The UCA-produced documentary on the Arkansas Gazette, “The Old Gray Lady: Arkansas’s First Newspaper,” will air on AETN this Friday night at 9 p.m. The film, directed by UCA alumnus Kevin Clark, with Joseph Anderson and Donna Lampkin Stephens of the Mass Communication/Theatre department as executive producer and producer, respectively, tells the story of what was the oldest newspaper west of the Mississippi River when it closed Oct. 18, 1991. Academy award-winning actress Mary Steenburgen provides the voice of the newspaper.
The film, which premiered to a capacity crowd at the Clinton Presidential Center in October, was screened at the Reynolds Performance Hall last fall and showed in the Ozark Foothills FilmFest in Batesville and Little Rock last month. It has been selected for the inaugural Little Rock Film Festival later this spring. Friday’s airing will be the only statewide television airing until at least the fall.
