year-round Programming

An uptight, liberal businesswoman accompanies her boyfriend to his eccentric and outgoing family's annual Christmas celebration and finds that she's a fish out of water in their free-spirited way of life.

Dec 11, 2024

Year Round Events

The Muppet Christmas Carol

Scrooge, an old miser who dislikes Christmas, is visited by spirits who foretell his future and share secrets from his past and present, which helps change his view on life.

Dec 18, 2024

Escaping post-war Europe, visionary architect László Toth arrives in America to rebuild his life, his work, and his marriage to his wife Erzsébet after being forced apart during wartime by shifting borders and regimes.

Year Round Events

The Brutalist

Sneak Series

Dec 19, 2024

This fall, the secrets of storytelling will be revealed during the ACS Night School: Writing Short Films.

Educational Programs

ACS Night School

Writing Short Films

Weekly

Join us to learn the intricacies of acting on the screen.

ACS Night School

Acting for Film + Television - Fall 2024

Weekly

Learn character work, scene study, script analysis and techniques along with discussing the business aspects of film and TV.

ACS Night School

Acting for Film + Television

Weekly

Join ACS for our Spring Break Teen Filmmaking Lab, our first ever co-education youth film program!

Filmmaking Workshop

Spring Break Teen Filmmaking Lab

Join us for evening screenings of Jockey and Loving, happy hours, and a full day of in-depth discussions and workshops on pre-production best practices with industry experts.

Educational Program

Film Development Conference

Thaden School, Bentonville

Educational Program

Youth Filmmaking Labs: Screenwriting

In fall 2021, ACS will be offering a Youth Filmmaking Lab focused on screenwriting in Helena. Join us and learn to take your passion for writing to the big screen in a screenwriting workshop led by a professional filmmaker!

Helena, AR

Educational Program

ACS Talks

A video library of nearly every Q&A we've ever hosted with a filmmaker, free of charge with an ACS Membership.

Year-Round

Virtual

Educational Program

Filmmaking Lab for Teen Girls

This lab will provide an opportunity for high-school junior girls between the ages of 16-18 to experience all aspects of the filmmaking process, from screenwriting to production to editing.

Annually

Little Rock, AR

Educational Program

Young Storytellers

At Young Storytellers, our mission is simple: we inspire young people to discover the power of their voice.

Annually

Jefferson Elementary

PAST Programs

Year Round Events

Die Hard

A New York City police officer tries to save his estranged wife and several others taken hostage by terrorists during a Christmas party at the Nakatomi Plaza in Los Angeles.

Nov 17, 2024

Year Round Events

Home Alone

An eight-year-old troublemaker, mistakenly left home alone, must defend his home against a pair of burglars on Christmas Eve.

Nov 17, 2024

“Commanding The Screen” Watch Party

Year Round Events

The West Wing: 20 Hours in America

President Josiah Bartlet deals with multiple crises, including a cover-up of the assassination of a foreign dignitary, while Josh Lyman, Toby Ziegler, and Donna Moss attempt to return to the White House after they are accidentally left behind in Indiana.

Nov 3, 2024

A Spooky Season Screening

Year Round Events

Practical Magic

Two witch sisters, raised by their eccentric aunts in a small town, face closed-minded prejudice and a curse which threatens to prevent them ever finding lasting love.

Oct 27, 2024

Cinema by Design: Art Nouveau

Year Round Events

Moulin Rouge!

A poor Bohemian poet in 1890s Paris falls for a beautiful courtesan and nightclub star coveted by a jealous duke.

Oct 20, 2024

Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts - Lecture Hall

Year Round Events

Tales from the Indigenous South

Oct 19, 2024

Year Round Events

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

wih Live Organ Accompaniment

Oct 10, 2024

Trinity Episcopal Cathedral

Filmland: Arkansas Showcase

Filmland: Arkansas Thrills + Chills Showcase

Oct 6, 2024

Fayetteville Public Library - Walker Room

Year Round Events

Rush

Year Round Screening

James Hunt and Niki Lauda, two extremely skilled Formula One racers, have an intense rivalry with each other. However, it is their enmity that pushes them to their limits.

Sep 8, 2024

Star race car Lightning McQueen and his pal Mater head overseas to compete in the World Grand Prix race.

