Brookdale Seniors Honored at Second Annual "Celebrate Aging Film Festival"
BRENTWOOD, Tenn., Oct. 4, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Residents and associates at nine Brookdale Senior Living communities located throughout the country were honored with awards at the company's second annual "Celebrate Aging Film Festival." Held October 3rd at the historic Franklin Theatre in Franklin, Tennessee, the event was established to help change the perception of aging and to communicate a positive, uplifting or touching message about aging. Movie shorts were created by residents and associates at Brookdale communities and narrowed down to nine finalists.
The film festival offered the opportunity for residents and associates to work together on a creative project using their senior living community's iPad technology. The groups handled all aspects of production including: conception, scriptwriting, casting, acting, directing, filming and editing. Brookdale communities nationwide had until July 1 to submit their film. Awards were presented in the following categories: Best Picture, Best Writing, Best Acting, Best Technical Design and the Courage Award, all chosen by judges. The films were also eligible for the Ecolab People's Choice Award, with the winner chosen by public voting. Votes for the Ecolab People's Choice Award totaled over 8,347 with the winning film accumulating approximately 1,678 votes.
Below, please find a list of the categories, the winning communities and the titles of the movies. Also please find a link to all nine nominated movies. Attached please find photos for the Best Picture and the Ecolab People's Choice Awards.
Categories, winning communities and movie titles here:
- Best Writing – Cat's Outta the Bag by Brookdale Colonial Heights, Kingsport, Tenn.
- Best Technical Design – Reflections by Brookdale Greenville, Greenville, S.C.
- Best Acting – Old or Older? by Freedom Pointe at The Villages, The Villages, Fla.
- Best Picture – Reflections by Brookdale Greenville, Greenville, S.C.
- Courage Award – Determination Becoming Inspiration by Oklahoma City Southwest, Oklahoma City, Okla.
- Ecolab People's Choice Award – All These Moments by The Solana Vintage Park, Houston, Texas
Link Below to Celebrate Aging Film Festival Nominees
https://visit.brookdale.com/peoples-choice-awards/
About Brookdale
Brookdale Senior Living Inc. is the leading operator of senior living communities throughout the United States. The Company is committed to providing senior living solutions primarily within properties that are designed, purpose-built and operated to provide the highest-quality service, care and living accommodations for residents. Brookdale operates independent living, assisted living, and dementia-care communities and continuing care retirement centers, with approximately 988 communities in 46 states and the ability to serve approximately 95,000 residents as of June 30, 2018. Through its ancillary services program, the Company also offers a range of home health, hospice and outpatient therapy services. For more Brookdale news, go to brookdalenews.com
About Ecolab
A trusted partner at more than one million customer locations, Ecolab (ECL) is the global leader in water, hygiene and energy technologies and services that protect people and vital resources. With 2014 sales of $14 billion and 47,000 associates, Ecolab delivers comprehensive solutions and on-site service to promote safe food, maintain clean environments, optimize water and energy use and improve operational efficiencies for customers in the food, healthcare, energy, hospitality and industrial markets in more than 170 countries around the world. For more Ecolab news and information, visit www.ecolab.com.
Contact: Heather Hunter, (615) 564-8622, [email protected]
SOURCE Brookdale Senior Living
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