Nashville Film Festival Announces New President, Board Members

Anastasia Brown

The Nashville Film Festival has announced its new and returning board members for the 2017-2018 year and new leadership for the ever-growing festival. Anastasia Brown of Format Entertainment has been named President of the festival and Jim Scherer of Whizbang, Inc., has been named Vice President. Adrien Good of Flood, Bumstead, McCready & McCarthy, Inc. has been named treasurer, and Natasha Corrieri of ServisFirst Bank will remain as secretary.

Brown possesses 25 years of experience in music supervision, television & film production, publishing, artist management, A&R and music placement.  She served as the music supervisor of the Lionsgate film, The Shack and is a co-producer of the soundtrack. As a music supervisor Brown has worked on projects with Oscar, Grammy, Emmy, Dove wins and nominations. Her credits include The Shack (Lionsgate) The Americans (FX,) The Darkest Hour (New Regency), Footloose (Paramount), August Rush (WB), It’s Complicated (Universal Pictures), documentary For the Love of Music: the Story of Nashville, Taken (Sci-Fi,)  and more. As a producer she has developed four television series and two films including I Saw The Light, a biopic on the life of Hank Williams, Sr. (Sony Classics.) Brown has placed close to 50 songs in major films and television series over the last three years.  She is currently a music curator for Reese Witherspoon’s brand and clothing line, Draper James, providing southern music for her worldwide lifestyle followers.

New members include David Haspel of Haspel Communications, Inc., Tracy Gershon of Red Light Management, Adrien Good of Flood, Bumstead, McCready & McCarthy, Inc., Claude Kelly – American Singer-Songwriter, Brittany Schaffer of Loeb & Loeb, Scott Waugh – American Film Director, and Julia Bonner of Pierce Public Relations.

2017-2018 Nashville Film Festival Board 
President: Anastasia Brown
Vice President: Jim Scherer
New Members:
David Haspel
Tracy Gershon
Adrien Good
Claude Kelly
Brittany Schaffer
Scott Waugh
Julia Bonner

Returning Members:
Taryn Anderson
Anastasia Brown
Scott Borchetta
Cary Nelson-Burch
Natasha Corrieri
Shannon Casey
Steven Gaydos
Marcella Gomez
Ken Levitan
William Lowery
Bob Raines
Courtney Ross
Jim Scherer
Conrad Schuck
Dawn Soler
Stacey Widelitz

(L-R): Jim Scherer (Vice President), Ted Crockett (Executive Director), Anastasia Brown (President), Tracy Gershon (Red Light Management), William Lowery (APA)

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Lorie Hollabaugh

Hollabaugh, a staff writer at MusicRow magazine, has over 20 years of music business experience and has written for publications including American Profile, CMA Close Up, Nashville Arts And Entertainment, The Boot and Country Weekly. She has a Broadcast Journalism and Speech Communication degree from Texas Christian University, (go Horned Frogs), and welcomes your feedback or story ideas at lhollabaugh@musicrow.com.

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