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Geena Davis’ Bentonville Film Fest Lineup Includes Sharon Stone, Teyonah Parris and Q’orianka Kilcher
The Bentonville Film Festival has announced the lineup for its second installment. This year’s festival will screen 34 films, including 12 world premieres and runs in Bentonville, Arkansas from May...
Watch: Women Directors Speak Out Against Sexism, Fight Against Hollywood’s Past and Present
UK Government Hires First Woman Head of BBC
As Geena Davis once noted, “It’s ridiculous that we would have the first woman anything in the 21st century.” And yet here we are with the rather welcome news that Rona Fairhead has been...
Can Women Drive Studio Movie Decision Making?
Yesterday, Amanda Hess at Slate’s XX Factor blog published a piece titled “Women Buy Half of All Movie Tickets. That Won’t Mean More Female Characters.” She responds to a couple of Women and...
How the Demise of the Romantic Comedy Will Affect Women
Writer Amy Nicholson takes a hard look at the death of a genre — the romantic comedy — in her fantastic LA Weekly piece “Who Killed the Romantic Comedy?” Let’s keep in mind that...
The High and Low Points of 2013
This was a very interesting year for writing about issues related to women in entertainment. On the one hand, I feel very hopeful and think we may have hit a tipping point with the box-office...
Geena Davis: “We Are Enculturating Kids to See Women and Girls as Not Taking Up Half the Space”
Geena Davis wrote a must-read essay for The Hollywood Reporter’s “Women in Entertainment Power 100” issue, in which she notes that women and girls only make up 17% of all film characters over...
Gamechanger Films to Fund Women Directed Films
A new movie fund, Gamechanger Films, is set to fund women directed films only. It’s the first fund to specifically focus on women directors. Organizers of the fund have said that the idea for it...
UN Women and Geena Davis to Partner on Global Study on Representation of Females in Family Films
UN Women is partnering with The Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media to analyze the representations of female characters in family films globally. This is the first time a study of this nature...
Watch This: See Jane Trailer from Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media
Geena Davis's commitment to gender in the media is truly inspiring. See Jane, an affiliated program with her Institute on Gender in the Media, focuses specifically on making sure that...
Is Princess Culture Redeemable?
I am extremely ambivalent about the whole princess thing. If I never saw another princess anywhere it would be too soon. But I live in the real world and write about Hollywood and Hollywood is...
Women, War and Peace Debuts on PBS October 11
This week in NY was the annual opening of the UN General Assembly where heads of states make their speeches. Seeing all these dudes stand up at the podium while the world is a total mess one thing is...
Geena Davis in Conversation with Pat Mitchell
Check out this conversation of two female media icons from the Paley Center for Media. https://medium.com/media/4d27489cc07caf17804240a953eb5868/href
Talking 20 Years of Thelma and Louise
Here’s my interview on the BBC Scotland’s Movie Cafe on the 20th Anniversary of Thelma and Louise. If you don’t want to listen to the whole show, start at 34 minutes in.Movie Cafe It will be...
Thelma and Louise — 20 Years On
In homage to its 20th anniversary, Shania Twain and Taylor Swift recreated a scene from the film that will open the Country Music Television Awards this evening. As Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon...
Thelma and Louise Turns 20
I can’t believe that it is 20 years since Thelma and Louise was released. We still have so much work to do. This is a movie that resonated with people in a profound way, it’s a movie that people...
The White House Project — Epic Awards
Last night I attended The White House Project (an organization that I was the first director of) for their annual EPIC Awards. EPIC stands for Enhancing Perceptions in Culture and it honors how...
Thelma and Louise and What Could Have Been
When you spend so much time online one thing that suffers is off line reading. So, I am perpetually playing catch up to things that can’t be read online. One of the pieces I just caught up with is...
Geena Davis: Gender Stereotypes Remain Deeply Entrenched in Today’s Entertainment…
Yesterday, The United Nations celebrated the launch of a new agency — UN Women — which combines all the different women’s organizations under one leader, former Chilean President...