The Athena Film Festival has announced the winners and finalists for the 2023 Athena List, the festival’s Black List-inspired selection of unproduced screenplays focused on female leadership.
High-profile projects that were featured on past editions of the Athena List, part of the Barnard-based festival, include Ruth Bader Ginsburg biopic On the Basis of Sex, Chinonye Chukwu’s Clemency and Patricia Clarkson-starrer Lilly about Lilly Ledbetter and her fight for fair pay.
The winners of the 2023 Athena List are Driverless, by Hari Leigh; Going Dutch, by Kate Condé Hamilton; Laylayon, by Nic Yulo; and Scarce, by Mrittika Sarin. The finalists are 72, by Marissa Chibas; Blue Veil, by Shireen Alihaji; The Copeland Case, by Cecilia Copeland; and Requiem for a Glacier, by Stephanie Falkeis.
Driverless focuses on a female robotics engineer who takes a cross-country journey of self-discovery using the company’s driverless car prototype. In Going Dutch, a scientist finds...
High-profile projects that were featured on past editions of the Athena List, part of the Barnard-based festival, include Ruth Bader Ginsburg biopic On the Basis of Sex, Chinonye Chukwu’s Clemency and Patricia Clarkson-starrer Lilly about Lilly Ledbetter and her fight for fair pay.
The winners of the 2023 Athena List are Driverless, by Hari Leigh; Going Dutch, by Kate Condé Hamilton; Laylayon, by Nic Yulo; and Scarce, by Mrittika Sarin. The finalists are 72, by Marissa Chibas; Blue Veil, by Shireen Alihaji; The Copeland Case, by Cecilia Copeland; and Requiem for a Glacier, by Stephanie Falkeis.
Driverless focuses on a female robotics engineer who takes a cross-country journey of self-discovery using the company’s driverless car prototype. In Going Dutch, a scientist finds...
- 2/28/2023
- by Hilary Lewis
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Tribeca Film Institute and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation announced the winners of their 2020 Sloan Student Grand Jury Prize and Sloan Student Discovery Awards on Thursday, which have been awarded to Matthew Jackett for his screenplay “White Coffins” and Zoe Fleer’s “Clamming,” respectively.
The Sloan Student Grand Jury Prize has supported 15 student filmmakers nationwide with more than $450,000 in grants and professional development services since its inception in 2011. The program honors aspiring filmmakers and screenwriters from the six leading film schools supported by the Sloan Foundation and focuses on screenplays with science and technology themes. The Sloan Student Discovery Award offers grants for students from six additional public film schools who write screenplays on similar themes. Up to $20,000 in grant aid will be distributed to the filmmakers along with $20,000 worth of industry and scientific mentoring.
Jackett’s “White Coffins” follows a female health inspector in 1907 New York City as...
The Sloan Student Grand Jury Prize has supported 15 student filmmakers nationwide with more than $450,000 in grants and professional development services since its inception in 2011. The program honors aspiring filmmakers and screenwriters from the six leading film schools supported by the Sloan Foundation and focuses on screenplays with science and technology themes. The Sloan Student Discovery Award offers grants for students from six additional public film schools who write screenplays on similar themes. Up to $20,000 in grant aid will be distributed to the filmmakers along with $20,000 worth of industry and scientific mentoring.
Jackett’s “White Coffins” follows a female health inspector in 1907 New York City as...
- 4/30/2020
- by Mackenzie Nichols
- Variety Film + TV
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