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Festival to Honor Rachel Caccese with the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Athena List Development Grant, Sarah Goher with the Breakthrough Award in Partnership with Netflix, Sara Khaki and Mohammadreza Eyni, co-directors of Academy Award-nominated Cutting Through Rocks, to attend Festival and receive the Jaya Award in partnership with the Illumine Servi

The Festival opens with State of Firsts, a powerful story documenting Sarah McBride’s historic rise to become the first trans member of Congress Our Centerpiece Film is Academy Award nominated documentary, Cutting Through Rocks, the true story of the first elected Councilwoman in her Iranian village fighting the patriarchy Closing film will be Ask

ATHENA FILM FESTIVAL AT BARNARD COLLEGE PREVIEWS 2026 PROGRAMMING WITH REVEAL OF SHORTS LINEUP FOR 16TH ANNUAL SHOWCASE Taking Place March 6 – 8, 2026, Passes for the Athena Film Festival are Now Available for Limited-Time Holiday Sale Through December 31 NEW YORK (December 16, 2025) – The Athena Film Festival (AFF) at Barnard College today announc

The Athena Film Festival (AFF) at Barnard College today announced the short film lineup as a sneak peek into the 2025 edition’s programming. Click here to read the full release.

On October 2, the Athena Film Festival launched submissions for the Abortion Pipeline Project (APP), a new fund to celebrate and support abortion stories. APP is an annual screenplay competition for feature-length and short narrative film scripts which center abortion.

The Athena Film Festival is thrilled to announce Sarah Granger as the recipient of the inaugural Loreen Arbus Foundation Fellowship, an important new initiative to support writers with disabilities. Click here to read the full article.

ATHENA FILM FESTIVAL AT BARNARD COLLEGE ANNOUNCES THIRD RECIPIENT OF ALFRED P. SLOAN DEVELOPMENT GRANT NEW YORK, NY (November 18, 2022) – The Athena Film Festival at Barnard College (AFF), a joint collaboration between Barnard College’s Athena Center for Leadership and the initiative Women and Hollywood, has announced Jennifer Vanderbes as the thir

Hello Friends, We are delighted to announce that in 2023 the Athena Film Festival will be back in full force, in-person, for our 13th annual festival – coming to you live from the Barnard College campus March 2 – 5, 2023! Join us for a weekend of celebration, inspiration and activation!

Grant To Support Aspiring Women and Non-Binary Filmmakers NEW YORK (July 19, 2022) — As part of its mission to empower and support women and non-binary filmmakers, The Athena Film Festival at Barnard College (AFF), a joint program of Barnard’s Athena Center for Leadership and the initiative Women and Hollywood, announced today a new grant with Disn

In 2022, the Athena Film Festival Writers Lab will be back in person, March 14-16, on the Barnard campus in Morningside Heights. Traditionally focused on writers for film, this year we’ve expanded our New York lab to include spots for television writers as well The Writers Lab provides women and non-binary storytellers with creative feedback, pitch