BuzzFeed - Despite dismal statistics on women in Hollywood that haven't changed significantly for decades, the actor and activist thinks we've reached a turning point. Geena Davis at the Hollywood Film Awards in 2014. Kevin Winter / Getty Images "I've pretty much always been a feminist," Geena Davis said in a recent phone interview with BuzzFeed News. For the actor, it's not a passive stance: Davis founded the research-funding, media-lobbying Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media a decade ago; she launched the Bentonville Film Festival to spotlight women and minority filmmakers last May. The reasoning behind the festival, which guarantees distribution for three winning films, Davis said, is "not just [to] celebrate movies with women and minorities with women in front of or behind the camera, and just say, 'Isn't that nice?' when they do get this opportunity, but to be very proactive, and give the winners guaran
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