Cinematic Nonfiction is new genre at festival

Award-winning filmmaker and writer Robert Greene of Beacon, N.Y., is helming the Little Rock Film Festival’s new Cinematic Nonfiction event.

Award-winning filmmaker and writer Robert Greene of Beacon, N.Y., is helming the Little Rock Film Festival’s new Cinematic Nonfiction event.

Sunday, May 11, 2014

A new trend in filmmaking is being highlighted at this year's Little Rock Film Festival, which opens Monday: works that are documentaries, but that unabashedly bend the rules, employing the techniques of feature filmmaking to tell the stories of their subjects.

"Some of the new films are reminiscent of the fly-on-the-wall movies of the verite greats, but many of the films are bringing new aesthetics to the documentary, as with last year's groundbreaking Leviathan, or the 2013 Little Rock Film Festival Grand Prize winner Dirty Wars," the festival website explains.

"Still other films are blurring the lines between fact and fiction all together, scripting lines for documentary stars, or even creating elaborate choreographed sequences reminiscent of a Hollywood movie set, as seen in [the] Oscar-nominated film The Act of Killing."

Filmmaker and writer Robert Greene of Beacon, N.Y., is heading up programming for the festival's new Cinematic Nonfiction event, as well as overseeing the first Award for Extraordinary Achievement in Cinematic Nonfiction.

Greene's credits include the 2014 film Actress; 2012's Fake It So Real, named one of the best documentaries of the year by the late Roger Ebert and one of the 15 best films of 2012 by Richard Brody of The New Yorker; and Kati With an I, nominated in 2010 for a Gotham Award

Little Rock Film Festival

Monday-May 18, various venues, Little Rock and North Little Rock

Admission: Passes for all events include Bronze, $60; Silver, $150; and Gold, $300. Student passes are the equivalent of a Silver Pass but for half price with a valid ID. Single tickets for films and events are available at each venue after pass holders have been seated; suggested donations start at $10.

For tickets, schedules and information, visit littlerockfilmfestival.org.

Style on 05/11/2014