Nash Film Fest celebrates Living Reel’s 20th year

NASHVILLE, TN – Nashville Film Festival has wrapped up its 2024 year, and according to the festival’s Executive Director Jason Padgitt, with great success. Padgitt said the festival itself was able to hold a wide variety of entertainment for guests, showing a total of 150 films that hailed from 25 different countries around the world. Nashville Film Festival Executive Director Jason Padgitt “It’s been terrific and it’s really great to see something that you get to imagine all year come to life,” Padgitt said. “Just seeing the reactions of the audience and the filmmakers, and really everybody associated with the Film Festival, has been really gratifying and rewarding.” Among this year’s list of accomplishments, Padgitt said the Nashville Film Festival marked the 20th anniversary of their community outreach effort, Living Reel. Padgitt said the goal of Living Reel’s three-month-long program is to take the resources available to Nashville Film Festival and apply them to a group of at-risk youth in the local area. He said that in the five years he’s occupied his position, the program has been dedicated to local girls living in the foster care system, between the ages of 13 and 17. Padgitt said most of whom...