Registration opens:
June 06th, 2026

"Rebel with a Clause" – Film Screening & Discussion

Grammar guru Ellen Jovin opened a pop-up grammar table on the streets of Manhattan. So many people stopped to ask questions that she and her filmmaker husband decided to take their show on the road.

Ellen took her table to all 50 states, and people from every imaginable background visited to laugh, argue, and talk about their language insecurities while her husband Brandt Johnson filmed all the grammar action. The public was passionately opinionated, whether they were talking about the proper use of y'all or comma fights. These conversations transcended grammar and brought people a little closer together. In a time of social and political division, the Grammar Table is a place of unity and connection. 

Please join Ellen and Brandt in person at this grammar extravaganza. Ellen will be at the Grammar Table in the Event Center lobby starting at 11:30 AM to answer your grammar questions and resolve long-standing family grammar debates. After the screening, Brandt and Ellen will do a Q&A with Kyle Kellams, followed by a signing of Ellen’s national bestseller, also called Rebel with a Clause. Be sure to look for Arkansas in both the movie and the book!

Registration is encouraged, but not required.

This program is presented in partnership with the Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival. This event is one in a series of documentary screenings put on by the Hot Springs Documentary Film Institute and its partners in celebration of America250. Made possible in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.

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