随着世界的变化 迅速地围绕着我们, the 12th annual Athena Film Festival, co-founded by Barnard’s Athena Center and Women and Hollywood, leaned into both tradition and innovation: This year’s 10-day festival, 在3月11日开球, 递交了它的签名, woman-centered storytelling in an all-new hybrid format. This approach allowed attendees to gather in person at the College or watch online, providing access to feature-length films, 短裤, 小组讨论.
“It was great to gather again with our students, 女校友, 电影制作人, 赞助商, 和支持者, and we are so pleased that our virtual platform allowed us to connect with viewers from across the country,Umbreen Bhatti说, Constance Hess Williams ’66 Director of the Athena Center.
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Opening-night audiences were entertained by 主, starring Regina Hall, Zoe Renee, and Amber Gray. Writer-director Mariama Diallo’s film follows three women as they attempt to fit in at a prestigious New England university that is haunted not only by its racist and classist traditions but by something more sinister and perhaps supernatural.
这部纪录片 基利大 earned director Ida Joglar this year’s Breakthrough Award, an honor given in partnership with Netflix to a first- or second-time woman director whose film does not yet have U.S. 分布. 基利大 is the story of a group of women overcoming a mountainous challenge: a trek to the summit of Mt. 乞力马扎罗.
标记U.S. 首映,我da Lupino: Gentlemen and Miss Lupino, directed by Clara Kuperberg and Julia Kuperberg, is about real-life filmmaker Ida Lupino, who was the only female director in 1940s Hollywood, as well as the only woman in the Directors Guild.
首次亮相的阿尔弗雷德P. Sloan STEM Showcase film, the documentary 曝光, 霍莉·莫里斯导演, follows 10 novice women explorers from the Arab world and the West, led by veteran explorer Felicity Aston, on their expedition to the North Pole.
通过数字
35
films screened during this year’s Athena Film Festival
40%
of this year’s directors identify as women of color
90%
of this year’s 电影制作人 identify as women or nonbinary
450+
films screened at the festival since its founding
$145K
distributed to 电影制作人 working on women-centric scripts since 2020
13
of this year’s films are New York premieres
