, Producer, and Director, began his early film career in 1971, which consisted of producing and editing advertising campaigns for feature films, including: Prince of the City, Flashdance, 48 Hours, Shoot the Moon, Streets of Fire and Semi-Tough. He was the film editor for both feature films and TV movies, including Shakedown and Rude Awakening, also supervising sound and music for the projects.

Harvey Ray

Harvey Ray is the Director of Film Industry Relations for the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD), and a member of the Savannah Film Commission. Shortly after joining SCAD, he conceived of and created Savannah Cinema Post, the only full service film post-production facility available to students in any major film school.

Clark Richards

Clark Richards is an amateur digital filmmaker who practices law in his spare time to make ends meet. He has degrees from Northwestern University, UT Law School, and the University of London and is a member of the Order of the Coif and the UT Chancellors honor societies. Clark’s background includes a wide variety of experience, including teaching English in Japan, working as a mental health professional, clerking for the Federal 5th Circuit Court, and visiting as an assistant professor of law at Texas Wesleyan University.

Michael David "MD" Weis

Michael David Weis, or “MD”, is the president and CEO of Confidence Bay Inc, a revolutionary mobile HD editing suite.  MD has over 20 years experience as an actor, producer, writer, innovator, and educator. He began his acting career in high school, and continued through college before being selected into the apprentice program at Actors Theater of Louisville, Kentucky. After college, MD produced nationally distributed multimedia projects.

Bart Weiss

Bart Weiss is the Founder and President of the Video Association of Dallas, where he runs the Dallas Video Festival annually.  As an artistic director and a video renaissance man, Bart is an Assistant Professor at the University of Arlington by day, and a Final Cut Pro instructor, artistic director, and filmmaker in his free time.   Bart recently produced Frame of Mind for KERA TV, and directed Three Star Cinema, a Jewish film series.  Known as ‘Bart the Impaler’ on the basketball court, he has recently taken to wearing cowboy boots and camp