Russell Brand as rock star Aldous Snow in Get Him to the Greek, to be screened at the Little Rock Film Festival. 

The Little Rock Film Festival continues through June 6 -- don't miss tonight's 8 p.m. screening of the comedy Get Him to the Greek, with Russell Brand as contrary rock star Aldous Snow and Jonah Hill as the much-abused record-company slob who's supposed to keep him in line.

Each day will be crammed with movie screenings, panel discussions, workshops, special events, parties, and people-watching.

What's the best way to get the most out of the festival? I recently spent three very hectic days at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York, so I've got some suggestions:

1. Get up early, stay up late. You can catch up on rest when it's over.

2. If you've got a LRFF film festival badge (you can purchase one here), don't leave it at home, or in the car, or in someone else's hands. You need it to get into screenings and other festival events. The volunteers have better things to do than listen to your long sad story on why you don't have your badge with you. Don't torture them any more than necessary.

3. See everything you can, even if you think it's not your mind of movie.  At Tribeca I wandered into a screening of Gerrymandering, a documentary on how politicians use redistricting to choose their voters. Although I'm not much interested in politics, it turned out to be absorbing, informative, entertaining and extremely well done. So consider seeing films such as Camp Victory, Afghanistan (a documentary about U.S. National Guardsmen assigned to mentor members of the Afghan National Army), American: The Bill Hicks Story, and Speaking in Tongues, a documentary about the effect of language immersion programs on education.

4. Go to panel discussions. The Little Rock Film Festival has plenty of them, including LRFF Youth! Workshops for young filmmakers and Marketing Your Film Via Social Media. 

5. Stuck in line? Talk to others about what they've seen. It helps you decide if you want to see it too. Or not.

6. See some shorts such as Shorts Program No. 1: The Things We Do For Love, Arkansas Narrative Shorts and Arkansas Documentary Shorts (with In Queso Fever: A Movie About Cheese Dip).   

7. Foreign films, from those that are jaw-droppingly brilliant to others that, well, aren't, can give great insight to the way people live in other countries. 

8. Avoid anything with a running time over two hours. Festivals are too short to hang around with one film that long. You can watch it at home on DVD eventually. Everything comes out on DVD.

9. Go to the festival parties (especially the late-night ones). Star-gazing is fun, whether in NY or Little Rock. And you never know who you'll meet.

10. Bring snacks. No, we're not advising that you smuggle a sandwich into a movie theater (that's why they sell concessions) but snacks like granola bars, a box of raisins, cookies and such come in handy if you're torn between waiting in line for a super-hot screening or starving to death.