Year Round Events

Cars 2

Year Round Screening

Sep 7, 2024

Coal Miner's Daughter is the story of country legend Loretta Lynn and her rise to stardom.

Movies + Music

Coal Miner's Daughter

Movies + Music

Sep 6, 2024

Walker Park - by the Splash Pad

Filmland Screening

The Southern Storytellers Party

Rock Town Distillery

Filmland Screening

Sing Sing

Divine G, imprisoned at Sing Sing for a crime he didn't commit, finds purpose by acting in a theatre group alongside other incarcerated men in this story of resilience, humanity, and the transformative power of art.

Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts - Performing Arts Theater

Filmland Screening

Filmmaker Happy Hour

Filmland Filmmaking Workshop

Variety's Southern Storytellers Panel

Debruge will host the inaugural Southern Storytellers Panel, presented by Variety.

Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts - Performing Arts Theater

Filmland Filmmaking Workshop

Panvision Fireside Chat

Conversation with Panavision Marketing Executive Mike Carter and cinematographer Gabe Mayhan

Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts - Collections Research Center

Filmland: Arkansas Program

Pro Shorts: Block 2

Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts - Performing Arts Theater

Filmland: Arkansas 2023

Pro Shorts: Block 1

Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts - Performing Arts Theater

Filmland Screening

The Lounge: Sunday

Filmland Screening

Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist

When a hustler named Chicken Man (Kevin Hart) hosts an afterparty to celebrate the fight with a guest list of the country’s wealthiest, the night ends with the most brazen criminal underworld heist in Atlanta’s history.

Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts - Performing Arts Theater

Saturday Happy Hour

Filmland Screening

My Dead Friend Zoe

Engaged in a mysterious relationship with wise-cracking (and dead) best friend from the Army, a female Afghanistan veteran reluctantly reunites with her estranged Vietnam vet grandfather at the family's ancestral lake house.

Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts - Performing Arts Theater

Filmland: Arkansas Program

Rise Above

Rise Above is the riveting and potent story of an uneducated, poor, black and quietly gentle young boy who grew up in the ghetto of Augusta, GA (The Sandhills) and defied the odds of what was surely a preordained destiny of poverty for him.

Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts - Performing Arts Theater

Filmland Filmmaking Workshop

From Page to Production to Post

From page to production to post, join filmmakers Christy Hall and Michael Schwartz in conversation as they share stories of the rugged road to getting movies and TV shows made in the current Hollywood landscape.

Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts - Governor Winthrop Rockefeller Lecture Hall

Filmland: Arkansas Program

Student Shorts: Block 2

Filmand: Arkansas 2024

Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts - Performing Arts Theater

Filmland: Arkansas Program

Student Shorts: Block 1

Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts - Performing Arts Theater

The Lounge: Saturday

Filmland Screening

Daddio

New York City. JFK airport. A young woman jumps into the backseat of a yellow taxi, the cabbie throws the vehicle into drive as the two head out into the night toward Manhattan, striking up the most unexpected conversation resulting in a single, epic remarkable journey.

Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts - Performing Arts Theater

Filmland Screening

Student Networking Happy Hour

Jeff, a mechanic and southern family man, navigating the life of his recovering addict son who starts a relationship with a trans girl.

Filmland: Arkansas Program

I Do This for a Living

Fimand: Arkansas 2024

Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts - Performing Arts Theater

Filmland Filmmaking Workshop

Hacking Film Festival Submissions Panel

Join Dances with Films Senior Producers Ariana Farina and Lindsey Smith-Sands along with Louisiana Film Prize founder Gregory Kallenberg on how to get the attention of today’s hottest film festivals. Moderated by producer and ACS Board member Tamra Corley-Davis.

Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts - Governor Winthrop Rockefeller Lecture Hall

Filmland: Arkansas Program

All Happy Families

On the weekend before new tenant Dana is due to move into their childhood home, the siblings and their parents find themselves unexpectedly under the same roof again, where every corner reveals secrets and surprises and the family airs out long-held resentments.

Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts - Performing Arts Theater

Filmland: Arkansas Program

I'll Be There

When heroes fall, families rise. Journey into Grace’s world as her blended family navigates life against the surreal backdrop of a childhood hero’s death.

Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts - Performing Arts Theater

Filmland Screening

The Lounge: Friday

Filmand 2024

Filmland Screening

Los Frikis

Inspired by true events, Los Frikis is a powerful coming-of-age story set in early 90s Cuba, centering around 18-year-old Gustavo who idolizes his older brother Paco (an astonishing Héctor Medina) and his punk, "Frikis" bandmates.

Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts - Performing Arts Theater

Filmland Screening

Sponsor Appreciation Happy Hour

Filmland Screening

The Peanut Butter Falcon

A down-on-his-luck crab fisherman embarks on a journey to get a young man with Down syndrome to a professional wrestling school in rural North Carolina and away from the retirement home where he’s lived for the past two and a half years.

Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts - Performing Arts Theater

Filmland Screening

Voices of the Ogahpah

"Voices of the Ogahpah" is a captivating journey into the heart of a resilient people whose history stretches back long before European colonization.

Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts - Performing Arts Theater

Filmland Screening

The Lounge: Thursday

Filmland: Arkansas Spotlight

Filmland Screening

The Duel

When Woody finds out his best friend has been sleeping with his girlfriend, he challenges him to a duel, taking their friend group across the border to a mysterious and stunning estate.

Aug 14, 2024

Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts - Performing Arts Theater

Filmland Screening

Filmland 2024

Aug 14, 2024

Year Round Events

Mud

Two young boys encounter a fugitive and form a pact to help him evade the vigilantes that are on his trail and to reunite him with his true love.

Jun 30, 2024

Year Round Events

One False Move

A small town police chief awaits the arrival of a gang of killers.

Jun 23, 2024

Year Round Events

White Lightning

An ex con teams up with federal agents to help them with breaking up a moonshine ring.

Jun 16, 2024

Year Round Events

A Face in the Crowd

A female radio reporter turns a folk-singing drifter into a powerful media star.

Jun 9, 2024

The fish-out-of-water story of New Jersey college student, Emily Mason, who finds herself deployed a thousand miles from home in a small, hot, dusty southern town selling books door-to-door for the summer.

Year Round Events

Valley Inn

Jun 7, 2024

Walker Park, Fayetteville

Year Round Events

The Legend of Boggy Creek

A documentary-style drama about the "Fouke Monster", a Bigfoot-type creature that has been sighted in and around Fouke, Arkansas since the 1950s.

Jun 2, 2024

The story of competitive swimmer Trudy Ederle, who, in 1926, was the first woman to ever swim across the English Channel.

Year Round Events

Young Woman and the Sea

Sneak Series

May 29, 2024

An investigation into abuse and missing children at an Indian residential school ignites a reckoning on the nearby Sugarcane Reserve.

Sugarcane

Collab Screening

May 22, 2024

In 1969, an ambitious woman aspires to cross the line between the haves and have-nots to secure her seat at America's most exclusive, fashionable and treacherous table: Palm Beach high society.

Year Round Events

Palm Royale

Sneak Series

May 7, 2024

Join us for the latest installment of our Venture Film Series dedicated to films about outdoor recreation. In ARKANSAS WILD, Dr. Benjamin Garner digs into the challenges, questions and conservation opportunities for the Little Red River.

Year Round Events

Arkansas Wild: The Story of Trout Tourism on the Little Red River

Venture Film Series

Apr 20, 2024

Thaden School

Collab Film Series

State of the Unity

Is unity possible? This simple question launched the Brooklyn-based band The Bergamot on a quest to all 50 States to unite people with music, community, and collaboration.

Apr 11, 2024

Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art

Year Round Events

2001: A Space Odyssey

Eclipse Series

After uncovering a mysterious artifact buried beneath the Lunar surface, a spacecraft is sent to Jupiter to find its origins: a spacecraft manned by two men and the supercomputer HAL 9000.

Apr 7, 2024

A series of eight famous pieces of classical music, conducted by Leopold Stokowski and interpreted in animation by Walt Disney's team of artists.

Year Round Events

Fantasia

Eclipse Series

Apr 7, 2024

When Beth’s son Evan James was diagnosed with Autism in the early 90s, treatment options were limited. Doctors offered no practical advice for daily living and advised Beth to limit his social interactions.

