#Athena Film Festival
Athena Film Festival Unveils Winners and Finalists for the Athena List
The Athena Film Festival (AFF) has announced the winners and finalists for the 2023 Athena List, the fest’s selection of the best unproduced screenplays highlighting female...
Athena Film Fest to Open with Chinonye Chukwu’s “Till,” Close with Tracy Droz Tragos’ “Plan C”
“Till” will open the 2023 Athena Film Festival (AFF). A press release announced that Chinonye Chukwu’s acclaimed drama, which tells the true story of Mamie Till-Mobley’s pursuit of...
Athena Film Fest Announces 2022 Recipient of the Alfred P. Sloan Athena List Development Grant
The Athena Film Festival at Barnard College (AFF) has announced Jennifer Vanderbes as the third winner of the annual Alfred P. Sloan Athena List Development Grant for her Athena List-winning script...
Athena Film Fest Partners with Disney on Dev Grant for Emerging Women & Non-Binary Filmmakers
The Athena Film Festival (AFF) is joining forces with Disney Studios Content to expand its Creative Development Program, which awards over $50,000 annually to underrepresented filmmakers. A press...
Submit Now: Athena Film Festival and The Athena List
Submissions are now open for the 2023 editions of the Athena Film Festival and The Athena List. A celebration of films from across the globe that tell the stories of fierce and fearless women...
Scripts About Riot Grrrls, LGBTQ+ Divorce, & Women Filmmakers Selected for 2022 Athena Writers Lab
This year, the Athena Writers Lab is offering virtual mentorship, networking opportunities, and peer-to-peer review sessions to the scribes of an adventure pic about an all-women expedition across...
Ida Rodriguez Joglar Receives Athena Film Fest’s Breakthrough Award for First Feature “Kili Big”
Gearing up for its live and virtual launch tomorrow, March 11, the 2022 edition of Athena Film Festival (AFF) has unveiled its awardees and grant recipients. Ida Rodriguez Joglar, Kelsie Mason Ramos,...
“Master,” “The Janes,” & More to Screen at 2022 Athena Film Festival
The 12th annual Athena Film Festival (AFF) has unveiled its lineup. To be held in-person March 11-13 at Barnard College in New York City and virtually March 11-20, the fest will celebrate women...
Submit Now: Athena Film Festival’s Works-in-Progress Program
Women and nonbinary filmmakers looking to hone their documentary project pitches, take note: the Athena Film Festival’s (AFF) Works-in-Progress Program is now accepting submissions. An...
Virtual, In-Person, and Hybrid Passes Now Available for 2022 Athena Film Festival
The 12th annual Athena Film Festival (AFF) will take place in-person at Barnard College in NYC March 11-13, and virtually March 11-20. Early Bird passes are now available for the 2022 edition. After...
Submit Now: Athena Film Festival’s Women in Science Development Fund
Athena Film Festival (AFF) has launched its newest initiative: the Women in Science Development Fund. Sponsored by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Fund will provide two women or nonbinary...
Athena Film Festival Now Accepting Submissions
Attention filmmakers and writers: Do you have a short film, feature script, or TV pilot about amazing women leaders? Submissions are now open for the 2022 Athena Film Festival (AFF), the 2022 Athena...
Athena Film Festival Announces 2021 Awardees and Grant Winners
The Athena Film Festival (AFF) has announced its 2021 awardees. Dedicated to highlighting films showcasing women’s leadership, the fest is running digitally this year due to COVID-19. AFF 2021...
Athena Film Festival Trailer Encourages Viewers to “Imagine a New Future”
Set to run March 1-31, this year’s Athena Film Festival (AFF) is going digital due to COVID-19. “In a year like no other, we’re digging deeper,” a newly released trailer from...
Athena Film Festival Offering a Select Number of Free Passes for Critics from Underrepresented Groups
Are you a film critic interested in attending the 2021 Athena Film Festival (AFF)? The fest, which has gone digital this year due to COVID-19, is reserving 10 press passes for film critics from...
