BME owner/president Alan Brewer has been named The Nashville Film Festival's president for its upcoming 36th season.  One of the premiere film festivals in the country, the NaFF is the only festival in the U.S. where the winning feature film automatically can qualify for Academy Award consideration.  Brewer will continue efforts to expand the national cachet of the festival, capitalizing on the festival’s unique ties to the music industry and utilizing his own history as a film and music producer.

Brewer began producing films for Miramax and Universal Pictures in the mid 1980's, and his music production work ranges from soundtracks for films such as Tokyo Pop, The Burning, and B.C. Rock, to working with acts as diverse as classic rocker Pete Townshend, Japanese supergroup Hound Dog, and the upcoming debut album for the all-girl country band Cowboy Crush on Curb-Asylum Records.

Brewer's recent efforts as a festival board member have included sponsoring a festival keynote appearance featuring film producer Andrew Mason (The Matrix, Scooby Doo), moderating and coordinating “music in film” panels (featuring, among others, Dreamworks' Todd Homme, William Morris’ Joel Roman, Disney’s Glen Lajeski, and Dan Butler of Warner Bros. Pictures), and sponsorship of the BME Best Music In A Feature Film award (with its debut award presented to Stacy Widelitz, composer for the Lisa Niemi/Patrick Swayze film “One Last Dance”).