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GALA: 2nd Annual Little Rock Film Festival with Keynote from Harry Thomason
The Little Rock Film Festival Gala is the premiere fund-raising event each year for the Little Rock Film Festival. Overlooking the Arkansas River and the Little Rock Skyline, the Gala is held in the beautiful Grand Ballroom of the William Jefferson Clinton Presidential Library. This years semi-formal, catered event will feature an introduction from Governor Mike Beebe and a keynote address from Film and Television Producer Harry Thomason. Tickets are $75 per person.
Harry Thomason Bio:
A native of Hampton, Arkansas, Harry Thomason attended Southern Arkansas University and continued graduate studies in education at the University of Arkansas.
A college scholarship athlete, Thomason was a football coach and art teacher in secondary schools for six years before he decided to pursue filmmaking as a career.
He has produced award winning television movies including A SHINING SEASON and the mini-series THE BLUE AND THE GRAY. He produced or directed several popular television series including THE FALL GUY.
In 1983 he married writer Linda Bloodworth and together they formed Mozark Productions. She created and wrote and he produced and directed television series such as DESIGNING WOMEN, EVENING SHADE, HEARTS AFIRE and many others.
Thomason has been nominated for numerous awards including the Emmy (Designing Women), the Directors Guild award (Designing Women), the Christopher Award (A Shining Season) and The Peoples Choice Award (The Blue and The Gray)
He was nominated for the Writers Guild Best Documentary Screenplay for the critically acclaimed THE HUNTING OF THE PRESIDENT. He has also been awarded the National Womens Political Caucus, GOOD GUY AWARD. In addition, he has been named as the Entertainment Publicists Guild as Man of the Year.
Thomason was Strategic Director of the 1992 and 1996 Democratic Conventions. He and his wife Linda Bloodworth-Thomason were chairman of the 1993 Presidential Inauguration which he directed. It became the first Inauguration in the history of the United States to make a profit. That profit was used to help fund the 1997 Inaugural.
Thomason also produced and directed the SUMMIT OF EIGHT, a gathering of the top world leaders, in Denver Colorado.
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LocationGrand Ballroom William J. Clinton Presidential Library
1200 President Clinton Avenue
Little Rock, AR 72201
United States
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