by - July 9, 2020 11:33 am
Organizers of the annual Bentonville Film Festival announced Thursday (July 9) details of a planned hybrid event scheduled Aug. 10-16. This year’s festival will offer virtual presentations and world premieres…
by - March 6, 2020 12:10 pm
Organizers of the Bentonville Film Festival announced Friday (March 6) they will postpone the 2020 festival date from late April to early August out of concern for the safety of…
by - April 16, 2019 6:46 pm
Art is connecting Northwest Arkansas and the Fort Smith metro thanks to a partnership announced Tuesday (April 16) between the Bentonville Film Festival and The Unexpected in Fort Smith. According…
by - March 9, 2018 3:21 pm
The biggest change in the annual Bentonville Film Festival since its inception in 2015 is it keeps growing, and so does community support for the event, said Wendy Guerrero, president…
by - May 9, 2017 5:34 pm
President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed an executive order in February 1942 that authorized the military to – in designated areas on the West Coast – force out individuals deemed to…
by - May 1, 2017 3:50 pm
The Bentonville Film Festival (May 2-7) this year is expanding its theme of inclusion and diversity to promote work done by individuals with disabilities, through a partnership with Inclusion Films,…
by - April 26, 2017 12:43 pm
In several ways, Katie Cook is unique. She was born with a rare defect called agenesis of the corpus callosum, or ACC, where the band of white matter connecting the…
by - May 2, 2016 11:41 am
Act two of the Bentonville Film Festival (BFF) begins Tuesday (May 3) and organizers say the impact on Bentonville’s economy will be far greater than last year’s inaugural event. Trevor…
by - April 20, 2016 10:58 am
The town without a movie theater is again gearing up to host a world-class film festival, and a festival co-founder hoping moves in the direction of the popular South by…
by - March 10, 2016 9:23 pm
Geena Davis, Hollywood actor and champion for diversity in film, told her parents when she was three she wanted to be a movie star. Her parents we’re hardworking folks, Her…
by - May 4, 2015 2:18 pm
It is an event unlike anything Northwest Arkansas has ever seen. Hosted by ARC Entertainment, Walmart, Coca-Cola and AMC Theatres, and chaired by Academy Award-winning actress Geena Davis, the inaugural…
