The 2023 Athena Movie Pageant is about to open with a screening of Chinonye Chukwu’s acclaimed Until and shut with the New York premiere of the well timed Sundance choice Plan C.
The screening of Until, about how Emmett Until’s mom remodeled her grief right into a motion for justice, is simply the most recent in Chukwu’s historical past with the Barnard Faculty competition centered on feminine management.
Her first movie, Clemency, was on Athena’s Black Record-inspired collection of greatest unproduced screenplays. That movie additionally screened on the 2020 competition. And Athena launched the Chinonye Chukwu Rising Author Award in 2021.
And the Until screening comes after the acclaimed movie surprisingly missed out on Oscar nominations together with for star Danielle Deadwyler’s celebrated efficiency as Mamie Until-Mobley.
The competition will shut with the New York premiere of Plan C, Tracy Droz Tragos’ documentary Plan C, a few grassroots community preventing to broaden entry to abortion capsules throughout america. Plan C had its world premiere on the 2023 Sundance Movie Pageant.
On Sunday, March 5, the competition will shut with the New York premiere of Tracy Droz Tragos’ well timed call-to-action movie, PLAN C. The movie facilities round a grassroots community preventing to broaden entry to abortion capsules throughout america, protecting hope alive throughout a world pandemic and the autumn of Roe v. Wade. The movie had its World Premiere at Sundance.
“We sit up for bringing Chinonye Chukwu’s work again to the competition together with her latest function, Until, to open the thirteenth version. From Clemency being on the Athena Record, to an award in her identify, it has been a real delight watching Chinonye soar,” Melissa Silverstein, Athena Pageant co-founder and inventive director and founding father of Girls and Hollywood, mentioned in an announcement. “Until is such an impactful and necessary movie that I feel is essential for all audiences to see. We’re additionally thrilled to be closing our competition with PLAN C, a movie that might not be extra crucial in right this moment’s local weather. Moreover, our Artistic Improvement Program is rising and we’re proud to announce $65,000 going to this 12 months’s awardees.”
The competition has additionally added the movies Blueback, Underneath G-D and Black Moms Love & Resist. The competition can be honoring filmmaker Débora Souza Silva with the competition’s breakthrough award. And Chukwu’s namesake award will likely be given to Kristen A. Golden for AWE.
The 2023 Athena Movie Pageant, a joint partnership between Barnard’s Athena Middle for Management and the initiative Girls and Hollywood, is about to run from March 2-5 at Barnard.
