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Athena Film Festival

Athena Film Festival

February 29 - March 3, 2024

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2017

Contract Landmines: How to Navigate and Negotiate the Legal Side of Filmmaking

Attorney Nicole Page will help guide participants through the legal landscape of filmmaking, including when to engage counsel and how to “decode” legal contracts related to filmmaking and the industry.

Custody

Featuring an all-star cast, including Catalina Sandino Moreno, Hayden Panettiere and Viola Davis, Custody takes an in-depth look at the systemic problems in the NYC child welfare system.

Dangerous Curves

What is confidence, really? On stage, online, and in everyday life, plus-sized pole dancer Roslyn Mays uncovers vulnerability and strength through public exposure.

Denial

This historical drama recounts the story of professor Deborah E. Lipstadt, played by Academy Award winner, Rachel Weisz, and her battle for historical truth with historian and Holocaust denier, David Irving.

Dolores {Closing Night Film, New York Premiere}

Feminist union organizer Dolores Huerta worked side-by-side with Caesar Chavez during their decades-long fight for worker’s rights, but she’s been all but erased from most historic accounts of the effort.

Female Gaze — Is There A Female Narrative?

When most all films are made from the white male perspective, it not only reinforces that perspective, it also reinforces the invisibility of other perspectives. What does this systemic problem mean for the stories we tell and for the stories we are told?

Girl Unbound

At only 25, Maria Toorpakai Wazir is an internationally-celebrated squash player, but in her home country of Pakistan, she faces opposition for her rejection of customary gender roles and refusal to conform to tradition.

Hidden Figures

The incredible untold story of Katherine G. Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson – brilliant African-American women working at NASA, who served as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in history.

I, Destini

Destini Riley co-directs an animated documentary looking at the separate experiences of her family members in the wake of her brother’s incarceration.

In Between (Bar Bahar)

Three Palestinian women sharing an apartment in the vibrant heart of Tel Aviv find themselves doing the same balancing act between tradition and modernity, citizenship and culture, fealty and freedom.

Indie Film Financing

Film financing is widely acknowledged as one of the most challenging aspects of the filmmaking process. This session will provide useful tips and strategies to find and pitch to investors and market your film for success.

Keepers of the Game

At Salmon River High in Fort Covington, NY, an all-Native American girls lacrosse team seeks to bring home a championship, but first they must fight to blaze a new path for the next generation of Native American women.

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