Gearing up for its stay and digital launch tomorrow, March 11, the 2022 version of Athena Movie Pageant (AFF) has unveiled its awardees and grant recipients. Ida Rodriguez Joglar, Kelsie Mason Ramos, and Nic Yulo are amongst these being honored on the annual celebration of ladies leaders in movie. In accordance with a press launch, AFF is presenting a complete of $65,000 to assist ladies and non-binary artists at numerous phases of the screenwriting and filmmaking processes.
Joglar obtained the Athena Breakthrough Award for “Kili Massive,” her function debut, a documentary following a gaggle of plus-sized ladies climbing Mount Kilimanjaro. Given to a feature-length movie directed by a first- or second-time feminine filmmaker that hasn’t obtained U.S. distribution, the consideration comes with a $25,000 grant to assist advance the undertaking.
This marks the third consecutive yr the Breakthrough Award has been offered to a girl of coloration. “We all know that ladies of coloration are nonetheless extraordinarily underrepresented behind the digital camera within the movie business,” mentioned Melissa Silverstein, Athena Creative Director/Co-Founder and Founder/Writer of Ladies and Hollywood. “The Breakthrough Award is a method we’re contributing to bolstering the pipeline of numerous filmmakers engaged on women-centric tales.”
“This being my first function movie, I don’t assume I dared dream of receiving this form of recognition,” Joglar acknowledged. “I’ve discovered a lot about breaking by the limitations of judgment, of stereotypes and self-doubt, from the ladies on this movie. I’m eternally grateful and honored that they trusted me to inform their story. Thanks Athena Movie Pageant for this honor and for offering a platform that helps and lifts up ladies’s voices and their tales.”
Ramos and Yulo — each Athena Screenwriting Lab alumnae — are the winners of the Chinonye Chukwu Rising Author Award. They’ll every obtain a $10,000 grant to develop their feature-length scripts. Ramos’ “Guide of Genevieve” is the story of a younger girl torn between her Catholic religion and the will to seek out an accepting queer group. Yulo’s “Laylayon” sees a retired nurse preventing to save lots of her American-born household from a curse once they relocate to their ancestral residence of the Philippines.
The competition additionally introduced the titles chosen for the Athena Record, an annual competitors recognizing unproduced scripts centering ladies leaders. They’re Aunjanue Ellis’ “Sunflower: The Fannie Lou Hamer Story”; Jennifer Vanderbes’ historic drama about Frances Kelsey, the FDA medical reviewer who fought to get thalidomide taken off the market, “The Gatekeeper”; and Kate Sheffield’s “Ray of Life,” which traces environmentalist Rachel Carson’s public work, and her personal relationship with a married girl.
AFF 2022 can be held in-person March 11-13 at Barnard Faculty in New York Metropolis and nearly March 11-20. Mariama Diallo’s “Grasp,” Tia Lessin and Emma Pildes’ “The Janes,” and a twentieth anniversary screening of Patricia Cardoso’s “Actual Ladies Have Curves” are among the many choices.
Try all of the 2022 Athena honorees beneath, together with the small print on their initiatives, courtesy of AFF.
ATHENA BREAKTHROUGH AWARD
“Kili Massive,” by Ida Rodriguez Joglar
Hovering pure magnificence, friendship amongst intergenerational ladies from completely different walks of life, journey, discovery… Be part of this unforgettable group of plus-sized ladies from world wide as they trek to the summit of Mt. Kilimanjaro. Full of suspense and depth, this emotional journey will depart you breathless. Some goals do come true.
THE CHINONYE CHUKWU EMERGING WRITERS AWARDEES
“Guide of Genevieve,” by Kelsie Mason Ramos
Desperate to stay a life exterior of her Catholic upbringing, a younger girl quickly realizes as a way to discover her dream queer group, she must depart the one world she’s ever identified behind.
“Laylayon,” by Nic Yulo
When a practical retired nurse is compelled to relocate her American-born household to her ancestral residence in a cursed village buried deep inside the Philippine jungle, she discovers that she should face the ghosts of her previous or threat dropping her kids eternally.
ATHENA LIST WINNERS & FINALISTS
WINNERS
“Sunflower: The Fannie Lou Hamer Story,” by Aunjanue Ellis
Fannie Lou Hamer, a sharecropper, within the Nineteen Sixties in a Mississippi that led the nation in recorded lynchings, single-handedly modified the Democratic Social gathering from being a haven and incubator for Klansmen and Confederates to being the get together of Barack Obama and Kamala Harris. Earlier than Stacey Abrams, there was a brief, stocky, gold-toothed girl from Ruleville, Mississippi named Fannie Lou Hamer.
