UA Little Rock to Celebrate Student Storytelling at Spring 2025 Media Showcase at Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts

Emily Wells, UA Little Rock's 2024 winner of the Edward L. Whitbeck Memorial Award, is one of the students whose work will be featured in the Spring 2025 Media Showcase. Photo by Ben Krain.
Emily Wells, UA Little Rock's 2024 winner of the Edward L. Whitbeck Memorial Award, is one of the students whose work will be featured in the Spring 2025 Media Showcase. Photo by Ben Krain.

The University of Arkansas at Little Rock’s School of Mass Communication will celebrate the creative achievements of its students at the Spring 2025 Media Showcase on Sunday, May 4.

The University of Arkansas at Little Rock’s School of Mass Communication will celebrate the creative achievements of its students at the Spring 2025 Media Showcase on Sunday, May 4.

The event, which is free and open to the public, is set for 2:30-4:30 p.m. at the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts Performing Arts Theater, 501 E. 9th Street, Little Rock. Doors open at 2 p.m., but tickets are required. Attendees can reserve their free tickets in advance by visiting this website.

Presented in partnership with the Arkansas Cinema Society, the event will highlight a diverse lineup of student-produced films, documentaries, journalistic features, and multimedia projects created during the 2023–24 and 2024–25 school years.

The selected works that will be shown and their student creators include:

  • “The Duality of a Woman” – Grace Hatch (GG)
  • “The Brides Echo” – Emily Wells
  • “Arkansas National Heritage Commission” and “Natural State Drift” – Chloe Buse
  • “Staticface” and “Hello, Goodbye, Dragon Inn” – Andrew Bacon
  • “Trojans Basketball” – Ahmed Elkhattabi
  • “The Song Within” – Samuel (Ryan) Hitt
  • “Untitled” – Mason Mohler
  • “My Life Homework” – Antonio (Shawn) Williams
  • “I Said Yes to a Friend and Found Music” – Harrison Moss
  • “Untitled” – Tony Warner
  • “Taxi’s Here” – Carson Smith
  • “Ferndale Market” – Madison Cavanaugh

Following the screening, guests are invited to a cash bar reception in the museum’s atrium to celebrate student creators and scholarship recipients and to network with faculty, industry professionals, and fellow attendees.