Monthly Archives: May 2011
7 Questions with David Lipke, Director of Slow Southern Steel
1. Are you an Arkansas Native? If so where are you from? If not, How did you get here? I see myself as a “southern yankee”. I moved to Arkansas from New Jersey in 1983 when I was 12 years old. I just recently turned 40… so I’ve been living in Arkansas for 28 years. I consider myself a true … Continue reading
American Animal: Consider yourself warned!
Programming a film like American Animal is a risk. But it is exactly the kind of risk a film festival should take. Consider yourself warned: American Animal is at times difficult to watch, set entirely inside a single Los Angeles apartment, and featuring a brilliant, but cringe inducing performance of a central character that never stops the mental and emotional torture … Continue reading
Arkansas Film Community loses one of its best. Rick Dial
The Arkansas film community lost one of our own this evening. Rick Dial a successful actor and all around great man passed away this afternoon surrounded by friends and family. We will all miss him not only for his art, but for his kind and generous nature. The following is a letter from Harry Thomason on his friend and collaborator. … Continue reading
KTHV Covers #LRFF2011
This story is fro Today’s THV. LITTLE ROCK (May 27, 2011) – The Fifth Annual Little Rock Film Festival kicks off this Wed., June 1, at 6 p.m. with a red carpet party and screening of the film “The Last Ride” at the Argenta Community Theater in downtown North Little Rock. Cast and crew from “The Last Ride” will be present … Continue reading
7 Questions with Bruce Hutchinson, Director of Going To Hell
1. Are you an Arkansas Native? If so where are you from? If not, How did you get here? I’m not an Arkansas native. I grew up in Florida, but I’ve lived a lot of places–Washington D.C., Kansas (go Jayhawks!), Atlanta, Alaska. I moved here in 2003 from Alaska after my graduate school mentor Joe Anderson called and said he … Continue reading
Cannes Film Festival Critics Week Winner Jeff Nichols to the LRFF
Just off a huge win at the Cannes Film Festival Critics Week, Jeff Nichols will make his second appearance at the Little Rock Film Festival on Saturday, June 4th. Jeff will screen his debut film Shotgun Stories, which was shot entirely in Arkansas, and launched his career and helped further raise the star power of Michael Shannon. Film critic Philip … Continue reading
7 questions with Allison Hogue, Director of Hitchhiker
1. Are you an Arkansas Native? If so where are you from? If not, How did you get here? I am. I was born and raised in the Delta, so I spent my childhood in McGehee and Dumas, Arkansas. I’ve been in Conway for the last seven years working on my undergraduate and graduate degrees at the University of Central … Continue reading
Emergency Room Salvation shoots in Conway this weekend
The short Film Emergency Room Salvation, written by Charles Bane and Dan McNamara, will shoot in Conway this weekend. Bane will direct with local film makers Eric Dietz and Bryan Stafford to head up camera work. The undisclosed Conway location provides a perfect opportunity for Mitchell Crisp to Production design and Conway native Brent Bailey to run the lighting department. … Continue reading
kati with an i a beautiful cinema verite doc in competition for the Oxford American Best Southern Film Award
I knew kati with an i was a documentary when we programmed it, but I subconsciously miss categorized it as a fictional narrative film in our first schedule. Director Robert Greene says this has happened before. My mistake is a testament to what is most successful and rare about this film–it is a documentary with the beauty, power, character and … Continue reading
Legendary Hollywood Stuntman and Director Hal Needham to the LRFF
If you grew up in the South in the 70′s and 80′s, Smokey and the Bandit was just about as cool as it gets. My brother and I must have seen it fifty times. I remember my grandmother didn’t like us watching it, because as she didn’t like that the police never seem to catch the bad guys, but for … Continue reading