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…
Associate Dayna Hagewood
Associate Dayna Hagewood graduated from Rutgers University in 2019 with a degree in English and Cinema Studies and a certificate in Creative Writing. She graduated with Honors and completed a creative writing thesis entitled "The Many Sounds of Dis(Content)" that was awarded a Henry Rutgers Scholar Award. As a writer and self-proclaimed cinephile, she believes…