On Tuesday, February 5, Farm Studios debuted its new soundstage and production facility to an enthusiastic crowd of local business representatives, the press, and hundreds of enthusiastic young filmmakers and students.
The impressive soundstage should do much for local film production and amp up the potential for film jobs in Northwest Arkansas thanks to the trio of investors, including Jason Netter (Kickstart Entertainment), along with Zak Heald (Intercut Productions) and Tom Heald, that joined forces to create Farm Studios.
Farm Studios (Photo by Chris Gardner)
Farm Studios sits on 4.5 acres of farmland off Dickson Road, near Highway 279, that has been transformed into a private Hollywood-style backlot designed to serve a wide variety of film, television, and media production needs.
The facility includes a 9,500 square-foot soundstage, the largest within a 500-mile radius of nearby Bentonville, Arkansas. The stage is equipped with a 50-by-90-foot cyclorama wall and a 30-by-50-foot light grid. Additionally, the facility hosts a 3,000 square foot set construction workshop.
Versatile, and designed to meet nearly every need for productions, large and small, Farm Studios will provide rentable production space for any film, television series, commercial, and multimedia content.
In addition to the rentable shooting space, the facility also offers production offices, a hair & make up room, VIP lounges, state-of-the-art conference room, and a full kitchen.
On the sound stage (Photo by Chris Gardner)
A helicopter on the set! (Photo by Chris Gardner)
Intercut Productions’ Zak Heald (Photo by Wesley Hitt/Getty Images for Nickelodeon)
Farm Studios investors Lori and Tom Heald (Photo by Wesley Hitt/Getty Images for Nickelodeon)
The Family Heald: Lori, Tom, and Zak Heald (Photo by Wesley Hitt/Getty Images for Nickelodeon)
Zak Heald being interviewed (Photo by Wesley Hitt/Getty Images for Nickelodeon)
Zak Heald (Photo by Wesley Hitt/Getty Images for Nickelodeon)
Kickstart Entertainment’s Jason Netter (Photo by Wesley Hitt/Getty Images for Nickelodeon)
Kickstart Entertainment’s Jason Netter being interviewed (Photo by Chris Gardner)
Farm Studios welcomes its guests (Photo by Wesley Hitt/Getty Images for Nickelodeon)
Jason Netter, Tom, Lori, and Zak Heald (Photo by Wesley Hitt/Getty Images for Nickelodeon)
Wendy Guerrero (Bentonville Film Festival) being photographed (Photo by Chris Gardner)
Bentonville Film Festival’s Wendy Guerrero (Photo by Wesley Hitt/Getty Images for Nickelodeon)
Tom Heald being interviewed (Photo by Chris Gardner)
Jason Netter talks to Melissa Gute of the Northwest Arkansas Gazette-Democrat (Photo by Wesley Hitt/Getty Images for Nickelodeon)
The Farm Studios soundstage (Photo by Wesley Hitt/Getty Images for Nickelodeon)
Visit Bentonville’s Kalene Griffith (Photo by Wesley Hitt/Getty Images for Nickelodeon)
Visit Bentonville’s Kalene Griffith being interviewed (Photo by Wesley Hitt/Getty Images for Nickelodeon)
Graham Cobb (Greater Bentonville Chamber of Commerce) (Photo by Wesley Hitt/Getty Images for Nickelodeon)
Graham Cobb (Greater Bentonville Chamber of Commerce) being interviewed (Photo by Wesley Hitt/Getty Images for Nickelodeon)
Lighting designer Jamie Fisk and Zak Heald being interviewed (Photo by Wesley Hitt/Getty Images for Nickelodeon)
The speeches prior to the ribbon cutting presentation (Photo by Wesley Hitt/Getty Images for Nickelodeon)
Giant scissors are poised… (Photo by Chris Gardner)
And the official ribbon cutting photo… (Photo by Wesley Hitt/Getty Images for Nickelodeon)
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