Athena Film Festival
The Athena Film Festival is an annual film festival held at Barnard College of Columbia University in New York City. The festival takes place in February and focuses on films celebrating women and leadership. In addition to showing films, the festival hosts filmmaker workshops, master classes and panels on a variety of topics relevant to women in the film industry.[1] The Athena Film Festival was co-founded by Kathryn Kolbert, Founding Director of the Athena Center for Leadership Studies at Barnard College and Melissa Silverstein, founder of the Women and Hollywood initiative and the festival’s Artistic Director.
The tenth annual Athena Film Festival was held from February 27-March 1, 2020.[2]
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Each year, awards are granted to individuals who have made a significant impact in their industry over the course of their career. In 2012, The Laura Ziskin Lifetime Achievement Award was created in honor of the late Laura Ziskin, a noted producer and breast cancer advocate.[3]
- Leslie Bennetts, contributing editor at Vanity Fair
- Debra Martin Chase, producer
- Abigail Disney, documentary filmmaker
- Delia Ephron, screenwriter
- Greta Gerwig, actress
- Debra Granik, director
- Tanya Hamilton, director
- Chris Hegedus, documentary filmmaker
- Gini Reticker, documentary filmmaker
- Anne Rosellini, screenwriter and producer
- Nancy Schreiber, cinematographer
- Anne Thompson, writer
- Debra Zimmerman, executive director of Women Make Movies
- Laura Ziskin, accepted by her daughter Julia Barry (Laura Ziskin Lifetime Achievement Award)
- Nekisa Cooper, producer
- The Fempire: Diablo Cody, Dana Fox, Liz Meriwether, and Lorene Scafaria
- Rachael Horovitz, producer
- Theresa Rebeck, author and playwright
- Dee Rees, director
- Julie Taymor, film and broadway director
- Gale Anne Hurd, producer (Laura Ziskin Lifetime Achievement Award)
- Ava DuVernay, director and distributor
- Molly Haskell, film critic
- Rose Kuo, (former) executive director of Film Society of Lincoln Center
- Pat Mitchell, president of the Paley Center for Media
- Sherry Lansing, former studio executive and philanthropist (Laura Ziskin Lifetime Achievement Award)
- Callie Khouri, director and screenwriter
- Kasi Lemmons, director
- Keri Putnam, executive director of the Sundance Institute
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