T Tauri Movie Camp Revisits Main Street Batesville
The T Tauri Movie Camp is a summer arts enrichment artist residency program that offers video production workshops for youth age 8 to 18. Since its inception in 2005, the program has instructed hundreds of young people, providing both technical and technological skills training as well as the inspiration and encouragement to mine their creative visions and express them in their video productions.
In 2010, Movie Camp students produced a documentary film titled “Main Street Batesville: Cherish the Past, Embrace the Future.” The video examined the past, present, and future of Batesville’s downtown, focusing especially on new efforts to revitalize the area. This year, the 12th annual T Tauri Movie Camp will conduct a workshop, Home Town Documentary, which will revisit the earlier film and explore the many new initiatives currently taking place on Batesville’s Main Street. While some of the businesses profiled in the earlier video are no longer in operation, there are a host of improvements that have taken place over the past six years, including the new streetscape design, the expansion and renovation of the Batesville Area Arts Council, and, most recently, the restoration of the historic Melba Theater.
Each year, on the last day of camp, all of the videos produced are screened for the public at a free Finale Screening. This year, in addition to the 2016 films which will include narrative films produced in Script to Screen, depictions of the walking dead created in Depicting Zombies, and animated works from the Brickfilms workshop, people will have the opportunity to view the new Main Street Batesville documentary, preceded by the 2010 video on the same subject.
The T Tauri Movie Camp Finale Screening will take place on Saturday, July 30 at 7:00 PM, in Independence Hall on the UACCB campus, 2005 White Drive. There is no charge and the public is cordially invited to attend.
To view the 2010 film, “Main Street Batesville: Cherish the Past, Embrace the Future,” go to www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LHspFIp0-4. For information on the T Tauri Movie Camp, visit www.ttauri.org.
The 12th annual T Tauri Movie Camp is supported by the Arkansas Arts Council, the Independence County Recreation Fund, First Community Bank, the Walmart Community Grant program, UACCB, Fellowship Bible Church, the Canon Corporation Equipment Loan program, and Citizens Bank.
Photo: Filmmakers of the 2010 video “Main Street Batesville: Cherish the Past, Embrace the Future.”
