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It's being dubbed as “an immersion in film.”
Fifty-five films from all over the world will be shown throughout the four-day event known as the Little Rock Film Festival.
(Jack Lofton, Festival Coordinator) “We're trying to highlight that there's a lot going on in Arkansas. With our great short films that we have, a lot of the colleges in this area are developing strong film programs.”
The second annual event also offers workshops and panel discussions, and presentations from well-known movie makers and actors such as Judge Reinhold, who kicked off the event earlier this week with a showing of his movie, “Fast Times at Ridgemont High.”
Organizers say filmmaking is no longer an art form for just professionals.
(Lofton) “You have the huge, big, budgets--and then you have the guys that just run-and-gun with 8-millimeter cameras. And with digital filmmaking that's going on right now, it's kind of leveled the playing field. So you have students--Arkansas students--shooting stuff that they couldn't 20 years ago. All the community can get involved with their vision and make something and tell their story and put it on the screen. And here we'll be able to show that from Arkansas filmmakers.”
(Brent Renaud, Festival Co-Founder) “Little Rock was the perfect location--it was the perfect time for it. Everything's going on downtown with the development--and everything that's happening in the arts community--it was really the perfect time to start something like this. And the community has embraced it in a big way--exactly as we had hoped, even better than we had hoped.”
The first film will be shown Thursday at the Riverdale 10 theaters. You can still buy tickets there—or, for more information on the Little Rock Film Festival, click here.
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