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OZARK MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL CONNECTING EDUCATION TO INDUSTRY OCTOBER 17-18, 2018 G O L D L E V E L S P O N S O R S I L V E R L E V E L S P O N S O R F E S T I V A L F R I E N D OZARK MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL Ozark Media Arts Festival is the premiere festival in the midwest showcasing video and photography from high school and college students. Students can compete in mail-in categories, onsite competitions, and industry led workshops in broadcast, film, production, and photography, as well as a college, career and tech exposition to connect students with career changing opportunities. The goal of Ozark Media Arts Festival is to build strong connections and networks to enable a sustainable pathway from education to industry. Ozark Media Arts Festival is free to enter and free to attend. This provides every student in the midwest with an opportunity to showcase their talents and make connections in their field. LETTER FROM OUR DIRECTOR Welcome to the Ozark Media Arts Festival. Our festival is unique in the way that we celebrate student artists. We are a festival that welcomes programs and students from all across the midwest, and provides them with a platform to showcase their excellence in broadcast, film, production, and photography. First, we want to support opportunities for collaboration between students and professionals by helping bridge the gap between high school, higher education and career opportunities. Second, we want to show students the numerous career possibilities in multimedia. The Ozark Media Arts Festival team works diligently to ensure that students, teachers, and community members have a quality experience at our festival that is not only fun, but informative as well. The festival is home to competitions, panels, and workshops that prepare our student artists for 21st century jobs. With our 2018 festival, we plan to make this year our most engaging and high energy festival yet. I am grateful for the continued support Ozark Media Arts Festival has received from our volunteers, staffers, sponsors, and – most importantly – our students & teachers. Thank you for believing in the mission and spirit of this festival. -Lesley Allen, Festival Director Located in Downtown Springdale, Arts Center of the Ozarks has been providing and making arts for the last 50 years. We’ve introduced thousands of people to live performance. Many others have been inspired by art classes, performed in plays and shared their art on the gallery walls. This non-profit arts organization offers a diverse range of programming, a home to artists and arts organizations to showcase their work, and engages people of every age and background to create a vibrant and cohesive community. Making great entertainment and creative educational opportunities possible for all ages has been our mission since 1967. F E S T I V A L B O A R D F E S T I V A L D I R E C T O R F E S T I V A L F O U N D E R C O M M U N I C A T I O N S M A N A G E R Lesley Allen is the A/V Technology and Trent Jones is the proud husband to Amanda Thattanakham is the Assistant Film Production advisor at Fayetteville Bayleigh and father of two wonderful Director of Communications for the Springdale High School. She studied filmmaking at children- Ramey and Ross. Trent Jones is Public Schools, where she leads marketing the University of Central Arkansas where the Director of Media for the Springdale campaigns and initiatives to highlight the she received both her Bachelor of Public Schools. He manages all of the A/V school district, strengthen district initiatives, Science and Master of Fine Arts degrees. initiatives across the district. He manages and keep Springdale Schools ahead of the and runs the Springdale public schools curve in an ever-changing world. She is a Lesley was named the 2017 Arkansas YouTube channel. He also works with Springdale native and has attended Springdale Scholastic Press Association's Advisor of students to create videos in the fields of Schools K-12 and is now in her 2nd year with the Year and is nationally recognized as broadcast, film, production and live events. the Communications office. a Coca-Cola Educator of Distinction. In In his 14 years of working with students in 2018 Lesley was awarded the Loibner- the Springdale public schools his programs She is a photographer that showcases what Waitkus Advisor award at the ASPA have won over 400 awards and put several makes Springdale Public Schools students Convention. hundred students in postsecondary unique and captures the genuine moments of education and fields of employment in leadership, innovation, and community. In her She is married to Bryan Allen and multimedia. free time, she photographs nature styled together they have two fur babies; Isabel portraits and Arkansas lifestyle. Jean and Preston Harley. Trent is the founder of the Ozark Media Arts Festival. The Ozark Media Arts She is pursuing a degree in Marketing with an Festival is the largest multimedia festival in emphasis on Non-Profit Organizations. the Midwest. With an annual attendance of Amanda is the Communications Director for over 1000 attendees. Trent has been at the Ozark Media Arts Festival- a festival that the forefront of many multimedia initiatives she is passionate about because through it, across the state of Arkansas and the she had the opportunity to use the connections Midwest for the past decade. she made at the festival after graduating high school. When she’s not working, Amanda In his personal time he loves to play music, attends farmer’s markets, collects leather attend sporting events and most journals, and gardens. She is also the mom of importantly play with his children. two birds, Todd and Andy Sambird. John Gossett is in his 5th year of teaching at Siloam Springs High School. Before teaching, John worked for the Arkansas Athletic Department filming games and practices for Football, Basketball, Baseball and Track and Field. John is in charge of the college and career fair and is excited about the opportunities this festival brings to students of northwest Arkansas and the Ozarks. John is married and he and his wife Emily have a close to one year old daughter named V E N D O R C O O R D I N A T O R Hayes. He also has two 80 pound chocolate labs named Major and Dallas. F E S T I V A L B O A R D H O S P I T A L I T Y M A N A G E R P H O T O G R A P H Y M A N A G E R V I D E O M A N A G E R Megan Denison is a career educator at Scott C. Wood is a full time Seth Biazo is Assistant Director of Media Siloam Springs High School, and will begin photographer and digital designer who for Springdale Schools, where he her fifteenth year of teaching in August. started in the early 1990’s as a produces and teaches video production, She currently heads the film and television photojournalist and now specializes in creates products in all areas of media program at SSHS. A lifelong resident of portraits, events and commercial with emphasis in graphic design and Benton County and first generation college photography. animation, and maintains video and audio graduate, she is passionate about giving engineering for the district. He has over 9 students tools to be responsible and His love of people and telling their story years of experience in video productions successful citizens and providing real-world has inspired him and his wife to find ranging from cinematography, editing, work experiences for students through every opportunity they can to meet and animation for commercial, news, community engagement. amazing people, shoot fantastic products documentary, and feature film to directing /events and get their message out live streams for events and managing Megan is active in her community and through photography. people and equipment for large shoots. serves as the secretary of the board for a His favorite part of his job is training nonprofit community garden, a member of He has served as the lead photographer students and teachers on video a drone curriculum writing and review as well as Technical Director for the productions techniques, as well as team, and the hospitality director for Ozark Bentonville Film Festival 2 years running troubleshooting hardware and equipment Media Arts Festival, a local film festival for and has taught workshops and classes in problems throughout the schools. students. She also travels frequently with NWA for the last 3 years. students to state, local, and national Seth is a drummer and artist from competitions and conventions. You’ll typically find the husband / wife Springdale. He enjoys the satisfaction of team drinking coffee at the local coffee completing a project and the pay off of When Megan isn’t teaching or traveling shop, scrolling Instagram (the struggle is hard work. with students, she enjoys cooking and real)or hanging with their 3 kids singing baking, kayaking with her husband, and bad 80’s songs. being silly with her two young children. Alec Vaughn is a Student at the University of Arkansas majoring in Business Information Systems. He currently works as Lead Technical Director and Student Leader for Razorback Sports Network on campus producing broadcasts on ESPN and SEC Network.