Highlights from the 2018 Athena Film Festival

People filled New York’s Barnard College’s basement theater to its seams this weekend, attending films and events celebrating female activists and filmmakers. With special events featuring speakers like Gloria Steinem, Billie Jean King and former prime minister of New Zealand…

Preview: The 8th Annual Athena Film Festival

Now more than ever, we’re seeing more minorities in fields that were once inaccessible– save for a select few who broke barriers. With politics, sports, education and more all changing, it only seems natural that the filmmaking industry is among…

Movie Review: A United Kingdom

No matter in what form films having to deal with social issues like racism, sexism and other forms of inequality appear, their societal importance will always be a redeeming factor. I’ve always felt that film is a powerful form of…

The first trailer for A United Kingdom is here and it’s stunning

  Is this going to the film that provides justice for David Oyelowo losing out on an Oscar nomination for his towering performance in Selma? One can only hope as he manages to impress and inspire in the trailer alone for…

#52FilmsByWomen: Join the Project!

Just in case you haven’t already heard about it, there’s a project currently taking place on Twitter called #52FilmsByWomen where you  pledge to watch one film a week directed by a woman. That’s not too tough of a challenge in a media landscape where…