Ozark FootHills FilmFest
March 24-28
Ozark FootHills FilmFest 195 Peel Road Locust Grove, AR 72550-9723
Ozark Foothills FilmFest is honored to screen two programs of French short films, ranging from surprising dramas to bouyant animation. The films reveal a wide range of styles, talents, and visions.
Wednesday, March 24
7:00 PM Kresge Gallery, Lyon College $5 / $4 / $3 (Lyon College Students FREE) |
New French Films Showcase I SKHIZEIN (14 min) MANON ON THE ASPHALT (15 min) ENTERTRAINMENT (4 min) EDWARD IN WONDERLAND (21 min) YOU WHO I WOULD HAVE LOVED (10 min) THE HOLY FEAST (16 min) |
Sunday, March 27
1:00 PM Independence Hall, UACCB $5 / $4 / $3 |
New French Films Showcase II MAKE YOURSELF AT HOME (20 min) THEIR FIRST VOYAGE (10 min) IN THEIR SHOES (22 min) 200,000 PHANTOMS (10 min) THE PENCILS (3 min) 12:17 AM (10 min) |
ABOUT the Ozark Foothills FilmFest
The 9th annual Ozark Foothills FilmFest takes place March 24-28 at various venues around town. This year's festival has been selected one of the Southeast Tourism Society's Top 20 Events for March 2010. The festival presents new independent features, animation, documentaries, films by Arkansas filmmakers, and restored classics. The festival also includes a screenwriting competition, workshops, panels, concerts, and several "meet the filmmaker" gatherings.
The 2010 festival will include a visit by acclaimed documentary filmmaker Les Blank, screening two of his films about Cajun music and culture, J'ai Ete au Bal (I Went to the Ball), featuring live performances by many of the masters of Cajun music, and Marc and Ann, an intimate look at Cajun music giants Marc and Ann Savoy. The Savoy Family Cajun Band will also perform in concert during the festival. Other festival highlights include a program of "food" films from the Southern Foodways Alliance, presented by filmmaker Joe York of the University of Mississippi's Media & Documentary Projects Center. The screening, on March 27, will be followed by a panel discussion of Southern Food and Film, assembled by Oxford American magazine in conjunction with their annual Southern Food issue. French cinema will also be represented with a program of animation, documentaries, and short narrative films created for the festival by the French Consulate in Houston.
Arkansas filmmakers are always spotlighted at the festival. Two Arkansas Arts Council Film and Video Fellowship recipients, both working in animation and experimental film, will be honored at the festival, Daehwan Cho from Magnolia and Sarah Moore from Fayetteville. The filmmakers' creations will be included in the Arkansas Filmmakers' Showcase on March 26. Emerging filmmakers looking to move to the next level will benefit enormously from a free, half-day workshop/panel led by Heidi Van Lier, author of The Indie Film Rule Book and programmer for the famed Slamdance Film Festival.
Ozark Foothills FilmFest has gained regional and national recognition for its comfortable atmosphere, low prices, outstanding and varied programming, and friendly social gatherings. Festival attendees have numerous opportunities to talk with any of our filmmaker and screenwriter guests. The complete 2010 festival schedule is available at http://www.ozarkfoothillsfilmfest.org/.