As a disclaimer, this was my first Athena Film Festival. I have worked at a local film festival in New Jersey for the past three years, so I thought I knew what I was signed up for. I had no idea that there would be such a powerful sense of community surrounding the wonderful program…
Author: Dayna Hagewood
Roberta Grossman debuts 'Who Will Write Our History' at Lincoln Center
When director and filmmaker Roberta Grossman read Professor Samuel Kassow’s book Who Will Write Our History, she was fascinated, horrified and outraged that such a powerful and poignant story had received less media attention than other prominent histories of the Holocaust. She was inspired to turn Kassow's book into a blended documentary that captures the…
Intern Dayna Hagewood
Dayna is currently studying English and Cinema at Rutgers University, with a concentration in Creative Writing. Though she previously wanted to be a novelist, her recent discovery of film as an academic discipline has changed her goals and intentions. She believes that writing and filmmaking are incredibly closely related, and she is interested in the…