Best Film: The Courier – Down River Productions

Best Directing: Meeting U – Arkansas Times

Best Writing: On a String – Got Seoul?

Best Editing: The Roommate – Mud Flap Girl Films

Best Acting: Dianne Daisy Owings – Meeting U – Arkansas Times

Best Cinematography: Implant – Wildfire Pictures

Best Sound Design: Implant – Wildfire Pictures

Best Use of Character: The Roommate – Mud Flap Girl Films

Best Use of Prop: Musical Western – Juggah Films

Best Use of Line of Dialogue: Nighty Night – Drinking From the Carton

Best Laugh Out Loud Moment: Stealing the Dinosaur – Raaaawwwwrrr!!!! – Brick Hut Productions

Audience Award Group A: Meeting U – Arkansas Times

Audience Award Group B: Camp – B-day Productions

Audience Award Winner-Up Group A: Amid Amor – Pinnacle Point Productions

Audience Award Winner-Up Group B: The Roommate – Mud Flap Girl Films

The LRFF has pushed back  the dates slightly to August 20-22, to give teams time to sign up and us time to prepare.

Now that we’re full steam ahead, please register for the Little Rock
48HFP today!  Go to:
http://www.48hourfilm.com/littlerock

If you have any questions about this year’s LRFF 48 HFP, please contact Jacob@littlerockfilmfestival.org.

Golden Rock  for Best Narrative Feature Film:

Winter’s Bone (Dir. Debra Granik)

Golden Rock for Best Documentary Feature Film:

Restrepo (Dirs. Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington)

The Oxford American Best Southern Film Award w/ $10,000 cash prize:

American: The Bill Hicks Story (Dirs. Matt Harlock and Paul Thomas)

Charles B. Pierce Award for Best Film “Made in Arkansas”:

Antiquities (Dir. Daniel Campbell)

Best Short Film Award:

The Greims (dir. Peter Bolte)

Arkansas Best Music Video Award:

Angelene and the Alpha Ray (Dir. David Fowlkes)

Arkansas Times Audience Award Winner:

Looking for Lurch (Dir. Tim Jackson)
LRFF Youth! Award Winner:

Outside the Lines- Fayetteville High School

LRFF Youth! Spirit Award Winner:

Will Sondheim

Haley Bennett's performance is one of the highlights of Arcadia Lost, the world premiere of which will be at 8 p.m. Friday at Riverdale Cinemas.

There was never a doubt about how Arcadia Lost would look. Few in the film industry have a reputation of excellence like Phedon Papamichael, the film’s director and cinematographer.
Papamichael picked his native Greece as the canvas on which to paint this latest masterpiece. The narrative is potent, layered with angst, discovery, tragedy and self-realization.
American teenagers Charlotte (Haley Bennett) and Sye (Carter Jenkins) are thrust together when their parents marry in Greece. After surviving a car accident, the step-siblings embark on a journey across the Greek countryside, following a drifter, Benerji (Nick Nolte), who seems at the same time wise and a little unstable.
As Charlotte discovers the power of her own sexuality, Sye becomes a disciple of Benerji’s teaching while also feeling compelled to protect Charlotte (sometimes from herself).
The kids and the camera are the stars of this film. Bennett and Jenkins both show great poise and range, and it wouldn’t be surprising if this performance launched both of their careers to greater heights.
As he did in previous works Sideways and Phenomenon, Papamichael uses the naturally beautiful backdrop as a way to help tell the story, lingering long on shots of Greece’s jagged coastline, rocky terrain and the sapphire-colored Aegean Sea.

Picturesque and cerebral, the world premiere of this film should be one of the biggest highlights of this year’s festival. The film will premiere at 8 p.m. Friday, June 4, at Riverdale Cinemas. Papamichael, screenwriter David Ariniello and producer Kelly Thomas will be on hand at the premiere.

George Samuels (Michael Piccirilli) is a door-to-door encyclopedia salesman who is determined to write The Obselidia, a compendium of obsolete things. In his quest he meets Sophie (Gaynor Howe) a silent movie theater projectionist who brings a different perspective believing nothing is obsolete if someone somewhere loves it. Down the line the two talk to a hermetic scientist who warns them that climate change will drive the world’s population down by 80% in less than 100 years.

The film is a landmark in depicting science in film winning the Alfred P. Sloan Award at Sundance 2010. Obselidia proves that you can have a incredibly charming film with a strong message that doesn’t dillute the film’s story.

Catch the trailer below and be sure to watch the film at Riverdale Cinemas #8 at 2:45 PM on Friday June 4 and 9:30 PM at the Riverdale Cinemas #1 on Saturday June 5. Director Diane Bell will be attendance along with editors John-Michael Powell and Russ Galusha who are both from Little Rock. Buy your tickets here!

Restrepo?

What does that title even mean? The feature-length documentary looks at a platoon of U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan’s Korengal Valley during 2007 in an outpost named after their medic Restrepo who was KIA. “Considered one of the most dangerous postings in the U.S. Military” Restrepo the audience is thrown headfirst into some of the most wicked and intense battle scenes caught on camera.

Restrepo took home the Grand Jury Prize for Documentaries at the 2010 Sundance film festival and is presented by National Geographic Entertainment so you can count on the quality and integrity of this war-documentary. This film shatters any preconceptions you might have about the documentaries about the war in afghanistan and takes a non-political approach to its storytelling.

The film is harrowing and honest, frightening and confusing but easily one of the best documentaries about modern warfare and the toll it takes on its soldiers.

The film plays at 3:45 PM on Friday Jun 4 and 3:00 PM on Sunday Jun 6 during the festival at Riverdale Cinemas #2. You can view the trailer below and see more info on the film here.

The Little Rock Film Festival makes a point of keeping the price of admission low. A Festival Pass which includes admission to all films, panels, and parties is an astonishingly $30. Founded in 2005 by Little Rock natives and Documentary Filmmakers Brent and Craig Renaud, along with Owen Brainard and Jamie Moses, the LRFF is committed to promoting the film industry in Arkansas and partnering with local organizations and businesses in continuing the growth and development of Downtown Little Rock.