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

Athena Film Festival

Athena Film Festival

March 2 - 5, 2023

  • About Us
    • Mission & Vision
    • Athena Code of Conduct
    • Founders
    • Team
    • Commitment to Inclusion
    • Accessibility
    • Land Acknowledgment
    • Photo Galleries
    • Press Inquiries
  • Support
    • 2022 Sponsors
    • 2022 Organizational Partners
    • Become A Sponsor
  • Submit
    • Submit Your Short
    • Submit Your Script
  • Program
    • 2022 Film Guide
    • Archive
  • 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
  • Creative Development
    • Creative Development Program
    • The Athena List
    • Writers Labs
    • Works In Progress Program
    • Women & STEM

While I Yet Live

Glicker-Milstein Theatre

  • Director: Maris Curran
  • Type: Shorts
  • Year: 2019
  • Language: English
  • Length: 14 min
  • Screening: Mar 2 03:00 PM

Acclaimed quilters from Gee’s Bend, Alabama, talk about love, religion, and the fight for civil rights as they continue the tradition that brought them together.

Director’s Bio: Maris Curran is a Bay Area filmmaker. Her recent short, Margarita, premiered internationally at the Huesca International Film Festival in Spain and in the US at the HBO NY Latino Film Festival. Her first feature, Five Nights in Maine, participated in IFP’s International Co-production Market. She was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship, was selected for the Cine Qua Non Writers Lab in Mexico and has twice been a finalist for the Sundance Screenwriter’s Lab. She graduated from Smith College, the Whitney Independent Study Program and the Art Institute of Chicago, where she received a Princess Grace Award for her thesis film.

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