06/10/2024 to 06/16/2024
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Bentonville Film Festival
702 SE 5th Street, Suite 8 Bentonville, AR 72712, Bentonville, AR
BFF champions women and underrepresented voices and is located in Bentonville, Arkansas and online annually.
Entering its 10th year, the Bentonville Film Festival is an annual event chaired by Academy Award® winner Geena Davis in partnership with founding sponsor Walmart and presenting sponsor Coca-Cola. The 2024 festival, similar to the past few years, will take place as a hybrid version of virtual showings and on-the-ground events. We will celebrate this year’s featured films and panels globally from our homes, as well as with local in-person screenings, panels and events for those in the Northwest Arkansas region. This year, our 10th anniversary festival dates will be June 10 – June 17, 2024 in Bentonville. In 2023, we had over 150K+ viewers watching films, panels and Q&A’s on our watch.bentonvillefilm.org virtual platform and over 20,000 attendees in-person screenings of competition and spotlight films, outdoor family films, panels and discussions, private filmmaker events and BFF community events, around Bentonville and the Northwest Arkansas region. In addition, we had the most diverse and inclusive film program to date!
In the BFF 2023 juried competition program, 82% is from content creators who identify as female or gender non-confirming; 65% who identify as BIPOC, Asian, or Pacific Islander; 62% who identify as LGBTQIA+; 42% who are over 50; and 20% who identify as a person with disability. In addition for the 2022 program, onscreen leads are 90% women/gender non conforming, 60% BIPOC, 25% LGBTQ+ and 12% representing talent with disabilities.
