5th Annual T Tauri Award Winners Announced
Screening and Awards Ceremony Set for August 1
The 5th T Tauri Film Festival award winners have been announced. The award winners will be screened and awards presented on Saturday, August 1 at Independence Hall on the campus of the University of Arkansas Community College at Batesville (UACCB). One hundred forty-five entries were received and judged by a peer jury that included students in the Lyon College APPLE Upward Bound program, as well as students in the summer Understanding Film class at UACCB. Four of nine awards go to Arkansas projects. Festival president Bob Pest calls this year’s entries “an amazing group of films that demonstrate how far youth filmmaking has come. The judges were especially impressed with the maturity and thoughtfulness behind so many of the films.”
The winners are:
Short Documentary (ten minutes or less): A Generation of Consolidation, Reel Grrls. Seattle.
Long Documentary: Poetry in the Dark, Reel Works Teen Filmmaking. Lynn, Mass.
Comedy: Checkmate, Real to Reel at Raw Art Works, Boston.
Drama: Suspect, Spy Hop productions. Salt Lake City.
Public Service Announcement: Cigarettes Burn, Batesville (AR) High School.
Experimental: Holocaust Shoes, Walt Peterson, Little Rock.
Animation: Cookie Cutter, Perpich Center for Arts Education, Perpich, Minn.
Arkanstar (outstanding Arkansas film): Sight, Fayetteville (AR) High School.
The Kid with a Camera (best film by a student or students working without school or institutional support): A Soldier in Skirts, Emma Bailin and Sarah Bailin, Little Rock.
Arkansas winners will be screened and filmmakers honored at the Festival Finale, Saturday evening, August 1. The Finale Screening will also feature work created in the T Tauri Movie Camp and Humanity Unleashed, a short documentary about the Independence County Humane Society, produced in the academic-year APPLE Community Documentary Workshop.
In addition to the award winners, forty-seven films were chosen by the judges as Official Selections and will be screened during the festival. Screenings of Official Selections are set for Thursday and Friday evenings, July 30 and 31, and Saturday afternoon, August 1, at UACCB. Films will be screened in both the auditorium and the Lecture Hall (Room 103). The screening schedule is:
July 30, 7 pm. T Tauri workshop instructor Wes Obrigewitsch discusses the new Squish and Squash: Hand-Drawn Animation Workshop and Official Selections: Animation.
July 31, 7 pm. Official Selections: Comedy and Drama.
August 1, 2 pm. Official Selections: Documentary.
August 1, 4 pm. Award Winners and Official Selections: Various Categories.
August 1, 7 pm. Finale Screening.
There is no admission fee on Thursday and Friday. Saturday screenings are $3 for adults/$2 for adults 55 and over and Film Society members/ $1 for age 18 and under. Admission to the Finale Screening is $5 adults/$3 senior adults and members/$2 age18 and under. A discount all-day Saturday pass is available
for $8 adults/$5 senior adults and members/$3 are 18 and under. Information is available at www.ttauri.org or 870-251-1189. The T Tauri Film Festival and Movie Camp is sponsored by First Community Bank, the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation, the Arkansas Arts Council, the Field Shop, the Canon Corporation, Lyon College, UACCB, the Independence County Recreation Fund, the Arkansas Economic Development Commission, the Ozark Gateway Tourist Council, Daylight Donuts, members of the Foothills Film Society, and other area businesses.
