Registration open for the T Tauri Movie Camp

BATESVILLE — The T Tauri Movie Camp is accepting registrations for its eighth annual summer youth program. Launched in 2005, T Tauri has offered a wide variety of workshops related to video production to aspiring filmmakers up to the age of 18. Workshops range from two to four days.

The 2012 Movie Camp offers three workshops: Acting on Camera, Claymation and Script to Screen. Two sections of Acting on Camera will be offered at the Landers Theater Building, 276 E. Main in downtown Batesville. The first will meet from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. July 16-18; the second will meet from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. July 19-21. The workshop is open to students entering sixth through 12th grades. Enrollment is limited to 20. Workshop tuition is $75 and includes all equipment and supplies. Students are asked to bring their own lunch and beverages. Workshop instructors are Jules Taylor, an experienced acting, comedy, improv and musical theater instructor; and Michad Holliday, an independent filmmaker and production specialist for the Arkansas Educational Television Network.

Claymation will be offered July 23-24 on the campus of the University of Arkansas Community College at Batesville.

The workshop will meet from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and is open to students entering fourth through 10th grades; enrollment is limited to 18. Workshop tuition is $75 and includes all equipment and supplies.

Instructors include Juli Jackson, an established media artist working in film, video, photography and animation, as well as the writer/director of 45RPM, a feature film set to premiere early this fall; Reginald Davis, an independent filmmaker and AETN programmer who also mentors students at Conway High School; and Dylan Scarbrough, an accomplished film editor and six-year veteran of the T Tauri program — three as a student and three as a teaching assistant. Scarbrough will enroll in the UCA Digital Film Program this fall.

Script to Screen, a narrative filmmaking course, is open to students entering sixth through 12th grades. The workshop will be from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. July 25 and from 9 a.m. to noon July 28, at UACCB. Students will work in small groups with their instructors to create short narrative films, from concept to closing credits. Enrollment is limited to 18. Workshop tuition is $100. Instructors include Michad Holliday, Juli Jackson and Dylan Scarbrough.

Movie Camp is not a residential program. Students and their parents or chaperones from outside the area typically take advantage of a discount rate at the Batesville Comfort Suites at $80 per night for two and $85 per night for three or four. The hotel includes an indoor pool, hot tub, exercise room and free breakfast. In order to receive the special rate, reservations must be placed by July 1.

In addition to the workshops themselves, the T Tauri experience also includes an official T Tauri T-shirt, a DVD featuring all of the movies made at camp in the current year, a “Wrap Party” cook-out and a finale screening, open to the public, of all of the workshop films at Independence Hall at UACCB.

For biographies of instructors, detailed descriptions of workshop activities and goals, and registration information and forms, go to www.ttauri. org or call (870) 251-1189.

The T Tauri Movie Camp is the youth division of Ozark Foothills Filmfest Inc., a 501(c)(3) rural nonprofit organization dedicated to excellence and accessibility in the cinema arts.