Local Filmmaker to Screen Film at Kansas International Film Festival
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Benjamin Meade, lecturer in the Department of Communication, recently directed and produced a feature film, The Cate Brothers: Arkansas Rock & Soul Royalty, a feature documentary. The film is scheduled to screen at the Kansas International Film Festival, where Meade will be honored as the founder of KIFF. In addition, the feature documentary will be screened at the Fayetteville Film Festival, the Hot Springs Film Festival, the Madrid, Spain Film Festival, The Lisbon Film Festival, the New Orleans Film Festival, and The Tall Grass Film Festival in Wichita.
Meade also recently produced the recording of the Live Cate Brothers 50th Anniversary at the Cosmic Cowboy Recording Studio in Fayetteville. The CD features never-before recorded songs representing what defines the sound of Northwest Arkansas.
Twin brothers Earl and Earnest "Ernie" Cate are a singer/songwriter/muscian duo from Fayetteville, who performed country soul music at clubs and dances in Arkansas and other parts of the mid-South in the 1960s.
Other recent work by Meade includes the release of Ronnie Hawkins and the Hawks double album from Fayetteville High School's Christmas Dance in December 1962 and overseeing the work of 11 University of Arkansas students' experimental films.
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Contacts
Margaret Butcher, teaching assistant professor
Department of Communication
620-338-5837,
mbutcher@uark.edu
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