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Kody Ford is working to make Arkansas a filmmaking hub

By Aiden Dixon

Published June 5, 2025 at 2:52 PM CDT

Arkansas may not be the first place you think of when it comes to the art of filmmaking, but Kody Ford with the Arkansas Cinema Society is trying to change that. He spoke to Ozarks at Large's Aiden Dixon for this profile.

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Aiden Dixon is a journalism student and reporter at the University of Arkansas.

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