Arkansas Filmmaker Spotlight

You Have No Idea

Mar 29, 2024

Activist Bayard Rustin faces racism and homophobia as he helps change the course of Civil Rights history by orchestrating the 1963 March on Washington.

Dreamland Film Series

Rustin

Feb 26, 2024

Year Round Events

The Barber of Little Rock

Feb 18, 2024

Year Round Events

Anatomy of a Fall

A woman is suspected of her husband's murder, and their blind son faces a moral dilemma as the sole witness.

Feb 18, 2024

Alejandro is an aspiring toy designer from El Salvador struggling to bring his unusual ideas to life in NY. As time runs out on his work visa, a job assisting an erratic art-world outcast becomes his only hope to stay in the country.

Year Round Events

Problemista

A25 Sneak Preview

Feb 17, 2024

Year Round Events

Past Lives

Nora and Hae Sung, two childhood friends, are reunited in New York for one fateful week as they confront notions of destiny, love, and the choices that make a life.

Feb 4, 2024

Year Round Events

The Boy and the Heron

While the Second World War rages, the teenage Mahito, haunted by his mother's tragic death, is relocated from Tokyo to the serene rural home of his new stepmother Natsuko, a woman who bears a striking resemblance to the boy's mother.

Feb 4, 2024

The commandant of Auschwitz, Rudolf Höss, and his wife Hedwig, strive to build a dream life for their family in a house and garden next to the camp.

Year Round Events

POSTPONED - The Zone of Interest

A24 Sneak Preview

Feb 2, 2024

Special Screening and Filmmaker Q+A

Dreamland Film Series

Merry Movies at the Museum

Christmas Angel: The Arkansas Premiere

Nov 11, 2023

Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts - Performing Art Theater

Hamilton

The real life of one of America's foremost founding fathers and first Secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton.

Nov 7, 2023

ACS' 6th Annual Celebration of Cinema

Filmland Screening

FILMLAND 2023

Oct 17, 2023

A strong-willed social worker at a youth facility assembles an unlikely cycling team of juvenile convicts and takes them on a transformative 1000-mile bike ride.

Filmland Screening 2023

Hard Miles

Filmland 2023

Oct 17, 2023

Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts - Performing Arts Theater

Filmland Screening 2023

NYAD

Sneak Preview

The remarkable true story of athlete Diana Nyad who, at the age of 60 and with the help of her best friend and coach, commits to achieving her life-long dream: a 110-mile open ocean swim from Cuba to Florida.

Oct 17, 2023

From award-winning filmmaker Dawn Porter comes The Lady Bird Diaries, a groundbreaking documentary film that uses Lady Bird's audio diaries to tell the story of one of the most influential and least understood First Ladies in history.

Filmland Screening 2023

The Lady Bird Diaries

Filmland 2023

Oct 16, 2023

Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts - Performing Arts Theater

Filmland Screening 2023

The Bikeriders - Encore

A furious drama following the rise of a fictional 1960s Midwestern motorcycle club through the lives of its members, starring Jodie Comer, Austin Butler and Tom Hardy.

Oct 16, 2023

Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts-Performing Arts Theater

Filmland Screening 2023

The Bikeriders

Arkansas Premiere Event

A furious drama following the rise of a fictional 1960s Midwestern motorcycle club through the lives of its members, starring Jodie Comer, Austin Butler and Tom Hardy.

Oct 15, 2023

Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts-Performing Arts Theater

Filmland Screening 2023

Eric LaRue

Filmland 2023

Eric LaRue follows Janice, the mother of a 17-year-old boy who shot and killed three of his classmates in school.

Oct 14, 2023

Filmland Workshop 2023

The Art of Being a Film Critic

Writing a movie is one thing; writing about a movie is a whole different set of skills.

Oct 14, 2023

Filmland Workshop 2023

The Art of Directing

Take a deep dive into the creative process with master storyteller Jeff Nichols as he discusses his process for taking a story from the page to the screen.

Oct 14, 2023

ACS' 6th Annual Celebration of Cinema

Filmland Screening

FILMLAND: ARKANSAS 2023

Filmland: Arkansas Features

Filmland: Arkansas 2023

Unfix

At the young age of 11, Ari was forced into conversion therapy following a brief encounter with another boy.

Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts-Performing Arts Theater

Filmland Workshop 2023

Demystifying Entertainment Law

During any film or television production there are a variety of legal dos and don'ts that are vital to its success.

Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts - Performing Arts Theater

Filmland: Arkansas 2023

Professional Shorts - Block 3

Filmland: Arkansas Professional Shorts

A selection of short films from our Professional Shorts category.

Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts-Performing Arts Theater

Filmland: Arkansas 2023

Professional Shorts - Block 2

Filmland: Arkansas Professional Shorts

A selection of short films from our Professional Shorts category.

Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts-Performing Arts Theater

Filmland: Arkansas 2023

Student Shorts - Block 4

A selection of short films from our Student Shorts category.

Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts-Performing Arts Theater

Filmland: Arkansas 2023

Student Shorts - Block 3

A selection of short films from our Student Shorts category.

Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts-Performing Arts Theater

Filmland: Arkansas 2023

Student Shorts - Block 2

A selection of short films from our Student Shorts category.

Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts-Performing Arts Theater

Filmland: Arkansas 2023

Ghosts of the Void

Filmland: Arkansas Features

Spending the night in her car, a newly-homeless woman wrestles with exhaustion, her crumbling marriage, and the threat of mysterious, masked strangers.

Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts-Performing Arts Theater

Filmland Workshop 2023

Practical Special Effects: Blood, Guts, & Make-Up

Learn the tricks of the trade for practical visual FX and make-up with Sahlah Tepes.

Filmland: Arkansas Features

Filmland: Arkansas 2023

Daughter of the White River

In Depression-Era Arkansas, River People lived free in floating communities of houseboats.

Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts-Performing Arts Theater

Filmland: Arkansas 2023

Professional Shorts - Block 1

Filmland: Arkansas Professional Shorts

A selection of short films from our Professional Shorts category.

Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts-Performing Arts Theater

Filmland: Arkansas 2023

Student Shorts - Block 1

A selection of short films from our Student Shorts category.

Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts-Performing Arts Theater

Dreamland Film Series

Late Bloomers Table Read w/ Spade Robinson

Live reading and conversation

Aug 26, 2023

TheatreSquared

Filmland: Arkansas Showcase

Scream Therapy

Filmland: Arkansas - August Block 4

In Scream Therapy, five best friends, all struggling in their personal lives, head to the desert for a girls weekend of drinking, drugs, and restorative scream therapy.

Aug 13, 2023

Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts - Performing Art Center

Filmland: Arkansas Showcase

The Arkansas Accent Project

Filmland: Arkansas - August Block 2

This film draws upon interviews collected from the five major Arkansan regions: the Ozarks, the Arkansas River Valley, the Ouachitas, the Coastal Plain, and the Delta.

Aug 13, 2023

Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts - Performing Art Center

Filmland: Arkansas Showcase

The Hill We Climb

Filmland: Arkansas - August Block 2

"The Hill We Climb" Follows two residents' efforts to revitalize a 100-year-old historically African American community in a predominantly white town in Arkansas as documented by their classmate from growing up.

Aug 13, 2023

Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts - Performing Art Center

Collab Film Series

The Poor & Hungry

A screening of Craig Brewer's debut film, The Poor & Hungry.

Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts Performing Arts Theater

Educational Program

Writing & Directing Workshop with Craig Brewer

Join award-winning filmmaker Craig Brewer in a filmmaking workshop focused on the art of writing and directing.

Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts Performing Arts Theater

Filmland: Arkansas Showcase

New West

Filmland: Arkansas - August Feature 1

In "New West," Trigger and Gene were Hollywood legends and the best of friends, but years after a falling out the two must team up once again to fight a villain from their past.

Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts - Performing Art Center

Filmland: Arkansas Showcase

Legacy: Black Excellence in Jonesboro

Filmland: Arkansas - August Block 1

Created by a group of students from Arkansas State University, "Legacy" is a short documentary about the history of Black excellency in Jonesboro.

Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts - Performing Art Center

Filmland: Arkansas Showcase

Racer's Nature: Trial by Fire

Filmland: Arkansas - August Block 1

"Racer's Nature" is an intense and captivating documentary that follows a son's relentless journey to surpass his father's legendary track record.