The Little Rock Film Festival (LRFF) was an annual film festival held in Downtown Little Rock , Arkansas each spring. Based in the historic River Market District , home to the William Jefferson Clinton Presidential Library , the Little Rock Film Festival has showcased the best in Narrative , Documentary , and Short films from around the World. It hosts parties, panels, workshops, and youth programs for aspiring filmmakers. The LRFF devotes screenings and programs specifically for Southern and Arkansas films. In 2010, citing prize money, distribution opportunity, and a chance to be a part of a large event, MovieMaker Magazine included the Little Rock Film Festival on its annual list of The Top 25 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee.
13-554: Founded in 2005 by Little Rock natives and documentary filmmakers Brent and Craig Renaud , along with Owen Brainard and Jamie Moses to promote the film industry in Arkansas, the first three years of the Little Rock Film Festival screened more than 250 films from three dozen countries, conducted filmmaking workshops, held panels with industry leaders, and hosted notable actors, directors, and producers from around
26-504: A Peabody Award in 2021. According to Ukrainian officials, Renaud was shot and killed by Russian soldiers in Irpin , Kyiv Oblast , Ukraine, while covering the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine . Two other journalists were injured and taken to a hospital. One of them, Juan Arredondo [ ca ] , later said in a video published by an Italian journalist on Twitter that the journalists were filming civilians evacuating over one of
39-608: A Bomb (Dirs. Greg Jacobs, Jon Siskel) 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)* Brent Renaud Brent Anthony Renaud (October 2, 1971 – March 13, 2022) was an American journalist, documentary filmmaker, and photojournalist. Renaud worked with his brother Craig to produce films for outlets such as HBO and Vice News , and
52-547: A Flag (Dirs. Petra Epperlein, Michael Tucker (director) ) Camp Victory, Afghanistan (Dir. Carol Dysinger) Big River Man (Dir. John Maringouin ) American: The Bill Hicks Story (Dirs. Matt Harlock, Paul Thomas) P-Star Rising (Dir. Gabriel Noble) The Secret to a Happy Ending: A Documentary about the Drive-By Truckers (Dir. Barr Weissman) Speaking in Tongues (Dir. Marcia Jarmel, Ken Schneider) Louder Than
65-601: A master's degree in sociology from Columbia University . He lived and worked in Little Rock and New York City. In collaboration with his brother Craig, Brent Renaud produced a series of films and television programs, mostly focusing on humanistic stories from the world's hot spots. From 2004 to 2005, the Renaud brothers filmed the Discovery Channel series Off to War, which covered Arkansas reservists in
78-747: A strong and diverse film lineup from a pool of over 600 film submissions from 30 different countries. Official selections compete for awards and cash prizes including the Oxford American Best Southern Film Award w/ $ 10,000 cash prize, the Charles B. Pierce Award for Best Film “Made in Arkansas,” the Arkansas Times Audience Award, the LRFF Youth! Award, as well as awards for Best Narrative Feature, Best Documentary Feature, Best Short Film, and
91-525: The 2003 Iraqi War entitled Gunner Palace . He was born in Hawaii. From May 2003 to June 2004 he traveled to Iraq numerous times during the height of the Iraqi insurgency for the purpose of putting together a documentary. For two months he lived with the 2/3 Artillery, a.k.a. "The Gunners" in one of Uday Hussein 's palaces where they were stationed. His film was aimed at capturing the lives and humanity of
104-732: The Iraqi conflict and their families. The brothers also covered the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan , the 2010 earthquake in Haiti , the political crises in Egypt and Libya , conflicts in Africa, Mexican drug war , and the refugee crisis in Central America . They won several awards in television and journalism, including two DuPont-Columbia Awards and a Peabody Award in 2015 for their video series "Last Chance High." The brothers directed
