Spilled Milk: Our Milk, Our Farmers, Our Arkansas will be screened at 7 p.m. July 25 at the Winthrop Rockefeller Institute on Petit Jean Mountain as part of Reel Stories, a documentary film and lecture series. The documentary examines how the shortage of Arkansas milk sold in the state, paired with a bureaucratic process through which farmers receive pay, has caused Arkansas dairy farms to go out of business at a rate of three or more farms a month.
Filmmaker and director Brent Bailey will be in attendance to discuss the film, along with state Rep. Johnny Hoyt of Morrilton; Woody Bryant, dairy farmer and chairman of the Arkansas Milk Stabilization Board; and Jodie Pennington, University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture dairy extension specialist.
Admission is $ 10. Advance registration is recommended. To register online, visit www. uawri. org. To register by phone, call (501 ) 727-5435.
The fourth annual T Tauri Film Festival Finale Showcase will be held at 7 p.m. July 26 in Independence Hall on the campus of the University of Arkansas Community College at Batesville. Screenings of award winners and official elections from this year’s Young Filmmakers Competition, films created during this year’s Movie Camp workshops, and Southern Fried Saturdays, a short documentary produced in the T Tauri academic-year workshop by students in the Lyon College APPLE Project, will be shown. Information is available at www. ttauri. org or (870 ) 251-1189.
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