Athena Film Festival Announces 2021 Lineup, Tracey Deer’s “Beans” to Open the Fest
Tracey Deer’s “Beans” will open the 11th annual edition of the Athena Film Festival (AFF) at Barnard College. The coming-of-age drama about a 12-year-old Mohawk girl set against the...
Passes Now Available for 2021 Athena Film Festival
Looking for a holiday gift for an awesome feminist film lover in your life? Need something to look forward to? (Of course you do.) We have good news: all-access passes are now available for the 11th...
Athena Film Festival Announces 2020 Virtual Writers Lab Participants
The Athena Film Festival has announced the participants for its first-ever Virtual Writers Lab. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Athena team is bringing their annual Film & TV lab,...
Submit Now: The Athena Film Festival
Submissions are open for the 2021 Athena Film Festival. A celebration of fierce and fearless leaders, the fest is now entering its 11th year, and currently accepting short film submissions. The New...
Submit Now: Athena Film Festival’s Virtual Writers Lab
The Athena Film Festival at Barnard College has just announced its first ever Virtual Writers Lab. In partnership with WIST (Women in the Script Trade) and Stephens College, the Athena Film Festival...
Eliza Hittman’s “Never Rarely Sometimes Always” Wins Berlinale’s Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize
“Never Rarely Sometimes Always” had a great weekend at home and abroad. Eliza Hittman’s third feature made its NY premiere at the Athena Film Festival and took home the Silver Bear...
Unjoo Moon & Beanie Feldstein Among Athena Awardees, Fest Announces Athena List Winners & More
The 10th annual Athena Film Festival (AFF) kicks off in just over two weeks and — adding to the excitement — the fest has unveiled its 2020 awardees, the winners of the Athena List, and...
Sundance, SXSW, TIFF, & More Will Earmark Portion of Press Credentials for Time’s Up Critical
Several fests including Sundance, SXSW, Tribeca, TIFF, and Athena Film Festival will ensure more women, people of color, and other marginalized communities receive press credentials. According to...
2020 Athena Film Fest to Open with “I Am Woman” and Close with “Rocks”
The Athena Film Festival (AFF) at Barnard College has announced its 2020 program. The 10th annual edition of the fest will kick off with the New York Premiere of “I Am Woman,” Unjoo...
Exclusive: Athena Film Festival Announces Inaugural Breakthrough Award
The Athena Film Festival (AFF) is furthering its mission to empower and support women filmmakers. The fest has announced the inaugural Athena Breakthrough Award, which will recognize a first- or...
Screenwriter Denise Meyers Named Inaugural Winner of the Alfred P. Sloan Athena List Dev Grant
The Athena Film Festival (AFF) has announced that screenwriter Denise Meyers is the inaugural recipient of the Alfred P. Sloan Athena List Development Grant. The $20,000 honor is given to celebrate...
Submit Now: Athena Lab for Women Writers
Attention screenwriters: The Athena Film Festival has opened submissions for its 2020 Lab at the Athena Film Festival at Barnard College. The three-day lab consists of intensive script development...
Submit Now: The Athena Film Festival and The Athena List
The Athena Film Festival is gearing up for its 2020 edition. A four-day celebration of stories about fierce and fearless women leaders, the fest will be marking its 10th anniversary next year, and...
Apply Now: The Lab at Athena Film Festival – LA TV and Screenwriting Labs
The Athena Film Festival at Barnard, in partnership with the Stephens College Master of Fine Arts in Television and Screenwriting and WIST (Women in the Script Trade, formerly IRIS), will once again...
2019 Athena IRIS Screenwriting Lab Participants Announced
The Athena Film Festival has selected this year’s Athena IRIS Screenwriting Lab cohort. Eight women-written projects have made the cut. Their scribes will attend the Lab, a script development...
