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Bentonville Film Festival

Bentonville Film Festival

Monday, 10 June 2024 until Sunday, 16 June 2024

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!


The culmination of the Bentonville Film Festival is the award ceremony at the close of the annual event. The competition juries are composed of notable individuals from the worldwide film community with original and diverse points of view select films from each of the juried categories to receive a range of awards. Decided by Festival Goers' ballots, Audience Awards are bestowed upon films in each of the eligible festival categories. Special awards and distribution prizes are announced as well at the closing event, IF they are awarded at the 2024 festival.

The Bentonville Film Festival provides the following awards:
Official BFF Jury Awards:
Best Narrative Feature (US & International)
Best Documentary Feature (US & International)
Best Short (Narrative & Documentary) (US & International)
Best Episodic (Narrative & Documentary) (US & International)
Special Jury Recognitions
*Past Jury Recognitions include: Best First Feature, Excellence in Editing, Best Performance in a Narrative Feature, Honorable Mention.

Additional Partner Awards:
Kickstart Animation Awards - TBD
Outdoor Adventure Awards - prizes awarded in partnership with community partners and organizations.

*Audience Awards TBD

ADDITIONAL PRIZE RESTRICTIONS FOR DISTRIBUTION:
BFF Awards do not guarantee distribution. Distribution awards are separate and awarded based on distributor agreements and interest the during 2024 Festival
• The BFF 2024 Festival Distributors each have their own specific distribution agreements and cannot pre-determine the material terms, including but not limited to the number of screens, markets, dates of releases, amount of advances, etc.