117-2804: The Best Arkansas Music Video. Awards presented by the Little Rock Film Festival are known as "Golden Rocks." The festival announces the award winners during the Closing Night Gala and Awards Ceremony held in the William Jefferson Clinton Presidential Library. Best Feature Film: Offside Best Documentary Film: Little Birds Best Short Film: Ein, Zwei Dinge Best of Arkansas: Where’s My Closeup, Mr. Thornton? (Dir. Tim Jackson) Best Narrative Feature Film Award: The Promotion (Dir. Steven Conrad ) Best Documentary Feature Film Award: Behind Forgotten Eyes (Dir. Anthony Gilmore) Best Short Film Award: The Adventure (Dir. Mike Brune) Charles B. Pierce Filming Arkansas Award: War Eagle, Arkansas (film) (Dir. Robert Milazzo, Pro. Vincent Insalaco, Wri. Graham Gordy) Best Music Video Award: Like Zombies by The Moving Front. (Dirs. Kevin Stanbury and Bryan Stafford, collectively known as Deluxe36) Lifetime Achievement Award: Charles B. Pierce Best Narrative Feature: That Evening Sun (film) (Dir. Scott Teems , Wris. Scott Teems, William Gay (author) ) Best Documentary Feature: The Way We Get By (Dir. Aron Gaudet ) Best Short Film: Manual Práctco del Amigo Imaginario (abreviado) (Dir. Ciro Altabás, Wris. Ciro Altabás, Iñigo Díaz-Guardamino) Charlie B. Pierce Award–Best Film “Made in Arkansas”: Slumberland (Dir. Jarek Kupsc ) Best Arkansas Music Video: Dear Daniel by The Good Fear Audience Award: Breaking Upwards (Dir. Daryl Wein, Wris. Peter Duchan , Zoe Lister Jones , Daryl Wein) Golden Rock for Best Narrative Feature Film: Happy Birthday Abby Bethany Dent (Dir. gav :) )* Alamar Etienne! (Dir. Jeff Mizushima) Passenger Pigeons (Dir. Martha Stephens) Legacy (Dir. Thomas Ikimi) Obselidia (Dir. Dianne Bell) Tiny Furniture (Dir. Lena Dunham) Homewrecker (Dirs. Todd Barnes, Brad Barnes) Arcadia Lost (Dir. Phedon Papamichael ) The Colonel's Bride (Dir. Brent Stewart) Five Star Day (Dir. Danny Buday ) Black, White, and Blues (Dir. Mario Van Peebles ) Golden Rock for Best Documentary Feature Film: Restrepo (film) (Dirs. Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington )* Wo Ai Ni (I Love You) Mommy (Dir. Stephanie Wang-Breal) Beijing Taxi (Dir. Miao Wang) Contact (Dirs. Bentley Dean, Martin Butler) How to Fold
130-515: The bridges in Irpin when they were targeted by soldiers who shot Renaud in the neck. It was the first reported death of a foreign journalist in the 2022 war in Ukraine. Michael Tucker (director) Michael Tucker is an American documentary film director , best known for his recent documentary The Prisoner or: How I Planned to Kill Tony Blair . He also directed a documentary in Iraq during
143-611: The documentary Meth Storm , released in 2017 by HBO Documentary Films. In 2019, Renaud was appointed a visiting professor at the University of Arkansas . Renaud was a 2019 Nieman Fellow . Together with his brother, he was a grantee of the Pulitzer Center . They also founded the Little Rock Film Festival . Co-producer for the documentary series Life of Crime: 1984–2020, which was also nominated for
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#1732802434103156-483: The globe. In 2010 the Little Rock Film Festival hired Executive Director and Arkansas native Jack Lofton and programmed many of the most high-profile films at the festival. Under the Renauds' and Lofton's guidance, the festival grew exponentially with more than 25,000 people in attendance and over 100 films screened, with workshops, panels, and parties included over the increased five-day festival. The 2010 LRFF showcased
169-724: Was a former contributor to The New York Times . According to Ukrainian officials, he was killed on March 13, 2022, by Russian soldiers while covering the Russian invasion of Ukraine in Irpin , a city near Kyiv . Renaud was born in Memphis, Tennessee , and raised in Little Rock, Arkansas . His mother, Georgann Freasier, was a social worker, and his father, Louis Renaud, was a salesman. Renaud earned his bachelor's degree in English literature from Southern Methodist University and
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