PhD alum Sarah Childress appointed to Nashville Mayor’s Office of Entertainment
Sarah Childress, a PhD from the Vanderbilt Department of English, has been appointed by the Mayor Freddie O’Connell to be Executive Director of the Nashville Office of Entertainment. She will begin her new role at the end of August.The office is tasked with promoting the local creative industry and supporting its workers and businesses.
Sarah was one of the founders of the Nashville Film Festival and served as Director of Strategy and Operations for Nashville Public Television. She has taught film courses at Vanderbilt, Bowdoin College, Belmont University, and San Francisco State University, and she helped establish the International Lens film series at Vanderbilt. Sarah produced the film Música Campesina, which screened at internationally renowned film festivals, and her short film “Blue Dragon Mussel Wagon” exhibited at the Boston Center for the Arts and Berlin’s Haus der Kulturen der Welt. She has also introduced films and moderated discussions at the Belcourt Theatre, Frist Art Museum, Tennessee Performing Arts Center, and the Nashville Film Festival.
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