{"id":74757,"date":"2023-02-28T23:38:17","date_gmt":"2023-02-28T23:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/28\/athena-film-festival-unveils-winners-and-finalists-for-the-athena-list\/"},"modified":"2023-02-28T23:38:21","modified_gmt":"2023-02-28T23:38:21","slug":"athena-film-festival-unveils-winners-and-finalists-for-the-athena-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/28\/athena-film-festival-unveils-winners-and-finalists-for-the-athena-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Athena Film Festival Unveils Winners and Finalists for the Athena List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The Athena Film Festival (AFF)\u00a0 has introduced the winners and finalists for the 2023 Athena List, the fest\u2019s number of the very best unproduced screenplays highlighting feminine management.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe winners of the 2023 Athena List are \u2018Driverless,\u2019 by Hari Leigh; \u2018Going Dutch,\u2019 by Kate Cond\u00e9 Hamilton; \u2018Laylayon,\u2019 by Nic Yulo; and \u2018Scarce,\u2019 by Mrittika Sarin. The finalists are \u201972,\u2019 by Marissa Chibas; \u2018Blue Veil,\u2019 by Shireen Alihaji; \u2018The Copeland Case,\u2019 by Cecilia Copeland; and \u2018Requiem for a Glacier,\u2019 by Stephanie Falkeis,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/2023-athena-list-winners-finalists-1235336028\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">per The Hollywood Reporter.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cDriverless\u201d follows a robotics engineer on a cross-country journey. \u201cGoing Dutch\u201d tells the story of a scientist concerned with Amsterdam\u2019s wealthiest bachelor. \u201cScarce\u201d is a portrait software program engineer making an attempt to get justice for an underprivileged group. \u201cLaylayon\u201d sees an immigrant mom returning to her ancestral dwelling within the Philippine jungle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFinalist \u201972\u2019 centers around a Cuban refugee and her teenage daughter\u2019s secret on New Year\u2019s Eve in New York, 1972,\u201d per the supply. \u201c\u2018The Copeland Case,\u2019 based on the true story of the Copeland kidnappings, follows a woman\u2019s fight in the U.S. and Israel to get back her children. \u2018Blue Veil\u2019 follows a Muslim teenager as she grapples with her identity amid new exposure in a post-9\/11 world. And \u2018Requiem for a Glacier,\u2019 based on a short film, follows a glaciologist who visits her estranged home in a remote village in the Alps and confronts her past while challenged by her activist mother over a local glacier that could become a ski resort.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Now in its thirteenth version, the AFF will happen from March 2-5 on Barnard\u2019s campus. <a href=\"https:\/\/womenandhollywood.com\/athena-film-fest-to-open-with-chinonye-chukwus-till-close-with-tracy-droz-tragos-plan-c\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chinonye Chukwu\u2019s \u201cTill\u201d is ready to open the fest.\u00a0<\/a>You can discover extra details about AFF and buy tickets <a href=\"https:\/\/athenafilmfestival.com\/#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">through the fest\u2019s web site.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Melissa Silverstein, Women and Hollywood\u2019s Founder and Publisher, is Co-Founder and Artistic Director of AFF.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] The Athena Film Festival (AFF)\u00a0 has introduced the winners and finalists for the 2023 Athena List, the fest\u2019s number of the very best unproduced screenplays highlighting feminine management. \u201cThe winners of the 2023 Athena List are \u2018Driverless,\u2019 by Hari Leigh; \u2018Going Dutch,\u2019 by Kate Cond\u00e9 Hamilton; \u2018Laylayon,\u2019 by Nic Yulo; and \u2018Scarce,\u2019 by Mrittika [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":74759,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-74757","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hollywood"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}