The Athena Film Festival is an annual film festival held at Barnard College of Columbia University in New York City. The festival takes place in February and focuses on films celebrating women and leadership. In addition to showing films, the festival hosts filmmaker workshops, master classes and panels on a variety of topics relevant to women in the film industry. The Athena Film Festival was co-founded by Kathryn Kolbert, Founding Director of the Athena Center for Leadership Studies at Barnard College and Melissa Silverstein, founder of the Women and Hollywood initiative and the festival's Artistic Director.
The tenth annual Athena Film Festival was held from February 27-March 1, 2020.
Awards
Each year, awards are granted to individuals who have made a significant impact in their industry over the course of their career. In 2012, The Laura Ziskin Lifetime Achievement Award was created in honor of the late Laura Ziskin, a noted producer and breast cancer advocate.
Winners
2011
- Leslie Bennetts, contributing editor at Vanity Fair
- Debra Martin Chase, producer
- Abigail Disney, documentary filmmaker
- Delia Ephron, screenwriter
- Greta Gerwig, actress
- Debra Granik, director
- Tanya Hamilton, director
- Chris Hegedus, documentary filmmaker
- Gini Reticker, documentary filmmaker
- Anne Rosellini, screenwriter and producer
- Nancy Schreiber, cinematographer
- Anne Thompson, writer
- Debra Zimmerman, executive director of Women Make Movies
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
Athena List
In 2014, the festival announced the first edition of the Athena List, created to highlight finished, unproduced screenplays featuring roles with female leaders. The list is based on the concept of the popular Hollywood Black List, with a gender-conscious angle.
Selected scripts
2014
2015
2016
- "A Noble Affair" by Anil Baral and Kathryn Maughan
- "In the Land of Fire and Ice" by David MacGregor
- "Ride the Wind" by Denise Meyers
- "Virginia" by Bess Wohl
2017
- "Claude" by Hannah Patterson
- "Clemency" by Chinonye Chukwu
- "Mrs. Christie" by Jamie Dawson
- "Scott" by Anna Rose Moore
2018
- True North by Katherine Ruppe
- Throw Like A Girl By Lori Bell Leahy
- Saving Esperanza by Betty Sullivan
- WHITE by A. Sayeeda Moreno
2019
- Hedy by Giovanni Porta
- Out of My Mind by Daniel Stiepleman
- Roe v. Wade by Jennifer Majka
- The Defining Moment by Margaret Nagle
2020
- Auto High by Nina Kentsis
- Good Chance [Formerly Mother-Daughter] by Tricia Lee
- Noor By Nijla MuâÂÂmin
- Over It by Joy Goodwin
- What the Eyes DonâÂÂt See by Cherien Dabis
2022
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