Our Team

Michael Lippert, Director

Michael is an award-winning writer, director, and editor whose films and documentaries have screened worldwide. For over a decade, he has edited spots at Cutters Studios, where his work has been featured on Ad Age Top 5, as well as the Super Bowl. He has also won and been nominated for numerous AICP (Association of Independent Commercial Producers) Post Awards.
Michael’s 2018 documentary “Reeves: a Home for Music,” follows the artists and community leaders who helped transform an art deco movie theater into a new music venue in North Carolina. In 2022, along with “Sloane”, he completed editing “0530: Riding in the Dark,” a short cycling documentary featuring riders who held a multi-day stage race in the dark during the Pandemic. 
Michael lives in Winston-Salem with his wife and two children.

Stephen Barefoot, Executive Producer

A veteran of arts presentation, Stephen has produced live commemorative events featuring James Taylor, The Radio City Rockettes, Charles Kuralt, Perry Como, Jeff Foxworthy, Faith Hill & Tim McGraw and others. He directed programming for historic (1858) Thalian Hall in Wilmington NC for twenty years, and served as executive director of the 200-member North Carolina Presenters Consortium for 14 years. Through his agency goingbarefoot•inc., he currently represents actor/playwright Mike Wiley.
His relationship with Sloane goes back many years, from when he was a 20s-something bartender at the Frog & Nightgown in Raleigh in the 1970s.  In the early 1980s, Stephen opened his own jazz/cabaret supper club called Stephen’s, After All in Chapel Hill, NC, where he worked closely with Carol by his side. He has remained tethered to arts presenting, production and artist representation for the past forty years.

Taylor Arnold, Executive Producer

L. Taylor Arnold is an Intellectual Property Attorney with a background in Patent, Trademark, Copyright, and Contract Law for film, screen and music productions, and is Counsel to numerous North Carolina-based artists and inventors. A long-time resident of North Carolina, Taylor received his technical training at North Carolina State University and his undergraduate and graduate degrees from Wake Forest University and Wake Forest University School of Law, respectively.
Prior to law school, Taylor dabbled in freelance toy and consumer product design. He is named as an inventor on several U.S. Patents, and still occasionally tinkers with new product ideas. He lives in Raleigh, North Carolina with his wife and two sons. During recent months, he has taken great pleasure in notating large gems and ferreting out specks of pure gold in Carol Sloane’s archival recordings.

Donna Campbell, Producer

A native of North Carolina, Donna is a founding partner of Minnow Media. She first worked on a television project with her sister, Susan Campbell, in 1989. “ANY DAY NOW” presented the stories of women who had survived domestic violence. The program received national acclaim and served as a standard media tool in courtrooms, classrooms and advocacy programs for 20 years. Since 1990, Donna has worked as a producer, writer and editor on many documentary programs, mostly with North Carolina public television, UNC-TV. In this pursuit, she has interviewed hundreds of individuals — from Mother Teresa to Michael Jordan. She says it’s the stories of everyday citizens that are the ones she wants to tell. In addition to dozens of stories for broadcast on the nightly program “North Carolina NOW,” Donna has produced many award-winning documentaries about the culture and communities in her home state.

Georgann Eubanks, Producer

Born and raised in Atlanta, Georgann Eubanks graduated from Duke University in public policy studies and has published poetry, fiction, and nonfiction over the years. She was director of the Duke Writers Workshop for 20 years, and then launched theTable Rock Writers Workshop, held each fall in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Along with Minnow Media partner Donna Campbell, she has produced a number of public television documentaries focusing on the arts, religion, social justice, and the changing demographics of the state and nation.