 Are you ready for warm weather and a little sunshine? The Appalachian Wireless team has decided to have the ultimate spring break event. The spring break event is going on now through the end of April and all smartphones are on sale with Appalachian Advantage. We are you, we are Appalachian Wireless. Beginning today, UPIKE's Film, Media & Arts Festival will hit the screen in downtown Pikeville. Thursday, Mountain Top had the opportunity to speak with FMA Professor Andrew Reed about how you can watch. So this year is our 8th annual UPIKE Film & Media Arts Festival. This is the first in-person version of the event that we've held since 2019 and we've got a lot of exciting changes for this comeback year. We're for the first time, we're hosting it off campus at the Appalachian Center for the Arts in downtown Pikeville, which is the former Ginny Wiley Theater for those that maybe aren't familiar with it yet. With over 50 films to watch, the festival will be held over three days. Reed mentions some of the genres audiences can expect. And then we have films tonight and followed by films Friday and Saturday. We've got different blocks of films. We have several feature films that we're showing that you can read about online, but then you can also find about film blocks, where if you like horror films, we've got a short horror film block. We've got a short documentary block with short docs, short dramas. So there's all these little blocks like a comedy block, an animation block of short films that you can come in and check out a variety of different things. Since the festival start eight years ago, Reed mentions that this year has some of the strongest regional selections. We've had the strongest regional slate we've ever had, I would say overall. We've had great, we've always had great regional films, but I feel like this year pretty much everything we got from the region was pretty strong and it was very difficult to program all the things we wanted to show. So some good films didn't necessarily make the cut and it just became about a time thing. I mean, we're showing films starting Saturday morning at like nine and same with Sunday. So we're, we've kind of got, we've kind of stretched ourselves as much as we can having the festival. You know, we've, we typically would do a Thursday night and then a Friday and Saturday and now we're kind of actually starting Thursday at 12 noon and going through Saturday night. So I know I'm going to be exhausted by Sunday. So, but we're excited and we've had some of the best submissions we've ever had. So we can't wait to show them. For a list of films and show times, you can visit fmafest.org. For Mountain Top News, I'm Joel Horgell.