T Tauri Films to Be Broadcast on AETN and Screened at the Little Rock
Film Festival
Two films made by area teens in T Tauri filmmaking workshops have been
selected for the AETN Student Selects project. Southern Fried Saturdays
will be broadcast on AETN on Sunday afternoon, May 31, at 2:00 p.m. It
will also be shown at the Little Rock Film festival on Saturday, May 16,
at 2:00 p.m. Southern Fried Saturdays was created in the 2007-2008 T
Tauri/APPLE Project workshop by Rachel Braim of Locust Grove, Hannah
McGough of Floral, and Whitney Hembrey of Newark. The film looks at the
filmmakers’ views of their communities, their lives, and their futures.
Nicki Newburger and Bob Pest served as advisors. Southern Fried
Saturdays has screened at the T Tauri Film Festival and the Indie
Memphis Film Festival.
The Power of a Small Community will be webcast over the internet at
www.aetn.org/studentselects. The film was created in the 2008 summer T
Tauri Movie Camp at the Arkansas Sheriffs’ Youth Ranch. The film
discusses the importance of the Bethesda Volunteer Fire Department to
that community and the many ways the community supports the department.
It was created by Ellae Paul, Robert Paul, and Sol Allard-all residents
at the ranch-along with Daniel Brantley of Plano, Texas; Andrew McMurry
of Roland, Arkansas, and Matthew McMurry of Little Rock. Tom Hansell was
the lead advisor, with assistance from teen mentors Angela Wagster of
Batesville and Harrison Wilkinson of North Carolina. The Power of a
Small Community has screened at the T Tauri Film Festival and the Indie
Memphis Film Festival.
Both films and a number of other workshop projects are also available
for viewing at www.ttauri.org/galaxy/do.html. The 5th annual T Tauri
Youth Film Festival and Movie Camp takes place July 20 through August 1
in Batesville. Workshops for kids and teens entering grades 3 through 12
include Community Documentary, Script to Screen, Camcorder Fundamentals,
and Hand-Drawn Animation. For complete information visit www.ttauri.org
or call 870-251-1189.
The T Tauri Film Festival and Movie Camp is the youth division of Ozark
Foothills FilmFest, Inc., a 501(c)(3) educational nonprofit founded in
2001 and headquartered in Locust Grove. Support for the
T Tauri initiative is provided by the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation,
First Community Bank, the Arkansas Arts Council, the Independence County
Quorum Court Recreation Fund, Lyon College, UACCB, and the Arkansas
Sheriffs’ Youth Ranch.
