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  • Bentonville Film Festival Selects 8 Festival Alumni for ‘See It, Be It Filmmaker Fellowship’

    Bentonville Film Festival Foundation and The Coca-Cola Foundation “See It, Be It Filmmaker Fellowship”
    Bentonville Film Festival Foundation and The Coca-Cola Foundation “See It, Be It Filmmaker Fellowship” | Top left to right: Jenna Laurenzo, Dawn Valadez, Amber McGinnis, Diane Paragas, Emily Ting, Fanny Veliz, McKenzie Chinn, Ursula Taherian. All images courtesy of the Bentonville Film Festival Foundation

    The Bentonville Film Festival Foundation and The Coca-Cola Foundation announced the “See It, Be It Filmmaker Fellowship,” an annual fellowship designed to offer expansive developmental support for filmmakers from historically underrepresented communities. Eight Bentonville Film Festival Alumni have been selected for the inaugural program, which will include professional support from peers, entertainment industry leaders and major corporate changemakers, in addition to financial backing.

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  • Geena Davis’ 5th Bentonville Film Festival Reveals Competition Feature Film Lineup

    THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING, Geena Davis
    THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING, Geena Davis

    The 5th Annual Bentonville Film Festival will open on Wednesday, May 8, with Tom Donahue’s documentary THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING, executive produced by Geena Davis, and featuring her, along with Meryl Streep, Reese Witherspoon, Natalie Portman, Zoe Saldana, Rosario Dawson, Cate Blanchett, and many others as it takes an incisive look into the history, empirical evidence, and systemic forces that foster gender discrimination and thus reinforce disparity in our culture.

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