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Geena Davis, winner of an Oscar for her role in The Accidental Tourist and a Golden Globe for her work in A League of Their Own, is coming to Vancouver to speak about equality for women in media and launch the 2018 edition of the Whistler Film Festival’s Women on Top series.

Davis will give a keynote address on June 15 at the Sutton Place Hotel in Vancouver.

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This year’s edition of Woman on Top is a two-part event; Davis’s speech is the first.

“The Whistler Film Festival’s Women on Top Series is aligned with several industry-wide mandates that share the goal of addressing the imbalance of diversity in media and supporting collaborative efforts to achieve a more accurate, gender balanced, diverse portrayal of society,” Shauna Hardy Mishaw, the festival’s executive director, said in a media release. “With this series, (the festival) is maintaining a timely leadership role for women in the industry, when the need is not only apparent, but the collective is calling for it.”