A Celebration of Women and Leadership

Heading toward its fourth year, the Athena Film Festival -- a celebration of women and leadership -- is an engaging weekend of feature films, documentaries and shorts that highlight women’s leadership in real life and the fictional world. The four-day festival, which includes conversations with directors and Hollywood stars and workshops for filmmakers, has quickly established itself as one of the most prestigious festivals of its kind. The festival will be held Feb. 6 - 9, 2014 in the heart of New York -- at Barnard, the most sought-after women’s college in the nation.

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Submissions Open on June 15 for 2014 Athena Film Festival

Films have power. They create conversation. They reveal truths. They inspire. But for far too long, Hollywood has told only half the story: what is missing are the stories of women as change agents and heroes in their own right.…

    Invisible War to Air on PBS Tonight

    The Oscar nominated documentary The Invisible War airs premieres tonight at 10pm PBS stations across the country.

    Here is the film’s executive producer and Athena Film Festival founding sponsor, Regina Kulik Scully talk about this mass epidemic of sexual abuse …

      2014 Submission Period to Open June 15

      The Athena Film Festival will again be accepting submissions from June 15-September 15.

      More details to follow.…

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        London, 1962. Two teenage girls – Ginger and Rosa — are inseparable; they play truant together, discuss religion, politics and hairstyles, and dream of lives bigger than their mothers’ frustrated domesticity. But, as the Cold War meets the sexual revolution, and the threat of nuclear holocaust escalates, the lifelong friendship of the two girls is shattered – by the clash of desire and the determination to survive.

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