Film

On April 12, the football stadium at Springdale High School will serve as a movie set. The school district is calling for volunteers to be extras for filming at Jarrell Williams Bulldog Stadium at 7 p.m.

The screening will take place at the library March 8 at 2 p.m.

Rachel talks with Dea Self, creator of the Full Moon at the Mill Series, and David Hamernick with the NWA Film Club about their upcoming Snow Moon event, which includes a screening of the 1960s film The Snow Woman and a short by a local filmmaker.

Pete speaks with The R Word podcast co-host Lowell Taylor about a Jan. 23 screening of The Big Payback at the Fayetteville Public Library.

This is the fourth year for the Rogers Short Film Festival. This weekend, 34 short films will be screened at the Victory Theater in downtown Rogers. There are categories for K-12, post-secondary students, amateurs, and professionals. Festival director Barry Cobbs and Ozarks at Large's Kyle Kellams sat down to discuss the event and how organizers emphasized socialization.

Randy Dixon of the David and Barbara Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History takes listeners back to 40 years ago when a major TV mini-series filmed in Arkansas.

On today's show, speaking with the creators of a new film about the 1919 Elaine Massacre and Dispossession. Plus, learning more about the critical need for winter blood donations. Also, the summer musical event, SweatFest, has a new winter counterpart: SweaterFest.

Makenna Cofer made a pair of short documentaries while attending John Brown University. One was called “Part of the Kingdom” and shared the stories of queer students attending southern religious schools. Now based in New York, Cofer is creating a feature-length film of the same name. She spoke with Ozarks at Large's Kyle Kellams about how old projects are informing her new film.

This month, Arkansas Public Broadcasting Service is delivering the latest in a long line of TV detectives. But these detectives are different: They're fifth-graders in the fictional town of Mulberry Springs, Arkansas. The live-action series “Mystery League” was shot entirely in Arkansas by the state's PBS crew. Ozarks at Large's Kyle Kellams spoke with the cast and crew after an initial screening last month.

Spade Robinson wrote and directed the movie "Late Bloomers." Robinson came to the Anthony and Susan Hui News Studio earlier this year in advance of a public table of the script read that took place at TheatreSquared. She discusses the writing process and creating grounded horror.