HOW TO FEST
Ozark Media Arts Festival is a FREE student festival that provides an opportunity for local and regional students to showcase their work, compete, and gain exposure to the professional worlds of:
Digital Film and Video
Broadcast Television
Podcasting
Photography
Media Marketing
Graphic design
Print Journalism
Whether in middle school, junior high, or high school, the students bring their best to this exciting display of art.
Ozark Media Arts Festival was founded in 2011 to encourage student artists to seek careers in the arts by providing them a venue for competition and showcasing their work, and continually providing real-life networking opportunities to students.
PLEASE NOTE: This competition is ONLY open to registered students in the region of Arkansas and its bordering states, including Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas. This festival is designed to serve a specified region so that it can excel in uplifting and supporting those students to a successful future in the media arts.
One of the most important aspects of OMAF is the direct connection to industry professionals. Students will have the opportunity to meet and talk to colleges, companies, and mentors to learn how to get their foot in the door and advice to become a new professional.
Media Arts Fair
There will be industry-led workshops for teachers and students to attend throughout the day. Workshops focus on Filmmaking, Journalism, Photography, Graphic Design, Entrepreneurship, and much more.
Workshops
Regional Leadership Advisory Council
The purpose of the Regional Advisory/Leadership Council meeting is to build sustainable relationships between education to industry. In this meeting, teachers and industry leaders will work together to identify industry needs and how education can best serve. Industry will learn about the educational ecosystem and how best to leverage it.
*Teachers, this also counts as one of your required Regional Advisory Councils for the Arkansas Department of Education.
