Winners feature mobsters, motorcycle riders and Marie Curie
Did you likeMad Max: Fury Roadlast year?
How about the tortured love story ofCarol?
All three of these films have one thing in common female protagonists.
In the three years of the lost, the festival is still waiting for its one big Athena breakthough.
Yet there still is progress.
Women actors have few parts and fewer lines in films than men.
Women over 40 work less in all the guilds.
Im on the diversity committee at the WGA and its bad.
The Athena Festival is trying to do its part to change this situation.
Whittling the finalists down to four winners was grueling.
The Athena List is our intervention.
Women screenwriters are 10 percent of the writers and we need more stories.
Weve got to have someone pushing the scripts out there.
Take a look at this years winners.
Hopefully, they will be hitting a theater near you soon.
Talent agency UTA is packaging the film, according to the Athena List.
Shohreh Aghdasloo (The House of Sand and Fog, 24) is attached to star.
Robert Shapiro (Empire of the Sun) is attached to produce.
She is the 2016 Cassian Elwes Independent Screenwriting Fellow.
Britta Lundinis an award-winning writer and director based in Los Angeles.
The Athena Film Festival runs Feb. 18-21 at Barnard College in New York.
