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Bentonville Film Festival Forecast: Award-Winning Films, 100% Chance Of Al Roker Sighting, World Premieres, Oscar Contenders And An Olympic Champion
The 11th annual Bentonville Film Festival, chaired by Oscar winner Geena Davis, is underway in Arkansas.
Deadline attended the opening night kickoff at Skylight Cinema, highlighted by a screening of East of Wall, the Sony Pictures Classics drama that presents “an authentic portrait of female resilience in the ‘New West’ inspired and played by the women and girls who live it.” Olympic gold medalist Allyson Felix, the most decorated track and field athlete of all time, will participate in the festival’s Shaping the Narrative conversation in partnership with Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and Ingeborg Initiatives. Sovereign, about “a father and son whose anti-government beliefs spiral into violence, and the police chief whose life is forever changed by their actions,” screens at Bentonville following its world premiere earlier this month at Tribeca.
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