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Athena Film Festival: Igniting Conversation and Sparking Ideas — What Would You Like to Hear?

As we enter our 5th Year, the Athena Film Festival is proud to have offered a history of unique panels, conversations, and standalone events featuring powerful women leaders. To name a few:

In 2011, we highlighted a panel of women documentarians — those filmmakers who have been telling powerful stories of people facing extraordinary hardships to ensure their stories help change minds and find solutions to the problems they highlight.

In 2012, we featured a Hollywood Conversation with Winnie Holzman and her daughter, Savannah Dooley — the first mother-daughter team to create a television show.

In 2013, in conjunction with the Sundance Institute, we presented a panel charged with examining the submissions and selections for the Sundance Film Festival to determine whether gender makes a difference.

In 2014, co-hosted by the Women in Film Foundation, we presented a panel titled Tales from the Trenches — featuring iconic women whose careers are rooted in the myths and legends of filmmaking.

For our 5th Festival, we’d like to open up suggestions to the public. What kinds of panels would you like to see featured? Topics…panelists…highlights — what it is important to you and what do you feel is important to the advocacy of women’s leadership in film?

Please fill out a form to send your suggestions at the Athena Film Festival website.

This post originally appeared on the Athena Film Festival site. (Full Disclosure: Women and Hollywood’s Melissa Silverstein is the co-founder and Artistic Director of the Athena Film)


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