Board Members

E. Brett Voss
President

Throughout his 38-year career in communications including multi-media publications, productions and marketing, Brett has worked as an educator, publisher and producer. With a lifelong passion for film, Brett has nurtured his interest through film studies at The University of Texas while pursuing degrees in Communication and English with a minor in RTVF, teaching film appreciation and production at the high school level, and working as an independent video producer.

Angela Smith
Vice President

Angela serves as a promoter of Clifton and its rich arts culture. Her enjoyment of film began as a child and quickly developed to become a deep appreciation for the medium’s artistic creativity and expression, leading to her study of theatre and communication at the University of North Texas. In 2020, Angela secured certification for Clifton as a Film Friendly Texas city and serves as the City’s liaison to the Texas Film Commission.

Nathan Diebenow
Secretary

A pastor’s kid of the MTV generation, Nathan’s fascination with media arts gained him a bachelor’s degree in English and a minor in RTVF from the University of North Texas in Denton. Since becoming a journalist, Nathan has educated and entertained communities through storytelling across print and digital platforms. Fun Fact: While Nathan can’t remember the first movie he saw at The Cliftex, the first film his Grandma Ruth saw there was “The Covered Wagon” (1923).

Miriam Wallace
Treasurer

Miriam is a talented, professional musician (singer/pianist) who has also provided multi-faceted support to video and film production for many years – primarily through her husband’s projects via Mustang International. Miriam is also known for providing world-class voice-overs to enhance all types of projects. Her idea of a perfect date is watching four feature length movies in the theater back-to-back. In other words, she loves movies.

Bryan Davis
Historian

A lover of film since he was a young boy, Bryan began collecting autographs at age eight. By the time he graduated from high school, Bryan had almost a complete collection of Academy Award winning actors, actresses and directors from the silent films era moving forward. While in college at the University of Texas at Austin, Bryan was involved in a campus film society and worked as an entertainment reporter and film critic for The Daily Texan, before going on to become an award-winning journalist. Bryan is a retired postmaster who enjoys writing, photography and film of every genre.

William Godby
Filmmaker In Residence

The Cliftex Theater, or “the picture show” as it was called in those days, afforded William the opportunity to experience a larger world. This awareness inspired him to attend film school at The University of Texas at Austin. After graduation, Will journeyed to Los Angeles in August 1972 and ultimately became a film and television editor. He spent over thirty-five years living and working in LA and New York. After returning to his home town, he began creating digital content, which afforded him the opportunity to remain creative and vital, with the future in mind.

J Matt Wallace
Filmmaker In Residence

Matt’s entire life has been laced with media production, including film since 2012. Matt has produced a growing number of films and short films. Also, a decade before the Bosque Film Society launched, Matt was gathering Bosque residents to celebrate cinema and support film production.

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Simone Voss
Board Member

As a multi-award winning journalist and photographer, Simone co-owns Southern Cross Creative with her husband and weekly contributes to the digital and print magazine ChisholmCountry.com and shoots sports photography for Brett Voss’ The Sports Buzz website. Being a Dutch national born and raised in West Africa, Simone remains inspired by the peoples of the world — their cultures, food, music, art, literature, and of course, film.

Kaye R Callaway
Board Member

Kaye Is an entrepreneur, attorney, farmer, writer and world travel adventurer who enjoys watching films representing peoples’ experiences, perceptions, cultures, fears and dreams. Kaye has only been an extra in a film, but enjoys the process and occasionally assists her husband Curtis W. Callaway on his film and photography projects around the world.

Philip Vasquez
Board Member

Philip and his wife Luci DiGiorgio successfully resurrected the Billy the Kid Film Festival, making it into an “Outlaw Film Festival” as opposed to its previously financially unsuccessful “Western Film Festival.” Borrowing from the legend of Brushy Bill Roberts, know to some as the real Billy the Kid, it has grown exponentially each year and has drawn filmmakers from throughout the country. Philip is an international lawyer by trade having lived in Afghanistan, Iraq, Bahrain, and Mexico City. He now is a general practitioner with an office in Glen Rose, where he and his wife own and operate Oakdale Park in Glen Rose and operate a vintage RV Park in Hico called “Off the Vine RV Park.”

Luci Digiorgio
Board Member
Luci has been an active Texas Real Estate agent for over 20 years. She is a big supporter of the arts and loves working on events that bring artists together to the region. Along with her husband Philip Vasquez, Luci co directs the Billy The Kid Film Festival that takes place the first weekend in November in Hico Texas. Luci and Philip successfully resurrected the Billy the Kid Film Festival, making it into an “Outlaw Film Festival,” borrowing from the legend of Brushy Bill Roberts, know to some as the real Billy the Kid. Now working in conjunction with the Bosque Film Society, the Billy The Kid Film Festival has grown exponentially each year and has drawn filmmakers from throughout the country.
W. Leon Smith
Honorary Member

As the former owner of the historic Cliftex Theatre and The Clifton Record, Leon was an accomplished reporter, photographer, investigator and writer. In addition to serving as publisher of The Lone Star Iconoclast, Leon’s works were published in newspapers and magazines worldwide. Sadly, Leon passed away October 27, 2020.

Bill Calhoon
Honorary Board Member

Multi-faceted and easily distracted by odd bits of ephemera, Bill is a seasoned museum professional, archivist and student of architecture and ethnology who values films not just as narratives but as cultural documents. He also enjoys researching movie houses as part of the historic fabric of our communities.

Samuel French
Honorary Board Member

As an 11-year veteran actor and writer, Samuel is best known for his time on the hit shows “Fear of the Walking Dead” on AMC, “Texas Rising” on the History Channel, as well as the Lionsgate feature film “Pegasus: Pony with a Broken Wing.” Samuel grew up in Clifton and graduated from Clifton High School. Playing the first Texan recruited to the FBI, Samuel will soon appear in the Martin Scorcese film, “Killer of the Flower Moon.”