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Nina Shaw, a founder of Time’s Up, will be honored at the 2019 Athena Film Festival, along with actress Desiree Akhavan and Cameron Bailey of Toronto International Film Festival.

Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker Barbara Kopple, BAFTA winning writer and director Amma Asante and cabaret artist and actress Bridget Everett will be honored at 2018 Athena Film Festival.

Eve Ensler, Patricia Riggen, Regina K. Scully and David Oyelowo will be honored at the 2017 Athena Film Festival (AFF), set to run February 9 to 12, 2017, at Barnard College in New York City.  

Amazon Studios will sponsor the Athena Film Festival (AFF)’s 2017 Athena List, an annual slate of 3-5 screenplays that have yet to be produced and that showcase female leadership or strong female protagonists.  

The fifth annual Athena Film Festival will return to Barnard’s campus in Morningside Heights, New York City, from February 5 – 8, 2015. The festival highlights films that showcase women’s leadership in real life and the fictional world. 

This year, the festival will will honor Sheila Nevins, President of HBO Documentary Films, Gina Prince-Bythewood, director, writer and producer behind films such as Love & Basketball, TheSecret Life of Bees and Beyond the Lights, and Cathy Schulman, Academy Award-winning producer, President of Mandalay Pictures, and President of Women in Film, known for films including Crash, The Illusionist, Darfur Now and Bernie,with the Athena Film Festival Awards, which honor actors, directors, producers and other members of the film industry for their leadership and creative accomplishments.

GERALDINE FERRARO: PAVING THE WAY

The 2014 Athena Film Festival which honors “extraordinary women in the film industry and showcases films that address women’s leadership in real life and the fictional world” announced its lineup of narrative, documentary and short films.  Now in its fourth year, the festival runs from Thursday, February 6 through Sunday, February 9 on the Barnard College campus in Morningside Heights, Manhattan, New York City.  The New York Premiere of BELLE, starring Gugu Mbatha-Raw and directed by Amma Asante, is the Athena Film Festival’s Opening Film, DECODING ANNIE PARKER, starring Helen Hunt and Samantha Morton and directed by Steven Bernstein, is the festival’s Centerpiece Film, and GERALDINE FERRARO: PAVING THE WAY, directed by her daughter, Donna Zaccaro, is the festival’s Closing Film.

The Athena Film Festival, that highlights women’s leadership, will return for the 4th edition on Barnard’s campus in Morningside Heights, New York City from February 6 to 9, 2014. Philanthropist Sherry Lansing, former Chair and CEO of Paramount Pictures and former President of 20th Century Fox will be honored as one this year’s recipients of the Athena Film Festival Awards, which honor noted actors, directors, producers and other members of the film industry for their leadership and creative accomplishments. Sherry Lansing will receive The Laura Ziskin Lifetime Achievement Award. Additional awardees include Keri Putnam, Executive Director of the Sundance Institute, Callie Khouri, Academy Award winning screenwriter of Thelma and Louise, and creator of the series Nashville, and Kasi Lemmons, actress, director and writer of the current film Black Nativity as well as Talk to Me, Eve’s Bayou and The Caveman’s Valentine.