Barnard College in New York, a private women’s school, just closed submissions for its annual Athena Film Festival for aspiring filmmakers – where winners will be rewarded with mentorship on how to promote abortion, The College Fix reported.
“The Abortion Pipeline Project (APP) is an annual narrative screenplay competition for feature and short film scripts which seeks to seed and source a variety of narrative film projects which center abortion,” the description states, according to The College Fix. Next year’s film festival is set to take place February 29 through March 4.
Contestants were instructed to include “a woman, trans or non-binary character(s) in leadership role(s) or position(s)” and “contain representation of, meaningful mention of, or thematic reference to abortion.” Winners will “receive a direct financial grant to…
