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Ted Crockett is the Executive Director of the Nashville Film Festival and will be discussing the realities of the TV/Film Sync world.
Ted Crockett is directing his sixth festival as Executive Director, a role he assumed in early 2012. He brings deep experience in all aspects of film festival management, as he has worked with NaFF since 2004. Under his leadership, the festival expanded to include a popular screenwriting competition, a new music placement program, and NaFF won the coveted Frist Foundation Revenue Generation Award. Crockett has been named one of Nashville’s top “Movers and Shakers” by Nashville Lifestyles Magazine, and Variety Magazine named him to its Top 30 Music City Impact Report. The festival has consistently been named one of the top film festivals in the world by MovieBytes Magazine.
Under his leadership the Festival has forged important international relationships including: the Film Producer’s Association in China and the Kurdish Regional Government in Northern Iraq. He has strengthened ties with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and many leading entertainment individuals and firms. In 2013 he launched the Nashville Web Series Competition. He has built the music placement program into an annual event working with Disney, ESPN, ABC, CBS, Lionsgate, HBO, Secret Road, Format Entertainment and more.
Ted is an engaging and frequent speaker at festival conferences. He works with the Art and Business Council to help Tennessee non-profits navigate the business side of working in the arts. He is a member of Tennesseans for the Arts, the Nashville Arts Coalition, and serves on the Film Television Transmedia Council, as well as the National Museum of African American Museum Community Council.
Previously, Crockett was an account executive at Flood, Bumstead, McCready & McCarthy, one of the world’s leading music business management firms, where he managed the finances of entertainers including Wynonna, Naomi Judd, Gary Allan, Shawn Colvin, Garbage and others. He earned a B.S. in broadcast journalism from Brigham Young University and moved to Nashville in 1998.
A passionate art collector, he is known for his unique collection of 21st Century oil paintings.
