'A Pathway Forward' wins Best Feature Film at the 2024 Louisville International Film Festival

'A Pathway Forward' wins Best Feature Film at the 2024 Louisville International Film Festival

The movie debuted at an invitation-only event Oct. 9 at the Kentucky Performing Arts Center.

The Louisville International Film Festival announced that "A Pathway Forward" received the Best Feature Award at the 2024 Louisville Film Festival Premiere. 

The documentary is about Central High School's Law and Government Magnet program in partnership with the University of Louisville Brandeis School of Law. It follows a class of sophomores through an academic year, showing how the program and those working with it inspire these students to become lawyers and leaders and how the law students who teach in the program also learn and grow from the experience.

The feature was shown at the Louisville film festival on Oct. 12. It also opened the Sky Arts Film Festival in Bowling Green on Oct. 18.

The documentary had its Louisville premiere for an invited audience on Oct. 9 at the Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts. The event was co-hosted by Bowling Green attorney R. Harvey Johnston III and Kentucky to the World, headed by CEO Shelly Zegart. 

The film was directed by Jesse Nesser, who received the Best Documentary Award at the 2016 Louisville International Film Festival for "Walk With Me: The Trials of Damon J. Keith."  Former Brandeis School of Law dean and professor emerita Laura Rothstein was a lead producer.