(The following article has been transcribed from the Hot Springs, Arkansas Sentinel-Record from Sunday, May 10, 2009.)

Lakeside High School graduate Stephanie Storey, who has produced more than 250 hours of television programming for shows such as “Tavis Smiley” on PBS and Lewis Black’s “Root of All Evil” on Comedy Central, will premiere a new film in Little Rock this month.

Her short film, “Thanksgiving Seconds,” will premiere at this year’s Little Rock Film Festival at 6:15 p.m. Thursday, May 14, and 6 p.m. Saturday, May 16, at Riverdale Cinemas.

Storey will attend with her family and Arkansas friends. Lead actress Allison Dykstra will also attend the event on Saturday, May 16.

Another Hot Springs native, Steven Schultz, is also part of the cast. Schultz, now of Los Angeles, graduated from Lakeside and attended Henderson State University.

Born and raised in Hot Springs, Storey graduated with honors from Lakeside High School in 1993.

She studied art history at Universita di Pisa in Pisa, Italy, and graduated with honors from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn., with a degree in Fine Arts. In 2000, she obtained her Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Emerson College in Boston and moved to Los Angeles.

She is also a screenwriter with her husband and writing partner, Mike Gandolfi, an Emmy-winning comedy writer for TV shows like “Roseanne” and “Dennis Miller Live.”

Last year, Storey and Gandolfi created a production company, Storeytime Entertainment. Produced by Storeytime, “Thanksgiving Seconds,” a comedy chronicling one dysfunctional family’s peculiar Thanksgiving, was written and directed by Storey.

The movie features a gifted ensemble of actors, including Dykstra, associate producer of Nickelodeon’s “True Jackson, VP,” and Gandolfi, best known for his recurring acting role on WB’s “Gilmore Girls.”

Storey’s parents, Steve and Kathy Storey, still live on Lake Hamilton. They grew up in Hot Springs, graduated from local high school and owned Resort Ford for 30 years before retiring in 2001.