Screen gems
Posted: July 31, 2009 at 4:04 a.m.
LITTLE ROCK — Teams participating in the
Little Rock 48 Hour Film Project
will report to the Riverdale Cinema 10 at 6 p.m. today, where they will be given a genre, a character, a prop, and a line of dialogue that they must work into a film they must write and produce within the next 48 hours.
Half of the completed films will be screened for the public at 7 and 8:45 p.m. Aug. 10, with the rest screened Aug. 11 at the same times. All screenings are at Riverdale and tickets are $10 for individual screenings, with a pass for all the sessions costing $28.
Winners will then be in the running for top honors at Filmapalooza, the 48 Hour Film Project's annual awards. Each city's winning films will be available for online viewing at 48.tv
The T Tauri Film Festival
screenings continue through Saturday. The screenings will take place in Independence Hall at the University of Arkansas Community College at Batesville, in the auditorium and the Lecture Hall (room 103).
Some 145 entries from 23 states and England, all created by students 18 and under, were submitted this year, and executive director Judy Pest noted a significant increase in the number of Arkansas entries.
T Tauri awards will be given in the following categories: Comedy, Drama, Long Documentary (10 minutes or longer), Short Documentary (less than 10 minutes), Animation, Experimental, and Public Service Announcement. The festival also gives the ArkanSTAR award to the outstanding Arkansas entry and the "Kid With a Camera" Award to the most outstanding film made by an entrant working without support from a school or afterschool program. The original, hand-thrown ceramic T Tauri trophies are created each year by David and Becki Dahlstedt of Mountain View Pottery.
Beginning at 7 p.m. today the Comedy and Drama entries will be screened.
Then at 2 p.m. Saturday the Documentary category fi lms will be screened and at 4 p.m. winners will be announced. A finale screening of competition winners from Arkansas and movies produced in the 2009 Movie Camp and Apple Project documentary workshops will be held at 7 p.m.
There is no admission today. Saturday screenings are $3 for adults; $2 for adults 55 and over and Film Society members; $1 for youths 18 and under. Admission to the finale screening is $5 adults; $3 senior citizens and Film Society members; $2 youths. An all-day Saturday pass is available for $8 adults; $5 senior citizens and Film Society members; $3 youths.
The T Tauri Film Festival and Movie Camp is a division of Ozark Foothills FilmFest Inc. More information is available by calling (870) 251-1189 or by e-mail at ozarkfilm@wildblue.net.
The "Heifer Moo-Vies" series of free documentaries continues every Sunday through Aug. 30, at
Heifer Village
on the Heifer International site in downtown Little Rock. Each film begins at 3 p.m. and is followed by a brief, moderated question-and-answer session.
On Sunday, Robert Kenner's Food, Inc., a gut-wrenching expose of the corporate food processing industry, will be screened.
Other films in the series are Nourish and Ladies of the Land on Aug. 9; The Greening of Southie on Aug. 16; and a double feature on the "Critical Mass" bicycle movement consisting of the films We Are Traffic and Return of the Scorcher on Aug. 23. The series wraps up on Aug. 30 with Teachings of the Tree People, a documentary about Gerald Bruce Miller, the leader of the Skokomish Indians in the Pacific Northwest.
For a complete schedule, visit heifer.org/heifervillage or call (877) 870-2697 outside Little Rock or (501) 907-8800 within central Arkansas.
On Aug. 21, a trailer for director James Cameron's highly anticipated movie Avatar will be released and select IMAX theaters will screen extended 3-D footage. The trailer will also be available online.
There will be a free screening of the locally produced independent film Freddie Slater: Blazing Vengeance at Little Rock's Market Street Cinema on Monday. Showtimes are at 6 and 8 p.m. Visit www.mscottfilms.com for more information.
MovieStyle, Pages 35 on 07/31/2009
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