Athena Film Fest’s 2019 Awardees: Nina Shaw, Desiree Akhavan, & Cameron Bailey
The Athena Film Festival has announced its 2019 awardees. The ninth edition of the fest will honor Time’s Up founding member Nina Shaw, “The Miseducation of Cameron Post”...
Exclusive: Women Take the Lead in Trailer for the 2019 Athena Film Festival
“The key to success is to look into the future and visualize what you want to become,” says Geena Davis in an exclusive new trailer for the 2019 Athena Film Festival. The actress and...
Athena Fest 2019: “Fast Color,” “Knock Down the House,” & More to Screen
If you’re frustrated by awards season’s exclusion of women filmmakers and their stories, or if you’re encouraged by the growing number of film festivals committing to gender parity,...
Submit Your Script to the 2019 Athena IRIS Screenwriting Lab
The Athena IRIS Screenwriting Lab is accepting scripts for its 2019 edition. If you’re a female-identifying writer with a feature-length screenplay centering on at least one woman in a...
Submissions Are Open for the 2019 Athena Film Festival
Attention filmmakers with a short or screenplay depicting a female leader: The Athena Film Festival is now accepting submissions. Co-founded by Women and Hollywood founder and publisher Melissa...
Happy Birthday Women and Hollywood – This is What 6 Looks Like
I can’t believe it but Women and Hollywood is entering its 7th year. (And for the record I got a little bit ahead of myself – it’s our 6th birthday and we are going into our...
There is Still Time to Submit Your Film to the Athena Film Festival
This summer I have had the privilege with working with three amazing young Barnard students — Jo Chiang, Lili Safron and Caroline Moore — who have been helping me find the movies that we...
2014 Athena Film Festival Wants Your Submissions
The 2014 Athena Film Festival (co-founded by our own Melissa Silverstein), hosted at Barnard College, is seeking submissions for next year’s festival scheduled to take place from February...
Cross Post: This Is What Directors Look Like (Or at Least 9% of Them)
I attended the launch of Melissa Silverstein's book, In Her Voice: Women Directors Talking at the Athena Film Festival at Barnard College. This is a collection of interviews with over-40 female...
Cross Post: A Female Tarantino
As a recently decided film major midway through the fall of my sophomore year, I was sitting in the back of 511 Dodge Hall at Columbia University, idly doodling in the minutes before my Script...
Athena Co-Chair Diablo Cody Helps Kicks Off The Athena Film Festival Tonight
As we here at Women and Hollywood gear up for the Athena Film Festival starting tonight at Barnard College, we are so excited and thankful for the press that has been circulating about the festival....
Watch This: New Trailer for Athena Film Festival – February 7-10
Check out the new trailer for the Athena Film Festival (co-founded by our own Melissa Silverstein), hosted at Barnard College, on February 7-10. The new trailer incorporates clips from the films...
New Trailer: Ginger & Rosa – Directed by Sally Potter
Sally Potter's gorgeous Ginger & Rosa was one of my favorite films from last year's AFI Film Festival. A coming of age story, set during the Cold War, best friends Ginger (Elle Fanning)...
Athena Film Festival Announces 2013 Line Up
I am so very proud to be sharing with you the line-up for the 3rd Athena Film Festival, a celebration of women and leadership, which will take place this upcoming February 7-10 on the campus on...
Happy New Year: Here’s the First Teaser Trailer for the 2013 Athena Film Festival
It's coming. The festival begins February 7th. There are still plenty of opportunities to be involved. We still need volunteers. I'm getting excited. The lineup...
Athena Film Festival Needs Volunteers and Women Filmmakers
As we previously reported, The Athena Film Festival (co-founded by our own Melissa Silverstein) is gearing up for its third year. Here’s where you come in! If you are in the New York...
Athena Film Festival Honors Gale Anne Hurd with The Laura Ziskin Lifetime Achievement Award
The third annual Athena Film Festival, co-founded by our own Melissa Silverstein, has announced the recipients for this year’s Athena Film Festival Awards, which honor actors, directors,...