Davis pushes for more female roles; predicts 100,000 at this year’s Bentonville Film Festival

Geena Davis expects crowds to more than double at this year’s Bentonville Film Festival. About 37,000 people attended last year’s inaugural event and she speculated that number to approach 100,000 during this year’s festival May 3-8. Geena Davis speaks Thursday in Giffels Auditorium in Old Main on the University of Arkansas campus in Fayetteville. She made that bold prediction Thursday during a lecture at the University of Arkansas that drew in a standing-room-only crowd of about 280 to Giffels Auditorium. Read More…