FILMLAND

WEDNESDAY 8/13-SUNDAY 8/17. Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts.

Whether it’s all that natural light and sleek architecture or the feeling that you’re getting a sneak peek at a movie before the reviews have even come out, there’s something elevated and effervescent about the Arkansas Cinema Society ’s annual Filmland festival finding a venue in the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts. The museum’s Performing Arts Theater is just the right size, spacious enough to make what’s onscreen feel grand but small enough to give last year’s audiences a close-up on Colman Domingo’s charisma during the Southern Storytellers panel discussion. This year, expect the festival buzz to be heightened by another heavyweight Hollywood connection to Arkansas: the screening of Tony Tost’s debut film, “Americana

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