Ted Crockett
Interim Executive Director
ted@nashvillefilmfestival.org

Ted Crockett became a permanent employee of the Nashville Film Festival in the spring of 2007. He worked under contract with NaFF during the 2004, 2005 and 2006 festivals as box office manager.

Crockett moved to Nashville in 1998 after graduating in Broadcast Journalism from Brigham Young University. For over five years he worked at the business management firm Flood, Bumstead, McCready & McCarthy handling the finances of many entertainers including, Wynonna & Naomi Judd, Gary Allan, Shawn Colvin, Garbage and others.

Crockett continues to provide financial services to several private clients and spends his extra time working with sculpture, oil painting and music.

Brian Owens
Artistic Director
brianowens@nashvillefilmfestival.org

Brian Owens has been programming films since founding the Indianapolis International Film Festival in 2004.  He became Artistic Director of the Nashville Film Festival in 2008, heading up programming for the 2009 festival.

In 2010, he was named of the 50 Most Influential People of the 2000s in Indianapolis by the Indianapolis Star.  Later that year, the Nashville Post named him one of Nashville’s people In Charge.

Brian studied film at Indiana University, has served on multiple film festival juries, and has published in several online and print publications.