“The Gatekeeper,” by Jennifer Vanderbes
A historic drama primarily based on the story of Frances Kelsey – the FDA medical reviewer who within the early Nineteen Sixties fought a significant pharmaceutical agency to maintain the drug thalidomide off the American market. This script is predicated by myself non-fiction e book, The Gatekeeper, to be printed by Random Home in 2022.
“Ray of Life,” by Kate Sheffield
When author/biologist Rachel Carson’s love of nature brings her literary success, she finds love with a married girl. Whereas hiding this unspeakable reality in postwar America, she takes on the army industrial complicated by alerting the world to its poisons by her e book, Silent Spring, seeding the
environmental motion. As she fights this public battle to save lots of lives, few know of the personal one she should endure to save lots of her personal.
FINALISTS
“The Language of Wolves,” by Nan Schmid
A feminine reporter inherits a fallen comrade’s canine. When she takes the canine on a woodsy cabin getaway, she discovers a resort permitting trophy killing and struggles to reveal it. Then the proprietor takes intention at her, the canine and a pair of newly deserted wolf pups.
“PLAÇAGE,” by G. Michelle Robinson
A single-minded, bi-racial girl rejects her lifetime of privilege in 1820s New Orleans, to spark journey and goal within the burgeoning Missouri territories, however finds The Mississippi simpler to navigate than the racial divide of the West.
“Grownup Bat Mitzvah,” by Rachel McKay Steele
Rose, a struggling publish faculty comic/private assistant is heckled throughout her comedy routine. Along with her Judaism questioned – Rose shockingly proclaims she is the actual deal and she or he WILL have an grownup Bat Mitzvah! Attributable to an exhaustive work schedule, the one Bat Mitzvah class Rose can attend is stuffed with a raucous group of seventh graders. As she kinds a bond with one of many pre-teens, Rose realizes her classmates aren’t the one ones with some rising as much as do. Primarily based on a real expertise, ADULT BAT MITZVAH is a romantic comedy about Judaism, and spoiler alert, Judaism will get the lady!
“Tidal Disruption,” by Kiran Deol
Audrey is a quiet, nail-biting overachieving perfectionist and first yr graduate scholar, within the cutthroat, male dominated world of astronomy. She attends Rose Tech, a premier STEM science establishment and lands a coveted place on the analysis group of the charming, charismatic, and Nationwide Science Award profitable famous person professor, Richard Crane. He provides a singular and thrilling alternative – to function Audrey’s advisor for her submission to the Stellar Astronomy and Astrophysics Convention (SAAC) – a spot that makes and breaks careers. However as time goes on, a push-pull power between Crane and Audrey begins. Is it chemistry? Camaraderie? Undesirable advances? Or is Audrey only a socially anxious introvert who misreads and exaggerates social cues?
ALFRED P. SLOAN FOUNDATION WOMEN IN SCIENCE DEVELOPMENT FUND
“Imaginative and prescient,” by Jane Barr
The superb true story of Dr. Patricia Bathtub inventing the Laserphaco probe, a tool which removes cataracts, curing blindness for hundreds of thousands of individuals world wide.
“The Inventrix: Margaret Knight Biopic,” by Michael Ann Dobbs
Primarily based on the true story/occasions of Margaret Knight’s 1870 patent trial to show Charles Annan stole her design for the automated paper bag making machine.
ALFRED P. SLOAN FELLOWS FOR THE 2022 ATHENA FILM FESTIVAL VIRTUAL WRITERS LAB
“Certain by Ice,” by Nancy Kates
Primarily based on a real story, Certain by Ice is a function dramatic thriller set in 1959-60, pitting Lucy Bledsoe, a gutsy lesbian scientist, towards McCarthy-era authorities brokers. When she stumbles on a misguided nuclear plan with dire environmental penalties, Lucy is compelled to decide on between her job, her forbidden love, and the reality, nevertheless inconceivable.
“Scarce,” by Mrittika ‘Mou’ Sarin
After discovering that the water provide of an underprivileged group has been stolen, a cynical software program engineer fights to proper this injustice — even because it attracts her into battle together with her idealistic son.
Supply: Women And Hollywood