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The female-focused event, which highlights women s leadership onscreen and in real life, has also revealed its other honorees and additional screenings and panel lineups.
The 11th annual Athena Film Festival has unveiled its 2021 honorees as well as set two more screenings and additional panels for its month-long virtual edition.
The female-focused event this year has also added another grant to its annual awards, launching the Chinonye Chukwu Emerging Writer Award, named for the
The Chukwu award, sponsored by Christine A. Schantz, will be given to a promising feature-length writer who participated in an Athena Film Festival Writers Lab. The winner will receive a $10,000 grant to assist in script development and a year-long writing fellowship with a creative advisor. The inaugural prize will be given to Jane Therese for