Dee Dee Ricks was living her dream. But after being diagnosed with breast cancer, Ricks trades her hedge-fund career for philanthropy, raising money for a Harlem clinic…
ATHENA 2025
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The 15th Annual Athena Film Festival (AFF) at Barnard College will be back March 6 - 9, 2025. A variety of passes are now on sale, but they won't last. Snag yours today!
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Save the Date: March 6 - 9, 2025
We'll be back for our 15th anniversary film festival next spring! Athena is the premier film festival dedicated to celebrating and advancing a new understanding of what women’s leadership looks like. We are focused on inclusion and representation ON SCREEN. All of our films feature a woman or women protagonist at the center of the story. Screenings are complemented by panels, filmmaker Q&As, and other events that investigate the intersections of gender, power, culture and society.
09 - Jan - 2012
09 - Jan - 2012
In Benavides, Texas, a high school senior in this forgotten town wants something different than the options awaiting her after graduation. She’s earned a ticket out, but…
09 - Jan - 2012
A decorated Marine from a military family discovers she is a lesbian and struggles to readjust to civilian life and must find the courage to face her…
18 - Nov - 2011
The 2nd Annual Athena Film Festival returns to Barnard College February 9 – February 12, 2012.
Festival Co-Chairs: Debra Martin Chase, Jennifer Christman,
Diablo Cody and Mira Nair…
10 - Nov - 2011
Care about women’s leadership? Love great cinema? Information is now available for 2012 Athena Film Festival volunteers. Learn more about joining the Athena Film Festival volunteer team here.
04 - Nov - 2011
The Athena Film Festival, a celebration of women and leadership, held from February 9-12, 2012 at Barnard College in New York today announces a competition for the…
03 - Aug - 2011
15 - Jun - 2011
We are so excited to be able to open up the submissions for the second annual Athena Film festival which will take place on February 9-12, 2012…
14 - May - 2011
The directors, writers, and producers who came to Barnard’s Athena Film Festival February 10-14 have had firsthand experience with the challenges women in the movie industry face—and…
22 - Mar - 2011
Here’s a treat. A 25 minute piece of the Q and A with Debra Granik (writer/director) and Anne Rosselini (writer/producer.) IndieWIRE’s Anne Thompson moderates. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zme9pFs2-nk
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