I have sort of an out of the box idea of a college your daughter might be interested in. Lake Forest College in Illinois.
It has self designed majors so even though it doesn’t have a film studies major, it could still work for her because she could create her own film studies major. Especially with their Lake Forest in the Loop internship/studies program. They have partnerships with Columbia College Chicago as well as Art Institute of Chicago where Lake Forest students can take classes/do internships and live in the loop (in Lake Forest College housing) for up to 3 semesters I believe.
This would give her the LAC experience, the small class sizes you are looking for (and they tout their academic advising plus success coaches in the career center) as well as close proximity to Chicago (about a 45-50 min train ride from down town Lake Forest to get to downtown Chicago), and the ability to take film classes from Columbia and Art Institute.
They also have very good merit aid. I don’t know if that would be something your daughter would be interested in, but it might work.
ETA: They are also rolling admission (I think) so she would have answer fairly quickly. And getting to Chicago fairly easy via plane from most places.