T Tauri Workshop Set for Historic Landers Student Group Will Make Main Street Documentary
- When: Saturday, July 31, 2010, time TBA
- Where: Fellowship at the Landers, 332 E. Main Street, Batesville, AR
- Cost: $100
- Age limit: Not available
- Categories: Classes, Film, Community
T Tauri Workshop Set for Historic Landers
Student Group Will Make Main Street Documentary
Young filmmakers and aspiring filmmakers will have the opportunity to “make history” this summer.
Among the five workshops offered in the 6th annual T Tauri Movie Camp, July 19 through 31, is Community Documentary. Students who participate in that workshop will be making a documentary film about Batesville’s historic downtown business district. The workshop will be held July 19-23 at the restored Landers Theater Building, now known as Fellowship at the Landers, 332 E. Main Street. Old Independence Regional Museum will screen the completed film for visitors interested in touring the historic district. All completed film projects will premiere at the T Tauri Film Festival Finale Screening on Saturday evening, July 31, in Independence Hall on the campus of UACCB.
Workshop faculty members are experienced filmmaker/educators with previous Movie Camp experience. Full workshop descriptions, faculty biographies, registration forms, and parental risk and consent forms are available at www.ttauri.org. Tuition for Community Documentary is $100, which includes all equipment and supplies. Workshop participants receive an official T Tauri Film Festival t-shirt, admission to the Finale Screening, and a DVD of the work produced in their workshop. Students provide their own brown bag lunches and beverages. Cancellations received on or before June 20, 2010, will qualify for a full refund, minus a $10 cancellation fee. Refunds cannot be issued for cancellations received after June 20, 2010.
The T Tauri Movie Camp is non-residential. Comfort Suites, the official hotel of the T Tauri Film Festival, is offering a special festival rate for rooms booked by July 12, 2009, subject to availability (a 27% discount on the regular room rate). Comfort Suites is within two miles of all workshop venues and equipped with an indoor pool, hot tub, and exercise room; a continental breakfast buffet is included in the room rate. For room reservations, call 870-698-1900 and ask for the T Tauri Film Festival rate.
The T Tauri Film Festival and Movie Camp is the youth division of Ozark Foothills FilmFest, Inc., a 501(c) (3) educational non-profit corporation founded in 2001. T Tauri Movie Camp sponsors include First Community Bank of Batesville, the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation, the Arkansas Arts Council, the Independence County Recreation Fund, CanonUSA, the Field Shop, UACCB, and Lyon College. For information, email ttauri@wildblue.net or call 870-251-1189.
