Here’s Why Geena Davis Started a Film Festival Focused Not on Women, But Diversity

It’s a new year, and gender and racial inequality persist. However, Academy Award-winning actress Geena Davis, founder of The Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, hit the ground running in 2015 with the announcement that she’s launching a film festival designed around diversity. Davis’ new film festival, the Bentonville Film Festival, is being described as an event “designed around diversity” because it’s designed to not only promote diversity to its festival audiences, but also guarantee distribution across all platforms to the films that win the Audience, Jury Selection and Best Family Film awards. Read More…