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Athena Film Fest Launches Award Named After 'Clemency' Writer-Director Chinonye Chukwu (Exclusive)

Chinonye Chukwu Hollywood film awards

03.03.2021 - 22:39

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The 11th annual Athena Film Festival has unveiled its 2021 honorees as well as set two more screenings and additional panels for its month-long virtual edition.

The female-focused event this year has also added another grant to its annual awards, launching the Chinonye Chukwu Emerging Writer Award, named for the Clemency writer-director whose script for the acclaimed Alfre Woodard-starring death-row drama was on the festival's Black List-inspired Athena List.

The Chukwu award, sponsored by Christine A. Schantz, will be given to a promising feature-length writer who participated in an Athena Film Festival Writers Lab.

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