As part of our ongoing spotlight of the best films from regional film festivals across the US, Bentonville programmer Drea Clark speaks to Lindsey Ryan about her wonderful short film SEASICK.

If you’ve heard a shambolic percussion rattle echo across the Great Plains recently, do not be alarmed. Those are merely the desultory remains of Anita Bryant whirlybirding against the lead-lined insides of her rococo vampire coffin at the ushering in of yet another Pride Month. But the annual month-long celebration of queerness isn’t just about cynically rolling one’s eyes at the newly-refreshed-and-rainbow-ized corporate logos sprouting up on social media. As good-guy ally and country-rock troubadour Jason Isbell tweeted last week: “Pride. Victory of the human…

As part of our ongoing spotlight of the best films from regional festivals across the US, Bentonville Film Festival programmer Drea Clark talks to LIQUOR STORE DREAMS filmmaker So Yun Um.

For several years now, Film Independent’s Fiscal Sponsorship program has supported a wide variety of projects: shorts, features, both narrative and nonfiction. Not to mention the occasional new media project, special event or advocacy initiative. Each month’s Fiscal Spotlight column announces three new projects taking part in the program.