Athena Film Festival: February 18–21, 2016, Barnard College, New York City

For those of you in the New York City area, be sure to check out the 6th Annual Athena Film Festival which runs February 18–21, 2016 at Barnard College. There will be many great movies screening including features, documentaries, and shorts, as well as panels, workshops, and special events.

The Black List will be there and I will be part of it for two activities:

* On Thursday, February 18 from 2–4PM, I will be doing a presentation at Barnard: “Using five archetypes — Protagonist, Nemesis, Attractor, Mentor, Trickster — we will analyze several female-centric movies including The Wizard of Oz, The Silence of the Lambs, Juno, Bridesmaids, and Mad Max: Fury Road to learn the fundamentals of Character Based Screenwriting.

* On Thursday and Friday, I will be a mentor along with Darci Picoult, Jane Grillo, and Deborah Kampmeier for the Athena Film Festival Black List Screenwriters Mini-Lab in which we will work with four talented women writers whose scripts were selected from numerous entrants. In addition to one-on-one mentor meetings and workshop sessions which I will lead, participants will attend special screenings, social events, and the festival’s awards gala.

For more information on the Athena Film Festival, go here.