Screen gems
By LEVI AGEE SPECIAL TO THE DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE
LITTLE ROCK —
Tuesday the Little Rock Film Festival announced its lineup to a packed house of film fans at the Clinton School of Public Service in Little Rock. After an introduction from Clinton School Dean Skip Rutherford, Jack Lofton, festival executive director, spoke about the fourth annual festival’s program of films and special events.
The June 2 opening night film is Winter’s Bone, a harrowing drama set in the Ozarks along the Arkansas state line.
Winner of the Sundance Film Festival’s Grand JuryAward for US Dramatic Competition, Winter’s Bone will be competing for the Oxford American Best Southern Film Award against Mario Van Peebles’ Tennessee-set drama Black, White and Blues; Passenger Pigeons by Martha Stephens; and The Colonel’s Bride by Brent Stewart.
Other narrative feature films in the lineup include the world premiere of Phedon Papamichael’s Arcadia Lost, which stars Nick Nolte; Lena Dunham’s Tiny Furniture, which recently won the Best Narrative Feature at the South by Southwest film festival inAustin, Texas; Jeff Mizushima’s Etienne!, produced by the Little Rock team of Tim Jackson and Josh Miller; and Diane Bell’s Obselidia, which was edited by John-Michael Powell and Russ Galusha, both of central Arkansas.
The festival’s Made in Arkansas Narrative Features program includes University of Central Arkansas professor Joe Dull’s Table at Luigi’s; retired Circuit Judge David Bogard’s Irene; Warren McCullough’s Silent Night; and Hudson Dunlap’s Lost Dogs.
Made In Arkansas Narrative Shorts include The MountNebo Chicken Fry by Frances Titsworth; Sleepwalker by Jordan Faulknor; The Bloodstone Diaries: Sleeper by Gerry Bruno; Sleeping With Charlie Kaufman by J. Roland Kelly; Ouachita Rising by Brent Williamson; Six Feet of Separation by Kurt Armstrong; Rumby in the Jungy by Terrell Case, Matthew Corey Gattin and Timothy Lucas Wistrand; The Inner Path by Michael Sutterfield; Spanola Pepper Sauce Company by Ray McKinnon; and Antiquities by Daniel Campbell.
Made in-Arkansas documentary features are TimJackson’s Looking for Lurch; and Jerry Van Dyke’s Arkansas, directed by Shirley Van Dyke. The short documentaries include In Queso Fever: A Movie About Cheese Dip by Nick Rogers; Knocked Out? by Jesse Abdenour; and Crater People by John Sims.
The Little Rock Film Festival will team up again with Movies in the Park, screening the Coen Brothers’ film O Brother Where Art Thou? at Dickey-Stephens Park in North Little Rock. Among the festival’s other events are a fashion show at The Peabody Little Rock, a filmmaker riverboatcruise on the Arkansas Queen and a closing night gala and awards party.
Festival passes for the event can be bought online at littlerockfilmfestival.org. The full lineup and film schedule and synopses will also be posted on the website. For questions, e-mail info@littlero ckfilmfestival.org or call (877) 484-5733 or 205-0400.
Levi Agee is a programmer for the Little Rock Film Festival and the founder and host of Cameras on the Radio. E-mail him at:
levifilm@gmail.com
This article was published May 14, 2010 at 2:49 a.m.
MovieStyle, Pages 37 on 05/14/2010
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