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Fort Smith International Film Festival & MidAmerica Film Market Expands to 3 Days and 2 Venues with 201 Screenings
Official selections have been notified for the 4th annual Fort Smith International Film Festival & MidAmerica Film Market, which will be held August 22 – 24. The 2024 festival will feature 201 local, regional, national, and international movies. To accommodate the increased number of screenings, the festival and market are expanding into a two venue, three-day event (Thursday, Friday, and Saturday) at TempleLive and The Bricks.
Belle Point Press Centers Mid-South Writers and Their Work
Belle Point Press launched two years ago and, in publisher Casie Dodd’s words, “hit the ground running, and it hasn’t slowed down since.” Belle Point will no doubt continue to pick up the pace, with IPG now distributing the Fort Smith, Ark.—based publisher's list of poetry, nonfiction, and fiction releases, many of them written by authors in the Mid-South region of the U.S.
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