According to new!Magazine, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has appointed Geena to a state commission established to promote women’s equality. Geena, who is a Democrat, was appointed to California’s Commission on the Status of Women on Tuesday, July 20. The nonpartisan panel works to promote equality and justice for all women in areas such as education and access to health care.

Geena has previously worked to promote the cause – she is involved in the United Nations Development Fund for Women and is founder of the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, which encourages film and TV writers to create more roles for the fairer sex. She will serve on the commission for four years.

Congratulations on the accomplishment!

The pics above show Geena on the red carpet for the premiere of ‘Accidents Happen’ at The Cremorne Orpheum on April 14, 2010 in Sydney, Australia. View more pics on abcnews.com and the North Shore Times.

ABC News Australia (archived, PDF) and News.com.au (archived, PDF) both have articles on the movie and Geena’s role choices in general.

Watch video on news.com.au: Geena Davis Down Under.

The Australian consumer movie magazine “Filmink Magazine” (cover seen in pic to the left) has an interview with Geena regarding Accidents Happen in their issue that went on sale April 16. You can buy the magazine in newagents around Australia, or direct by emailing your inquiry to dina@filmink.com.au.

Click to view two more pics and PDF-link to Geena’s speech and archived articles on the event.

Photo: Neilson Barnard/Getty Images

Photo: AP Photo/Seth Wenig

Unifem article on the event, original / archived (PDF)
Geena’s speech delivered at press conference (PDF)
An interesting recap is found at The Daily Tell blog / archived (PDF).

(pic (c) Wenn)

Recent pictures of Geena, having fun with the kids, and of her and Reza at the Tribeca Film Festival:

(pics (c) bigpicturesphoto.com)

(pic by David Shankbone)

“Hollywood is literally run on the concept that women want to watch stories about men and men don’t want to watch stories on women,” she said. “Our hands are literally tied by the fact that men aren’t interested in women’s stories.”

Davis says change can start when women pay attention and share what they see with others.

“I feel strongly that you can’t rely on change happening in the natural course of things,” she said. “Unless people are very active pushing and noticing this phenomena, things won’t change.”

“There’s terrific energy when women gather together,” she added. “With so many women working so hard, we can cause dramatic change.”

originally by Kelly Puente

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With the premiere of “Accidents Happen” closing up, how about taking a look at the interview and preview clips from the Tribeca Film Festival’s YouTube channel:

Visit the official movie website for a teaser and more: www.accidentshappenthemovie.com.

The IMDb entry is found here, and the Facebook page is found here. The Sydney Film Festival has this page on the film.

Although not much is happening on this site lately, the lack of decent fansites or even an official site has made me decide to keep it online. When time allows, I will also keep working on the fact sections – the filmography especially. Returning visitors may have noticed that the gallery is gone; this is partly due to vulnerabilities with the script. I am looking into ways of restoring it in some form or another. The forum has also gone into hiatus, I couldn’t justify the amount of time spent to keep out spammers compared to the small amount of genuine traffic on there. For now, the possibility to comment on blog / news posts will have to do! Please, keep sending me links and news if you come across any, and together we’ll keep geena-davis.net a resource for fans for yet another year. Thank you!

Davis, who won an Oscar for her role in The Accidental Tourist and picked up the world’s most attractive hitchhiker (played by an unknown actor named Brad Pitt) in Thelma & Louise, is in Sydney filming Accidents Happen. It’s a directorial debut for Andrew Lancaster, whose short film In Search Of Mike won the Flickerfest best film prize in 2002. Anthony Anderson, best known for Somersault, is the producer.

Davis plays the potty-mouthed mother of an accident-prone teenage son. “I think it’s probably the most foul-mouthed mother we’ve seen on screen. I get paid to swear,” she said.

Read the full article at www.smh.com.au.