• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to footer

Athena Film Festival

Athena Film Festival

March 2021

  • About Us
    • Mission & Vision
    • Plans for 2021
    • Athena Code of Conduct
    • Founders
    • Team
    • Commitment to Inclusion
    • Accessibility
    • Land Acknowledgment
    • Photo Galleries
    • Press Inquiries
  • Support
    • Sponsors
    • Organizational Partners
    • Become A Sponsor
  • Submit
    • Submit Your Short
    • Submit to The Athena List
  • Program
    • Schedule
    • 2021 Program Areas
    • Panels and Conversations
    • Live Events and Q&As
    • Films & Events
  • Parity Pipeline
    • About the Parity Pipeline
    • The Athena List
    • Screenwriting Labs
    • Works In Progress Program
    • Women & STEM
  • Awards
    • Athena Awards
    • Alfred P. Sloan Athena List Development Grant
    • The Chinonye Chukwu Emerging Writer Award
    • Breakthrough Award
    • Athena List
    • Laura Ziskin Lifetime Achievement Award
    • Athena Leading Man Award
    • Athena Ad Awards

Jasad & the Queen of Contradictions

  • Director: Amanda Homsi-Ottosson
  • Type: Shorts
  • Year: 2013
  • Language: English and Arabic with English subtitles
  • Length: 36 minutes

Meet the Lebanese poet and writer Joumana Haddad, the passionate woman behind Jasad (the Body), an erotic Arabic-language magazine. Controversial not only for its erotic articles and essays on sex in Arabic but also for the fact that an Arab woman is behind it all, Jasad has created both obstacles and challenges for its courageous Editor-in-Chief.

Footer

  • Home
  • Press
  • Become A Sponsor
  • Getting Here
  • Contact
  • Submit
  • Sitemap

Founding Organizations

Women and Hollywood
Athena Center for Leadership Studies

Founding Sponsor

Twitter Facebook YouTube Instagram

©2020 Athena Film Festival