The T Tauri Film Festival and Movie Camp is the
youth division of Ozark Foothills FilmFest, Inc., a
rural educational non-profit organization dedicated
to excellence and accessibility in the media arts.
The primary program of the organization's youth
division is an annual summer event that combines a
national, peer-judged young filmmakers competition,
public screenings of youth-produced films, and
filmmaking workshops in a variety of areas. The
annual “movie camp” is one of a very small number of
youth media programs operating in rural America.
In addition to the annual summer event, T Tauri
partners with other non-profit organizations to
offer fillmmaking instructional workshops for their
youth constituencies. Collaborations include an
academic-year documentary workshop with the Lyon
College APPLE Project and a summer camp workshop for
teens with family members serving in the military
with Arkansas 4-H and the national initiative
Operation Military Kids.
“T Tauri” takes its name from the astronomer's term
for a star at the dawn of its birth.
