Geena Davis on How to Have a Film Festival in the Coronavirus Era
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Vanity Fair
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🗓️ 6 August 2020
⏱️ 53 minutes
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The two-time Oscar winner and co-founder of the Bentonville Film Festival joins the festival's president of programming Wendy Guerrero to describe how they're pulling off this year's event. Plus, a look at newly announced plans from the Toronto International Film Festival and the New York Film Festival.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and Oscar goes to and I can't deny the fact that you like me right now you like me |
| 0:20.8 | There's a mistake. Moonlight, you guys won best picture. I'm Katie Ritchie the deputy editor of Vanity Fair. |
| 0:38.2 | I'm back. |
| 0:39.2 | Thank you for holding on the form without me last week. |
| 0:41.6 | Congratulations to Jeremy Strong, my number one. |
| 0:44.7 | I'm here with Richard Lawson, our chief critic. |
| 0:46.6 | Hello. |
| 0:47.2 | And it's just us. |
| 0:49.1 | If you guys had this like Murders or a panel |
| 0:51.0 | for the Emmy nominations last week. |
| 0:52.7 | We're on our own today, but we have lots to talk about, |
| 0:56.0 | which is always a good thing. |
| 0:57.4 | And then in the back half of this episode, |
| 0:59.4 | I'm going to be talking to Wendy Guerrero and Gina Davis, who are the co-founder of the Bentonville Film Festival, |
| 1:05.1 | which is kicking off in Arkansas next week. |
| 1:07.7 | It's not, I don't think the first film festival to happen since COVID, but it's a pretty high profile |
| 1:12.3 | one. |
| 1:12.6 | It's coming ahead of TIF and Tell You Right |
| 1:14.8 | and these other festivals that we'll be talking about |
| 1:16.6 | and I'm really interested to talking to them |
| 1:18.4 | about how you do something like that. |
| 1:20.2 | And specifically, Bentonville, since it has a focus |
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