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Other panel members Tovar, Ashlie Atkinson ("The Gilded Age"), Joy Nash ("Grey's Anatomy," "Twin Peaks") and Adrienne Acevedo Lovette ("Better Call Saul") related their own experiences on the set. Sonia Manzano also spoke at "If She Can See It, She Can Be It" with actress Geena Davis, filmmaker Nancy Svendsen, filmmaker Jahmil Eady and Madeline Di Nonno, president and CEO of the Geena Davis Institute on June 24. "Team Fempower: Empowering Women in Web3" a panel and an interactive discussion on NFTs (nonfungible tokens) took place at Meteor Guitar Gallery the afternoon of June 24. Nonfungible tokens are one of the nontraditional fundraising means that are more accessible to female filmmakers, BFF president Wendy Guerrero said in a previous interview. Jordan Bayne, founder of NFT Film Squad and filmmaker of "Red Flags," largely led the talk that focused on NFTs being far more than kickstarter funds for filmmaking. They lend more ownership and connection to the community throughout the creative making process, panelists said. GEENA AND FRIENDS Geena and Friends, perhaps the most popular of the Bentonville Film Festival events, took place at Thaden School Theater the evening of June 23 with a star-studded cast doing an hourlong variety of table reads from male-centric movies reimagined for an all-female cast. This year's event featured Geena Davis with Angela Sarafyan ("Westworld"), Brianne Howey ("The Exorcist"), Chelsea Javier ("Smile or Hug") and Ashlie Atkinson ("Gilded Age"). Together they re-created popular scenes from "The Godfather," "The Hangover," "Pets," "Stuber," "Spiderman" and "Central Intelligence." The five actresses performed after having worked together on them for only a day. Davis told the Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette shortly ahead of the event that she thought it would be "a really fun way to show people that most roles could be played by either men or women." In some scenes, the differences were subtle, like casually calling each other sisters as opposed to bros, saying "hello ladies," or mentioning their sisterhood. For instance, "we changed all the hims to hers and changed the names," Sarafyan said. Atkinson described the task as not attempting JULY 3-9, 2022 WHAT'S UP! 39 BFF Continued From Page 37 BENTONVILLE See BFF Page 41 Elizabeth Kilpatrick of the Geena Davis Institute, actor and director Adrienne Acevedo Lovette, writer Virgie Tovar and actors Joy Nash and Ashlie Atkinson pose after the panel discussion "Fat in Front of the Camera: Why It Matters" at the Bentonville Film Festival. The panel was moderated by Kilpatrick. (NWA Democrat-Gazette/Monica Hooper)