Twenty years after launching her Institute on Gender in Media — which created a blueprint for gathering data about inclusion and diversity on- and offscreen — Geena Davis is celebrating the 10-year anniversary of Arkansas’ Bentonville Film Festival, which she runs alongside fest director Wendy Guerrero. Here, the Oscar-winning actor shares her proudest moments from Bff (the June 10-16 event is expected to attract 65,000 attendees this year), the meaningfulness of a Dei-centered fest in a tumultuous election year and what most informs her “inherently not controversial” belief that storytelling should be for everyone.
How does it feel to see Bff reach this milestone?
We truly can’t believe 10 years have already gone by. When we launched, Bentonville didn’t even have a movie theater. (Laughs.) And now the town is booming — art, culture, restaurants and museums. It’s been amazing to see.
What’s been the toughest part of this process that you didn’t anticipate?...
How does it feel to see Bff reach this milestone?
We truly can’t believe 10 years have already gone by. When we launched, Bentonville didn’t even have a movie theater. (Laughs.) And now the town is booming — art, culture, restaurants and museums. It’s been amazing to see.
What’s been the toughest part of this process that you didn’t anticipate?...
- 6/5/2024
- by Stacey Wilson Hunt
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Independent filmmaker and educator Deborah Lavine has been tapped to run the film program at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts (Uncsa). Lavine, who will serve as dean of the school of filmmaking effective July 1, joins Uncsa from California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) where she was program director of the graduate-level film directing program.
Lavine is also a working filmmaker and is currently partnering with “Coda” lead Troy Kotsur to develop a project they will co-direct. She has directed award-short films including “Unintended” and “Lost Music,” as well as the feature film “Wild Prairie Rose.” She has also directed for theater, including Deaf West’s Los Angeles production of “A Streetcar Named Desire,” which was staged in English and American Sign Language
Though a continent away from Hollywood, Uncsa, which counts Danny McBride, David Gordon Green, Jeff Nichols, and Rebecca Green among its alums, has become a powerhouse,...
Lavine is also a working filmmaker and is currently partnering with “Coda” lead Troy Kotsur to develop a project they will co-direct. She has directed award-short films including “Unintended” and “Lost Music,” as well as the feature film “Wild Prairie Rose.” She has also directed for theater, including Deaf West’s Los Angeles production of “A Streetcar Named Desire,” which was staged in English and American Sign Language
Though a continent away from Hollywood, Uncsa, which counts Danny McBride, David Gordon Green, Jeff Nichols, and Rebecca Green among its alums, has become a powerhouse,...
- 5/25/2021
- by Brent Lang
- Variety Film + TV
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